Thread by @old_literature

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia "this rando basically said she needed to get laid more"

Not what I said. Not even close, and you know this, because you were there at the time.

twitter.com/i/moments/1110…

^ I actually had to drop everything and take the time to assemble that moment, just to deal with the lies.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia The moment I closed out on

twitter.com/i/moments/1109…

says it all. You idiots are so out of control that a bland observation about life from a 1970s network TV show was too edgy for you to handle. You saw it, read your own meanings into it, and went for blood.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia Why did Amina think that I was talking about her sex life? If she was sincere about that, probably because that's all that the air head thinks about. She's the proverbial one trick pony.

But that having been said, I doubt she was being sincere.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia I expressed a concern that I would be misunderstood, and that expression of concern was quoted out of context and weaponized by a group of people who get their thrills by defaming and harassing other people.

In other words, a Twitter mob.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia I went into detail, explaining what that very observation meant, explaining it as if I were explaining matters to a small, dull-witted child and you guys still didn't get it.

Maybe this was because you really were that dumb. Or maybe you were just a pack of sadists.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia Any excuse to go on the attack will do, especially when you can courageously join in on a mob and attack a lone, isolated individual.

No lie is too shameless when it lets you take part in such malicious pleasures, is it?

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia I think that the really disgusting thing is that you're free to do this sort of thing. That the laws against libel stop applying just because you happen to be on the Internet, or at least they do in practice.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia "then he started this mile-long rant about women being sociopaths. jfc 😰"

No, what I said was that Amina and her friends were acting like sociopaths, that there was nothing subtle about this, and that they were seeing support anyway.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia That, and that I'm done caring about the problems of women online. This is not because all women are sociopaths, but because any one of them could be, and if so, as I saw a few months ago, she could count on the support of a small army.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia Giving a damn about the problems of women online (and maybe offline, too) has become too risky a proposition to entertain.

I had to stay up all night and lost a few days dealing that completely unprovoked, uncalled for dogpiling, and in the end had to protect my tweets.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia They remained protected up until recently, kept out of public view for almost half of a year, because I was being harassed and defamed in response to a suggestion of how another writer might get past a creative block.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia And look at yourselves! Confronted with a detailed explanation of why you were wrong, your response was to whine about how many words I used in an essay that maybe would have come to two printed pages.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia You didn't care about what was right or wrong. You just wanted your online bloodsports.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia If I see another woman with another problem, unless I know her personally, no I'm not going to try to help her, because I don't need this.

If something unpleasant happens to her as a result, that's on you. Can't blame me, all I'm doing, going forward, is nothing.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia Your complaint really boils down to

"we spat on and abused him, and he didn't go on wanting to be helpful."

to which my response is "how entitled could you possibly be."

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia I could say something about there being more than a faint hint of anti-Semitism in all of this, but you know what?

Fu ck it. It's a nice day out and I've given you lowlifes more time than you were ever worth.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia This

https://twitter.com/old_literature/status/1109915966421508096

was not a joke. I un-protected my tweets, not to renew my connection with this worthless community, but just so I could archive my moments.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia I am putting my account on autopilot. I might post to the blogs associated with it, someday. Or I might not.

Because seriously, is there a reason for me to post anything online?

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia You guys couldn't handle a line from a late 20th century show on ABC.

The stuff I generally write almost without fail goes deeper and the fiction usually goes a lot darker than that.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia If you're going to go berserk in response to a line from a David Carradine show, how are you going to respond to real Philosophy? Or to dystopian fiction?

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia Do I really need to deal with the drama that will follow when you little snowflakes notice that I haven't posted trigger warnings?

Good questions, you'd have to admit - if you had any intellectual honesty, at all. But you don't.

@objectivepotato @AGramuglia My answer: I don't know. I'll see.

But I'm very sure that Twitter is not going to be a priority for me. Take the pointless drama out of this site, and what would be left?

Not much, thanks to people like you.