no that’s been kind of par for the course the whole time. in fact ignoring was the first thing we tried, and it may have been the worst thing we tried, since it let the tumblr rumor mill run wild. but yeah there’s really no winning:
“look at all this stuff pk did!”
“oh hey uh that stuff isn’t actually true”
“that’s gaslighting” / “denying it sounds just like what a guilty person would say”
“how could someone misremember so much? that doesn’t make any sense”
“oh well he says he has clinical paranoia, it can do that”
“that’s ableist”
along with the calls to “fess up” to things that didn’t happen, as if that would somehow improve anything
i keep asking detractors two things
- what is one, single, specific, concrete thing pk has done that makes her abusive?
- how do you expect someone who’s falsely accused to react?
i have yet to get any answers. because there aren’t any. people believe what they want to believe and contort whatever else happens to make it fit. that’s why pengo’s lengthy callout is obviously true while my similarly lengthy response is obviously false.