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phone rant 03.04.2024

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Apr 3, 2024
  • 2 min read

This is an ancient burner phone, so it uses the number pad as letters. 'As dance partners, I do what the girl usually does, which is make the guy look good. Whereas Eilish and I had a straight mode for the office and a private life that was far more kinky, nowadays I'm all me all the time. It's somewhat rude that in a country where sex work is decriminalised that my dalliances with pornography have such a negative stigma attached to them. I aspire to make elegant porn that's classy, and I personally wank to my comic strip. I'm a serious artist; I see those as like Hotere's nudes or some smutty artist like Crumb. The trans stigma is still very real, though it's changed a lot from where we were in 2018. I do feel like I face difficulties in housing and employment that are related to my gender-diverse status, and those stigmas are very different to mental illness stigma (bipolar I). That's why I'm finally stepping up politically and doing something real by lobbying for this gender protection legislation. That's another tranche to the argument regarding including gender identity and expression as protected characteristics in the Human Rights Act, which is that this law would protect people from Destiny Church or the detransition mafia of TERFs, safeguarding their right to self-identification. I follow the trans debate with interest as a trans person, but I left Isentia over my disgust at how the tabloid media were weaponising my identity. I'm very principled, and wealthy enough to realistically pursue my goals. I'm not Batman, but I'm definitely drifting through life in a fairly carefree fashion, though my optimism is cyclical. Mood-wise, I think I'm coming out of my depression, though it's still bleak inside my brain.' - And here's another one... 'When you lot were the people that chose to use my porn feed as a method of communication, while simultaneously ostracising me because of my perceived deviance, I think it's somewhat unfair to call me a sex addict. a) I'm bipolar, and that affects my libido (and my judgment). b) I was isolated and lonely; on some days, that was the closest thing that I had to human contact. I was yearning for connection, and you lot made that into something sexual, then blamed me for growing a spine and fighting back.' Deep and meaningful, eh?

 
 

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