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To Red Scare

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Mar 25
  • 2 min read

So, your idea of 'collaboration' is to call me a deluded creep to stalk me, pump all my friends and allies for information on how to control me, then refuse to pay for my script? You have had close to four years to a) email me, b) meet me, c) negotiate a contract. What did I do in response? I boycotted your work. That was a solid response. I didn't stalk you, and you're the ones that turned me from someone that was indifferent to you to someone that hated you. - How dare you remove me from the marae visits in 2024? You only took that course to perv on me. Good thing TWOA aren't fools. I was taking that course for real reasons. I wanted to get a rongoā certificate. Thanks to the transphobia you two fermented, I couldn't even get a level 5 paper. - As I say, compare your income to mine. Yes, I'm finally making money: but I could have done that in 2022 had I been able to sell my draft of Weeded Out. You two had privileged positions and essentially pretended to be lefties when you're really conservatives that were afraid of missing out if me and my mates made a series. Your attitude about Weeded Out was born from annoyance, but I'll remind you that it was your decision to cancel the Fresh Culture episode in 2018. - Your parents might be rich, but you're finally batting out of your league. Yes, I'm sure you like the Beatles: lots of tories do. Those secret handshakes didn't happen overnight. Part of being a real hippie. - I consider your online actions to be conversion therapy. The images in my folder are relatively benign, but the captions aren't. I haven't tried to police your expression. You have defined your presence in my life by your attempts to police my expression. Believe me, your NY mates love my songs and find you wannabes. Don thought Paramilitary Jamboree was crack-up! Imagine if you'd treated me as you're feigning to do in 2026 back in 2022, when it actually might have mattered to treat me with respect and negotiate. At this point, the only thing that your sycophantic urges and veiled insults are doing is making me extremely keen to prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. - Write your own gay drama. Direct it. Get over my refusal. My brother has issues, but he doesn't like either of you much. Michelle was afraid of being kicked out of society if she dated me. Why? Because of people like you.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Mar 24

Neither of you have seen me in a dress. Neither of you have seen my dick. How dare you state that I was a flasher without evidence? How dare you tell people that you're the queer police when you're straight? Being 'non-binary' to be edgy isn't the same as being visible. I've been visibly gender-diverse since puberty. People are literally telling me they couldn't tell if I was a trans boy or a real one. The girls in my class at school said that I'd always been different in Year 13. After Salina left... they all felt a bit embarrassed. That's why I haven't written that chapter: the tension between myself and Rosie Roberts was never resolved, and it's embarrassing now.

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Mar 24
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Does my request for an apology hui seem so flamboyant now? It wasn't just them: you all abetted them. - While I can't literally prove it, it's like that Britney Spears episode of South Park. People in the town decided that I had to get rich or die trying. They singled me out for behaviours that are common to most people of any gender. Lots of people talk loudly on their cellphones about boring or weird shit. You threatened me with social exclusion: that's hate speech by AMPP's definition. - Lots of people swear. I'm human, and so are you. Ben Strang was rather poetic about his desire to punch Paddy Gower.

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