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'treatment' = torture

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Sep 29, 2025
  • 2 min read

You've got to stop asking me to wank, sing or play guitar when I'm angry. How about communicating directly, meeting me in person, and hearing my complaints? How about accepting that my anger is justified, and more or less the essence of the difference between a Māori queen and a drag queen. I'm angry, and that's what I was told to be. I speak out 24/7, rather than 'just' via drag. - I'm not a child: I'm 31, and you've spent the last several years torturing me online. Did I generate AI porn to manipulate you? No, and it's not like the goal of the song cycle or my comic strip was to manipulate people. Did I call you a creep and a pervert at a hate hui, then slander you on TV? Did I use my connections with the SIS to create an illegal back channel? - I have every right to be angry, and expressing the view that you slick arseholes defrauded a bunch of people that thought I was going to make a film for them is perfectly legal. Basic human fairness starts with the SIS admitting that using DeviantArt to communicate was a poor method, and that it has backfired. I have giant evidence trove, and that's why they're running scared. "" "" starts when Wellington's arts and cultural elite accept that my boycott can only end under the condition that I receive a public apology from those who enabled Tory and the film producers to try and manipulate. "" "" when Tory Whanau admits fault and takes a charge. - Imagine having some judgmental bitch staring through a hidden camera at your private space since 2020, then we'll talk. Settlements can't include NDA's - the SIS has to own their bigotry. VUW has to be taken down a notch or two over their attempts to exploit me. Staff members must be fired. Wellington has to reckon with the fact that I survived without compromising, and it also has to accept that there is no contract that allows Weeded Out to be made. No such contract can ever exist, as I'm writing a derivative. Either get excited about my other scripts, or fuck off. These drama and music geeks don't know right from wrong, so this is a lesson.

 
 
 

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