Previous: A Mea Culpa
CW: This was the pt. whose writing finally gave us nightmares. Abuse, incl. sexual abuse, is graphically described.
Oh how we wish we could say that this is where our story ends.
How we wish we could say that the girls packed up & left that ship of fools the Rationalists, & rented an apartment in a nice, cheap city where they could focus on their mental tech development in peace.
How we wish this story were called Normal Old Vegan Friends Hang Out. Oh how we wish.
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After being— what shall we call it?— witch-hunted? Socially-mobbed? Gang stalked?— our girls do not immediately leave the Rationalists. They have become pariahs; they have been— or will soon be— fired from their jobs, which do not wish to be associated w/ this sinister “Zizian” “cult”. Yet they have some scores to settle.
Amidst the witch-hunt/social-mobbing/gang-stalking, & in the months to follow, Somni & Emma are working diligently to gather more info on sexual abuse chez the Rationalists. Alas: we have yet to uncover whatever it is that they uncovered. If & when more details emerge, we will add them here.
Somni & Emma are also trying to expose the abuses of Alice Monday (we last saw Alice in this pt., where they were beating Emma w/ a bamboo rod). In addition to this, all four of the girls are trying to extract Jamie from Alice’s clutches. We briefly met Jamie in this pt.— where they defected from the “inner circle” of the gruesome John David Pressman, & (allegedly) unleashed a flood of screenshots identifying John as the mastermind behind our dastardly Unnamed Site. Jamie is Alice’s partner, whom Alice— no surprise— has been abusing horribly.
For the record: That no-good Wired Mag knew all of what you are about to read. It is described at length on Ziz’s blog, which they have, famously, printed out & read multiple times over. They nonetheless chose to omit it from their much-shared zstory (Ziz story), preferring to call Alice simply “a controversial figure”.
Ziz describes Alice’s abuse of Jamie as including:
• "Physically pressing Jamie onto people and offering Jamie's body for sex."
• "Physically throwing Jamie at another roommate"
• "Smothering Jamie with a pillow”
• "beating Jamie while Jamie was lying to defend them, after 4 housemates confirmed the story of domestic abuse, and the horrific details were confirmed by 3 of them including Jamie.
• "Gave Jamie a concussion right after Jamie asserted they weren't being beaten."
• "after the concussion, Alice made a couples counseling therapist side with them over Jamie, despite the facts being known."
• "Alice constantly told [Jamie & their other partner] That Alice was helping them."
• "as Alice traumatized everyone by beating them, Alice would then point out the ways they were failing to take care of themselves.. Jamie later named this supposed concern for [others'] health as a reason Alice was actually single good* all along."
*By “single good”, we are unenthused to say that Jamie is referencing Gwen’s idea abt brain hemispheres to apologize for their own abuser.
Moreover:
"Alice would justify everything they did saying well their victims were single good*, therefore half evil and Alice was fighting their evil."
*Here, Alice co-opts Gwen’s hemisphere idea to excuse their abuse!!
Ziz continues:
And yes, having sex with someone you're torturing is like getting "consent" with a gun to their head; it's rape.
Single goods do not do that.
Refuge in audacity.
Going all in on evil so absurd it sings that agents of justice will never believe the victims.
In the press, ample shade has been cast on Mz. Ziz for having once called the hair-raising Alice her “mentor”. It is, however, clear from Ziz’s blog that once Alice’s abuses came to light, they were no longer her mentor.
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The girls manage to break Jamie out of this hellhole; Gwen notes that they are visibly, severely traumatized. Nonetheless, they soon return to Alice, & start “denying online that any abuse had happened and repeating verbatim Alice’s narratives.” Gwen notes that Alice appears to have written some of these comments themself; Emma notes that Alice has been known to ghostwrite on Jamie’s accounts.
…And for loyal readers who have been w/ us since pt. 3, & are maybe wondering: is Alice, four years later, still into Nazi shit? YES!!! Somni describes them “quoting Nazi propaganda… while hitting Emma”, & later telling Somni that she’s “acting jewishly”.
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The year draws to a close w/ Alice & Jamie still together. Soon they will move to Vermont, & our girls will lose sight of them— for now.
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