YOU SEEM SO OUT OF CONTEXT IN THIS GAUDY APARTMENT COMPLEX
This is like hearing a sample of a sound bite of a conversation and coming to a conclusion. We do not know what lead up to this exchange or what followed… this could very well have been a contentious exchange between the two that she instigated and he turned it into a sarcastic sexual thing.
—Oldnewbie on reddit
Yes, for the sake of brevity and relevance, I only included one chuck of our most recent correspondence. If you must know, the rest of our faceboook exchanges consisted of his persistent and unrequited attempts to see me, his requesting a “three-way” between his cats and my cat, his claiming I like to pretend I’m different since getting a new boyfriend but he knows I’m still just a slut, and his refusing to acknowledge my new boyfriend as legitimate impediment to my fucking other people. Still think I’m selectively editing to my advantage and his detriment? If you read the rest of my blog, you’d realize it’s curated, as any distillation of a large body of information must be, yet not especially flattering. Deliberately not so.
“Note the ‘I know you’ve got nothing better to do’ part which is him indicating she has no life.”
—Oldnewbie on reddit
LOL. If the archives of my blog are any indication, I beg to differ. Assuming having bountiful reserves of men at my disposal constitutes a life. “I know you’ve got nothing better to do” is a figure of speech, a weak and transparent attempt at persuasion. A gentle neg.
KNOCKOFFS
“Buying counterfeit bags is illegal.”
—Broad City
As much as I want to join in on the circle-jerk and grab my pitchfork, keep in mind that Business Insider only said: ‘A woman claiming to be Shkreli’s ex-girlfriend said he sent her a series of Facebook messages…’ So this entire conversation is still unverified and can very easily be faked. Don’t rule out the possibility that this “Katie” person is just trying to get her blog numbers up. All because Business Insider ‘reported’ on it does not mean it is a verified source.
—naxypoo on reddit
Of course you wouldn’t believe a woman. Especially a slutty one. Girls who like to fuck can’t be trusted. Are pathological. How many women had to speak up and how many men needed to be vocal in their support before anyone believed Bill Cosby, wholesome-as-pie sitcom dad, is a serial rapist… Oh hey, got you to look: feminist agenda forwarded! And my boobs are real too.
FYI, Business Insider is not Perez Hilton. While screenshots were the bulk of the materials I sent them, I also forwarded an email from Martin’s old work account in which he begs for my continued acquaintance. Can one fake a forwarded email? Maybe. Doubtful. I definitely don’t have those kinda skillz. Got my high school equivalency diploma from the NY State skool of hard knocks, after all.
I will henceforth only respond to “The Woman Who Would Give Her Name Only As ‘Katie.’”
DEFECATION
Oh god. Does she know what a defamation suit is?
—hip_hop_opotimus on reddit
Yeah, bro. It’s when you tarnish someone’s reputation by spreading lies. I’m insulated against such a charge because truth. Ya know, freedom of press. ‘Murica, fuck yeah.
IMPLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY
“What I’m having right now is an inappropriate physical reaction to my total joy for you…”
–Hannah Horvath, Girls
As with the other accusations against him, Shkreli dismissed Katie’s claims about his behavior. He told Business Insider “we don’t know the context” of their conversation. Shkreli also suggested the screenshots posted by Katie could have been “fabricated.”
“You can see it, but perhaps there’s some, you know, back and forth that you don’t have on an email address or something,” Shkreli said of the screenshots posted by Katie. “Maybe I’m referring to something else. You know, it’s possible that it’s not what you think. It’s also possible it’s fabricated. I don’t know. I don’t have them. It’s from 2009. It’s a jilted lover or vice versa. It just doesn’t seem that meaningful.”
—Business Insider, The Hedge Funder at the Center of the Drug-Increase Controversy has a Long History of Alleged Bad Behavior
I’ll defer to wise reddit commenters for this one:
That reaction, and the details from her blog post make me pretty comfortable believing that this is a genuine exchange between the two.
Is it possible that it’s faked? Sure. But think about the verified, true things that you know about his behavior and demeanor. Does it seem likely to you that this is faked?
Now, I feel it’s poor taste to blog about such an exchange. I mean, I think most people have had conversations with [ex]significant others that would be interpreted as wildly inappropriate if presented to someone… who wasn’t familiar with the relationship…
Still, I feel like the exchange itself is real, and it’s her life (and blog) to post about, and she pretty clearly feels like he’s a scumbag, which is hard to argue.
—James_Bolivar_DiGriz on reddit
I appreciate his point that, though he believes sharing details about a past partner to be distasteful, (every non-fiction writer’s plight,) it is my story to tell. Too often someone who has interacted with a famous or would-be famous person gets shafted into the opportunistic “proximity to fame” category, when they are compelling in their own right. Forever after they are recognized as an accessory to another’s story, instead of the subject of their own. Is it sleazy to bask in someone else’s spotlight? It takes hustling and thriftiness to get one’s material together on another’s news-cycle clock, that’s for sure.
Yeah, I think the normal person’s reaction to a false accusation that they tried to pay 10k to lick someone’s genitals would be to laugh in the face of the person confronting you and just say, you know, obviously something so insane could only be fake.
The fact that he can’t just deny it like a normal person is a pretty big flag that, yeah it happened.
—hithazel on reddit
Nailed it. Sorta like how when my Lit-Theater college boyfriend reacted with rage, instead of amusement, when I solemnly inquired as to whether he miiight be gay, I interpreted it as a confirmation rather than a denial.
I THINK HER NAME IS LUCY BUT THEY ALL CALL HER LOOSE
She’s clearly a class act as well.
—RedeemingVices on reddit
If you believe that sex—or recreational sex—is trashy, then I’m as trashy as they come, gladly. Thankfully I don’t believe in the illusory correlation between sex and social class. Check your self-righteousness.
THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION
Probably has an immaculate box.
—hambonejackson on Barstool Sports
Nope, not if we’re going by porno standards of attractiveness. To be a traditional (mainstream?) porn star, I’d be required to book a date at the salon for a labia trim, since sexual desirability for women is typified by minimalism, coyness, hush hush. Then again, Playboy is no longer hosting nudes of women so altered with plastic surgery, airbrushing and artifice they no longer resemble living breathing human beings. Awaiting the headline: Humans Prefer to Wank to Life Forms Immediately Recognizable as Human Beings than those Styled as Real Sex Dolls. All of this is to say, I have big, flappy lips that make smacking sounds when happy. If you wanna be “vagina swallowed” as Ilana from Broad City would phrase it, I’m your gal. Messy pussy as a boutique sex act, mmmm. If you wanna get high fived for scoring a perfect ten, nice ‘n tidy, not so much.
You sound like a gem, referring to a woman’s interactive body parts in the most objectifying language possible. Box: a receptive object used to stuff stuff into things. Snoochie boochies!
I need a visual. Is she hot?
—oldschoolfl on reddit
Not 10k worth. Average for an attractive person. Won’t turn heads. Rarely gets turned down. Know how to get what I want. Amateur is sorta trending right now, tho? Solid GFE.
I need pics of this “Katie.” Can’t put this dude on blast and refuse to show your face.
—oberyn on Barstool Sports
Hold up, so I should suffer for his bad behavior? My sex life may be prolific, but my misdeeds pale in comparison to his, will never have a devastating, nevertheless potentially deadly, impact on thousands of vulnerable people. More mischief than misconduct, that’s meee. And do you understand the disproportionate repercussions women face professionally on account of their personal lives? Anyone remember Monica? That intelligent woman who became a public punching bag and eternal punchline for opening her orifices to a man in power. But let’s crucify witches, lady adulterers, and those who a long time ago in a galaxy far far away had sex with an inconspicuous white-collar criminal in-training. Let’s fucking blow whistles in whistleblowers’ ears REAL LOUD. That’ll teach ‘em. For opening their slut traps, and their mouths.
CAN I GET JUST A LITTLE BIT OF POWER
If I were rich I would definitely pay exes for sex, then proceed to call them dumb whores as I came in their eye. Power moves only.
—tcsewell3 on Barstool Sports
Ha! Exactly the tone he was going for. Pitch perfect.
“I wonder if it’s a power thing for guys like him. For ten thousand dollars he could probably find girls far hotter than his ex that would do wayyy more but for some reason he feels the need to harass her. Maybe it’s some sort of fetish I just don’t get but it’s rude as hell.”
—KakaKrabbyPatties on reddit
Yup, he could get way hotter than me. And more willing to put on a show for money. For $10k even the most repulsive loser could find a decent woman to feign enthusiasm and tolerate his company. When we were dating and still in touch, he was all about checking things off an imaginary list, whittling notches in the belt holding up his UFOs (as long as his hands didn’t get dirty!)—nevermind pleasure. The more extreme or hard-to-come-by the more points, I suppose. Sex points, scene points. Justification of effort dictates levels of satisfaction with one’s accomplishment? Figured it was just a phase, that adolescent acquisitive thing. Mostly I was game. Until I objected. Until he became too objectionable.
“It’s all about getting his ex to do something she doesn’t want. It’s all about the power and his money status. Dude is weird. If it were about sex he’d do what you said n find a different chick.”
—mostdope28 on reddit
You nailed it. It’s about humiliation, hegemony, and maybe a lil’ bit o’ revenge served stale on a silver platter. I doubt paying for sex is ever really about the sex unless it’s a really boutique sex act. Or one finds themself compelled to explore explicit sexual transactions by an idle curiosity, a journalistic sense of duty to extract EXPERIENCE and TRUTH. More curiosity than compulsion. (Though I’m open to suggestion otherwise.)
Just like rape is not about the sex. (Not that I’m equating rape and non-coercive financial exchanges in the slightest.) Because nobody CAN’T get laid. Martin isn’t THAT prima facie repugnant and red flaggy. A decade+ ago he didn’t have enough institutional power to be that punchable.
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I feel kinda sad that the blog is getting sidetracked by this whole Shkreli thing.
I mean so far we’ve seen that,
A. Martin Shkreli is a creepy dbag who thinks he can solve problems created by him being an unrepentant dbag by throwing money at them. And also that he doesn’t know how to maintain plausible deniability. Seriously, he can throw around 10k on a petty College grudge he has maintained for years, but he can’t hire a good media face?
B. A section of Reddit users are kinda sorta sexist.
Great revelations these are not.
Sorry to disappoint. Think of it this way, the more people arrive at my blog via “this whole Shkreli thing,” the more people get to enjoy or hate read my blog. If my stats are any indication, they are indeed lingering and poking around. Besides, I don’t have time to generate new material and do it justice.
Obviously Martin can hire a PR person. He prefers to troll the media.
Of course, it’s your blog, you can put what you want on it, and I only found it through this thing anyway. Although I found the archives much, much more interesting them the whole controversy.
But what’s the point for you personally?
To prove he’s an asshole? We already knew that. From how he made his money, from his blatant Psychopatic narcissism and attention seeking. From the fact that he’s a 32 year old Hedgefund manager and CEO that plays bloody Esports.
Aren’t you just giving him what he wants by helping keep him a tabloid headliner? He seems to revel in the infamy.
There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that he’s a caricature of a douchebag, a living embodiment of all we hate about Big Pharma, government-sponsored oppression, and the insecure megarich. Of course I laughed along with everyone else at his public humiliation, and enjoyed adding another dimension to his profile, a pinch of flavor. Our exchange handsomely illustrated what he intended to spend his sleazily acquired money on, how he misuses his finances to wield control over women. How pharmabros are exactly as we expect them to be. Immodestly so.
So what if he enjoys the infamy? Which he obviously does considering he keeps trolling the internet and trying to make headline news. Whether my actions bolster or hurt him isn’t so relevant to me, considering I cut him out of my life a decade ago.
Right, you only found my blog through this Martin thing, so you’ve answered your own question. That’s what’s in it for me personally. Not that it’s about you in particular, anymore than it’s about Martin in particular. Over the past month and a half, I’ve been contacted by numerous people who I’d probably never encounter otherwise. Some of them might be of use to me professionally in the future. Others have offered me kind words and encouragement, something that is has considerable value to someone writing about intensely personal and controversial topics. No one likes to feel like they are writing into a void, and until recently I hadn’t gotten much feedback, except directly from my real world friends.
To understand my motivation for publicity is to understand my motivation for my blog. That sexually permissive women live a solitary and secretive existence, shunned even by each other. Of course, to go public is to dilute one’s target audience. But also to find a larger community in confession.
martin doesn’t have a cat
Are you calling me a liar or him a liar or saying the state of affairs has changed? Because according to the messages and pictures he sent me years ago, he had two cats. Either way, super irrelevant.
ah cmon you’re one to talk about irrelevant things with your blog posts about events that happened 7 years ago with a guy who’s completely forgotten about you.
classic deflection