Was listening to a BBC podcast "Stalked" earlier in the week. Quite interesting, it's a true crime esque podcast about a young woman who gets stalked, they hack her phone, impersonate her. It's pretty wild.

But as the episodes go on there's more and more solipsism, retroactive rationale, TRP truths and wokeness that creeps in from the narrator and the stalking victim.

She works in the fashion industry and it becomes very clear that she's latched herself onto this older guy who has lots of money and lots of social proof.

When she gets asked about their relationship and what they got up to, she gets really cagey, until she finally admits (without really admitting) that they slept together. Which she immediately back pedals and has to reframe.

The last few episodes they do a retrospective on the whole investigation. It turns out that the stalker is actually some imposter nobody and not this wealthy fashion guru.

What's interesting is it starts to really become apparent that she's less upset about the stalking itself, and more upset (and ergo much more of a victim) that she was duped into believing this guy was high value when he wasn't.

There's then a guy on the podcast who starts bringing up PUA/TRP talking points and drawing parallels - the social proof etc. tto explain some of what happened. Which gets some shrieks from the two women who have to immediately reframe it from "you got duped by TRP/PUA" into poor innocent girl targetted with predatory tactics.

I found that interesting. The strength of the emotional reaction from both of the women shows that it works, and they know it works. But they just can't bring themselves to admit to it. They have to reframe it as some predatory black magic.

It then goes on to some absolute dross about Adolescence, women most affected, more needs to be done to censor the internet blah blah blah.

The stalking was pretty fucked up, but I found those little bits to be quite enlightening.