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Increasingly baffled how @jonronson.bsky.social can write an entire chapter on the unravelling of Graham Linehan without even mentioning the charges of criminal damage and harassing a 17 year-old trans girl who he was filmed drunkenly calling a "sissy-porn watching scumbag".

The end result is handing him yet another giant strawman to play the victim over while sticking to the gender critical movement's modus operandi of never even acknowledging serious accusations against them, let alone denying or defending them. And so they just disappear from the narrative.

I saw someone mention that Ronson doesn't interview anyone *about* Graham, which pretty much nails it. No mention of Laurie Penny, who he silenced with threats of litigation. No mention of David Paisley, in the process of suing him for pedophilia-related defamation.

Nor the adult whose post-surgery photos he endlessly reposts after being directly asked not to, falsely describing them as depicting (two different!) children. Or the countless other people he's defamed as pedophiles to his 600,000 followers. 'The Castle' might as well be a false flag at this point.

I know that @jonronson.bsky.social has to deal with Graham complaining that he didn't mention an unrelated murder trial, and nobodies like me complaining that he didn't mention 90% of Graham's abuse, but the key difference is, one of those things is actually relevant to the book he was writing.

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No-one came away from 'The Castle' thinking "I'm glad that nobody who once attended Camp Trans ever murdered anyone," but plenty now seem to be under the impression that Glinner's Great Unravelling was the tragic tale of a man who was occasionally a bit rude/abrupt/forthright on the internet.