The Secret Diary Club: The Butthurt Boy Responds

What happened when I wrote about my troll

Warning: as nearly always with my diary, this entry is super-sweary.

Saturday, March 22nd, 2025 [Extract]

[CONTEXT: Some lead up about the Substack piece I’d posted the night before, called “My Viral Note Brings All the Butthurt Boys to the Yard.”]

It has gone very well though, as I had rather hoped it would, being a feisty funny feminist piece. Yes, of course there was a casualty, and I'm a little sorry about that. But he did make me fucking angry last week and pursued me in the maddest and scariest way (for a woman who has had had her fill of aggressive men and unwanted male attention) so it can't be said that he didn't deserve it. Yes, he has obvious mental health issues, and was fucking obsessive, but it's really unpleasant and scary to be on the other end of that, and I completely excuse myself.

I'd thought he'd given up,and then he popped back up on Wednesday with "Just Esther" (day 4) and though I'd given him a chance to be reasonable, he absolutely hadn't taken it, and had compar…