#polunin

Blood Warning

I apologise in advance for the negativity I am about to share, but this makes me extremely angry.

This twisted, toxic "masculinity" is where violence against women, homophobia and similar evils stem from. 

Polunin isn't a lost boy. He isn’t a tortured artist. He isn’t a misunderstood genius. He isn’t a victim. He is a cowardly, self-indulgent, frankly stupid and overly privileged white man who chooses to behave in a destructive manner.

From Gramilano blog:

Polunin interview in today's Times which was carried out before he wrote his damaging Instagram posts (it was intended to boost publicity for this month's release of The White Crow in which he has a role). Here are a couple of extracts (photos by Robert Wilson):

"I always knew, the darkness wants me, and the light wants me. And it’s always a choice. And in a way, darkness is more fun. More fun, but it’s an easy path. The light is much more difficult, and it’s longer, and it takes a lot of strength.”

I ask him if he can always tell the difference between the two. He says, “Yes. I can.” But there are times when he is overcome by his darker impulses. “Almost like I know you shouldn’t do that. But you do it anyway.” Sometimes, he says, he feels strong. But when he weakens, bad thoughts can “crawl in”.

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Above Polunin’s hip: “I am not a human. I am not a god. I am hwo I am.” The “w” and the “h” are reversed. A simple mistake, apparently.

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He was single, “for many years. Because I was so unstable with emotions.” He says, “A relationship is like another layer of emotions. I didn’t listen to music; I didn’t have a girlfriend. To be stable, I had to square my world. As soon as I would hear music, it would be like: too much emotion. I didn’t read books, because they would influence me too much.”

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Later, Polunin will send his infamous posts. Later still, he agrees to send me an update on his thoughts. Men and women, he writes, are opposites. That’s why they attract each other. But men are being told that women don’t need them any more. The result: “Man feels lost, they aren’t needed they become weak … it’s hard to tell where is man and where is woman … that can lead to Decomposition and Extinction of a nation.”