Abbie Chatfield addresses 'very demeaning' backlash from feud with Clementine Ford as she DEFENDS the fellow feminist: 'It's not her fault'
The podcaster says the right wing response to her 'cat fight' was disappointing and predictable - but she does not blame the fellow feminist for the backlash.
'It was really hurtful because after that, the right-wing comments came in saying, "Nothing better than a cat fight. Two feminists fighting. You can't even agree with each other." It's very demeaning' Abbie tells Stellar Magazine.
'And that isn't Clementine's fault, but it's something that she should have considered, and that I've considered when I haven't called her out for things that I'd say are deeply damaging.'
The 29-year-old added that she's most troubled by comments - from Clementine and other detractors alike - that attack her perceived character and not her politics.
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'This idea that because I'm not doing things perfectly, that I'm an idiotic narcissist, I don't know anything, I'm brain dead, I'm a deeply basic thinker – they're just insults. It's not actually critiquing my work' she said.
Just last month Ford appeared to have taken another dig at Chatfield as the feminist rivals' online feud rumbled on.
The pair have been exchanging barbs since Ford accused Chatfield of profiting from the 'performance of being politically engaged'.
In the recent salvo, Ford took to her Instagram story to make a pointed reference to the stoush.
She shared a screenshot of a text conversation between two unnamed people.
The first writes: 'I heard you were taking s*** about me.'
The second replies with a defiant: 'Do you wanna hear it again or did you get everything?'
Above the exchange, Ford wrote: 'This is the energy I want to be coming into next year with'.
Chatfield had made a tearful appeal to Ford to rein back her criticism, saying it was unfair and was a painful addition to the abuse she receives from those who criticise her left-wing politics.
Speaking on her It's A Lot podcast, Chatfield admitted she had struggled as she reflected on the feud.
'Been a bit of a rough weekend. Go to my TikTok if you want to know what's going on. I don't want to rehash it, but all I want to say is it's incredibly counterproductive to criticise someone for doing the thing you want them to do,' Abbie began.
'It makes no sense and it gives a certain energy that I think we all know.'
She then invited questions from her followers, and used that for another shot at Ford.
'We are doing an "ask me anything" as I didn't prep, because contrary to what Clementine Ford says, I do prep for my own podcasts but I didn't have time to do that,' Abbie said.
The feud came about when Ford wrote on her Dear Clementine blog on Substack that some influencers like Chatfield profit from the 'performance of being politically engaged' while criticising anyone who disagrees with them.
Chatfield responded with a video post on Instagram in which she called out Ford.
'She's literally writing a burn book about me and doing insults like "She thinks she's so hot"' Chatfield said.
'What a weirdo - oh my God.'
Abbie finished off the clip with a plea to the writer.
'Clementine, take a step back from the internet. Take a step back from Reddit please.'
Chatfield later returned to the platform in tears as the social media feud took a dark turn.
She accused Ford of 'trolling' her, and said it was affecting her mental health and made her feel unsafe.
'I get it enough from people on the right and trolls and men that hate me and want to threaten me and want me dead. Please stop dehumanising me,' she wept.
'Please, you can criticise my content, you can criticise my work, just - I'm begging you - stop lying about my intentions.
'Stop saying that I have a personality disorder. You don't know me. This is so f****ing triggering I just want her to stop.
'It isn't working, you're discouraging others... Please, I'm just trying to do what I can to help.
'I just don't understand why she's so adamant on proving that I'm awful. I don't get it. This is so incredibly stressful and awful what she is doing.'
Chatfield said she was now aware of 'someone spreading malicious lies about me again and again … because she claims to know my intentions on f***ing everything'.
'Please stop, Clementine. I am begging you to stop,' she sobbed.
'You don't know me at all, you're a stranger. I deal with so much, every single day. I deal with insults every single day, I do not need it from you because you know that when you say it you validate it for people on the left.
'You are f**ing my mental health. Please f***ing stop.'
She then posted screenshots of comments made by the writer, calling Chatfield an 'idiotic narcissist', 'completely shallow' and a 'deeply basic thinker'.
'See how this isn't criticism? It's just insults,' she captioned the screenshots.
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