Jun 11, 2020

Rowling spent the last decade or so of her career trying painfully hard to paint herself as this super progressive champion of minorities, I think it’s absolutely fair to s--- on her hypocrisy

 

Jun 11, 2020

i think the reason rowling's statement leaves a bitter taste in my mouth is that it's not really, or at least not exclusively about trans/feminist issues––it reminds me of these edgelord internet provocateurs who cast their trolling as some sort of free-speech absolutism.

there are absolutely tensions between those who see trans issues as part of feminist movements more broadly and those who resent the flattening of female experience into one thing. on some levels it's not really my place to parse that. but i am sick of these full-grown adults who are like "oh i'm just asking questions and liking tweets, why are you shutting down my right to free speech!" no one is saying rowling should be jailed, just that she's uncritically parroting some pretty dubious arguments.

it's intellectually dishonest––and lazy. for example she frames her objection in that one case as "why was a woman fired for believing that biological sex exists?" and it's like, first, no one denies that biological sex exists. but second and more relevantly, the woman in question's expiring contract was not renewed not because of some privately held belief, but because she misgendered people in a way that was deliberate and hostile. that's different!

a lot is made of "sjws" throwing tantrums, but the most entitled, whiniest people on the internet are the ones who make arguments like rowling's then melt down when people disagree with them.

 

Jun 11, 2020

As in someone who’s actually talked to a transperson before, yeah sure.

 

Jun 11, 2020

Is it really that bad what jk said?

And ppl need to stfu over Lana

 

Jun 11, 2020

Harry Potter a classic tho

 

Jun 11, 2020

That’s totally true. She was tone deaf (I doubt she’s pulling her punches), but It’s very dicey bc we all have rights.

I just think she should be allowed to have an opinion

 

Jun 11, 2020

its dicey. civil rights/progressive campaigns have always had to balance making their own path forward, versus aligning with similarly focused groups. you see that tension in like, betty fredian, right - feminist icon/hero..... NOT wanting to carry the water for gays or lesbians. so this def is tapping into that larger debate. dunno what the right answer is. i will say, i read jk's piece and thought some of her points were extremely tone deaf/un-PC...... but thought her other asides were intriguing, such as homophobia's relationship to the rise of trans cases and whether those ppl emotionally/unknowingly are undertaking unreversible changes to their body, limiting their fertility stuff like that.

so it may be unpopular but i def see her feminist critique of the trans movement. and like dave chappelle said, this movement only gained traction when rich white men started doing it.