Oh no, consequences.
Only because she attacked a cis woman. No consequences from the years doing everything in her power to targetedly harass individual trans peolle, the community as a whole or publishing books about trans serial killers.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see her go quite, I hope she stays that way. But I'm bitter it wasn't a realization that her crusade was mysgonstic hatred, only that she was a zealot who accidently friendly fired.
only that she was a zealot who accidently friendly fired.
Bigotry is illogical, and will always 'friendly fire'. No one is ever safe. People have transvestigated Joanne Koanne Roanne and Andrew Tate. No one is ever safe.
Anyone with basic critical thinking skills would have known this whole scandal was bullshit in the first place. Did it not occur to any of these TERFs and transphobes that Algeria (a Muslim nation known for persecuting the LGBTQ community as a whole) is one of the least-likely nations to field a trans candidate?
Yes, it did not occur to them. They simply don't care. Facts and reason can't matter to the misogynistic anti-trans crowd. Their whole approach is built on hate and bullshit, and they know it.
Yeah, I've had a sad laugh about all this stupid alt-right knee-jerk reaction. Algeria, bastion of "wokeness".
How out of touch are these people?
They are just so desperate for an Olympic level "gotcha" in their cultural crusade that they just singled out a woman boxer for being "too butch" and just ran with their assumptions.
Then every try-hard wannabe right wing influencer type just gloms onto it hoping to be chosen by the algorithm for ten hot seconds of vainglorious right wing attention/validation.
It’s about fucking time someone shut her up
She's a bully. It's time she actually faced consequences for her actions.
she thought she was Hermione. turns out she was just Malfoy.
I'm honestly confused how she could write a story where Harry Potter triumphs over he who must not be named, when he who must not be named was her hero.
It must have been really tough for her.
It's less that and more the system of prejudice itself is her hero, because she never truly challenges it, and the final state of peace at the end of the books does not require fixing its problems. Voldemort was a bad apple, nothing more (according to her I'd imagine)
Yeah the way she kind of bullies Hermione with the whole 'SPEW' thing was so off. First, Hermione had style and was a genius. I think she would know that 'SPEW' is a bad acronym.
Also, making everyone turn away from her and no one supporting her - she didn't need to really make it like that at all. Why couldnt the org have a cute name and Hermione and like Lavender Brown etc all get together to try to coordinate better working conditions for the elves. This then would later help with the plot involving the DA. It's literally a fantasy and Harry gets magical hero results all the time. It's just such a weird part of the books and negative when it really didn't serve any purpose to be negative. Except to be shitty to lady activists.
She's a Stan Shunpike- radicalized offscreen, leaving everyone else confused
Heaven forbid she lose money. Literally the only thing that could make her ~~stop~~ briefly pause harassing people on the internet.
She has billions. No matter how much she loses she'll still be obscenely rich.
Maybe they can sue for billions. Gawker got sued out of existence, I hope she gets some good US attorneys and files in a jurisdiction that has unlimited damages. Maybe we can all use the new "K" platform after she owns "X".
And here I thought that she would happily go to jail over her bigotry: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jk-rowling-willing-jail-misgendering_n_65314d65e4b00565b6234d11
I guess we shouldn't be too surprised that a fantasy author has a lot of silly fantasies about herself.
I'm a Conservative championing Genital Inspections on Children to make sure ONLY PEOPLE with Vaginas play Girl's Sports but also THIS Women with a Vagina is ACTUALLY A MAN!
It's about PROTECTING WOMEN! And if I have to hurt a bunch of women to protect them from hypothetical scenarios I made up to demonize trans people, so be it!
JKR is so far off base here that even if you are a dyed-in-the-wool TERF this is basically impossible to defend.
Gate-keeping feminity by excluding women born with a vagina who are too butch by your opinion to be considered "women" is going too far... even if you are otherwise onboard with gate-keeping "womanhood" from trans women.
when a man breaks a record he is a super human, when a woman breaks a record she is a man.
Transgender people in competitive sports that are already segregated by biological sex is relatively uncharted, and should be carefully navigated. There are ways, and appropriate settings, to bring this topic up respectfully. Twitter is not the place, and these people are not qualified to offer their opinion. JK (and others) aren’t fighting some good cause, they’re just being assholes.
On top of invalidating the lived experience of a cis-woman because this Olympic boxer with more muscle than most men looks kinda masculine in some pictures.
So much for the "we can always tell".
It's a double whammy of bigotry.
"Could any picture sum up our new men's rights movement better?" the writer asked. "The smirk of a male who's knows he's protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he's just punched in the head, and whose life's ambition he's just shattered."
This fucking smug cunt.
It's so weird of Rowling to call her a man, considering they have a similar face structure.
And let this be a lesson to all internet people, I know y’all hear about the first amendment a lot, but it only applies in America. You have to actually follow the laws of the country you’re in
Also, the first amendment only applies to free speech against the US government. You can’t chat shit about any private individual without them having the option to sue you.
There's a whole lot here that's just slightly off the mark. I'll give you the general sentiment, but the details need work.
Except that's bullshit, you can get sued for libel and slander in the USA.
The first amendment does not give every US citizen carte blanche to say whatever they want. This is often misunderstood, even amongst a lot of the US population.
The irony of Rowling getting sued for calling a biological woman trans
"Just Kidding" Rowling
Rowling should be in jail for hate crimes. That person need rehabilitation before we can let her back into society.
Good, sue her ass off Imane. Take her for every penny. Rowling is an asshole.
The Wall Street Journal still has an article online that says:
The Algerian boxer is biologically male but allowed to compete in the female category
~~Fuck Jeff Bezos~~
EDIT: Oh dang this isn't WaPo. Fuck him anyway though.
Wait how is this blatant lie allowed to remain published online? I thought the WSJ had at least some credibility?
WSJ is a Murdoch propaganda outlet
I hope she pays dearly for her racism and bigotry.
Bahahaha not so careless about throwing your hatred around on your sleeve now, are you bitch?
Fucking destroy her.
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