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Rainbow Laces activist says JK Rowling is a cunt

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SmileOrDie · 05/12/2019 12:49

How charming.

Rainbow Laces activist says JK Rowling is a cunt
Rainbow Laces activist says JK Rowling is a cunt
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ScrimshawTheSecond · 05/12/2019 14:24

Yes, it's the most misogynistic of insults, and very clearly so.

zanahoria · 05/12/2019 14:07

It is an odd choice of insult from someone who wants to transition ro womanhood

SmileOrDie · 05/12/2019 14:00

Yes, to be fair it doesn't look as if Sammy plays women's football but rather in a mixed sex, mixed ability LBGTQ team - which sounds actually inclusive and fun.

So why, given that great opportunities like that exist, do so many male athletes insist that only women's sports will do, otherwise its 'exclusion'?

Same as with women's {insert any service/space here}.

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ScrimshawTheSecond · 05/12/2019 13:53

Walker plays in a team of what looks like blokes, so that's okay. Apparently didn't get on well playing women's football, can't imagine why, maybe calling people cunts didn't go down well.

BarbaraStrozzi · 05/12/2019 13:52

So Sammy plays women's football with the massive advantages of having gone through male puberty and having had male socialization to the extent of having been scouted by a top flight team (I know what I'm talking about - I played women's football both at university and Sunday league, and I have a football mad DS; the ease with which a boy can find opportunities to play and develop his talent outstrip those for a girl a hundred-fold or more). I don't think Sammy's choice to play is "inclusive", I think it's unfair, both to Sammy's team mates left on the bench and to Sammy's opponents.

And Sammy says that a respected woman author is a cunt on the basis of... Well, nothing really.

To coin a MN phrase, "I'd call you a cunt [back] but you lack the warmth and depth."

jadefinch · 05/12/2019 13:49

This Rainbow Laces campaign is just a magnet for bullies to abuse their positions

Rainbow Laces activist says JK Rowling is a cunt
Rainbow Laces activist says JK Rowling is a cunt
ScrimshawTheSecond · 05/12/2019 13:48

Well, I don't know about 'real name', but Walker is a fairly well known TRA, I think.

Reeeeally long article I cba reading about Walker's struggles with football (I think), here:

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50151426

littlbrowndog · 05/12/2019 13:41

So walker wants tolerance yet call a woman a cunt for retweeting

How tolerant Walker is

Milanimilani · 05/12/2019 13:40

It seems really far-out, but surely trying to resolve issues between the two sides would be a helluva lot easier if people talked about their concerns, rather than chucking names at each other?

thatdamnwoman · 05/12/2019 13:38

Sammy Walker is a trans footballer celebrated by the BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50151426

So of course Sammy supports inclusive sport and of course, having been socialised as male grown up as a footballer Sammy feels it appropriate to call a woman with whom Sammy disagrees a cunt.

ItsChristmaaaaaaaaas · 05/12/2019 13:38

Oh I see. Women dont usually call each other that do they?

ItsChristmaaaaaaaaas · 05/12/2019 13:37

Dearie me.

SmileOrDie · 05/12/2019 13:37

Real person:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07rsdrg

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ItsChristmaaaaaaaaas · 05/12/2019 13:31

I strongly suspect that's not their real name, their real photo or they have ties with anything. I suspect a young male.

MoreFeministThanThou · 05/12/2019 13:28

I'm more concerned about people who think calling women cunts is compatible with 'activism'.

It seems to be the whole of twitter activisim ime. I think even MPs are taking part now?

ScrimshawTheSecond · 05/12/2019 13:22

Nice.

So, this is someone who - as far as I know - has never expressed any particular 'views' on trans people, but is now condemned by association.

Tickety-boo.

SmileOrDie · 05/12/2019 13:21

I would be astounded if JKR gave the most infinitesimal of shits.

I'm more concerned about people who think calling women cunts is compatible with 'activism'.

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MoreFeministThanThou · 05/12/2019 13:19

She's "liked" things on Twitter which imply that she's a person who understands the definition of female.

ChewChewIsMySpiritAnimal · 05/12/2019 13:17

How do they know what her views are?

MoreFeministThanThou · 05/12/2019 13:16

Maybe they mean they have literal ties, as in shoe laces?

I doubt JK FUCKING ROWLING gives a shit about that person's views of her though.