Women's feelings are not the point and a woman's voice is a shitty one - feminism according to Marie Claire

'My feelings are not the point right now'... and yet she feels compelled to put them into print. She feels the need to attack other women. She feels the need to dismiss their concerns and experiences.

I've noticed this with the current BLM situation - white, American women gushing on social about their own awakenings, how they need to listen...

If you're shutting up to listen, then shut the fuck up and listen. To everyone. To actually hear and learn what is really going on. Otherwise, it's just about you.

I can't express how angry this makes me. I couldn't even finish reading the article.

Okay, so you’d stand with the women who said ‘women don’t really need the vote’.

She'd be one of the women holding the suffragettes' petticoats down to protect their modesty when they were being force fed.

ciswoman

This is a very interesting usage. You know how TRAs always make a big deal about the space between "trans" and "women"? Their logic is that when you put the space in it makes it clear that "trans" is an adjective and therefore "trans women" are women just like "tall women" are women. Or whatever. My first thought on seeing this was: uh-oh, she'll be cancelled for forgetting the space! Not putting in the space literally kills trans people!

But of course her usage here is "ciswoman" not "transwoman." She won't get cancelled for it. Is this the new acceptable usage in woke circles? Trans is an adjective modifying "woman" , but "ciswoman" is a compound word? Are we actually moving towards the "women and ciswomen" linguistic categories that some of you have been predicting for a while?

Also Noma Dumezweni supported the openess of the essay that JK wrote so what Marie Claire reporter idiot is saying is inaccurate.

I think she was effectively 'shamed' into recanting.

I’m also a ciswoman, which means my feelings are not the point right now.

Translation: women, you need to remember that men's feelings always come first, especially those who are telling you they know what it means to be a woman. We've won our battle after all! Women have privilege and full equality now, just because I say so!

Oh, and also relegate yourself within your own sex by calling yourself Cis. Because trans women are women, but biological women are something lesser.

Harry Potter is such a stereotypical white English person name.

My area of Scotland is about 95% white according to the latest census. If I wrote a novel it would largely have white characters because that's my experience. Authors writing about characters from other races have been pilloried for "cultural appropriation". They can't win. If a Japanese author writes a book I don't expect a splattering of characters from other races to give balance. People can write their books how they want. This is all bizarre. We should all be trying to achieve our potential and helping others to do the same.

Also Noma Dumezweni supported the openess of the essay that JK wrote so what Marie Claire reporter idiot is saying is inaccurate.

Please do not repeat the c** term. It is hugely offensive and aims to eradicate womanhood. It is their word, dreamt up to their end. We should not be legitimising it, nor lending credence to the deeply offensive and oppressive basis upon which it rests.

I am a woman.

Going to write to Marie Claire and complain. Especially about the Jackson comparison. That's bordering slander surely?

Also, she compared JK Rowling to Michael Jackson?! Presumable because she thinks that being concerned about the possible erosion of women's rights is akin to being a paedophile rapist?

Feminism 2020 everyone - how fucking progressive!

On the lack of gay representation in HP, I feel like part of what's going on here is young people having no idea of how little gay representation in general there was in books for kids back then. Sure, maybe Rowling could have been a pioneer, but it's equally possibly that her publishers would just have made her edit it out. Things have changed, and that's a good thing, but if you're looking for modern sensibilities on gay issues then even books from as little as 20 years ago are almost inevitably going to disappoint.

Lol, since when do white cis women get voices? Literally nobody listens to us.

Just said to my 12 year old Lesbian Autistic daughter "are you offended there's no mixed race lesbian Autistic girls in Harry Potter?" And she said "That's not what the story is about. If I want to I can write that character instead of moaning someone else didn't." I'd rather listen to her rather than Marie Claire 😂

unherd.com/thepost/the-british-imitation-of-america-goes-well-beyond-race/

I think this is an interesting article about the jarring quality of US-style trans activism being transplanted into the UK. It might already have been posted somewhere.

I think she has confused "feelings" with "rights" there.

I would venture that most of the screeching is being done by people who have not read anything JK has said.

It doesn’t matter what she said - they’ve been told what to think, what to believe and what to say. And they are toeing the line.

"and potentially the entire series" what the f#£@ does this mean?????
So she's saying JK shouldn't have written HP now?
As an Asian woman I am not remotely offended by any of the characters apart from Bellatrix LeStrange because she murdered Sirius Black and I loved him. At the time when the books came out I was glad to see JK had made it a school that didn't just have white kids. People jumping on it for being racist are actually just trying to find issues. Do I care that the girls surname.is Patil? Why would I, it's a popular surname and instantly says Asian. And the complaints there isn't enough gayness in it, IT'S A KIDS BOOK FROM 23 years ago. Marie Claire... Who even buys that anymore?

I think the time has come to 'let go' Marie Claire!

Did she not actually read what Rowling wrote? and if she did has she no powers of critical thinking?

I'm an older woman, so I have no voice at all. She has a voice because she's young and in the media.

I always felt the Harry Potter Films would have been massively improved if they had cast different child actors

Rowling said at the time that she was disappointed with the casting of Emma Watson as she was far too classically beautiful for the character of Hermione (who is supposed to be buck toothed and quite plain looking). But she said she realised that Hollywood would never accept an unattractive female lead.