@Kit19
Amazon have had to suspend reviews on the book after a pile on of negative reviews and the guardian in their usual cuntish way have said that no one should judge a book on a single review but she’s a horrible transphobe so its her own fault really
The Guardian is despicable. Imagine their horror when they realised that they had published a warm, sympathetic review of the book that failed even to mention the terrible transphobia! (Perhaps because there wasn't any?)
So obviously the first reaction to the Twitter frenzy is not to commission an article about how terrible it is to be issuing death threats to a well-loved author for something she didn't even write but to publish something that attempts to have its cake and eat it. Alison Flood has read the book and acknowledges that the character isn't trans and there is just a a couple of passing references to him wearing his landlady's coat and a wig.
But no! There's a risk that Flood might look as if she's sticking up for Rowling. So then she backtracks by saying:
"Perhaps some will still consider this depiction transphobic, given Rowling’s rightly widely criticised views on trans people. It is, at best, an utterly tone-deaf decision to include an evil man who cross-dresses after months of pain among trans people and their allies."
Quite right. Wouldn't want to give any more pain to the people issuing death threats.
But then again, if the trans activists are right, that means the Guardian's rival, the Telegraph, must have got it right and we can't have that. So Flood concludes with:
"But there is also reason to be wary of any moral outrage stoked by the Telegraph, a paper that generally doesn’t shy away from publishing jeering at the 'woke crowd', or claims that children are “put at risk by transgender books”, or attacks on 'the trans lobby'. And we should also be wary of how one review has been reproduced without question by countless newspapers and websites, by journalists who have shown no indication of having read the book themselves."
What a pathetic, cowardly, craven piece of journalism. Heaven forbid she write a piece - such as James Kirkup wrote for the Times - pointing out the misogyny of the death threats to Rowling.
I don't know how Alison Flood lives with herself.