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I've just finished Troubled Blood and there is NO transphobia

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AviceCaro · 17/09/2020 13:33

I've just finished it - it's very long and very very good - and definitely no transphobia! One brief mention of someone who might be the murderer might have worn a woman's coat to confuse his victims - it's one page out of 900! It's so not relevant to the plot.

It's such a good read, and really disappointing that it's getting so much negative attention.

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borntobequiet · 19/09/2020 09:34

@borntobequiet

Isn’t there a Sherlock Holmes story where he disguises himself as an old woman? Would that be (retrospectively) transphobic? Or perhaps the great detective was secretly trans?
What fun quoting myself. It’s the Adventure of the Mazarin Stone and Holmes disguises himself as an old woman with a baggy parasol (a touch of genius). The disguise is so good that it fools the page Billy.
EmpressJKRowlingSpartacus · 18/09/2020 22:41

I normally avoid screen adaptations but I’ve just watched the first episode of Cuckoo’s Calling & it was surprisingly good. I really like the casting.

Escapeplanning · 18/09/2020 22:29

If anyone wants a lazy catch up the BBC has all the books serialised on iPlayer. I really enjoyed all the glamorous locations and great character casting, it's very well done and gripping watch.

Pertella · 18/09/2020 21:25

I want to buy it, but I've only just read the other 4 and then if I get this one there's nothing to look forward too

I've been waiting 9 years for the next GoT book 🥺

sourdoughismyreligion · 18/09/2020 21:17

I've also just finished reading it. As others have said it's not transphobic. A relatively minor plot point has been blown up out of all proportion. I can't really say a lot without giving the plot away, but once you read it you'll understand how absurd the telegraph review really is.

Deliriumoftheendless · 18/09/2020 21:01

@FloralBunting

And of course what's profoundly depressing is that a woman who wrote books which engaged a whole generation of kids with book reading is being dragged on Twitter by people who in the last year have probably only read appallingly bad smutfic on FanFiction.net
😂
CaptainCarp · 18/09/2020 21:00

Thanks DeRigueur.
I do like a good crime novel so this sounds like a good new series to get into.

DeRigueurMortis · 18/09/2020 20:55

@CaptainCarp

Are all the Robert Galbraith books one series?

I think might have to do a bit of shopping this weekend. To buy kindle or hardcopies is the question.

Yes they are.

There are 5 in the series to date and all very good imho.

The first one got good reviews before it was discovered the author was JKR.

I'd definitely read them in order.

The detective stories stand alone but the relationship between the main protagonists evolves as does their characters.

MondayYogurt · 18/09/2020 20:17

womp womp...#1

I've just finished Troubled Blood and there is NO transphobia
Datun · 18/09/2020 19:59

I can't wait for the Oscars.

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borntobequiet · 18/09/2020 19:54

Isn’t there a Sherlock Holmes story where he disguises himself as an old woman? Would that be (retrospectively) transphobic? Or perhaps the great detective was secretly trans?

FloralBunting · 18/09/2020 19:50

And of course what's profoundly depressing is that a woman who wrote books which engaged a whole generation of kids with book reading is being dragged on Twitter by people who in the last year have probably only read appallingly bad smutfic on FanFiction.net

CaptainCarp · 18/09/2020 19:44

Are all the Robert Galbraith books one series?

I think might have to do a bit of shopping this weekend. To buy kindle or hardcopies is the question.

Wishforanishwishdiash · 18/09/2020 19:38

I've got it on my kindle and looking forward to it.

I am delaying because I only just read Casual Vacancy, and I was awake in the wee hours of the morning and I can't believe the ending. I am a bit cross with JK Rowling, but because I am still a bit sad.

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 18/09/2020 19:30

Oh yeah...

Fair point ladypeter

LadyPeterWimsey · 18/09/2020 19:29

@RufustheSniggeringReindeer

Yes, it's well known that referencing the quirks of dialect or variations in speech patterns in different characters is a very bad thing for an fiction author to do

Irvine welsh will be bang out of luck

I'll think you'll find it's completely different when men do it Hmm

Roddy Doyle does it too.

MindTheMinotaur · 18/09/2020 19:27

@Datun

And of course, yet again, the whole thing is backfiring.

People are talking everywhere about real life cross dressing serial killers. They are being informed, using evidence, that cross dressing is one the most prevalent paraphilias amongst sex offenders, etc.

And everyone is letting the public know that Stonewall include cross dressers, very publicly, under the term transgender.

You don't mean sex offenders like Marie Dean? Didn't The Observer campaign to have them moved to a women's prison? Remind me, did they violently resist arrest while wearing a knicker balaclava? And did The Observer forget to mention that their crime was breaking into houses to steal and film themselves masturbating into underwear. I think they also forgot to mention that a teenage victim attempted suicide.

www.womenarehuman.com/transgender-perv-spied-on-young-girls-then-demanded-access-to-womens-prison-marie-dean-nee-gary-dean-marie/

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 18/09/2020 19:23

Yes, it's well known that referencing the quirks of dialect or variations in speech patterns in different characters is a very bad thing for an fiction author to do

Irvine welsh will be bang out of luck

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 18/09/2020 19:22

@FloralBunting

'Go on the rob'Grin

Rufus, your turn of phrase has me crying with chuckles.

I just wanna be down wif da yoof
FloralBunting · 18/09/2020 19:11

Yes, it's well known that referencing the quirks of dialect or variations in speech patterns in different characters is a very bad thing for an fiction author to do.

Every character should chant slogans in between long didactic passages of prose detailing the glorious new world of love and kindness.

Datun · 18/09/2020 19:09

I hope she starts suing.

It's the only way. She has the money and the power, something which these arseholes probably fail to encounter much in women.

DialSquare · 18/09/2020 18:59

She was being accused of being a snob yesterday too.

Absolutely ridiculous.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8744037/JK-Rowlings-new-book-comes-fire-transliterating.html

FloralBunting · 18/09/2020 18:58

'Go on the rob'Grin

Rufus, your turn of phrase has me crying with chuckles.

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 18/09/2020 18:51

Men dressing in burkas to go on the rob

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4485004/Gang-dressed-burkas-jailed-230-years.html