Alex Massie on JKR and Death Threats

Yeah the erection pics with lipstick face sent to the children's Ickabog thread were very much selfies of transwomen.

Are you so oppressed you need to send a picture of your erect dick to children? ?

I get fed up reading 'it is not trans people themselves but others'; still the need to have that sacred caste. It is very much trans people and trans organisations.

Excellent article , thank you for sharing

Thanks for sharing, that's refreshing.

A minor point but this always fucked me off, I'm pleased he addressed it
Scottish PEN will remain silent and so will the actors and other artists whose fame and fortunes have in large part been made as a result of Rowling’s work. That may be their right, but it is craven nonetheless.

Have there been any voices in the trans community calling out the threats of violence. I don't remember hearing any. Certainly not from any of the major organisations. I cant think of another movement where the mainstream has stayed silent when others use threats of violence. Hmmmmm.

Absolutely brilliant article. Thank you for the share token.

Gawd that’s great article

Awesome mr massie

This is super and very well written. Every time I came to an ad I thought I'd finished and felt genuinely excited to discover there was another paragraph to read! The part about prominent male allies' misogyny was spot on and brought a few suggestions to mind, I must say.

Many of the loudest voices in the so-called trans-rights movement are not those of trans people themselves but, rather, of men whose self-professed alliance with trans people often seems like a convenient cloak for rampant misogyny.

This, we all see it. From those who make death threats, to those who try to end women's employment, or silence women voices, (Side eyes the Labour Party and the SNP) or stays silent when when of your own MPs are subject to abuse.

Excellent article, thanks for sharing!

That is a really good piece

Absurdly, we are asked to believe that those threatening violence upon Rowling are the people who, in their own pious, self-aggrandising phrase are “on the right side of history” and it is Rowling who, in defiance of all evidence to the contrary, is guilty of fomenting hatred and violence. That being so, the death threats sent to her daily must be considered a natural response to her provocations. They are but a means by which truth may be spoken to power and if it is regrettable that some folk take this too far the fact remains she started it and it is she who bears responsibility for the violent fantasies of those who promise to kill her

Many thanks for the share token. Excellent.

No evidence, let alone any convincing evidence, is ever produced to substantiate the accusation that Rowling — or other feminists — is transphobic. The assertion is considered proof of guilt itself. If you suspect this speaks to what is, at root, a suffocating new orthodoxy familiar in the pattern of its thinking to students of totalitarianism you would, of course, be correct.

Thanks