Val McDermid

they don't read (about) it

I doubt they read anything though, to be fair @MilkGoatee

But McDermids transgender psycho killer is really a victim driven to murder by the cruel uncaring NHS. So maybe she is a TRA heroine still. Personally I prefer a spine tingling ghost story to her buckets of gore and torture porn.

is one of the tedious group of professional Scotspersons.

This made me laugh KimikosNightmare
I know exactly the type you mean!
I wonder if they have it on their CV???

There are recent reviews on Good Reads- within last 6 months to last 4 years.

The fact the killer is transgender is barely mentioned. Where there is criticism it's mainly of the gratuitous torture porn or the leaden prose. Here's a couple of examples.

Reading his acts by the light of such mute traces as he left behind him, the police became aware that latterly he must have loitered. And the reason which governed him is striking; because at once it records—that murder was not pursued by him simply as a means to an end, but also as an end for itself

Kevin made a face as his taste buds clenched on the strong bitter coffee that lurked under a swirl of foam that looked more like industrial effluent than a cappuccino

So the keynote speaker isn't just any old transwoman...

"One of the keynote speakers at a lesbian conference at the University of Cork is a male who identifies as a lesbian and has a history of campaigning against rape relief centres"

twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1485150457261707266?s=20

"S. Stryker, editor of Trans Studies Quarterly, discusses porn with a "precocious teenage lesbian", and dedicates the rest of his op-ed to drumming up more customers for PornHub.

"“Hey, what's that bulge you got there?"

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twitter.com/yatakalam/status/1266691577562329088?s=20

The interesting thing is that the killer in The Mermaid's Singing may be a transwoman but was refused one or more times to have GRS by the medical establishment. Which is what caused the issues coming to light in the book.

Based on that book alone, I cannot understand that she's not been terf-ified by the TRA community. But maybe the book is so old by now they don't read (about) it. I think I read it mid 90s, and it'd been out a few years already by then.

@signalbox yep think that clip is it

[quote DontLikeCrumpets]@KimikosNightmare.
Her wealth might not be affected if she supported a GC position but her comfort would significantly be affected.[/quote]
I don't think there is the slightest possibility McDermid supports a radical feminist gender critical view.

She doesn't have to of course. I personally couldn't care less what Val McDermid thinks about anything.

I'm just slightly puzzled at posts like yours which seem to suggest she would if she could but it would be so difficult. Many women who have nothing remotely resembling the wealth, privilege, influence, friends in high places have stated their case.

I've read The Mermaids Singing and one I can't remember the title of, about a tv personality that kidnapped, tortured and murdered girls. Both horrifically violent. That was enough for me! I don't think I've read anything comparable to them since.

Friend of mine who’s an academic in the US told me that the American transwoman keynote speaker at that conference about lesbian lives (hollow laughter) charges around 1000 US dollars to give these speeches, plus Business class travel expenses. On top of a pretty high academic salary.

@KimikosNightmare.
Her wealth might not be affected if she supported a GC position but her comfort would significantly be affected.

@cleopatracat Upton Sinclair:' It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding'

Nail meet hammer

@ThatsWhenTheCannibalismStarted

Kimiko that series is free on Prime. I watched that episode recently and oh god

The only McDermid I've read was a collection of recycled short stories blatantly and cynically marketed at the thrillers/ murders/ ghost stories for Christmas but where only 2 stories had any connection with Christmas. And her take on Northanger Abbey- which was dreadful.

I started listening to audio book of The Mermaids Singing. I was so horrified by the descriptions of torture that I had to stop.

I wonder why she hasn't been cancelled with a plot like that.

Kimiko that series is free on Prime. I watched that episode recently and oh god

Quite a popular show I believe, millions of viewers would have seen that piece of inclusivity.

She hasn't- she hasn't , as far as I can find, spoken up for JKR on any level.

Thanks for the link, Signalbox. That’s interesting to watch. Since the signing of the above letter, I’d assumed she was full on TWAW, but maybe she has a more nuanced view.

mobile.twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/931302121558876161

She is a sensible modest person not like some who love to shout their mouth off no matter whom they offend and what damage they do.