India's outburst to JKR 'I will always be more of a woman than you.'

Oh what a lot of rubbish. Transwomen as males are not 'oppressed'. Strange how 1% have had such extraordinary power that we've had society turned upside down, our language re-defined - women and girls called 'menstruators', 'bleeders', and 'uterus havers', we have had intact males in women and girls changing rooms and stealing the sports scholarships, awards and places of women and girls. And, males in rape crisis centres sitting in on women's trauma literally grinning at hearing the stories. NEVER before has such a tiny minority had such overreaching POWER. Never. Gay men never had this power. Not even so-called 'c1s' men. Transwomen are at the top of the totem pole higher than 'c1s' men. Never has a group had more power than this "1%". They are incredibly dangerously powerful; they are the single most powerful, most privileged, most protected Sacred Caste. The reason for that? It is PATRIARCHY PERSONIFIED for this century.

@BunfightBetty "JKR has not been punching down. She has been punching up. Women are the oppressed class. Men (of which India is one) are the oppressor class."

It hinges on how you choose to see India - Unpleasant, yes, nasty, certerainly, vicious and the rest.

But I won't deny her the agency of choosing her own identity.

If you see her as a woman, her own description and choice, then Rowling's (and others) comments are punching down. TRANS people are currently very much oppressed.

JKR could have chosen a different path. God knows she has the resources. She didn't, and the image of a rich, powerful person lashing out on a vulnerable person, no matter what the provocation, is abhorrent.

However, now she reaps the harvest of own her sowing - widespread oprobium and mockery. Where once she stood tall and bright as a princess of prose now she is mocked, derided and rejected.

A shame, a shame on her and those that parrot her opressive views.

No, I mean that if you say "Why can't someone identify as a different race/black then?" they refuse to engage because apparently that is completely different and a tired, transphobic trope to use.

Okaaaaay 😬

To be fair (though I hate doing it) if some of the USA continues to hold by the daffy "one drop rule" doctrine, anyone with any black ancestry at all has the right to think of him- or herself as black. Who's to say that Rachel Dolezal wasn't descended, via her white European ancestors, from a member of a Roman legion who was recruited in North Africa and then retired and married in one of the European countries? All his descendents would count as black, by that rule.

Her strange behaviour might have marginally more basis in her country's doctrines than that of a man asserting that he is a woman. Not that I think she ever thought of using that as the basis for her claim, but still.

Hmmm, lots of comments deleted, Jonathan must have a sore finger from reporting all the posts, he's really a very sad little man. So bitter and angry at women just because he will never be a woman, the harder he tries the more male his behaviour is.

Yippee a chance to wheel out my Man With Two Brains name.😁

I think he may have watched the Steve Martin movie The Man With Two Brains, and thought the "cranial screw top method" was a real medical procedure.

No it seems not.

According to this interview in 2015 where he genuinely laments that having a brain transplant wasn't available as an alternative to so-called gender reassignment surgery, he only has a son.

https://www.itv.com/lorraine/articles/itv-newsreader-jonathan-willoughby-on-becoming-a-woman

But that's COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, in ways that no TRA has ever explained but always insisted on.

It’s odd, but I am on FB for the pet posts and author/publishing feeds. No politics. But I seem to get lots of posts/ad with links to articles about JKR. Many of them have highly critical/censorious headlines about her. But when you click in (I can’t help myself) you see 500k views and 20k comments. And, well, I grit my teeth and scroll expecting the worst. Only, I would say 99% of them laud and celebrate JKR. They comment on the charities she supports/founded, they reference her original letter explaining her position. The other 1% are just people screaming bigot with NO actual evidence as to why she should be considered one.

So, I don’t think she is a target of mockery of disapprobation at all. She seems to be a much admired figure of reason and common sense, at least amongst the 3billion monthly active users of Facebook.

Absolutely not. The more that people like Jonathon "India" speak up and demand "rights", the more unhinged people realise they are.

Some adults pretend they are children. That is a matter for them and I do feel a bit sorry for them, but pandering to someone’s fantasy doesn’t stretch to letting them join the local primary school so that they can feel more accepted. The protection of children is far more important.

The men who sexually assault have created a need for single sex spaces.Go and shame them and stop blaming women.

@BunfightBetty "JKR has not been punching down. She has been punching up. Women are the oppressed class. Men (of which India is one) are the oppressor class."

It hinges on how you choose to see India - Unpleasant, yes, nasty, certerainly, vicious and the rest.

But I won't deny her the agency of choosing her own identity.

If you see her as a woman, her own description and choice, then Rowling's (and others) comments are punching down. TRANS people are currently very much oppressed.

JKR could have chosen a different path. God knows she has the resources. She didn't, and the image of a rich, powerful person lashing out on a vulnerable person, no matter what the provocation, is abhorrent.

However, now she reaps the harvest of own her sowing - widespread oprobium and mockery. Where once she stood tall and bright as a princess of prose now she is mocked, derided and rejected.

A shame, a shame on her and those that parrot her opressive views.

I think that he is referencing his journey from man to woman:

• man
• was then trans woman (trans)
• now fully woman - therefore cis

that makes sense from his way of thinking - of course for everyone else it is batty / bonkers logic

India is a woman hater. It oozes from every pore.

@BunfightBetty "JKR has not been punching down. She has been punching up. Women are the oppressed class. Men (of which India is one) are the oppressor class."

It hinges on how you choose to see India - Unpleasant, yes, nasty, certerainly, vicious and the rest.

But I won't deny her the agency of choosing her own identity.

If you see her as a woman, her own description and choice, then Rowling's (and others) comments are punching down. TRANS people are currently very much oppressed.

JKR could have chosen a different path. God knows she has the resources. She didn't, and the image of a rich, powerful person lashing out on a vulnerable person, no matter what the provocation, is abhorrent.

However, now she reaps the harvest of own her sowing - widespread oprobium and mockery. Where once she stood tall and bright as a princess of prose now she is mocked, derided and rejected.

A shame, a shame on her and those that parrot her opressive views.

Any relation to Holly?