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“Heated Rivalry” author Rachel Reid on J. K. Rowling - “the bar is pretty high in how evil you have to be,” “ I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes”

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YankSplaining · 23/02/2026 17:20

Well, this is disappointing.

”[Reid] has a keen desire not to disappoint her fans, especially when they’re sending her photos of freshly inked tattoos of her words on their skin. ‘I know of another author that a lot of people got tattoos of but then wanted them gone. Like, J. K. Rowling,’ she says. ‘The bar is pretty high for how evil you have to be, but I don’t want to let a single person down.’ I ask if she’s a TERF. ‘No, I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes,’ she replies.”

Well, too late, she let me down. “Extremely the opposite of everything she believes,” huh? I guess Rachel Reid thinks teenage girls should be forced to undress after PE in front of naked male classmates who gawp as their dicks get hard. Or that female inmates should be locked in cells with male inmates serving time for serial rape.

I don’t expect Reid to agree with Rowling on trans issues. It’s the monstering of Rowling that I take issue with - the “evil,” and the framing of Rowling as so extreme that Reid feels the need to be extremely the opposite of everything she believes.

Edit: title should read “on how evil you have to be”

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callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:39

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callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:35

onepostwonder · 25/02/2026 00:02

My material reality is shaped by the people I share space with and opportunities provided to me/us. I've over 40 years to repeatedly absorb that objective interpretation of my experience does not exist within opportunities or allowances of a male person.

No, women are not props. Your material reality as a male and a man is not shaped by using women in your cosplay.

I've over 40 years to repeatedly absorb that objective interpretation of my experience does not exist within opportunities or allowances of a male person.

Please try and speak like a normal human being, not like a robot reciting an ancient English doctoral thesis. You're not impressing anyone. You're simply demonstrating dominant male language.

tealgrey · 25/02/2026 06:33

RR is a Canadian queer author.

So RR is a conformist, crowd follower.

Whilst JKR is a principled independent thinker.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:32

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 23:54

No one is preventing women from using women's single sex services in the UK.

Spoken like a male with no idea of female needs. If a male is in that space, females automatically can't use it. It's not safe for us.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:29

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 23:51

There is no philosophy. You have no ability to understand my experience. You are very anti-my experience as it is.

You have no ability to understand the female experience. Your own...words prove you do not understand why these female only spaces are so very vital to women.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:26

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 23:40

Personally, I never gave change rooms or toilets any thought. It seems bizarre that they are so suddenly political.

OF COURSE you wouldn't. Why would you? You are a male who is not fleeing from a male following you, you don't have a period flood or miscarry. You have NO lived experience with a female body, HOW COULD YOU KNOW???

Women and girls give these spaces serious thought since we are little girls.

You've just did an own goal. Your own words show you are a man who thinks like a man, who does not understand how vital these spaces are for women and girls.

PS I've screenshotted it as prove males 'don't get it'.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:21

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 23:27

Until sex realism, I'd never envisioned a public toilet to be a private exclusive environment.

That's because you have no idea what women do in those spaces and how vital they are for us as support, because you are not a woman. You've never had a period. You will never miscarry in the ladies, or flee there to escape a man. You have male lived experience and male socialisation through and through and that is palpable through the wording of your posts.

Btw, sex realism has existed since the dawn of time. Sex denialism has only existed for the last 15 years.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:20

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 23:25

I was merely appreciative for agreeing that men do not belong in women's spaces and that men are not women.

and then apparently a 'thank you' war progressed.

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So you as a man do not belong in women's spaces.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:18

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 23:19

That you reduce my existence to an identity is offensive. I do not identify. I have lived more than 50 years as me. It is the only experience I have; it's the only experience shared by people I know. It's silly to tell me that I require anyone to act in any way around me, or anyone else.

You can believe anything you wish that seems enlightening. Sex realists don't require trans people in the room to do that, they accomplish quite a lot amongst themselves.

Damn right you don't have an 'identity' - although you think you do, you have a sex. And your sex is male. You're a man. Always was, always has been, always will be.

You eXisT as a male and a man.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:14

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 22:44

We've belonged in single sexed spaces. We continue to belong in single sexed spaces.

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Yes, MALE single sex spaces. You continue to belong in male single sexed spaces. Because your sex is male. As is your attitude.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:13

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 22:34

Slave trade was legal in the UK until it wasn’t. Section 28 was law.

Women know who are women.

Sex realists are in the middle of a transient project to remove trans people from culture. They experienced some luck in being able to insert leadership in critical departments. With the support of religious conservatives, changes in law were won. However, the status of trans people has not changed. The status quo shall prevail eventually.

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The status quo is males like you out of female spaces. And not only is that prevailing, we are winning. You will be taking your life into risk if you continue.

Women know who are women.

Precisely. That's how we know you're a man. You speak with male entitlement and not sacrifice, like women. Your posts scream man.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:10

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 22:09

Trans women don't feel entitled, we are women.

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Transwomen are MEN. And you as a man and a male, have no right being in female spaces. That you have male entitlement and feel the entitlement to enter where you DO NOT BELONG is what demonstrates your male pattern thought process and male pattern entitlement. Actual women don't think like that. They sacrifice themselves for the many. You don't do that. You're a male through and through in thought, deed and entitlement.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:05

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 19:34

I don't believe I've ever met a trans woman who demanded to be granted access to anywhere. We were excluded and took the path of least resistance. We were excluded from manhood by men and included in womanhood by women.

You demand access to the female space and you enter despite the fact womanhood does not include you, it never has, it never, ever, ever will, and we don't want you there. And a group of handmaidens don't have the right to give away our consent.

Myalternate · 25/02/2026 06:05

Transwomen are like Oat Milk. Neither are the genuine product.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:03

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 19:22

Sex realist arguments will always form a wedge. They are not inclusive. They are about restricting and defining groups that do not belong.

YES! You've got it. Females are not inclusive of males. And there is a good reason why. Males do not belong in female spaces.

Finally you understand, took you long enough even for a sex denialist.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 06:01

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 19:32

Sex realist beliefs equally isolate trans men from men.

We are not concerned with that, we are concerned with men like you in our spaces when you have no right to be. The decent good transwomen don't do that. So we know you CAN use male toilets. You just want to make women feel uncomfortable.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 05:57

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 19:04

We are allowed to disagree. I am allowed to live my life and you, your's.

You can believe in whatever dangerous anti-science, flat-earther, misogynistic cult you want. You just don't have the right to breach reality and womens sex based rights to put these males in female only spaces where rape survivors and DV survivors and little girls are:

https://x.com/listen2tish/status/2007959774604984591

“Heated Rivalry” author Rachel Reid on J. K. Rowling - “the bar is pretty high in how evil you have to be,” “ I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes”
“Heated Rivalry” author Rachel Reid on J. K. Rowling - “the bar is pretty high in how evil you have to be,” “ I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes”
callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 05:54

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 18:52

I agree. No man is a woman.

So you agree a male is not a woman. Good.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 05:53

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 19:01

The video statement is classic othering of an out group to form a wedge to insert the superfluous requirement of consent. Women don’t need anyone’s permission to be women. There is no demand or request to be. Trans women are women. That sex realists are opposed to this doesn’t make it not true.

Transwomen are males with penis and testicles. They are not women, and never will be. And so the Supreme Court (not just biology) also so holds.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 05:50

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 18:51

I don't speak on behalf of anyone else, but whether someone is trans or not can be very easily distinguished in a majority of circumstances. Distinguishing trans status becomes difficult on the ends of the 'trans spectrum,' if such a thing exists.

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callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 05:46

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 18:44

Have you ever met a trans woman? This is a ridiculous stereotype.

Oh we haven't had the "have you even met a transwoman" on the bingo card for a while.

The vast majority of us HAVE. Hence our experience. Meeting a transwoman is the fastest way possible to become a 'terf'. I am always both bemused and amused that you people are so naive and so lacking in experience you genuinely think we've never met a transwoman. There is no thinking going on there with you is there.

“Heated Rivalry” author Rachel Reid on J. K. Rowling - “the bar is pretty high in how evil you have to be,” “ I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes”
callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 05:42

onepostwonder · 24/02/2026 18:41

In much of the world, female is a bioligical state and woman is a social/cultural/interpersonal state.

No, in most of the world, a woman is an adult human female.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 05:30

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 24/02/2026 08:54

Can anyone explain

... manufacturing public consent to their country becoming an economic basket case.....

Because that one's definitely got me stumped.

It's ChatGPT word salad vomit that makes no sense.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 05:26

Aisha176 · 24/02/2026 08:25

It does seem that you have a deep prejudice about her.

The premise of the thread is why JKR is considered evil. I'm simply explaining why. That you 'forget' this is indicative of your own bias not mine.

And what exactly has amplifying women's voices in Iran to westerners on twitter achieved? Their freedom? Exactly the opposite: manufacturing public consent to their country becoming an economic basket case like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan via military intervention that only serves to further enslave women.

Outcomes matter & she's smart enough to know exactly where this is going. Shame on her!

And what exactly has amplifying women's voices in Gaza to westerners on twitter achieved? Have they stopped Netanyahu's war against them? No.

It's done fuck all!

Shame on you for weaponising victims of war in your misogynistic war against feminism.

callmeLoretta1 · 25/02/2026 05:23

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