Trans people are more obsessed with JK Rowling then they think she is with them

She absolutely can. I just don’t like the way in which she does it.

My original point was more "a lot of male creatives that have connection to things the trans community don't like-such as people financially supporting the LDS church which is harsh on lgbtq stuff- still are beloved by the trans community". It kinda got off track but that was my intent with the first post.

But why don't you care about donkeys ir hedgehogs?

You can have an opinion on what JKR does and doesn't do if you want, which naturally other people are free to think is batshit, snivelling or any other criticism, if you choose to share it.

Having expectations that she behave in the way you approve of is overstepping though.

I try but I don’t have her platform. I repost Epstein voices all the time. I advocate to people I know. I work in this area and so much work is needed but people don’t have her platform or litigation fund to say what needs to be said.
she doesn’t have to. I’m just saying what I wish she would do and why she annoys me. She baits them, they use it to gain more attention for a cause that deflects from the real issue and makes her look worse. I don’t think it’s funny or clever to go after a minority group when there’s the majority group that need people like her going after them more.
but that’s my opinion. You don’t have to agree with me

You are not the arbiter of what makes her better or worse though are you?

She has her own values in life and anyone with eyes can see she has really good morals and values and is very well aligned with them.

Any of us who have not achieved a fraction of what she has achieved and the level of respect her mastery has earned for her really cannot expect to have the social capital to impact how she views herself. If she feels she wants to engage with people who slur her, then that is for her to decide not someone from the internet who is determined to see her as in the wrong whatever she does.

There are lots of LDS authors in the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Why, I don't quite know. It's a religious tradition that seems to be more comfortable with the speculative fiction genre than contemporary fiction (though Levi Peterson's The Backslider is excellent, and will ring a bell with readers who have religious backgrounds that aren't specifically Mormon)

Deseret Book, the LDS church's publishing arm, also has a successful stable of romance authors who write clean romance, aimed at women who like to read novels but prefer not to read smut.

I'm not sure what that has to do with JKR, except that there are some people online who say you can't enjoy an author who doesn't share your complete ideological outlook.

Spoiler alert: I enjoy reading Yukio Mishima, because his prose style is beautiful and he makes you think. Enjoying Mishima's prose style does not mean that you're a gay Japanese fascist.

Can I just not expect her to be the bigger person and use her platform for other things?

@TheCozyWyvern - I didn't know Sanderson was a Mormon! Orson Scott Card was as well, I think, and the Maze Runner author. I just finished The Mistborn series and enjoyed it.

Funny that they are all post-apocalyptic authors.

(Sorry for the brief derail)

yes and my point is why engage with language started in hatred? She’s better than that.

Can I just not expect her to be the bigger person and use her platform for other things?

Why shouldn’t she hold those that abuse her to account?

Can I just not expect her to be the bigger person and use her platform for other things?

Is 'I really love JKR but' the new 'I am GC but'?

She was not the first person to call herself a terf that would have been TRAs unfortunately for them as often happens in attempts slur someone, the opposition to your views reclaim the slur as happened with JKR. So I’m getting from your posts that you were fine with the part that the TRAs slurred her but you are very unhappy and consider it baiting when she has reclaimed the slur.

Trans people invented it to make out women hated trans people, when actually they just wanted their own spaces away from men and to keep their hard fought for rights. The word has been reclaimed. I’d argue MERF is more accurate. When has JKR ever said a thing about trans men (females) incidentally?
The only controversy is that this isn’t apparently allowed.

Yes it’s quite offensive to trans people. It makes them feel uncomfortable and like you don’t like them. It’s just like why even do it? You’re immediately announcing you don’t like someone else or believe the same thing as them. It might have meant something different in the beginning but now it means someone anti trans. Which in itself is controversial.
idk for a normal person not beloved by the lgbtia+ community probably not. For someone like her yes it’s controversial

@TheCozyWyvern - I didn't know Sanderson was a Mormon! Orson Scott Card was as well, I think, and the Maze Runner author. I just finished The Mistborn series and enjoyed it.

Funny that they are all post-apocalyptic authors.

(Sorry for the brief derail)

It’s not really baffling.

She is a very powerful, very successful woman who is outspoken in her defence of women’s rights.

Not only that but she puts her considerable financial resources where her mouth is.

JK Rowling is far too rich to damage financially.

They can’t complain to her boss and she’s too successful to put pressure on her publishers or other business partners.

She’s so rich and powerful that threats of malicious prosecutions or reporting her to the police for her social media posts are ineffective. Not many people can wield legal representation with quite such an insouciant approach to the cost.

Being mean about her, and getting people she knows or is professionally associated with to be mean about her is really all they can do to hurt her.

All the usual tactics are ineffective.

And even their current tactics seem to be like water off a ducks back. However she feels privately she’s not giving any quarter publicly.

Not many people, let alone women, are in such an unassailable position. And even fewer have either her courage or wonderful way with words.

If you've got nothing on the woman you want to trash, make shit up or tone police her. Then complain that other women aren't listening to your oh so reasonable point of view.