JKR & Britain’s “institutional transphobia”

[Vinniepolis]

Has anyone read Time magazine’s interview with Monroe Bergdorf? The writer (a “drag performer, screenwriter and author”) makes so many sweeping and untrue statements in just the one para that I am a bit 😲😲😲... among them that Britain is “institutionally transphobic” and the plot of JKR’s new novel “propogates dangerous mistruths about transgender people”...

If anything, Britain’s institutions are wholly lost in trans-admiration, while JKR’s book just doesn’t!

I am bloody loving JKR’s new book - and the accusations of transphobia are ridiculous. But she goes for many of the secret sacred cows that underpin the TRA movement - MRAs, pro-pornography lib-fems, PornHub, trafficking and exploitation of ‘sex workers’, and I’m pretty sure an adult baby is coming up, although I’ve not got there yet so I may be wrong. She’s hugely intelligent and hugely angry and the novel’s radical feminism is being lost in this ‘but there’s a serial killer wearing a woman’s coat’ narrative. And of course, in one of the previous Strike novels her prosthetic wearing detective meets a ‘transabled’ activist. JKR knows exactly what she’s doing and I love her for it.

Surely JKR can sue them for that? I'd love to see them try to defend it in court. The Times anyway as a newspaper.

Less so SNL which is comedy, I doubt anyone takes Pete Davison seriously and they did do the Woke Jean thing which was very funny as well lots of cross dressing humour over the years. Does anyone expect proper truth from comedians doing political satire? Mind you JKR is not a politician.

It wasn't The Times newspaper the article was published in, but Time magazine.

Is being completely ignorant of all history and culture outside the US mandatory to be a TRA?

Yes. It's in the handbook. Alongside 'disdain for women' and 'resistance to facts'.

when your entire identity depends on creating and maintaining a visual deception, it's not surprising that you seek to bend the truth to fit your narrative in other ways too

Very well put, and I have often thought this. I don't know where the rage comes from, though I did think MB was at least not aggressive, till I saw the list of vile comments MB had tweeted at women.

@Palindromic

I am bloody loving JKR’s new book - and the accusations of transphobia are ridiculous. But she goes for many of the secret sacred cows that underpin the TRA movement - MRAs, pro-pornography lib-fems, PornHub, trafficking and exploitation of ‘sex workers’, and I’m pretty sure an adult baby is coming up, although I’ve not got there yet so I may be wrong. She’s hugely intelligent and hugely angry and the novel’s radical feminism is being lost in this ‘but there’s a serial killer wearing a woman’s coat’ narrative. And of course, in one of the previous Strike novels her prosthetic wearing detective meets a ‘transabled’ activist. JKR knows exactly what she’s doing and I love her for it.

JK is clearly a mumsnetter. I just found a woman being told to get a SHL for her upcoming divorce.

I thought MB was more a potty mouth and vitriolic type. In my book, calling gay men poofs, lesbians barren and hairy and saying white people were all guilty of violent racism reflects quite a bit on the (lack of) character of speaker.

Not to mention inviting minors to contact them directly and thus ignoring all safeguarding.

This is all a matter of public record.

Oh and the 'speaking' delivered through, what strikes me as a highly affected cross between 'valley' drawl and an 'am I bothered' tone of Little Britain.

Sorry, I say that every time. However, I do find it remarkable the way people who themselves spout ugly things and don't even apologise for them have the gall to point fingers at others. The hypocrisy!

I thought it was quite funny how Time magazine blurred out MB's 'fuck you' in their tweet to Loreal, when they featured the tweet in the video on their website - swearing is vair unladylike you know Munroe