Who did JK Rowling become?

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A long read in New York magazine about what made JKR such a meanie. Surprisingly in-depth and not quite so much about the feelz, but you know a man would never, ever get this treatment.

I was pleasantly surprised by the comments section, especially for an American publication. Plenty of people seeing it for what it is and asking logical questions (read it last night, so hope they’re still there...)

www.thecut.com/article/who-did-j-k-rowling-become.html?fbclid=IwAR1PB4xuZKKgJHZA5jqQng-oaukuWPhLGcx5uindUO6aL4EiSI3fUc4iiCA

I've just read the Twitter feed for Molly Fischer, the writer. I wish I hadn't bothered. One response says please turn off comments as "terfs" comments are triggering them. And another Aussie TW says "she's a significant part of the reason I'm now afraid of public restrooms, and this is in Australia where the debate isn't even really that big of an issue."

Oh please.

@andyoldlabour

Here is a fine example of the lack of empathy towards women from TRA's. One woman in the comments section says this:

"But where else can we talk about these things? I had an experience last year in my gym's locker room, where I entered, what appeared to be a naked man with a penis was there, and I was uncomfortable."

The first reply is this:

"I'm sorry, but in this situation you feeling uncomfortable is less important than the trans woman in your locker room not having to face possible assault, rape, or death if she went into the men's locker room. At least 41 transgender people have been murdered this year. no transgender people have attacked anyone in a locker room or a bathroom."

Just about sums the whole thing up. We know where women are positioned in this hierarchy.

One response says please turn off comments as "terfs" comments are triggering them.

Lol. Translation: Shit, the tide is turning. Turn the comments off quick before more people are peaked by seeing people talking sense.

Not to mention the comment from the person who thinks that seeing a penis on a person in a women’s changing room is no different to seeing a baby boy’s when changing a nappy, which is so concerning it’s hard to know where to start...

That article was a serious case of TLDR.
Who did JK Rowling become?
An excellent and brave woman I'd say.
Or a radical feminist witch perhaps. Which sounds kind of cool

Quotation from the article in the OP: "The divide here between mainstream British feminists and their American counterparts is striking: American opponents of trans rights tend to be right wing. The difference reflects, perhaps, the relative insularity and homogeneity of British feminism."

Insularity of British feminism? British gender-critical feminism is standing firm against transgenderism ideology, which is a dystopian misogynistic threat to women's rights. If that is insular, I'll take it instead of the alternative (which is woke centring of male people at the expense of women and girls).

British gender critical-feminism is providing resources, which are useful and inspiring to gender critical feminists across the world.

If Mumsnet FWR wasn't helping to resist the erosion of women's rights by transgender ideology activists, then those activists would ignore us.

I took that line as a tacit acknowledgement that British feminists weren't right-wing, but left-wing.

The difference reflects, perhaps, the relative insularity and homogeneity of British feminism

I suggest a rephrase: "The difference reflects the superior intelligence, spirit, non-conformity and organisational skills of British feminism."

The divide here between mainstream British feminists and their American counterparts is striking: American opponents of trans rights tend to be right wing. The difference reflects, perhaps, the relative insularity and homogeneity of British feminism

Bit of a non-sequitur, isn't it? We seem to be watching the writer following their logic as far as it takes them to a place where they know they shalt not tread and then swerving off, with relief, into a nice reassuring disparagement of British feminism. You can see the gears grinding, sometimes. Cognitive dissonance, ahoy!

They are losing this war and they know it. I have seen the tone changing so significantly in the last few months. The smell of desperation.

@Ereshkigalangcleg

In Rowling’s world, for example, gender was an essential, immutable fact, and it had been that way from her first flicker of inspiration. “From the word go, it was a boy,” she has said of imagining her protagonist. “I never thought, Oh, maybe it’s a girl. Never once. It was always a boy.” Yet Rowling also invented the character Nymphadora Tonks (known as Tonks) a “Metamorphmagus” able to change shape at will. Klink remembers writing “the queerest fanfic I’ve ever written” about Tonks turning into a man. Since then, Klink has come out as nonbinary. “I loved Tonks and for a lot of other people who are nonbinary, Tonks was a big deal,” they told me. But “when you look back on Tonks, Tonks never changes into a guy. Tonks never changes into anything but different kinds of girl.”

This is so ridiculous I don't have any words.

Ah, but we did have Hermoine turn into a cat, so JK clearly supports transhuman people, who are more oppressed than any other trans-X group as noone understands them :(

'She did in fact believe the trans-rights movement was “doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it.”'
Well, yuh! I don't really understand how this is an argument against JK's position.
The whole 'what a meany to complain about people trampling over her IP' is just a rehash of Dickens' fight for his copyright with Americans- plus ca change...

JKR became a light shining with brilliance on the covert child abuse that has been occurring unchecked for far too long. F×ck this writer and her ridiculous handmaiden journalism. Sick of it already.

@PotholeParadies

I took that line as a tacit acknowledgement that British feminists weren't right-wing, but left-wing.

And to no-one's surprise, an American writer is have trouble recognising their own sense of imperial cultural superiority even when it's staring them right in the face.

@AsTreesWalking

'She did in fact believe the trans-rights movement was “doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it.”' Well, yuh! I don't really understand how this is an argument against JK's position. The whole 'what a meany to complain about people trampling over her IP' is just a rehash of Dickens' fight for his copyright with Americans- plus ca change...

Y, Y, way to underscore her point

I didn’t read it because I have the rage today, but who was the crazy sandwich boarded canadian?

Insular is American feminists who have achieved precisely nothing since Roe Vs Wade (and are in danger of losing that) thinking they're some sort of gold standard to aspire to.

Oh the billboard. Yeah. I was racking my brain for a sandwich board and not getting anywhere. Man is a narcissistic prick with a massive case of misogynistic rage.
Thank you!

Never met him or interacted with him. So I have no idea, but that analysis only solidifies my belief that they should not have interfered with his billboard!

Wasn't someone who was going to take them messing with his stuff well, then.

I have yet to read an American rebuttal of UK gender critical feminism that isn't replete with casual xenophobia.

I took that line as a tacit acknowledgement that British feminists weren't right-wing, but left-wing.

It was. Grudgingly and with bad grace.

"The divide here between mainstream British feminists and their American counterparts is striking: American opponents of trans rights tend to be right wing. The difference reflects, perhaps, the relative insularity and homogeneity of British feminism..."
The author is speaking to American leftist feminists here. Right wing is code for bigots. So if they find themselves agreeing with JK Rowling, they need stop that right now!

I tried to read that.
I really fucking did.

But my god what a load of absolute shite!