Alex Massie on JKR and Death Threats

[Igneococcus]

I put the link into the old thread but I think this deserves its own thread. Thanks Alex Massie, excellent piece of writing:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8547d582-ecbf-11eb-a9f0-ebe3f77d4a7e?shareToken=f64b5e8f965fddd747c4d63ffcdc03a3

Keep sharing. It’s a great article.

Inviting JK Rowling to “suck my trans dick” seems a mightily strange way in which to be “on the right side of history”. So strange, in fact, that it seems like something to which we should pay some attention.

Wonderful. I’m definitely going to have to resubscribe to The Times now.

@334bu

Excellent article.

As to who is behind threats etc, I think that herein lies the problem highlighted by the letter penned by a group of transmen. Those awful pictures are not being sent by transexuals or people with gender disphoria , they are pictures of people satisfying a sexual fetish.

Those signatories had a well made point.

I've never understood the cognitive dissonance of being obsessed with something that is a major component of dysphoria as it is currently understood.

Than you for sharing OP. What a fantastic piece and such excellent comments. Most people going about their days are appalled by what’s happening and the more sunlight shone the better.

There are so many strange things pc going on with Nicola Sturgeon. The injunction, for instance.

That's so good I've posted it on Facebook.

That is an excellent article! Thanks for sharing Igneococcus.

Excellent
I agree with PP that the "it's not trans people" bit is untrue & the last defence of the sacred caste. I think the intended meaning is that is not "old school" transsexuals (simply because they are a tiny minority) but it misses the opportunity to point out how everyone is trans if they wish to declare themselves so.

@TooWicked Wonderful. I’m definitely going to have to resubscribe to The Times now.

You should because it's so worth it to see the comments as well.

@334bu

Excellent article.

As to who is behind threats etc, I think that herein lies the problem highlighted by the letter penned by a group of transmen. Those awful pictures are not being sent by transexuals or people with gender disphoria , they are pictures of people satisfying a sexual fetish.

Yes, indeed, for anyone new to this, it’s called AGP - Autogynephilia. It is widely accepted (including by some trans women themselves) to be the reason that some men want to become women.

Excellent writing, he often talks sense on this issue iirc but this is especially good. Like JKR he has an eloquence TRAs always, always lack.

Lots of good comments. This one jumped out at me because the 'ugliness' trope is something that was used as 'informed commentary' from both men and women against the Suffragettes. (Courtesy of a British Library exhibition.)

The cabinet that had a section in about the Suffragettes - was actually a broadsheet from May 25 1914 that had a gallery of photographs of Suffragettes.

The story was mocking the Suffragettes as a new genus for their ugliness (catching them mid-action, "dishevelled from the fight," part way through speaking etc.).

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4304834-British-Library-exhibition-Unfinished-Business-The-Fight-for-Womens-Rights

Times comment July 25, 2021:

For Women Scotland are gathering at The Mound in Edinburgh at 2pm on 2nd August, the site of the historic speakers' corner, to share their stories about the threat to women in Scotland today.

Those attending a recent gathering on the day of the original date for Marion Millar's hearing were widely criticised by some young women on social media. One comment suggested they were a bunch of ugly old women! The next time they're tempted to do this, they might like to consider where the freedoms they enjoy today came from. It was the civil action taken by these very same "ugly old women" that resulted in the right to birth control outwith marriage, the right to be defended against rape within marriage, the right to abortion, the right to an equal share of wealth when a relationship breaks down, the right to equal pay, and many more. Let's see what these social media posters think the day they waken up in Scotland and the concept of woman has been erased entirely.

@highame

I meant, ONLY in the Scottish edition - what about the offline readership in the UK

Yes, I've got today's paper in England and the article's not in it.

The Sunday Times in Scotland readership has been on the rise recently, but it will still have a much lower circulation.