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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Death threat against JKR doesn't breach Twitter safety policy

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BoreOfWhabylon · 03/04/2022 17:52

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10681171/Fury-Twitter-rejects-complaint-trans-activists-video-hoping-J-K-hearse.html

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MargaritaPie · 04/04/2022 15:13

In other words, if Rowling perceived this a death threat wouldn't the best thing to do just make a police report instead of making a big rabble about it on Social Media?

DrDetriment · 04/04/2022 15:27

James Dreyfus is my new hero. I had no idea how amazing he was.

ScreamingMeMe · 04/04/2022 16:23

@DrDetriment

James Dreyfus is my new hero. I had no idea how amazing he was.
He's awesome. Very witty too.
nepeta · 04/04/2022 16:35

NitroNine

Anime is very popular amongst the TRAs of Twitter - the notorious STFU TERF meme (featuring a zombie transgirl who died rather than go through male puberty hmm ) is just one example of where they find representation. Japanese pop culture generally seems to appeal

Last night was the first time I looked at a largish number of the accounts which attacked JK Rowling or the so-called TERFs with commands to shut up or pictures showing SILENCE or which used just misogynistic slurs.

I found a predominance of Anime girls as the profile pictures of all sorts of 'anti-transphobes', including many clearly adult (and male) individuals. The other startling aspect of those profiles was the very large number of people who stated that they were game developers.

Wonder if that group (whether truly game developers or just amateur ones) might live mostly online where one's identity can be entirely created? That would explain some of their beliefs. In their imaginary world cartoon women (girl children, really) are not oppressed. Or if they are it is because they derive erotic enjoyment from it.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 04/04/2022 16:37

Wonder if that group (whether truly game developers or just amateur ones) might live mostly online where one's identity can be entirely created? That would explain some of their beliefs. In their imaginary world cartoon women (girl children, really) are not oppressed. Or if they are it is because they derive erotic enjoyment from it.

Yes I think a lot of them interact with people mostly online and aren't "out" as trans in any significant way.

nepeta · 04/04/2022 16:51

I forgot the real reason why I began reading those comments: I wanted to see what they said about the death threats against JK Rowlings.

The common responses were that a) JK Rowlings never responded to them when they made rational counterarguments but would then single out some unimportant person's death threat, and b) all TERFs cause trans people to die by directing violent people in their direction, and that is much, much worse than a few online threats.

The major assertion that was made in those threads was about Dr. David Bell. Presumably he never actually worked directly with GID patients at Tavistock. (More clarity on the issue www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/02/tavistock-trust-whistleblower-david-bell-transgender-children-gids).

I looked for tweets which would have disapproved of the death threat tweet. If there were any from that side on the issue they were so few that I can't recall them.

This is somewhat similar to how the slogan "It's all right to punch a Nazi' was used, i.e., that it is acceptable to use violence against a person suspected of even greater violence.

The snag, of course is that 'suspected' here is entirely subjective, not based on any evidence that others could verify or falsify, and not addressed within the legal system.

DuckDuckNo · 04/04/2022 21:22

LOL, I was in Harajuku once and there was this Western trans woman who was dressed in loli fashion - they were about 6'2 tall, 5 o'clock shadow, broad shoulders and then the short frilly skirt, white little girl pantyhose etc. They were talking on the phone going on about how everyone was so accepting and meanwhile the Japanese people around me muttered "...hentai..." ("...pervert...") while trying to look away.

Anime culture is not that mainstream even in Japan. And this stuff definitely isn't.

ScreamingMeMe · 05/04/2022 09:30

I want JKR to buy shares in twitter and work together with Elon Musk to transform it into a platform with free speech and proper, fair moderation.

A woman can dream, can't I?

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