Times article - Twitter allows trans attack on J K Rowling

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www.thetimes.co.uk/article/22529d06-b387-11ec-8ba8-f6bf3099f5f6?shareToken=383cde79dcabded5ca4e7b9d38260b9d

Thanks for the share.

I wish Twitter would fit in a hearse to be honest.

I don't use Twitter, and this sort of thing is hardly persuading me to start.

I use Twitter professionally and it’s a disaster. Great for finding out things that are going on. Awful for the public interest.

@tabbycatstripy

I use Twitter professionally and it’s a disaster. Great for finding out things that are going on. Awful for the public interest.

Agreed.

There are thought bubbles on Twitter, and certain information cannot be addressed or critiqued if it comes from a different thought bubble, and even if the analysis would find it unimportant or false. This is one of the reasons why different political ideologies now appear to have so little shared ground (bubbles online, not just on Twitter).

For instance, sometimes we wonder how anyone could ever describe gender critical feminists as supporting retrogressive sex roles when the reverse is actually true.

I found one reason last night while surfing the trans activist Twitter:

The "Respect My Sex" campaign's Caroline Ffiske has earlier written about proper sex roles for men and women from a retrogressive angle: suggesting that men are the protectors of women, that the gender pay gap should be made even larger by having more women stay at home with their children (a misunderstanding by her as the gap is based on full-time workers' earnings and does not include the zero earnings of those who are not in paid employment) etc.

So her presence in that group is seen as her being a gender critical feminist which she clearly is not.

I understand the point of having women from all large political parties in that campaign (as it is aimed at their parties' views on what women might be), but this is how her presence is interpreted in the trans activist circles.

Glad the Times has run this. It was in the Mail earlier but that tends to get dismissed.

Twitter owes JKR a massive apology.

Bloody stupid lyric anyway. Hearses are huge. Anyone could fit in them. And they are vehicles for carrying coffins. Not much of a threat really. JKR has a much better imagination, and could write some stonking lyrics for FF if she was as petty as him/her/they/whatever.

@tabbycatstripy

I use Twitter professionally and it’s a disaster. Great for finding out things that are going on. Awful for the public interest.

Same here. I've retweeted a couple of decent science things today for my sane and collegiate (large) group of 'followers' and 'followees' but honestly it's a cesspit otherwise.