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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Man blames JKR for hideous homophobic verbal attack on US train.

18 replies

StrangeLookingParasite · 20/04/2022 18:08

www.boredpanda.com/gay-parents-kids-trip-stranger-amtrak-incident/

Bored Panda article

Relevant Twatter post
twitter.com/Robbiepierce/status/1514127241222901760

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IncompleteSenten · 20/04/2022 18:11

What a twat.
What has jk Rowling ever said that's homophobic? 🙄

Neverreturntoathread · 20/04/2022 18:13

Horrible experience for the family especially those poor children. Doesn’t make slandering Jo Rowling ok though. I do wish she’d sue some of the people who whip up hate against her.

Strange to see this dad politicising his children to whip up hate against others. Maybe he should look up irony.

Theunamedcat · 20/04/2022 18:17

Ridiculous ffs

Neverreturntoathread · 20/04/2022 18:19

I was interested to read on that thread that homophobic and transphobic crimes are massively increasing. Wonder if that is connected to changes in public behaviour, or changes in police behaviour? If a woman objects to being intimately searched by a male-bodied transwoman officer, the woman’s objection will now be recorded as a hate crime despite the fact that the woman is legally entitled to a same sex search... Etc etc. So many things are apparently hateful now. Even the existence of the LGB charity is being challenged as ‘hateful’. So of course hate crime statistics are going up.

And yet misogyny is still not a crime, abusing a woman because she’s a woman is still not even hate speech.

Peenutbutterwolf · 20/04/2022 18:28

I was interested to read on that thread that homophobic and transphobic crimes are massively increasing.

America seems to have taken Graham Linehan's 'OK Groomer' and applied it to all homosexuals instead of just transwomen.

Moodycow78 · 20/04/2022 18:28

I'd bet this incident never happened, not saying people don't get homophobic abuse thrown at them, I just don't believe this guy.

geojellyfish · 20/04/2022 18:39

That must have been a horrible situation for them all. I'm glad that police were involved and the matter was handled with the seriousness it deserved.

It is a massive leap trying to connect JK Rowling's views on women's rights to that incident though. That was straight up, old-fashioned homophobia, which she would 100% condemn.

I long for more voices (and influential ones) to speak up to separate JK's writings on this from the TRA's highly successful campaign to misrepresent her opinions and actions. She doesn't deserve any of it.

Clymene · 20/04/2022 19:01

Wow, what a terrible story. If this is true, I feel really sorry for those kids. Partly for being harassed on the train which must have been terrifying and partly for having such a misogynist dad. It's got to be tough growing up with a parent who hates women as much as this guy does, especially for his daughter.

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 20/04/2022 19:18

Good grief. JKR is being cast as the Judas Goat for all social ills, isn't she?

Women in poverty. Prosecco consumption with lunch. Socialising with other women without male chaperones. Literacy. A much needed boost to cinema. Philanthropy.

How does anybody look at her corpus of work and her personal writings and actions and think assigning adverse motives or actions to her is at all appropriate? It's not done by anybody in good faith. I strongly suspect such attributions and accusations are instances of Frankfurt's Bullshit.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf

theemperorhasnoclothes · 20/04/2022 19:22

Man blames random woman for all the bad things that have ever happened to him (even when those bad things were done by men): misogyny 101.

TheBiologyStupid · 20/04/2022 20:15

I'd be interested in seeing exactly what this guy claims that JKR actually said that provoked his unfortunate situation.

ArcheryAnnie · 20/04/2022 21:08

So, a man yells at two other men, and suddenly a woman on another continent is to blame?

Misogyny 101. This ludicrous man is a woman-hater.

Whatsnewpussyhat · 20/04/2022 21:54

This was in the comments in that Twatter thread. These muppets will make up any old bullshit.

Man blames JKR for hideous homophobic verbal attack on US train.
EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 20/04/2022 21:59

Whatsnewpussyhat · 20/04/2022 21:54

This was in the comments in that Twatter thread. These muppets will make up any old bullshit.

Hmm, that commenter needs to take a global look at the countries and communities with the highest incidence and prevalence of HIV+ status and AIDS and how closely it tracks with poverty and under-resourced public health and healthcare systems.

www.who.int/teams/global-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-programmes/hiv/strategic-information/hiv-data-and-statistics

Melroses · 20/04/2022 22:00

Yes - number 1 - Women are responsible for what men do.

PurgatoryOfPotholes · 20/04/2022 22:43

Ironically, I clicked on this thread straight after reading about a UK resident who was in court this week for an islamophobic attack on a train in England. Who shall we blame for that? JK Rowling again, or someone else?

A woman who stripped in front of fellow rail passengers, called them ‘terrorists’ and threatened to take out guns on a train has been jailed.
Trisha Clifton also shouted ‘kill all the Muslims’ while gesturing as if she was holding a firearm, a court heard.
^The 49-year-old launched her tirade of abuse on April 1 when an inspector asked to see her ticket.
She began undressing and told train staff ‘don’t make me get my two handguns out’.^

metro.co.uk/2022/04/19/berkshire-woman-shouted-kill-muslims-and-threatened-to-take-out-gun-16490400/

Man blames JKR for hideous homophobic verbal attack on US train.
Man blames JKR for hideous homophobic verbal attack on US train.
Datun · 20/04/2022 23:13

ArcheryAnnie · 20/04/2022 21:08

So, a man yells at two other men, and suddenly a woman on another continent is to blame?

Misogyny 101. This ludicrous man is a woman-hater.

Yep.

I don't know how many of these misogynists she sends legal letters to, but I wish she would send one to this man.

They need to be held accountable for what they say about her.

FemaleAndLearning · 20/04/2022 23:36

Whatsnewpussyhat · 20/04/2022 21:54

This was in the comments in that Twatter thread. These muppets will make up any old bullshit.

I was coming to post that!

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