JKR - language

[Karmacamelia]

J K Rowling : always referred to as "gender critical' (critical giving negative vibes ) but never 'pro- women' ( pro giving positive vibes) would love to see a TV/radio news item referring to her as 'J K Rowling, pro women author, campaigner...'

That’s a really good point.

That’s why the TWAW cult mantra has been so pernicious - change the meaning of ‘woman’ and suddenly our rights aren’t our own.

The change the Trans lobby has effected in the language in common use is nothing short of stunning.
I'm temping in a genetics laboratory and the biological sex of the person whose specimen we receive is recorded as 'sex assigned at birth. ' It blows my mind every time I see it on a form.

Are you not tempted to cross it out and correct it 😬

the biological sex of the person whose specimen we receive is recorded as 'sex assigned at birth. ' It blows my mind every time I see it on a form.

😮 I could not stomach that. Can't someone get the form corrected??

But yes JKR should be referred to a woman's rights activist at least.
She's set up a refuge for women for goodness sake.

I agree JKR is much more than gender critical in her activism and very much pro-women. I thought she described herself as a sex realist rather than Gender Critical, though can’t find a reference.

But I’ve always seen the “critical” in Gender Critical as positive in the sense of critical thinking (which is its meaning in the phrase).

👍🏻
I like the sex realist description.

Never hear this mentioned, only negative news associated with her. And old news i know, but what a let down, the three main people who starred in her films (who wouldn't have the wonderful lives they have now) to turn against her like that, really hacks me off!

Gender critical? She's usually referred to as anti trans.

The use of the word Transphobic if you so much as mutter a question on whether trans women should be in women’s sport or any mild concern about women’s rights.
it’s ridiculous -who the heck has a paralysing fear of trans people -no one -but it never gets called out.

Only by those believing that oestrogen tablets magically turn male genes, chromosomes, cells and tissues into female ones.

Still thinking about this, are the first few words the most important? If so, gender critical gets more attention, (the way it affects trans movement) than JK being pro women, women's activist, defender of women's rights etc
Headlines should say: 'JK Rowling, defender of women's rights, gender critical' IMHO

Thing is, if pro-women is seen as anti-trans, then pro-trans must be anti-women.

She's as pro women as Andrew Tate is pro men ... She's divisive and I think she has taken feminism back a good decade or so.
this explains my views very well https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIlc8gQgHJM/?igsh=MWExemRjbGF0MnZheA==

She has zero in common with Andrew Tate 🙄

Link doesn't work for me. Can you explain in your own words?

Basically now we may have to prove we are women to use women's spaces etc it's a return to patriarchally constructs

Does JKR suggest women should treat men as Tate wants men to treat women?

Amazing to see someone think that creating women-only rape survivor services is the female equivalent of Andrew Tate. Actually pretty mind blowing insight into the misogyny of this movement.

I prove I'm female by existing. Other people have eyes and ears they use to see and hear that I'm female.

It's a transmaiden giving the "what about butches and women with PCOS?" routine to the camera whilst sitting in her parked car.

Why do these idiots think that we can't tell the difference between a woman with PCOS and a man? Why do they think that we can't tell a butch woman from a man?

You have it the wrong way round.

Women in the UK first had to fight for public toilet provision in the Victorian era (all existing ones were Men Only). Forward to the Second World War, women arrived to work in the munitions factories and again had to fight to have toilets provided as employees.

A return to “patriarchal standards” would mean no longer having designated single sex provision ie what the trans movement has been trying to steamroller in. Anyone supporting biological men having unfettered access to women’s facilities is pro-Patriarchy. Trans should be demanding their own provision, as our recent ancestors had to.

Edited to add - I have no problem assuaging someone’s concern as to whether I’m female if they need the reassurance.

So then this legislation is useless. As long as someone "looks" female then they can enter the toilets ? What about my friend, female stocky, short haired with facial hair due to her polycystic overies. Is she going to be challenged just for trying clothes on or wanting a pee ?
This is turning women against women

I have PCOS (with the related hirstism etc) and the whole 'women with PCOS will be mistaken for men' is such fucking bullshite I can even begin to express my rage at people weaponising my condition.

Women with PCOS are not men. We are not 'more manly' because we have higher than normal levels of testosterone than average in women (while being no where near even the lowest level of the range of testosterone for men). We are not intersex or an example of how sex isn't binary. Some of us many have hirutism but that doesn't make us or make us look like men.

We are women with a female endocrine disorder. Anyone who is using our condition to argue that men should be able to access single sex services needs to fuck right off.

Better to be challenged by a fellow woman than have a man plant secret cameras for his voyeur porn stash, wank in the next cubicle, creepily ask if have a spare tampon or assault me. But thanks for your concern!