“Heated Rivalry” author Rachel Reid on J. K. Rowling - “the bar is pretty high in how evil you have to be,” “ I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes”

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Well, this is disappointing.

”[Reid] has a keen desire not to disappoint her fans, especially when they’re sending her photos of freshly inked tattoos of her words on their skin. ‘I know of another author that a lot of people got tattoos of but then wanted them gone. Like, J. K. Rowling,’ she says. ‘The bar is pretty high for how evil you have to be, but I don’t want to let a single person down.’ I ask if she’s a TERF. ‘No, I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes,’ she replies.”

Well, too late, she let me down. “Extremely the opposite of everything she believes,” huh? I guess Rachel Reid thinks teenage girls should be forced to undress after PE in front of naked male classmates who gawp as their dicks get hard. Or that female inmates should be locked in cells with male inmates serving time for serial rape.

I don’t expect Reid to agree with Rowling on trans issues. It’s the monstering of Rowling that I take issue with - the “evil,” and the framing of Rowling as so extreme that Reid feels the need to be extremely the opposite of everything she believes.

Edit: title should read “on how evil you have to be”

That’s your belief

Pregnancy massively influences interpersonal interaction in public transport, shops and the workplace. All sorts of people come up and start giving unsolicited advice like “you shouldn’t be drinking Coca Cola - think of the baby!” and either offering you a seat on the tube or studiously avoiding your eye in case they have to give you a seat. Colleagues make jokes about “baby brain”.

Menopause also influences these interactions, especially with unexpected flooding and public embarrassment and the need for a decent (single sex!) loo urgently. Also suddenly becoming somewhat invisible to men in public (this one is a mixed blessing). Oh and colleagues making the odd unnecessary joke when you insist on opening the office window.

Did you really think these things don’t influence women’s social interactions?!

I know is it the presumption of sex, or the presumption of gender?

Quite. I can well believe transwomen might get some of the same discrimination if people genuinely can’t tell that they’re not women. But that would - presumably - apply to very few transwomen, and depend entirely on “passing”?

Sex discrimination is sex based.

The clue is in the name.

Yes, as with any other form of discrimination, discrimination by perception is also illegal.

Gender means assumptions of how a man or woman should behave, so sexist expectations. Gender non conforming women don't gain male privilege and avoid sexism.

Most men never consider the impact of pregnancy, so not very female gendered there.

Sex realism is largely backed by US right wing christian conservative men. It is a globally-focused effort to reduce the rights of LGBT people and eventually return culture to align with its core biblical belief that women are subservient to men.

Signed:

Mr. Izzit Bollocks.

There are lots of different type of men.

They are all men.

This is already covered by discrimination law.

Similarly you can suffer discrimination on the grounds of religion because somebody thinks you are a particular religion regardless of whether their assumption is correct.

It does not therefore follow that you are that religion.

Yes, you can be discriminated against because you are the charateristic, or because someone assumes you are the characteristic. We can all be discriminated against probably all of the categories, except men are rarely discriminated against for pregnancy.

Oh my. There is a reason for that.

Yes, fully agree! And it doesn’t mean, for example, that white people with a tan can start self-defining as BAME because they might be mistaken for a member of an ethnic minority from a distance, at night, by someone short-sighted.

No, it's fact.

That is your belief. But it's WRONG. Gender Critical feminism is overwhelmingly backed by left wing feminists globally. It's the T that is largely backed by the far right Mens Rights Movement, and their goal, as is yours, to reduce the rights of women and LGB people.

You're being deliberately obtuse.

That's your belief. But you are wrong. Isolating males from females supports women. You are a man in service to men.

The world does not begin and end based on sex realist beliefs. The rest of us out here apparently experience a much wider understanding of interaction.

It is not a bad law to keep males out of female spaces. It was enforced easily for a century before the last 15 years. There is no safe and beneficial way to include males in female only safe intimate single sex spaces. And if you were actually a woman, you'd know this.

Men are biological males. A sex, not a 'social construct'. HTH

No trans person 'changes sex' full stop. And NONE of them claim to.

Except gay people weren't removing rights of women.

Sex Denialism is a tool of conservative men and Mens Rights Movement.

The only people who have the ability to become pregnant is the female sex. 'non-binary' doesn't exist. 'Trans men' are women and female.

So you admit you are male. Wonders never cease.

Males are responsible for the conduct of other males. You have admitted you are a male.

That’s your belief, the rest of us outside here have a much wider understanding of experiences than you.

Yes, because transwomen are more dangerous than other males. Sex denialist belief doesn't change this.