“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”

[YankSplaining]

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”

I'd love to see that. These haters (for lack of a better word) are never called out on what JK ever said that is so wrong. There is no accountability.

"Male violence' is a false equivalence to trans people. It's the same as saying because lesbians commit a higher rate of domestic violence than straight women, same sex relationships are a danger to women.

And you can't map groups neatly on to each other as you think. Younger, poorer, straight men offend at substantially higher rates than older wealthier gay men. In fact gay men offend at lower rates than gay women.

Muslims are simply an example of using isolated instances to broad brush the entire group.

Reid is a straight woman in a heterosexual marriage with kids. Her novel series got picked up by a Canadian production company and became an unlikely hit. She's about to make absolute bank on the rest of her series getting the TV treatment, same as Julia Quinn with Bridgeton. She'll say whatever to pander to the fans who will keep the dollars rolling in...just like Julia Quinn did when it became clear Shondaland was going to absolutely butcher the most beloved book in her series by completely rewriting it into a "queer" romance (orchestrated by... shocker... another plain Jane straight woman who "identifies" as queer.)

It's easy to drink that cool aid when it comes with a side of millions of dollars. And as a reminder, gay men are not the people who are watching her show or reading her books. Her fans are the exact same completely straight married women who "identify" as whatever makes them feel more self-righteous and less bored.

The issue is about males. Not 'trans people'. How is saying rape survivors need a female only safe single sex space to change 'demonising' males?

Poor old deluded Rachel. Whoever you are. Must be awful being in your head.

‘I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes’

Hope (for her sake) her writing is better than her talking.

That was written in 2020. Since then JKR has repeatedly emphasised isolated instances as if they were the norm.

For example?

I see we have posters again supporting the people who abuse JK Rowling and who expect her to absorb that abuse ‘because she has so many followers’.

The defence that she has so many followers so she should just STFU when she is abused by male people or should ignore when male people act in abusive ways towards other female people is just another way of saying women should absorb abuse and not react if they are considered powerful compared to their abusers.

It is remarkable when you see people use this defence because I don’t think they have ever thought about it. Because to think about it beyond reading heavily prejudiced articles that also don’t acknowledge her abuse at the hands of some male people, would mean acknowledging who is abusing her.

Also, she restated exactly the same position in the 2023 podcast The Witch Trials of JK Rowling.

Or she’s just highlighted instances where men have pushed their way into places for women where they shouldn’t be?

And you can't map groups neatly on to each other as you think. Younger, poorer, straight men offend at substantially higher rates than older wealthier gay men. In fact gay men offend at lower rates than gay women

So should women not have any single sex spaces in which to get changed? No single sex refuges? Dormitories? Prison cells? Because it's not fair to exclude men from groups which are statistically safer than others?

Her twitter feed regularly highlights instances of trans related sex offences but conveniently leaves out that they are an exception to the norm.

You're using a third hand source that deliberately twists what she says, manipulates the wording, and ascribes meanings to it that aren't there in her original words.

How about you quote which of her ACTUAL WORDS in here, her own words, are 'transphobic'?

If she 'demonises' anyone, it's males. Men. Considering she is a DV survivor that is understandable.

Here is her article, now please copy which points are 'transphobic': www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/

Specific examples, please.

So, a man who identifies as Trans, is convicted for sex offences, but it is JKR who is bad because she posted about this publicly available information?

ETA - maybe someone knows which rule of misogyny this is?

How can they be an exception if one can regularly highlight instances of trans related sex offences?

Males sexually offend at 98% rate. This is a fact.

It's why females have female only spaces.

Are you actually saying that a woman should not be pointing out abuse where she sees it? That no woman should highlight an act of abuse because ‘it might be seen as if she is treating it as the norm’?

Please link up the tweets specifically (not any article) where she has done what you have accused her of doing.

Trans-identifying male prisoners are statistically far more likely to be sex offenders than the male prison population as a whole.

Should we not draw attention to other male sex offenders, either, because NAMALT?

The mentality that the focus is it’s JKR that’s the one in the wrong and not the trans identifying sex offender that she’s highlighting! Let me never be this sort of person.

Hmm. You're forgetting the Ministry of Justice figures which show that trans identified men commit sex offences at a much higher rate than the other men in the prison population. (The figures are likely to be an underestimate as some sex crimes committed by trans identifying men have been allocated as women's crimes).

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/18973/pdf/

'Trans people' are not a third sex. There are two sexes; male, and female. A male person is not suddenly less of a threat simply because he is wearing a dress.

If you don't understand the concept of lying by omission yet, I can't help you.

Rule No. 10: The worst thing about male violence is that it makes men look bad.

And that's always a woman's fault.

'Isolated incidents' of male violence? These 'isolated incidences' of male violence against females all add up. Which is why women are raped, why Domestic Violence is high, why 60,000 (sixty thousand) women per year are killed by males, and why the male sex commits 98% of sexual offences.