“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”

There's a movement in Iran who's slogan is Women, Life, Freedom, they've been campaign for years, at great personal cost.

She's been highlighting their justifiable cause. She's following the lead of women in Iran and showing her support for their fight not trying to cause a 'regime change'.

Your grasp on geopolitics really is subpar.

I was going to say this @TheywontletmehavethenameIwant JKRs posted articles about lots of countries. Can’t help thinking @Aisha176 has got the top secret list of things women aren’t allowed to talk about that the TRAs keep up their sleeves and use to decide what women are and aren’t allowed to talk about.
I do wish they’d publish it clearly so we can all stay inside their little talk guidelines. I’ll add Iran (forbidden).

Your grasp of white women in western countries gnashing their teeth having any impact on Iranian women is subpar. Outcomes?

Other than manufacturing public consent for war/regime change? NIL

White people exist, get over it.

There is no genocide in Gaza, get over it,.
JKR is a decent, caring human being, get over it.

If anyone is getting a hard on it’s you, over JKR.

Not sure why you think she owe’s you an opinion on Gaza, Iran, who’s going to win an Oscar or if pineapple belongs on pizza.

It is true that the police and courts do not question a claimed gender identity, regardless of when it is claimed. There is no way to distinguish between anyone claiming a trans identity, and that is largely because of campaigning for affirmation only treatment and Self ID.

It is now a completely subjective concept.

Why Iran?

I think maybe you missed the state of emergency where no western media was covering the actions of the Iranian regime in the beginning. Did you also then miss how media agencies were not allowed in to report and that one of the ways news spread around the world was because of social media used by people posting from Iran?

Most of her posts at the time were reposts from the rare few posts coming from within Iran when media outlets were still attempting to get confirmation about what was happening before reporting. It must be someone hard of thinking who cannot understand why she would do this.

She posts and reposts about the women and children in Afghanistan too. Or did you miss those? She also posts about women and children in other countries.

Are you so hard of thinking that you don’t understand why she recently ‘upped’ her posts about Iran at a time when protesters were being killed and it was not being reported in the world’s media?

She is a woman who has committed the crime of rejecting the idea that she has to behave like everyone’s mother.

She’s big in Canada and a very niche book market, the programme was made cheaply and she and the makers didn’t expect it to go global. She simply isn’t in the same league as jk Rowling so of course she’s not funding things as people are suggesting. She’s also gay herself. How about just let authors be authors and realise they aren’t always that media savvy, they say things in interviews without thinking it through. Or has lost so many fans for speaking out so much, if she’d just quietly funded projects she believed in and been less radical that would have been easier for you, and the flip side is the hockey writer doesn’t know the ins and outs of the implications of trans people in sports, it’s quite complex especially in team sports with a safety aspect, not even just a faster fairness thing

“Irrelevant to the discussion on this thread.”

It is very relevant to this thread. Because JK Rowling is posting about safeguarding female people and children. Therefore that point is directly related to the topic of this thread and also why there is any discussion about the crime rate of male people with transgender identities.

So, yes, "The point is also that even if there were sub groups within that segregation characteristic that had a lower rate of risk of committing violence or abuse towards female people, it should not also be up to female people to have to check if the male person accessing a female single sex provision is part of that sub group or not. Hence, ALL people in that segregated characteristic are excluded with no exceptions. ie. all male people above the age of about 8 years old are legitimately excluded." is entirely relevant to this thread.

if she’d just quietly funded projects she believed in and been less radical

It is not radical to believe that women should have rights.

Again, what are the fruits of her actions? Where is she going with this?

War & regime change.

If she was in the slightest concerned about journalistic censorship you may have heard a whisper from her about the systemic murder of a multitude of journalists in Gaza where no independent media has been allowed to report on the ground.

The facts are JKR's 'concerns' & more importantly outcomes align with western imperialism.

She is weaponising women's rights just like the far right do in their sudden interest in women's sports as means to end of their white supremacy.

”Irrelevant to the point that lesbians are not representative of all women as trans women are not representative of all men.”

Errr… this doesn’t make sense. Is anyone claiming that male people with transgender identities are ‘representative of all’ male people? No. We are saying they are part of that general group of male people so should not be treated differently.

Which was the point that I was making that women with the sexual orientation of same sex attraction are not treated as a separate group for the purposes of safeguarding. I was also pointing out that your comparison of domestic violence by women who are same sex attracted has multiple flaws and doesn’t work the way you attempted to claim it did.

What are the ‘fruits of her actions’ ?

Seriously? She is amplifying women’s voices when there was no media outlet doing it.

It does seem that you have a deep prejudice about her. On one hand you demonise her for not doing enough for political interests of your own, and on the other hand you demonise her for having personal political interests at all.

You also demand that she adhere to standards that media agencies aren’t expected to making disclaimers on articles that some hard of thinking person might take as contributing to negative stereotypes about groups.

I think this post of yours though puts it all into perspective.

She’s a middle aged woman, married to a man, cosplaying at gay identity because it makes the big money right now.

Errr… this doesn’t make sense. Is anyone claiming that male people with transgender identities are ‘representative of all’ male people? No.

You lie & you know it because its been clearly expressed on this thread & on this forum repeatedly.

Because apparently she is public property and should act in ways only acceptable to posters like Aisha (and Gretel on other threads - it is almost like Groundhog Day with very similar arguments)

Well I've not read her, and going by this thread I don't seem to have missed out on anything. Trashy homo porn for hetro's, really not my thing, but if there's a band wagon to jump on it does seem like a smart business move to jump on it.

Where have posters said that the actions of male people with transgender identities ‘represent ALL male people’?

Have you got this confused with the claims that the behaviour of male people with transgender identities fit within the range of behaviour of all male people? Because that is an accurate statement. They are male people so their behaviour are within the range of behaviours for all male people.

....no independent media has been allowed to report on the ground.

Then how do you know about it?

It does seem that you have a deep prejudice about her.

The premise of the thread is why JKR is considered evil. I'm simply explaining why. That you 'forget' this is indicative of your own bias not mine.

And what exactly has amplifying women's voices in Iran to westerners on twitter achieved? Their freedom? Exactly the opposite: manufacturing public consent to their country becoming an economic basket case like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan via military intervention that only serves to further enslave women.

Outcomes matter & she's smart enough to know exactly where this is going. Shame on her!

In which posts on this thread?

Where has it been expressed on this thread?

Yes, and it’s especially tedious when it’s, what, four or five years after people started jumping on the “JKR is evil” bandwagon.

So not only very unimaginative and clearly desperate to gain points with the alphabet brigade but also very very very slow-wittedly late to the party.