On The Sad Passing of Dolly Parton

[GreenFinchAndLinnetbirds]

J.K. Rowling mourned Dolly Parton, then deadnamed a trans woman under the same post. Dolly’s fans did not hold back.
Rowling has spent years using her platform to harass and invalidate transgender people.

Dolly Parton spent decades making LGBTQ people feel loved.

After Dolly died, Rowling began praising her online, calling her Imagination Library “the best contribution to child literacy ever made by a celebrity.” She said they crossed paths once backstage at a talk show in the 90s, and she was “tongue-tied and starstruck.”

The replies quickly filled with the Dolly she left out.

In 2005, Dolly wrote and recorded “Travelin’ Thru” for Transamerica, a film centered on a transgender woman.
When North Carolina passed its anti-trans bathroom law, Dolly said she hoped everybody got the chance “to be who and what they are.”

When Tennessee was targeting trans people in 2023, Dolly said trans people could not help being trans any more than she could help being Dolly Parton.
“I know and love them all, and I do not judge.”

Rowling was still in the replies.

She answered British trans activist Dame Katy Denise by deadnaming her and saying she had seen her birth certificate.

When another user said she and Dolly had nothing in common, Rowling replied that “neither of us want Jolene to take our man.”

Dolly once put it this way: “We are all God’s children and how we are is who we are.”

There is a further article of the right-thinking world's reaction to Rowling's... characteristic behaviour here: https://www.out.com/celebs/jk-rowling-dolly-parton?mrfcid=202608266a8c32408240c960826a25ab

Dolly Parton was a master at avoiding divisive subjects.

She said that trans people couldn't help who they were, but noted that she didn't say that males should belong in female toilets and spaces.

Also geniune question for the transwomen on this thread.

Why "deadname" and not "birth name" like the rest of the population?

Dolly refused to say anything about Trump, even when a journalist pressured her to do so. She would simply not get involved in slanging matches or politics.

Hear, hear OP. JKR is a bitter, spiteful troll; it's gratifying to see so many people - celebrities and non - calling her out on her contemptible behaviour.

Well at least we all agree that she should never have deadnamed poor Dame Katy 😘

It really is pathetic to hate JKR so much that you will hijack her expression of sadness on the death of a legend to attack her.
Really pathetic, and so disrespectful to Dolly Parton RIP.

Dolly hasn't even been buried yet, and already you are appropriating her as a weapon for your irrational hatred.

Seriously - do you not realise how shabby you and others look, using the death of a musical and philanthropic legend to score petty points in some bizarre campaign of made-up nonsense you've cooked up against a famous writer and philanthropist?

Have you no shame?

This is absolutely fucking hilarious, thanks OP.

But it is making me wonder if Dame Keith is really a Dame at all...

Have you wondered if there's something lacking in your life that you need to sign up to Mumsnet to post such vitriol?

#sadtimes

Doubtful, none of these RSOH types have a sense of humour like every authoritarian there has ever been.

Basic intelligence seems in short supply too.

When JKR puts down the Lambrini and starts a charity to end chair poverty with Dame Katy, then I’ll believe she’s not a transphobe. Over to you Joanne.

I presume the OP hasn't reappeared because he is busy rounding up chairs to donate to Dr Dame Katy Denise's wonderful scheme to end chair poverty.

When bigots... spout their usual 'what rights do Trans people not have' I point them to the millions of womxn who are living in chair poverty, literally sat on the floor, cold, afraid..."

So if we're not celebrities we're non-people! Wow!

Absolutely true. The RSOH have no sense of humour. It is the easiest way to spot an authoritarian of any stripe.

I knew Dolly Parton as much as the OP, ie not at all, but I get the impression from what she did and said that what she really wouldn't have wanted would be attacks on women. Dolly Parton seemed very women-first from the stories being told about her, in her career she cared most about lifting up women (the boring, old-fashioned kind). She wasn't a blank canvas on which to project whatever fad the RSOH cosplayers are into, she was genuine and had her own principles and integrity.

Gonna disagree I'm afraid. There's plenty of funny memes and in jokes in TRA-land as well. The hardcore "make everything I don't agree with illegal" bunch not so much, their humour tends to just be bullying and abuse, but the mass #BeKindAndDontThinkAboutTheInherentInconsistenciesAndSexism lot are just people who've lost their way a bit on this issue.

Yes, I'm happy to accept that the periphery has a SOH but the core doesn't. It was the same when I was in the Labour party. Some great people in the wider movement, but the core of my local party, who were really authoritarian socialists, were monotonous, blinkered, misogynistic and totally devoid of humour. I could not get out fast enough.

I feel as if JKRs exchanges with Dame Katy could be usefully now used as an intelligence test.......

Yes yes, but where do you stand on the biscotti question?

(and can you explain the insult ‘dry biscotti bitch’ to me? That’s still niggling at me)

I want to know why biscotti and not (say) a Rich Tea biscuit? And the inconsistency of the alliteration of 'dry biscotti bitch' is bothering me. They couldn't think of a word beginning with b to start it off?

Well yes

boring, barren or bland would at least alliterate

You could see she wasn't comfortable with lily tomlin and Jane Fonda at that awards ceremony declaring their political allegiances beside her. I thought she made the right choice to not involve herself and keep integrity.

If idiots can’t tell that Dame Katy is a parody account, what does that tell you about the ridiculousness of actual trans Twitter accounts?

Chair Aid.

Seat the wo-orld
Let them know its sit-down time..

Can you show us some please? I’ve only ever seen bitterness from transactivists, attempting humour and failing, but of course those are the ones I’m shown from sex realists. It would be nice to know there’s a lighter side.