THINGS JK ROWLING HAS SHAMEFULLY REFUSED TO COMMENT ON

[RoyalCorgi]

There's been a spate of threads recently about things JK Rowling has shamefully failed to comment on. Wouldn't it be easier to put them all in a single thread?

I'll start.

JK Rowling has shamefully failed to comment on the Manchester City fraud scandal.

Exactly.

I think you answered your question, and I’m puzzled why you think it would make conversations about men not being women less clear than silly gaslighting and obfuscation?

Trans woman, and woman are the obvious respective terms. "Woman" needs no qualifier when describing a biological woman.

Nonsense, I think it makes them very clear.

And you know full well, TIM, or trans identified man perfectly well describes these fellows.

There are women. There are transwomen, who are trans identifying men. It's not hard.

"Woman"
"Transwoman or Trans Identifying Man or Man"

I have a variety of ways of making clear that it’s a particular type of man I’m referencing:

men who identify as women
trans identified males

are the neutral ones

Woman
Trans identifying male

I find that keeps things very clear and easy to follow

Transsexual is the legal term, so male to female transsexual, can work if the other terms are considered too much

There only seems to be one person who finds it confusing. Amd they don't, really.

The problem with 'transwoman' of course is that no-one seems to be able to tell anyone what it means.

Worst of all, she hasn't bothered to react with "Support" flowers to any of the tragic posts on this thread

It has been shown that a lot of people think transwoman is a woman who presents as a man

Hence man is clearer. Or man with a prefix if we have to, so TIM.

Obfuscation - it's a feature not a bug

I feel we have moved away from the original purpose of the thread.

I've got toothache. I swear I heard JKR laugh at me.

It is. When all’s said and done, they’re just men, in every sense, unequivocally under the law as confirmed by the SC, so I often am referring to them within the whole of the male sex.

She’ll be tweeting about it now. To annoy you, and thumb her nose at Canadanian.

what language would you use to distinguish between a cis woman and a trans woman?

Woman and man who wants to be a woman

Another one keeping an eye out for derailers.

JK also hasn’t sent any condolences to the inhabitants of my fish tank for the trauma of the poor things having to watch me eat salmon for dinner.

I've got the painters in (not a euphemism, that ship sailed long ago) doing the hallway. I've had to go out and buy some coffee for them because I don't drink it and what I did have was so ancient it had fossilized in the bottom of the jar.

Not a word of sympathy or support from JKR regarding the time and money I've had to spend on this mildly annoying yet essential errand. She clearly DGAF about good trade relations or the state of my vestibule. (Also not a euphemism).

It’s been nice on this thread to hear about the day to day minutiae of posters’ lives, actually!

Absolutely! Some might say that you are confusing 'demonising trans people' with 'making sure that women don't lose the rights that they have only had for 50 years', but I say JOIN THE DOTS.

There are many women working in the women's refuge and rape crisis field, but how many of them have tweeted about this Cornell case? If Donald Trump can take the time to comment on a specific case about which he knows absolutely nothing, why can't they?

The question is not 'Do I have something to say that is of value'. It is 'Will my tweet go viral?'

Can you honestly not imagine a world where cis women disagree with you?

Very much so.