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JK Rowling supports TERF who was fired for being transphobic
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Harry literally when he has all the skills in the world to be a stable, nurturing, inspiring, Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher instead becomes a Magic Cop.
Is it so hard to be talented, rich and NOT a fucking bigot? Thank god we have people like Mark Hamill.
Very common. I have heard it used in regards to homophobia since the late 90s at least. It's basically "the card says moops" from the Alt-Right playbook. In other words, they know that homophobia doesn't simply mean "fear," but you can't prove that they know that since you can't read minds, and they can just argue those semantics rather than the actual argument which has nothing to do with what the word actually "technically" means.
...paddington is a terf? =O
I mean he is british and famous and has some books ....
Remember that we are talking about feminists who usually use "terf is a slur" for reasons like "we don't exclude trans people, we accept trans men in our women only marchs"
Hey remember that time when Hermione taking a stand against FUCKING SLAVERY was treated as a joke?
Man, I think the core themes and ideas are pretty stupid and a lot of the politics in there are dumb. However, the hunger to position Harry Potter as some centrist manifesto seems like such a reach to me. You have to ignore wide swathes of what happens in the book to get to this place.
Welp one of my fav authors is a TERF
"You're abusing me by calling me a TERF, now excuse me while I deny your existence."
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I'm super fortunate that of the smattering of public figures I admire, none of them have exposed themselves as terrible people to my knowledge.
Then again, maybe they just don't use Twitter enough to let their asses show.
Then again, maybe they just don't use Twitter enough to let their asses show.
maybe the reason all these """""materialists""""" say Biology 101 so much is because that's the highest level of science education they got
This should be so fucking simple. Trans rights are human rights. Trans women are women. Feminism includes all women. All TERFs are assholes. I still enjoy Harry Potter, but I'm never doing anything that might result in J.K. Rowling or any of these other sacks of wet shit earning another penny, ever again.
Calling someone who denies trans identity trans-exclusive is abusive! Misgendering the trans community is just stating facts!
Every fucking TERF is the same damn self-centred moron incapable of any introspection into their behaviour when called out, instead to feel attacked for being called exactly what they are arguing to be - trans-exclusive.
Every fucking TERF is the same damn self-centred moron incapable of any introspection into their behaviour when called out, instead to feel attacked for being called exactly what they are arguing to be - trans-exclusive.
I mean that's the life story of bigots right. Forever oppressed.
Misandry runs deep among the TERF crowd. It's the source of their enmity towards transgender women.
Welp one of my fav authors is a TERF
The guy who created ALTERED CARBON is a terf?
Like the tv show about literaly changing bodies....
Yeah Takesh eveni spends time in a woman's body in the books and it's not weirdly written or anything, it's so fucking weird. That's why it caught me so off guard. He even has a series with amazing lgbt chars.
Feels so bad.
He created the books, the show is a horrible adaptation.
I've had this happen so many times when it comes to calling out racism/bigotry.
Them: obviously racist rant
Me: That's messed up you think like that.
Them: snowflake or other unoriginal and weak insult
Me: Cool and you're a bigot
Them: how dare you and a tearful speech of how they once held the door for someone of whichever group they were disparaging so they can't be.
I hope that she experiences some repercussions from this as well as that Richard asshole mentioned above.
Perhaps they did not create the term, but it was popularized a few years back when they tried self-identifying as TERFs as though it was a positive thing, before it was turned around on them. Now they're crying that it's a slur.
Welp one of my fav authors is a TERF
Wow - I looked him up and he's the author of Altered Carbon. Also British.
Having only seen the Netflix series, I wouldn't have expected the author of a series about people that can have their consciousness transferred into new bodies to be transphobic.
It's been almost two years now though, so I don't recall if there were any gender changes in the story.
Maybe so, but she could still be emboldened in her transphobia by the election result.
Unfortunately there are many left-leaning people who may be in favor of supporting good social policies, but supporting trans people is a step too far.
it's so utterly fucked that these dipshits are treating the brain like it's an organ whose only purpose to the body is to produce cartesian dualism arguments
I can. In his mind your mind getting transferred to the body of the opposite gender means you have the sex of said gender so you're not trans.
Their ideologies are more focused on the sexual bits being real and not, as they see it, massacred.
User Banned (1 month): concern trolling, long history of similar behavior
Again ridiculous. Rowling has been a disgraceful transphobe for years, this is nothing we didn't already know and has nothing whatsoever to do with politics - you are using it just to suit your agenda.
Terfs can come from both sides of the political spectrum. All are ignorant, awful people.
She said absolutely nothing in the election. The only thing she has done for Labour in the last 4 years is wreck.
She couldn't bother to send a tweet during the election, but she sure has time for transphobia.
Ewww, Gervais? Wtf man, I didn't think highly of him before, but this is another level of stupidity.
Holy shit. I expect the worst from Ricky Gervais and somehow he's still exceeded my expectations. What a piece of shit. JK's tweet has really emboldened everyone, including known transphobes like Gervais, to be even worse.
Thought this was established for a while, hence why Lindsay Ellis made those bad tweets about it we made a thread over.
I dunno, dude's a dipshit either way and his continued career is the only evidence anyone needs for the nonexistence of god
The two weirdest things about this:
1. JK Rowling - an amazingly progressive person in so many ways - and formerly a credit to the nation - has this appalling blindspot.
2. The person she's defending is making scientifically indefensible claims using science as the appeal to authority.
It's so weird. Like, just admit what you mean: "I don't like it and I don't think it's important enough to be included in my thing"
1. JK Rowling - an amazingly progressive person in so many ways - and formerly a credit to the nation - has this appalling blindspot.
2. The person she's defending is making scientifically indefensible claims using science as the appeal to authority.
It's so weird. Like, just admit what you mean: "I don't like it and I don't think it's important enough to be included in my thing"
It's been known for awhile before that, but some people here still fawn over him and his "jokes" are often excused as being only that. So I'm going to highlight the piece of shit he is when he goes beyond that so it's without doubt for people browsing.
Friendly reminder that JK Rowling wrote a huge plot line where everyone laughs at Hermione for trying to end slavery, and all of the progressive elements of her books coincidentally don't appear in the books
#2 isn't that weird since it's what all bigots do. "Race realists" and all
Feminism for wealthy middle aged Brits pretty much came to a halt a few of decade back. This is what happens when you disregard intersectionality.
Ricky Gervais already wandered into it a long time ago. He's been making transphobic jokes for a long time now, and by jokes i mean he's just repeated the same "i identify as an attack helicopter" joke over and over.
Is she? Her books are full of dodgy examples, which maybe wouldn't be such a problem if she didn't constantly double down on them and make up crap that wasn't really there.
I mean, the villains of the books are Wizard Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan.
I don't think that's a defense of Rowling, but they've certainly got some progressive themes.
She has been obviously transphobic for years now if you were paying attention, but as I said earlier, she has often walked back what she said, or it has been things such as liking transphobic tweets or following transphobic people on twitter.
This is the first time I can think of her being so blatant about it.
Maybe the election result had nothing to do with it, and she just felt like being honest about it now for some other reason.
But from the reactions I've seen to this tweet, it seems like this is the first time many people have realized she's a TERF.
Yeah, I suppose I can see how they might reach that conclusion.
I would have expected an author of such a series to have considered things like "what if a male consciousness was put in a female body" or vice-versa, and think about what that means, instead of "well I guess they're a girl now".
That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. He's been making transphobic jokes for years.
Don't go and read the comments unless you want to be depressed by seeing lots of support for these awful views.
For sure. It's very middle of the road. Remember a few years ago it wasn't taking a stand to say Nazis and the KKK are bad lol
Apparently I should have been more clear in saying he's wandered into this current circlejerk.
I am abundantly aware of his history.