I know, I need to PM a mod about it. I'm absolutely crushingly saddened and furious about it.
What's the reference?I know, I need to PM a mod about it. I'm absolutely crushingly saddened and furious about it.
Books written by her by that name.
It's the main character of her detective novels she wrote under the pseudonym.
I know, I need to PM a mod about it. I'm absolutely crushingly saddened and furious about it.
pretty sure there's a form somewhere in your settings to change username, I recall using it beforeI know, I need to PM a mod about it. I'm absolutely crushingly saddened and furious about it.
I know, I need to PM a mod about it. I'm absolutely crushingly saddened and furious about it.
if that point were not december it certainly is nowAt a certain point she'll need to become persona non grata on this site
It's awful, even just halfway through which is all I could manage. No sources cited at all, particularly damning that she does not even claim once in nearly 4000 words that any renowned doctors or psychologists specialising in this subject because she knows they're not on her side. And she can't even do the usual 'I'm not an expert, but' kop-out as she explains almost right away that she considers herself to be the opposite. She downplays or ignores the oppression trans people face, and downplays specific instances of transphobia whenever it's convenient to, focusing much, much more on anything that makes her look like a victim.
Especially considering that her most prolific work has messages that stand in stark contrast to her beliefs. Gross.
I know there are average memes about it but will future harry poter threads have to frame the creator as she who must not be named and stuff?At a certain point she'll need to become persona non grata on this site
I know there are average memes about it but will future harry poter threads have to frame the creator as she who must not be named and stuff?
Even though she's a white billionaire, she is still feeling the pressure and has her back to the wall. Her legacy is forever tarnished and she knows it, so this is likely a desperate attempt to bolster her reputation with transphobes.
On the 'bright side', she's given amazing people like Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson a much bigger platform than herself (Watson tweeted this mere minutes ago)
I also fund medical research into MS, a disease that behaves very differently in men and women. It's been clear to me for a while that the new trans activism is having (or is likely to have, if all its demands are met) a significant impact on many of the causes I support
I sincerely feel for you, that wasn't concern trolling or misplaced irony.I know, I need to PM a mod about it. I'm absolutely crushingly saddened and furious about it.
Sorry for the tangent, but for the longest time, she claimed to espouse noble causes, signaled she was in favor of the disenfranchised, and her background made it sound like she had a sound understanding of working class problems, so tons of people, myself included, looked the other way because she projected the image of a progressive who put her money where her mouth was, and some things from her works were written off as unfortunately tone deaf.She's an awful person. It's a shame that because of her status, her potential to be a powerful, progressive voice is instead being used for hate. Especially considering that her most prolific work has messages that stand in stark contrast to her beliefs. Gross.
Someone posted this in the other thread, this is a neat and lengthy takedown of her essay.
"When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he's a woman"
I never understood that argument. Ill-intentioned men can still go in women's bathroom. There's no invisible barrier letting only women in.
Her being as critical of mere democratic socialism as conservatism showed long ago that she was either ignorant or wrong on working class problems. I honestly have no idea how you could have come to that conclusion.I sincerely feel for you, that wasn't concern trolling or misplaced irony.
Sorry for the tangent, but for the longest time, she claimed to espouse noble causes, signaled she was in favor of the disenfranchised, and her background made it sound like she had a sound understanding of working class problems, so tons of people, myself included, looked the other way because she projected the image of a progressive who put her money where her mouth was, and some things from her works were written off as unfortunately tone deaf.
Then she began liking tweets from transphobes, I vividly remember a thread about that pattern some years ago, because I had no idea this was happening and didn't know that much about TERFs. Trans posters took it on themselves, when they shouldn't have to, to educate people like me why this was meaningful and suspect as hell, and why our instinctual benefit of the doubt was undeserved. From there, things kept escalating, being less and less oblique, retweeting people defending transphobes, then doing it herself a few months ago to finally her saying what she really meant all along.
I'm not defending her, she can fuck off, and I'm writing everything of hers off, but I can see why people had this picture of a (mild) progressive and would be surprised, even though it was a long time coming.