Cynthia Nixon baffled on J.K. Rowling's remarks about trans people

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[–][deleted] 33 insightful - 1 fun33 insightful - 0 fun34 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

good tweet

If a 23yr old gets upset by the word 'woman' that's their problem, not JK Rowling's. Women exist, so do periods, & no amount of trantrums can disguise that biological fact of life. Woke adults should educate themselves.

[–]BEB 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Seriously, Cynthia's TIF "son" is 23.

When I first read this, from the way the article I skimmed was worded, I assumed it was a child of seven or something. Grow up. Cynthia and her daughter both need to.

[–]wooger 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

She appears to not have read what JK wrote. It’s very clear, does not deny that anyone exists.

[–]BEB 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

None of the people have read what JK actually wrote, from two Canadian "journalists" Charles Adler and Justin McElroy, who were on board with the I LOVE JK ROWLING billboard being taken down, to just about anyone I've seen criticize Rowling in any medium.

They call themselves journalists yet don't bother to check the most basic facts.

Another reason why I think Donald Dumpkin's "FAKE NEWS" has resonated so much, because many prominent journalists right now are bought, and many are bought by Trans, Inc.

[–]MarkTwainiac 18 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It's so inappropriate for a parent of a 23-year-old to publicly speak on behalf of/instead of their adult child unless the adult child is intellectually impaired or suffers from a disability that makes it impossible for the adult child to communicate and speak his or her mind on his/her own.

I was 11 the first time I had a major viewpoint conflict with the powers-that-be who then played a huge role in my life (the nuns & priests running the RC convent school in the US I attended in the 1960s). They had asked me to write a speech for a special event in the community - but when I handed in my speech they completely changed and censored it. My parents went to the school and parish with steam coming out of their ears and told the nuns and priests that if they wanted me to give the speech then they had to let me speak my mind. But my parents never, ever proposed to speak on my behalf or to argue my POV. They helped me hone my thoughts and words, and they gave me emotional support, but basically they left it up to me to figure out and express my own views.

A similar thing happened when my younger brother in first grade circa 1966-7 responded to his teacher's ranting that "revolutionaries are destroying this country" by raising his hand and very politely asking, "But wasn't it revolutionaries who founded this country?"

When my own children were 23 or 12, if I had ever tried to speak on their behalf, they would've died of embarrassment and given me lethal side-eye as they shouted, "Mom, how could you?" along with many more unpleasant things whilst they slammed endless doors and stroppily stomped their feet.

It's preposterous that Cynthia Nixon's decision to go to the press to give the whole world the impression that her adult child is an immature imbecile with inflexible ideas is now being viewed as an example of good parenting! But worse, CN has now outed her adult child as someone who still lives in Harry Potter pretend fantasy land and can't cope with the fact that Harry and Harry's world are the imagined creations of a RL human being who happens to have some views that CN's adult child doesn't like.

[–]Thatstealthygal 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, this is the crux of the issue really, not that her kid is trans or whatever.

It does strike me that Cynthia's children have been either partially or completely raised by her butch lesbian wife, and that with such a role model, surely the one who is trans-identified must really have some serious reason to feel that way.

[–]BEB 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Cynthia Nixon is yet more proof that no one should ever take the words of a celebrity to mind.

Ninny.

[–]lefterfield 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

So many of the comments on the article with the whole 'people have a right to their opinions' aren't really getting it. Sure, both Cynthia and JK have the right to speak out - but only one of them is backed up by facts and that same person is being harassed and bullied. Both those observations together SHOULD make people care and think about this issue a lot fucking harder, and it's exhausting that they don't.

[–]BEB 15 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I think that's because the Daily Mail posters tend to be older Brits and, while they think the whole gender thing is load of rot, they're scared to say so because in the UK you can get a visit from the police for being "transphobic." A few years ago, a young mother was arrested in front of her children.

So I'm guessing the Daily Mail posters talking about the right to have an opinion are saying as much as they can because of fear of arrest for "transphobia."

Fucking 1984, just a few decades late.

[–]lefterfield 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, you could be right.