J.K. Rowling's latest novel isn't 'transphobic'

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[–]Shesstealthy 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

To be fair, to write one novel in which the grumpy man lead deals negatively with a man in a dress trans woman crim is one thing. To write another featuring a man in a dress serial killer does look like JK has an axe to grind, especially given the tweets etc.

I myself as a terf wouldn't be keen on making it look like I was obsessed with Jessica Yaniv types up to no good, if I were a novelist. Not ALL the time.

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I wouldn't say one sentence out of an 800 page novel is "featuring" but the woke twitter crowd certainly tried to make it seem that way.

Here's the entirety of the reference in her new novel

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

Ah I see! This whole thing is insanity!

[–]BEB 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The thing is, this book's mention is just that, an almost insignificant mention in passing. If it were about another group, no one would have even noticed.

I actually think the opposite: I think that rather than reassure everyone that we aren't "transphobic" by constantly saying things like "transwomen are not the threat" we should let the public know that some TIMs are very much the threat.

We need to go on the warpath and tell everyone that TIMs go to jail at staggeringly high rate, disproportionately for sex offenses, and that most are heterosexual men with a fetish and get turned on by stealing women's clothing and used tampons and listening to women urinate.

We have protected extreme gender activists for too long, it's time to be honest about the actual threat some of them pose to women and children in women's spaces especially.

[–]Shesstealthy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Moreover a man dressing as a woman in order to facilitate committing a crime, ie as a disguise, does not equal a stunning and brave transwoman. I guess their logical problem is that if any historical evidence of a woman dressing as a man in order to facilitate social activity means she was really trans, the idea of someone donning a disguise for nefarious purposes must be one and the same.

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They have no logic. But what concerns me is all the normal people who are swallowing this gender insanity whole - politicians, judges, school administrators, librarians, teachers, scientists.

Look at all the booksellers who won't sell Rowling's new book. Book people are supposed to be the last bastion of sanity in a crazy world and against censorship, yet so many not only won't sell her book, they release these sanctimonious statements as if she were a world leader who had written a plan to round up and genocide kittens.

Collective insanity and we need to not give an inch. NO MALES IN WOMEN'S TOILETS.

In a few short years, "I just want to pee" has come to mean violent, sex-offending, heterosexual men in women's jail cells.

We need to Tell A Friend, Tell A Woman, just talk, about what's happening, as often as we can to as many people as we can. And we need to do it now.