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Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist
A feminist who really hates intersectionality/trans people
Oopsie just told another person to off themselves haha you know how it is
I want to say it's surprising they're allowed on twitter but it's really not
Really? The mirror or erised scene? The way they talk about each other? It was as explicit as you could make it for a character known for keeping his past a secret. Short of Jude law turning to the camera and saying "grimdelwald and I used to fuck!" I am not sure what else people wanted.
Or that time Hermoine wanted to stand up for elf rights and gets laughed at about it.
ah thank you! explains why ive moslty seen it popup towards rowling
If you read more of her shit, it's Soros, AND the US state department. I wish the US government was as trans friendly as she imagines it is.
Look up mumsnet. Basically an Internet forum ostensibly for moms, but as reasonable members fled to facebook and other websites, the loudest transphobic voices got louder and by virtue of being the most visible, the most credible.
I look forward to rereading this limp post next year when she does this yet again and someone decides they want to play the devils fool for the day
With the in-universe excuse that they actually enjoy being slaves.
Is there a reason why TERFs seem to be more common in Britain than the US or other developed western European countries? Is it really just the prominence of mumsnet, or is there more to it than that?
Obviously there is rampant transphobia in the US too, but usually from the typical sources that are also anti-gay and anti-feminist. US has TERFs too, but seems like they are less prominent here.
Also the irony in using your experiences of being oppressed primarily to...oppress other people.
Obviously there is rampant transphobia in the US too, but usually from the typical sources that are also anti-gay and anti-feminist. US has TERFs too, but seems like they are less prominent here.
Also the irony in using your experiences of being oppressed primarily to...oppress other people.
Depends the context, in something like this i would say a follow is an endorsement, but in other situations, let's say following a content creator like an artist or a musician, if you don't know the person is actually a piece of shit you're not endorsing their views, you were lured by the art/music.
Harry Potter in a way has always been a low key paradise fantasy for white diet racists:
-All major characters are white, despite JK trying to trick people into believing Hermione (who is based on herself) was never mentioned to be white (even tho she totally was).
-Characters get to celebrate being born "better" than other people and use slurs for those "inferior" with total impunity and it's seen as "endearing" and "funny".
-Slavery of a sapient race is legal and even the "good guys" do it, the only character to object to this, as already mentioned, is Hermione and she's ridiculed for it.
-The main characters (and viewers who get into the setting) get to not feel like racists because Voldemort is there for them to be "less racist than".
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Joss Whedon Is a 'Hypocrite Preaching Feminist Ideals,' Ex-Wife Kai Cole Says (Guest Blog) - TheWrap
"He used his relationship with me as a shield ... so no one would question his relationships with other women or scrutinize his writing as anything other than feminist," she writes
www.thewrap.com
This did a number on Whedon's reputation and he has kept a low profile since then.
Probably just more a case of gay/lesbian being a bit more accepted in the UK so the bigots focus on trans people instead, whereas the US is still struggling with just the LG parts of LGBTQ
They're exactly the same types of people, just a bit more cautious to speak up about gay people
can't believe JK Rowling cut the scene where Grindelwald tells Dumbledore that he's worthy of his grace
maybe if the transphobes JK Rowling followed had any character traits besides their hatred of trans people, her tepid denials would have more weight - why else would anyone follow these fools, it's all they post!
maybe if the transphobes JK Rowling followed had any character traits besides their hatred of trans people, her tepid denials would have more weight - why else would anyone follow these fools, it's all they post!
I'm not sure that really explains it, especially given the prevalence of gay/lesbian transphobes.
Purely personal experience speaking here, but I don't believe the UK has a significant difference in terms of anti-LGBT sentiment, just that generally they're more careful in how they express it. That's all I was trying to say
Also gay people can still be bigots
Of course gay people can be bigots, but their bigotry isn't arising from general LGB bigotry. I'm sure that some of the British transphobia comes from people who hate LGBT people, but only feel comfortable expressing that hate against trans people. But there is plenty of transphobia coming from places that cannot be explained by typical anti-gay sentiment.
So the woman who wrote a happiness in slavery storyline, who wrote goblins as antisemitic stereotypes, and who declared Dumbledore gay but then straightwashed him to get China's $ also happens to be a huge transphobe? Color me surprised.
HP was a huge part of my childhood, and I wish JKR wasn't such a bigoted, hateful person so I could revisit it without feeling bitter.
HP was a huge part of my childhood, and I wish JKR wasn't such a bigoted, hateful person so I could revisit it without feeling bitter.
Should be noted that the R means Radical not because they have extreme views (quiet the opposite) but because it is a reference to Radical Feminism, a feminist movement in the 70's that is racist, bifobic and transphobic. It's name come from the gramatical radical.
Did she ever comment on that when the likes were originally noticed?
To be honest, I hadn't really noticed how many British terfs there were so I had a brief look at some articles (just the first few on google, nothing particularly academic), and they suggest that its some combo of the media giving high profile terfs more exposure (talk shows, tabloids etc) and mumsnet.
So my bad, I learned something new today. It's not something that's ever brought up in work, and the only politics I follow is second hand through American friends so it's typically US-centric.
If I remember correctly, her PR person said she just didn't know how to twitter and that it was a mistake.
Of course not because she knows the moment that she comes out and says it she'll finally lose all plausible deniability.
Her reps called it a heated gamer moment though (middle aged clumsiness lol)
Thank you.
While I can believe that -- my friend once pointed out that I liked an alt-right tweet once because that caused it to appear in her timeline and I was horrified -- it's hard to deny there's a pattern here.
That being said, I just can't bring myself to call her a "transphobic cunt" as was done earlier in the thread. I would very much like her to make some sort of comment on the situation though as the longer she doesn't, the more suspect it gets.
It's OK, it's just a strange phenomenon that seems unique to Britain. I'm not sure why TERFs are more prominent in Britain either, that's why I was asking about it.
Like in the US the people pushing the 'trans people are trying to assault you in the women's bathroom' bullshit are usually right wing conservative religious groups. But in Britain, there are a ton of more left-wing, 'feminist', and even lesbian groups pushing that kind of rhetoric, which typically does not happen in the US (though I'm sure there are examples).
Limmy sometimes talks about his experiences with, and shares his thoughts about, Graham Linehan on Twitch:
https://youtu.be/MeqBolgJDwY?t=7764
https://youtu.be/MeqBolgJDwY?t=7764
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I haven't watched day time TV here for at least a decade because it's absolute trash, but honestly the talk shows can be really gross.
I do remember a few years back they pitted 2 trans women against 2 "gender critical women", and I believe they did something similar with Laura Kate Dale not too long ago?
"she wrote a gay character (who she was too much of a coward to actually put in the books or in the fucking movies when they had the chance) so that makes all of this ok! I can give her a pass!"
She's a cowardly TERF plain and simple, trying to handwave her underhanded support of bigotry because of some barely performative liberalism isn't it
She's a cowardly TERF plain and simple, trying to handwave her underhanded support of bigotry because of some barely performative liberalism isn't it
That sounds pretty awful. If the daytime TV over there is anything like your print media then I'm sure it's plenty trash.
Daytime and tabloids are basically one and the same so yes lol
Subtextually, sure, but that is all it is—subtext. It's not stated outright. Their romance isn't a central plot point, but rather their unbreakable vow is a plot device to conveniently explain why Dumbledore didn't fight against Grindelwald up until that point in the story.
Anybody wanting to overlook the implications of their relationship can due to it being subtext and the canon materials out there would continue to support their reading of Dumbledore and Grindelwald's relationship.
It's 2019 and subtext is not actual representation. Rowling can talk up a storm about Dumbledore and Grindelwald having deep tantric coitus in interviews with Jesus Christ himself and it would still be subtext until it is actually said or shown in the films or in a book.
You're literally being the person who goes "Well they technically didn't say the N word so why are you calling them a racist?" right now.
Stop.
How do you feel about her never responding to being called out for this, having her reps say it was a slip of the finger and then her continually following more and more people who don't post anything other than anti-trans hatred?
Yeah I think it's pretty clear at this point that she's anti-trans, or at the least has some anti-trans leanings.
She cloaks it well enough with her espousing of other progressive views, but I don't think there'd be this many "mistakes" if there weren't something more at play.
Sucks :/
She cloaks it well enough with her espousing of other progressive views, but I don't think there'd be this many "mistakes" if there weren't something more at play.
Sucks :/
Oh hey, it's you again defending awful things.
She is FULLY endorsing this shit without the guts to say it out loud. Her platform is HUGE, she knows exactly what she's doing.
LOOK AT THIS SHIT THAT SHE FOLLOWED:
From one of the posts linked in the OP
BuT SHe DiDN't SpEcifICalLY sAY SHe HatEs TrANs PEOplE sO wHY ArE yOu BEiNg mEAn tO HeR?
Being gay is different from being trans.
Also JK Rowling had Harry Potter becoming a slaveowner by the end of the books just saying.
I literally said there's clearly a pattern.
I'm sorry if you disagree with my opinion that I won't personally be writing her off based on follows on Twitter. I understand why you would. But I just don't agree.
If you have a problem with me personally, please PM me instead of being abrasive in your reply to me as if I was being argumentative about this topic.
There is more than a pattern, there is outright support via consistent and constant endorsement.
And as usual you play the victim when called.
LOOK at that account she followed, it exists pretty much elusively to spread anti-trans messages. That's it. There's no other reason she would have followed it. You have to be blind to say this is not enough.
It's a shame. A lot of young trans people are going to be influenced by her work in the future, and when they look her up they might discover that she doesn't think highly of them.
In her novel The Silkworm she featured a trans woman who was in the process of transitioning. She treated the character well if I recall (I'm no expert, but it seemed on the level). I wonder what made her change.
In her novel The Silkworm she featured a trans woman who was in the process of transitioning. She treated the character well if I recall (I'm no expert, but it seemed on the level). I wonder what made her change.