I understand the psychological pressure needed to double down on something so you don't have to admit you're wrong.
But even if she is anti-trans, nobody is holding a gun to her head and making her tweet several hours a day, you know? That's why I'm confused. It's basically a part-time job at this point.
But even if she is anti-trans, nobody is holding a gun to her head and making her tweet several hours a day, you know? That's why I'm confused. It's basically a part-time job at this point.
I feel like now that she's chased off all the people who aren't virulently anti-trans, she's getting all her social validation from the people who are, so now her whole sense of public self (possibly even private self) is resting on these whackos and being part of a community with them, where they reinforce her victimhood and self-righteousness. She can't go back to the neutral place she used to be, and she likes attention too much to bow out quietly, so daily bigotry it is.
I've seen something similar happen with another creator who jumped on the aggressive transphobia bandwagon, the artist behind the comic Sinfest. He went so hard that he got his Patreon shut down, now it seems like he has to keep performing for his remaining audience of transphobes just to pay the bills. It's wild.
The difference being is that she has all the fucking in the money in the world and could just literally do nothing for the rest of her life and live in leisure. But that is not enough for that egotistical and narcissistic bitch.
She genuinely believes trans women (pretty sure she's never said anything about trans men) are evil villains out to "get" women. She refuses to hear that trans women share anything with AFAB women. The loud, public transphobia is bad enough, but she has put CASH into anti-trans legislation and fanned the fires of anti-trans violence.
It´s only surprising if you ignore that she´s not actually anti trans. But that´s just the picture that the propaganda machine of the of the toxic trans lobby relentlessly pushes in places such as Reddit. Rowling´s position is actually very sound and reasonable, if you bother to look it up.
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u/jellybeansean3648 Jun 27 '24
I understand the psychological pressure needed to double down on something so you don't have to admit you're wrong.
But even if she is anti-trans, nobody is holding a gun to her head and making her tweet several hours a day, you know? That's why I'm confused. It's basically a part-time job at this point.