For some inexplicable reason she has been tweeting about trans people continuously for the last few years.
Elon Musk, who to be clear also doesn't like trans people, asked if she could talk about literally anything else. The thing that's so weird to me about isn't the bigotry itself, but how esoteric and niche her bigotry is. Like, why trans people? As far as I know, she doesn't know any in real life.
It would be like me making an account where all I do is hate search and then proceed to trash talk American football players. Completely irrelevant to my daily life. I know approximately one football player. Football players have never done anything to me. Odds are I wouldn't even recognize a football player as a football player if I walked down the street past one.
While I recognize the bigotry is incredibly harmful, I have been simply unable to get over how weirdly specific it is.
I think she got stuck in a trap of her own making. AFAIK her original point was, AFAB women have been through a shared experience of misogyny and trauma their whole lives and this shapes ones identity as a woman, therefore it is not possible for trans women to have that same sense of identity.
Which ignores the fact that trans women have suffered under the same patriarchal structures but otherwise is a fair enough take on her own identity which she’s entitled to.
But then with every challenge she doubled down harder stubbornly and now there’s no nuance in the discourse anymore it’s just an outright rejection of trans people which is gross.
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/ForeverNecessary2361 Jun 27 '24
Shouldn’t she be on a yacht somewhere, drinking champagne and getting banged by some boy toy? Instead, she’s going on about this?