Sorry, but Rowling’s point (whether or not one agrees with it) is going over the responder’s head here. She believes that transgender women are only superficially women, so her analogy deliberately uses superficial characteristics associated with black people.
Yea, the analogy is coherent. It’s wrong, but it is coherent. Her understanding of trans women apparently seems to be that they’re nominally about the same as cross dressers. Has she ever talked to a psychologist, sociologist or neurologist who specializes in the topic? Or even gasp a trans person?
This has been said many times but still: Fuck her.She’s being racist AF but it’s indeed something approaching a logical conclusion, just not the one she’s intending. After reading all the hate that one transracial woman got years ago, I realized it sounded an awful lot like the standard TERF rehoritic. Gener is a construct, and so is race. The existence of transgender people almost necessitates the existence of transracial people. I’d love to hear a counter argument, because I’m not sure a good one exists…
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Is anyone still defending JKR? It seems at this point she’s just become “mad old woman shouting at clouds” no? Why waste another second on what she does or doesn’t think?
Because she has a colossal war chest of money and regularly throws it at organisations dedicated to removing trans people’s rights, and part of the reason she has so much money to spend on these things is because people keep buying HP shit without considering who/what they’re supporting with their wallet.
She’s not just a mad old bat screaming at the sky, she wields real power and therefore cannot be ignored.
Some… A lot of people just don’t care until Harry Potter becomes not cool. A lot of the Harry Potter cast don’t like her and made a pact of something.
Yeah. They’re called TERFs. And with the rise of the alt-right, they’re getting more powerful and more dangerous.
Potter fans still love JKR.
JKR is my favorite fertilizer why
Is she using racism to explain her transphobic positions? That’s an odd choice.
Considering how much of a cunt she is, par for the course
There kinda was a woman who did that like a decade ago.
yeah… it was JK.
I think it’s messed up to decide to be another race. Like, pick a gender, that’s all personal choice, but your race? That’s how you were born. JK Rowling is wrong, and that’s that.
you’re almost there…
