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Offline kimmy

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Re: Cancel Culture Culture
« Reply #765 on: November 08, 2022, 11:46:31 pm »
If you're expecting a quote from her comparing trans people to blackface actors and calling them sexual fetishists and perverts, you won't find it (that was Magdelena Burns another one of your TERF heroines) but she's called transitioning "conversion therapy", stating that trans women are more likely to be sexual predators, and uses her massive platform to lie about the prevalence of surgical/chemical treatments being given to minors.

This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about. No citations, just stuff that you're presenting 3rd-hand.  Gender-activist people (I'm trying not to say "woke", for Bubber's sake) read a completely benign statement like "women deserve single-sex spaces" and argue "well that may sound agreeable on the surface, but what she's really saying is that she believes that all trans people are predators, because otherwise why would women need female-only spaces?"   Gender-people might bristle at the comparison of transing gay kids to conversion therapy, but never actually address the fact that an extraordinarily disproportionate number of young women who "discover they're men" are same-sex attracted, or why the number of young women identifying as trans has increased by such an astonishing proportion in the span of just a few years, and they would prefer to just shut that conversation down by shouting "that's transphobic!" than engage with people who raise the issue.  Discussion over medical transition of minors... have you heard of the Cass Report? People like you, and Jon Stewart, and John Oliver, who want to believe that the science of all of this is well established (and that only transphobes and Republicans disagree) are in for a shock.  Rowling might be the highest-profile person expressing concern over this issue, but she isn't the only one, and the list of people calling for caution includes clinical psychologists and people with extensive experience in this field, and even members of WPATH have concerns. But again this is a case where it's easier for the activists and cheerleaders to shout "that's transphobic" than to actually address the concerns being raised.

This strategy of just repeating "oh, she has said many transphobic things, far too much to go into, just take our word for it" is intended to dodge those difficult discussions. 

Then there's the aforementioned pattern of cozying up to people who are vocal bigots, like child pregnancy defender Matt Walsh.

...and I doubt that you can point to any point where Rowling has "cozied up" to Matt Walsh. Or other GC women, for that matter. While a few GC women have applauded Walsh for bringing a new audience to the issue, most have criticized him for stealing their work, acting like he invented it, and then saying "why aren't any feminists talking about this???" to top it all off.

Has Rowling actually done anything of note/acclaim since the HP books?
Does it matter? She can't seem to stay out of the spotlight; meanwhile people like Radcliffe and Watson can only seem to find their way back into the public eye by virtue of their once-upon-a-time association with her.

But yes, I believe that sales of her non-Potter books would still be sufficient to qualify her as a successful author.

Maybe it's not about being liked or popular but being noticed.

people who are too dumb to understand "The Streisand Effect" have no doubt helped her make money over the past couple of years.

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