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Offline BC_cheque

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Re: The Progressive Thread!
« Reply #135 on: September 17, 2020, 10:55:30 pm »
There's a thread on r/changemyview about this topic.  The OP has the view that JK Rowling hasn't said anything requiring the current vilification campaign.  The top comment gives a lovely explanation of why her comments are so objectionable to some people.  I won't even try to summarize, but here's the link if you're interested (and if it works).

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/iuof3u/cmv_jk_rowling_isnt_saying_anything_transphobic/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Thanks for sharing that, the poster shredded it.  The passage below was my thoughts exactly on the transvestite serial killer in the novel:

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She equates her own experience of abuse with the theoretical abuse of men entering women’s bathrooms to abuse girls and women.  Bathrooms are the Rome of anti-trans arguments, somehow every road leads back to them. Transphobes have this paranoid fantasy of men, disguised as women, being allowed to enter women’s bathrooms where they can...kidnap girls? Pull them into a stall? Just look at them? I really don’t know, the details about exactly what they’re afraid of never come out, but they’re afraid of something.

But it’s asinine, because cis men completely undisguised can already do this. Not legally, but abuse is illegal regardless. If the bathroom is empty, literally anyone can enter regardless of gender. If the bathroom is full, it’s no easier to kidnap or abuse someone than it would be in any other public space.
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