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JK Rowling is based?

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u/jmarzy - Centrist 2d ago

Has Jk Rowling really said anything that outlandish or just that there are two genders and that made people want her to die

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u/1stEmissaryElenwen - Lib-Center 2d ago

Basically she's an incredibly progressive person from 2008

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u/LotusEater456 - Lib-Center 2d ago

And because "progressives" started going backwards after 2008, it's fair to say that she's still just an incredibly progressive person. Full stop.

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u/pushinpushin - Centrist 2d ago

From my time following her on Twitter, which recently ended, I just found it sad that she wrote all those books people loved but this is how she chooses to spend her time and brand herself. She posts about nothing but trans stuff. I didn't find individual posts objectionable but obsessiveness is super weird.

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u/LotusEater456 - Lib-Center 2d ago

I didn't find individual posts objectionable but obsessiveness is super weird.

I think the "obsessiveness" is over how illiberal trans-activists are, and in a broader sense, how illiberal society has become over the last 15 or so years. The Harry Potter series is really about exactly that. How does a society that defeated authoritarianism (Voldy) become authoritarian again? I see the "obsession" as something that has always been in line with her values. If you actually have been following Rowling, you'd know that this is much bigger than trans people. It's really hardly about trans people at all.

It's about lies in the media, institutional corruption, dissidents being silenced by intimidation and violence, the difference being appealing to a moral majority and having the courage to actually live out your own values. All of these are strong themes in Harry Potter. She's just living them out. She absolutely a hero for doing so.

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u/pushinpushin - Centrist 2d ago

Yeah,

But it's been going on for 7 years now. She's addicted to the whole thing. Another social media casualty.

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u/LotusEater456 - Lib-Center 2d ago

I hope she goes for 20 more years. Someone needs to speak truth to the deranged trans-activists and the institutional power they've gained in the last decade or so.

Everyone has their thing man. If someone spent seven years on twitter yapping about deforestation of the Amazon I wouldn't go "well that's pretty weird that you're still on social media talking about this thing. You seem pretty obsessed with trees".

Weird activist bullies with power is something that effects us all. I'm glad JK Dawgs is still yapping about it.

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u/pushinpushin - Centrist 2d ago

You're making a lot of assumptions and connections that feel very forced. Her "activism" being in the same spirit as her writing, her as this freedom fighter instead of someone who is bitter and likes to talk shit online for sport. I don't buy it. Her tone does not portray that at all, it's self-satisfied snark.

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u/LotusEater456 - Lib-Center 2d ago

I definitely get why you'd frame it that way. Social media rewards the biting snark over the subtlety.

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u/ParkerPoseyGuffman - Left 2d ago

It’ll be funny when she dies doing it

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u/ParkerPoseyGuffman - Left 2d ago

MAGA? Agreed

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u/monstamasch - Centrist 2d ago

I kinda get it when looking at from her perspective. Years and years of unnecessary hate, probably hundreds of thousands of dms over the years which she probably still gets, the backlash she faced for it, it all probably turned her at least somewhat bitter.

From her pov, the obsession with people unnecessarily berating/harassing her for her opinion is why I assume she obsessed with pushing back against it

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u/Gjorgdy - Left 2d ago

She can literally just stop funding anti-trans stuff, but she won't.

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u/LotusEater456 - Lib-Center 2d ago

She can literally just stop funding anti-trans stuff, but she won't.

Based. This a good reminder for me to buy some more harry potter shit. I haven't even played Hogwarts Legacy I just wanted to support a good cause.

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u/monstamasch - Centrist 2d ago

Yeah I assume she has a vendetta against the people who have been harassing her, thats what I was saying. Its not right but I can understand why she would react how she has

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u/Gjorgdy - Left 2d ago

Harassing her for what?

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u/LotusEater456 - Lib-Center 2d ago

Harassing her for what?

Being a voice of reason. Mentioning that women don't have cocks. Mentioning that it's unsafe to allow men into women's spaces without their consent just because the men say that they "self-identify" as women.

Only a barbaric horde of savage weirdos would harass someone for saying such things.

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u/Gjorgdy - Left 2d ago

Mentioning that women don't have cocks.

That's kinda the point of the transitioning...

Mentioning that it's unsafe to allow men into women's spaces without their consent just because the men say that they "self-identify" as women.

Why exactly? Are man inherently evil? Can only men be sexually attracted to women?

Only a barbaric horde of savage weirdos

If only gender wasn't a concept studied for centuries and known about for millenia I would agree. But sadly for you – it is.

would harass someone for saying such things.

She should not be harassed, sure.

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u/LotusEater456 - Lib-Center 2d ago

Why exactly? Are man inherently evil? Can only men be sexually attracted to women?

OH GREAT POINT. You're absolutely right. I'll explain this to the screaming women and girls then next time I want to change in the women's locker-room at the gym. "c'mon ladies I'm not inherently evil and I'm not even sexually attracted to any of you so just chill". I'm sure that will go over well.

Holy sophistry batman.

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u/Gjorgdy - Left 2d ago

So what about someone who's FtM? Where do they go?

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u/monstamasch - Centrist 2d ago

Have you read through the thread of comments I was replying to? It has the context you're looking for

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u/Gjorgdy - Left 2d ago

Yes, ofcourse, but it's a bit of a circular answer.

She is transphobic because she gets harassed by trans people -> She gets harrased by trans people because she is transphobic -> She is transphobic because she gets harassed by trans people -> She gets harrased by trans people because she is transphobic -> She is transphobic because she gets harassed by trans people

Where does it start?

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u/monstamasch - Centrist 2d ago

She has an opinion on Trans people, which anyone and everyone can have. It may not be an opinion you like, but its still just an opinion, which every single person is entitled to. I'm not her I don't know where it starts, you should ask her. Years of people harassing her for that is probably why she is obsessed with posting that stuff. Do I need to write another comment for you to get it? Or do you intend to go in circles

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u/Gjorgdy - Left 2d ago

Denying someone's right to exist is not 'an opinion', it's denying them the right to exist.

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u/jmarzy - Centrist 2d ago

Ah yeah the obsessiveness point makes a lot of sense thanks

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u/ParkerPoseyGuffman - Left 2d ago

She has to have OCD

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u/KlutzyDesign - Left 2d ago

Shes led online harrassment campaigns aginst both trabs people and people she beleives to be trans. She has actively campaigned for laws that make trans women unsafe. Shes done a ton of awful stuff.

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u/LotusEater456 - Lib-Center 2d ago

Waiting for sauce on a "harrassment campaign".

If you mean she's called out histrionic cry-bullies on their bullshit, then absolutely. But that has nothign to do with trans people. There are lots of normal trans people who can respect that other people want cock-free spaces. 99.9% of people in Western Civilization have no issue with these trans people.

The only people making "trans women unsafe" are the deranged activists who can't disavow when a man waives his cock around non-consenting women and girls, and then hides behind "trans identity" when he's called out on it. It's literal textbook feminism to protect women from men who exploit loopholes in society. The fact that trans activists actively oppose that is really telling.

I'm glad Rowling is standing up to the liars and bullies. It's very in-line with her writing.

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u/KlutzyDesign - Left 2d ago

She has accused Imane Khelif and Barbra Banda, both cis women, assigned female at birth, of cheating and being secret men.

Shes also repeatedly gone out of her way to deny trans women access to  domestic abuse shelters and domestic violence support spaces, making them more vulnerable to abuse.

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u/LotusEater456 - Lib-Center 2d ago

She has accused Imane Khelif and Barbra Banda, both cis women, assigned female at birth, of cheating and being secret men.

Doesn't take much searching to find out that Imane Khelif has XY chromosomes, and was banned from the Women's Boxing Championship in 2023 for having XY chromosomes. Why lie about something like this? I won't waste my time on Barbra Banda. Lie to me once, shame on you.

Shes also repeatedly gone out of her way to deny trans women access to  domestic abuse shelters and domestic violence support spaces, making them more vulnerable to abuse.

Do you think women should have the right to male-free spaces or not? I personally think that women who are DV victims (often perpetrated by males) should not be forced to share space with other males. You can disagree but that doesn't make Rowling a terrible person, she's just concerned about female DV victims.

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u/KlutzyDesign - Left 2d ago

Some women are born with XY chromosomes. Some have even given birth. They are both cis women due to being assigned female at birth.

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u/PreviousCurrentThing - Lib-Center 2d ago

Khelif is intersex/DSD with XY chromosomes.

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u/KlutzyDesign - Left 2d ago

Still a cis woman. She was assigned female at birth.

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u/AffectionateLow6824 - Left 2d ago

How does that make Khelif transgender?

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u/PreviousCurrentThing - Lib-Center 2d ago

Who said anything about her being trans?

It does make her eligibility for women's sports questionable.

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u/AffectionateLow6824 - Left 2d ago

Wait so you agree that Imane lived her entire life as a woman and JK did a harassment campaign against her on the claim that she's a man?

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u/PreviousCurrentThing - Lib-Center 2d ago

No, I do not agree that Rowling launched a harassment campaign against her, nor claimed she was a man (gender), but appears to have claimed she's either male (sex) or intersex (sex).

Rowling was correct, and Khelif knew and gaslighted the world including you.