In Defence of J.K. Rowling

Post by scalablenotions » Wed, Jul 08, 2020, 4:03 AM UTC

zzleeper wrote: post #10

dangus wrote: post #2

Good one. She’s still a TERF. The biggest problem with JK Rowling is nobody asked her. Nobody ever asked her what her opinion was of trans people. She literally, out of nowhere, started blasting out her opinions about a group of people that have nothing to do with her. Nobody provoked her. She just started with occasional retweets, graduated to tweets, and now writes whole essays about the subject. Being calm and wel…

Honest question: what the fuck is TERF? I opened wikipedia, and I'm none the wiser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF > an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist. Coined in 2008,[1] the term was originally applied to a minority of feminists espousing sentiments that other feminists consider transphobic, such as the rejection of the assertion that trans women are women, the exclusion of trans women from wome…

Post by lovegoblin » Wed, Jul 08, 2020, 4:42 AM UTC

zzleeper wrote: post #10

dangus wrote: post #2

Good one. She’s still a TERF. The biggest problem with JK Rowling is nobody asked her. Nobody ever asked her what her opinion was of trans people. She literally, out of nowhere, started blasting out her opinions about a group of people that have nothing to do with her. Nobody provoked her. She just started with occasional retweets, graduated to tweets, and now writes whole essays about the subject. Being calm and wel…

Honest question: what the fuck is TERF? I opened wikipedia, and I'm none the wiser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF > an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist. Coined in 2008,[1] the term was originally applied to a minority of feminists espousing sentiments that other feminists consider transphobic, such as the rejection of the assertion that trans women are women, the exclusion of trans women from wome…