NRR - J.K. Rowling Controversy

So she got busted for suggesting that "sex is real". What was this in reference to?

loving every laugh wrote:

So she got busted for suggesting that "sex is real". What was this in reference to?

A woman named Maya Forstater lost her job for refusing to address a trans woman as a female. It is the gender v. sex controversy which is playing out. Rowling supports Forstater.

Parry Hotter wrote:

J.K. Rowling has now been cancelled:

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033

I am sure that I am not alone in loving her books. Odd times to be alive.

Yikes. I love the Harry Potter franchise (books and movies). This surprises me coming from Rowling. She presents as such a kind, thoughtful person. I wouldn't think that referencing someone as their preferred/expressed gender would be such a hang up for her.

I find it odd that some people refuse to make reference to someone by that person's preferred gender. They aren't asking you to change your beliefs or your viewpoints, just one little term that is easy for you to change and can be very meaningful and empowering to that person.

Why would you not want to make someone else happy by doing something so easy?

aoxomoxoa wrote:

Parry Hotter wrote:

J.K. Rowling has now been cancelled:

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033

I am sure that I am not alone in loving her books. Odd times to be alive.

Yikes. I love the Harry Potter franchise (books and movies). This surprises me coming from Rowling. She presents as such a kind, thoughtful person. I wouldn't think that referencing someone as their preferred/expressed gender would be such a hang up for her.

I find it odd that some people refuse to make reference to someone by that person's preferred gender. They aren't asking you to change your beliefs or your viewpoints, just one little term that is easy for you to change and can be very meaningful and empowering to that person.

Why would you not want to make someone else happy by doing something so easy?

Some people don't want to play along with the charade.

The "emperor wears no clothes" comes to mind.

aoxomoxoa wrote:

Parry Hotter wrote:

J.K. Rowling has now been cancelled:

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033

I am sure that I am not alone in loving her books. Odd times to be alive.

Yikes. I love the Harry Potter franchise (books and movies). This surprises me coming from Rowling. She presents as such a kind, thoughtful person. I wouldn't think that referencing someone as their preferred/expressed gender would be such a hang up for her.

I find it odd that some people refuse to make reference to someone by that person's preferred gender. They aren't asking you to change your beliefs or your viewpoints, just one little term that is easy for you to change and can be very meaningful and empowering to that person.

Why would you not want to make someone else happy by doing something so easy?

Please say to your family , and out loud and in all seriousness ‘I renounce all others but the Prophet Mohammed, peace be to him’.

That would make me very happy. And is quite easy to do!

MohammedAA wrote:

Please say to your family , and out loud and in all seriousness ‘I renounce all others but the Prophet Mohammed, peace be to him’.

That would make me very happy. And is quite easy to do!

That's a false equivalency.

Changing 'she' to 'he' or 'her' to 'him' (or visa versa) is an incredibly small change.

Stating a claim about a mythic figure in front of my family "in all seriousness" is not even close to being the same thing.

However, respecting your choice of religious association is something I can do. I'm glad you've found a religious home in which you find comfort and fulfillment.

Hmmmmmmh wrote:

Some people don't want to play along with the charade.

The "emperor wears no clothes" comes to mind.

I understand that. There are, however, consequences in today's world that people who don't want to show respect to others do have to face.

It's just unfortunate that this person (and Rowling) have chosen this hill to die on.

YMMV wrote:

loving every laugh wrote:

So she got busted for suggesting that "sex is real". What was this in reference to?

A woman named Maya Forstater lost her job for refusing to address a trans woman as a female. It is the gender v. sex controversy which is playing out. Rowling supports Forstater.

The term TERF is being thrown around a lot. Is Rowling supporting this woman because she's a woman and she thinks the trans woman isn't a real woman and shouldn't benefit from feminism?

The woman in question, Maya Forstater has raised over $100,000 through crowdfunding. She will likely raise even more from triggered conservatives.

The whole thing is a scam. Conservatives are very gullible and prone to faux outrage. If you want to raise money from gullible conservatives, you pick a fight with people perceived as liberals then present yourself as a victim of the so called "Liberal Mob" and before you know it, gullible conservatives will flock to your gofundme page giving their hard earned money.

Remember Brian Kolfage?

He raised $20m using gofundme. Then he changed tune and decided he was not gonna build the wall after all.

Its an old trick: Pick a fight with people perceived as "Liberals", then open a gofundme page and ask gullible conservatives for money.

Joplas wrote:

The woman in question, Maya Forstater has raised over $100,000 through crowdfunding. She will likely raise even more from triggered conservatives.

The whole thing is a scam. Conservatives are very gullible and prone to faux outrage. If you want to raise money from gullible conservatives, you pick a fight with people perceived as liberals then present yourself as a victim of the so called "Liberal Mob" and before you know it, gullible conservatives will flock to your gofundme page giving their hard earned money.

Remember Brian Kolfage?

He raised $20m using gofundme. Then he changed tune and decided he was not gonna build the wall after all.

Its an old trick: Pick a fight with people perceived as "Liberals", then open a gofundme page and ask gullible conservatives for money.

Yeah, gullible triggered conservative. That describes JK Rowling exactly.

A woman who lost her job after saying that people cannot change their biological sex has lost an employment tribunal. Maya Forstater, 45, did not have her contract renewed after posting a series of tweets questioning government plans to let people declare their own gender. Ms Forstater believes trans women holding certificates that recognise their transgender identity cannot describe themselves as women. But that view is "not worthy of respect in a democratic society", a judge said.

Ms Forstater, who had worked as a tax expert at the think tank Center for Global Development, was not entitled to ignore the rights of a transgender person and the "enormous pain that can be caused by misgendering", employment judge James Tayler said.

Ms Forstater was "absolutist" in her view, he concluded in a 26-page judgement.

"It is a core component of her belief that she will refer to a person by the sex she considered appropriate even if it violates their dignity and/or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment," he continued.

"The approach is not worthy of respect in a democratic society."

loving every laugh wrote:

So she got busted for suggesting that "sex is real". What was this in reference to?

See above. Someone the TERF Drama Queen made this about Herself, rather than Trans ppl.

Tony award-wining Grey's Anatomy actress and LGBT activist Sara Ramirez also condemned Rowling's stance.

"Wholeheartedly disagree," she replied. "I stand with intersectional feminist humans, who recognize that trans women are real women, and against bigots like yourself. Bigotry masquerading as feminism is anything but. Your internalized distortions are helping me to continue dismantling mine. Thanks!"

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jk-rowling-sparks-backlash-trans-community-istandwithmaya-tweet-1264077

The only one supporting JK is "LGB Alliance" (no-T, another TERF group):

https://twitter.com/AllianceLGB/status/1207655237902905345

https://twitter.com/VonalinaCake/status/1207647221065437184

LOL

Isn't JK Rowling member of the alt-left? Funny how they always eat their own young.

In the world of identity politics we have reached the point where to disagree is to be labelled as bigotry or heresy and only one view can be considered to be right. The modern day equivalent of the medieval church.

Sociopolitical differences these days are Treason.

Personally, I'd say it's worse than the Medieval Church, as mostly the incidents there were isolated, and here it would be a lack of hyperbole than would be exceptional.

I'm impressed this has only gotten this far. This story is made for LRC.