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Peter Jones's avatar

Get a process that society can have confidence in…

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SethTriggs's avatar

Yet again the principle (let's call it the Rowling principle) lays itself bare. Transphobia can't exist without at least one other bigotry.

She shoulda just sat there and ate her food.

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Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

Rowling is a disgusting, hateful, bigoted, horse-blinders-on-24/7 train wreck, and that's an incomplete list of modifiers.

Yet power (in this usage case: $s, £s, €s, et cetera) corrupts, increasing in corruption as the hoard of currency grows.

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E. A.'s avatar

Having a lot of money, does not make you a good person. Look at all these rich people, showing the world how ugly they are on the inside.

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Leah Abram's avatar

J.K. Rowling epitomizes the maxim "Scratch a TERF, find a fascist."

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rc4797's avatar

To all the "feminists" - and that includes that twit Mace - who rail about trans folks, THIS is the natural result of transphobia. Women tearing other cisgender women down for not being "feminine" enough.

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Crip Dyke's avatar

I been saying it for decades. Sandy Stone has been saying it for longer than I.

You can't police the marginalized without policing the margins.

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Lisamanv's avatar

It's probably a good thing for her she waited until she was a billionaire to show the world who she is.

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Gale's avatar

She spent years of her life dreaming up her fantastic fantasy ..luckily for us!

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bluePNWcats's avatar

All of these people grinding their axes about trans people in sports couldn't give half a shit about women's sports outside of this context. Hypocrites and bigots one and all. 😠

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Craig Nixon's avatar

I'm sure there's SOMEthing worse than a TERF, I'm just not sure what it is.

Oh, wait...I AM sure what it is: a racist TERF.

Probably splitting hairs between the two tho...

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Easterncedar's avatar

It’s amazingly vile for someone who has so much wealth to go out of her way to put her thumb on someone else’s head. Nothing better to do? Really?

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Trux Mint In Box's avatar

One really has to wonder what makes Rowling so hyper focused on this issue to truly her own detriment. If you don’t agree it doesn’t mean it’s your business to put your nasty comments out there. Just STFU about it.

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Deb Vitkova's avatar

She's a garden (of evil) variety of bigot. She just has a larger audience for which she spews her venom.

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Saralyn Fosnight's avatar

I’ll bet she tried out for her school team and was rejected. That kind of sniping always comes from a place of jealousy and envy.

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Trux Mint In Box's avatar

Exactly, why does she care so damn much. It’s like an obsession with these people and it always comes from a bad place or trauma in their own lives that they can’t deal with.

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Good theory. I just can't even with all of the hate in the world, and how the hateful people are doing so well, just because the price of eggs is too high, or more precisely, is perceived as being too high.

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Cheese's avatar

Honestly - that JKR is just a garden variety racist is the least shocking plot twist since Snape being a good guy.

She is a typical victim of rich person syndrome, rather than look up the easily available facts - this is the woman who promotes reading - any criticism must be dismissed, and her ignorance paraded about by her sycophants - she is a ‘National Treasure’ allegedly.

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Sallyfemina's avatar

Between the characters being lily-white with a token or two, or the fact that western Europe has a magic school in every damn country which are smaller than many US states, and Asia, Africa, Australia have like one or none, whatever gave you that idea?

Even before the whole "North America only has one and it's in New England and the white people had to teach the natives how to properly magic and let's mix up and distort the 500 nations of North America into one Victorian-style mushy stereotype".

But she'd consider "everyone from the Mediterranean to the Urals and north to the top of Finland get one school" to be too broad.

Bitch is just a loser. She obviously was bottom of the totem pole in school and has never recovered so she has to be all Important Mean Girl now she's rich. And she probably was terrible at athletics even against cis women.

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Elaine the Mean Old Feminist's avatar

Even if I didn't already dislike JKR for being a trans hating moron, I just have to say that when the first Harry Potter book was released, I fucking tried. I read the goddamn thing and thought I'd used Charmin that had more of a claim to worthwhile literature than it did. I haven't bothered with any since.

I also hated Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, and every Mayim Bialik appearance ever recorded. Just to prove I'm an equal opportunity hater. 😂

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Anna Jones's avatar

Same!

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Sallyfemina's avatar

You are my friend, or possibly a very-slightly chubbier alternate personality.

She's a terrible writer AND a terrible person. There's nothing good to say about her. I hope she dies alone.

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