The overwhelming silence
Good, Rebecca’s post collecting a sample of the abuse leveled against Rowling is getting attention.
Is it really that much to ask blue ticks to stand up against this kind of abuse directed at a prominent woman? What is wrong with everyone? Why are you all being such disgraceful cowards? pic.twitter.com/Id4oX2ypl6
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) June 10, 2020
See all you privileged left/liberal leaning people with a voice that have so far kept your head down on this issue. Want to raise it now? If not, NEVER tell yourself you give a damn about women EVER again: https://t.co/Dpanv3JvPf
— Julie Bindel (@bindelj) June 10, 2020
The children's book industry is witnessing the most horrific onslaught of abuse towards a much-loved, measured, brave & generous woman author. The overwhelming silence from other authors, publishers, book organisations etc is disgraceful. You should all be ashamed of yourselves
— Rachel Rooney (@RooneyRachel) June 9, 2020
Are the authors remaining silent in face of the ridiculous allegations against @jk_rowling the same cowards who were more than vocal when @RooneyRachel wrote a sweet book about tiny children being happy in their bodies? https://t.co/QoUL5xttpO
— Dr H Brunskell-Evans (@brunskellevans) June 9, 2020
Regardless how I feel about anything,I always hated a pile on since schooldays.Even against those that’ve been hateful to me. As it happens JkRowling is not hateful.I see a woman convicted & hung and wonder where the same venom is for the men that do actual harm to all womankind.
— Alison Moyet (@AlisonMoyet) June 10, 2020
We have far too many men who see a strong woman, one who refuses to bow to their lies and threats, as a real threat to their power; and thus feel that they must do everything they can to put her in her place.
Or they don’t even see her as a threat to their power, they just hate her, because hatred of women is like the air we breathe.
They hate the fact that women are the only ones who can give birth; and they hate the fact that they were all grown and birthed by women, and that women attempted to civilise them when they were young. It makes them fear us ever having that power over them when they are grown up, and so they hate us.
I have been fortunate in that I have met very, very few men even remotely like that. The ones who just couldn’t see women as equals tended towards a more ‘benign sexism’ than outright misogyny; at least in public. Who knows what they would have been, or indeed are, like online?
It’s the women hurling the abuse who bamboozle me, especially the overtly sexist abuse.
Yeah, Nullius, it’s like Stockholm Syndrome. But I suspect it comes from that place that says “we must care about others”, and for some reason, they interpret that in the worst way possible…throwing other women under the bus.
You’re probably right about that. The conditioned imperative toward care is quite strong. Like, “be nice” doesn’t have much impact on men. But on women?
And then we add in the part where identity protecting cognition comes in. As in when a Wokey says horrible things to JKR because we have to respect and support and listen to trans people—then a transwoman comes in to say, “Stop that.” To which the Wokey says, “I don’t respect you or anything you do, and your internalized transphobia makes me sick. But I’ll fight for you, whether you will or not. Peace!” [actual thing I saw]
Nullius #4
Reread Dworkin’s essay on Right Wing Women. What the trans cult boosterwomen are doing now is almost exactly what the right wing women Dworkin wrote about. Trying to find a way to appease men and be safe themselves while throwing other women under the bus because THOSE women are too evil/stupid/uppity to know that only the right wing woman way is the way.