Talk to the hand
An “activist” (and stripper) called Tom Harlow is making quite a name for himself.
He’s so oppressed by those women.
He might want to be a little cautious though.
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An “activist” (and stripper) called Tom Harlow is making quite a name for himself.
He’s so oppressed by those women.
He might want to be a little cautious though.
You’re ruining the whole “NO CONFLICT” thing here by pointing out his beligerance to women helping women. If trans activists automatically take the concept of women’s rights as only ever being nothing more than an anti-trans dog whistle, they shouldn’t be surprised when women view trans “rights” as an anti-woman bullhorn.
“The fuck you song today was only dedicated to the terfs, bigots and fascists attending Filia. But obv transphobes like JKR have clipped the video to make it look like I’m shouting abuse at women.”
Women, as opposed to “terfs, bigots and fascists”? Is it my imagination, or did he just imply gender critical feminists are not women? The alternative is I suppose simpler: sloppy writing.
Ha!
(Cue the complaints: Mean ol’ JKR set her lawyers on a powerless activist just because he called her and her friends fascists!)
Please to meet a woman you can’t push around and has the financial wherewithal to teach you a lesson, sonny boy!
Let me preface the following with I AM NOT A LAWYER. Any comments that happen to resemble actual laws are a combination of pure chance and a lot of wishfull thinking. Yuo have been warned.
Dictionaries are a thing, right? Words have meanings. If you don’t like someone, just say so. It’s okay; you don’t have to like everyone. (Unless they’re trans; then you have to love, center and celebrate them, without exception. Or so I’ve heard.) It’s not necessary to justify your dislike by imputing attitudes, ideologies, and beliefs to that person. To claim that someone holds disreputable beliefs without having any evidence whatsoever is a bad idea, especially when it’s really just an overwrought way of saying “I don’t like this person and the things they do.” The additional mud of false beliefs doesn’t actually add any weight to your dislike. You might find it an expedient recruiting tool or morale boost for your “side”, but people who aren’t already on board, might need actual evidence. This wouldn’t be neccesary if you’d stuck to simple dislike and left it at calling the target of your animosity a “jerk” rather than a “Fascist.” The former is a matter of opinion; the latter a matter of fact. If given the choice of accusing someone of being a Nazi or an asshole, go with asshole; it’s safer.
It’s rather stupid to put such unevidenced claims in writing, and then publish them where others (including this person you dislike, whom you’ve essentially accused of eating babies, puppies and kittens) can see them. Words have meanings; speech has consequences. (Ironically, it would probably be easier to pass off accusations of eating infants and housepets as an overblown rhetorical device than it would be to similarly pass off accusations of fascism and transphobia leanings. Though there is a point where ridiculous accusation shades into the equivalent of Blood Libel. Claims of incipient trans genocide are in this ballpark, and JKR is certainly no stranger to that smear.) If of Fascism in public, in writing, you’d better have a list of evidenced behaviours consistent with a belief in and support of Fascism totted up that consists of more “I don’t like her, and I want everyone else to not like her as well. This was the closest, easiest, stickiest brush I had to accomplish this goal.” If you mistake one for the other, then you’d best get a hold of a lawyer. Tell us exactly how these women are Fascists and transphobes. Put up or shut up. We’re all waiting.