We see you, Jonathan
That’s gotta sting.
Your previous remarks leave no room for mystery about your own special interest in this subject. Like many ‘progressive’ misogynists, you seem delighted to have found an acceptable outlet for your disdain for women’s and girls’ sport. We see you, Jonathan. pic.twitter.com/2H8IfuWDnH
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 14, 2024
I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the pressure is all one way. Biological women who wish they had been born biologically male are not agitating for the right to compete in mens’ sports. It’s an open field for them anyway. All the noise and agitation comes from transwhatevers: biological males who wish that they had been born as females, who want to be accepted as such, and for everyone else to play along. That in turn requires the ignoring by all and sundry of their masculine builds, and the competitive advantage these confer in the context of certain womens’ sporting events and only in womens’ sports.
I put it all down to an oversight on someone’s part.
Cue Liew whining about JKR instigated pile-on in 3, 2, 1….
If you don’t want to be called out as a misogynist asshole, stop being a misogynist asshole. This is what happens when you press “send” rather than “delete” after you’ve written stupid shit, thinking it’s somehow noble or heroic. Having your work exposed to a wider audience than you’d originally anticipated is not always a good thing when that work is shoddy, mean-spirited, and poorly argued. People outside your safe bubble of self-righteous trans activists can now read what you’ve written, and more of them will agree with JKR’s point than with yours. You’ve unexpectedly been given your close-up in the spotlight, and you’ve been caught on camera with an unpleasant look on your face, a runny nose, and broccoli stuck in your teeth. Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame; you’ve earned it.
I’ll take some issue with the emphasized language. I don’t believe for one minute that many, if any, really “wish that they had been born female.” They sit in a privileged spot, having been born male, such that they will never know or understand the second class citizenship (at best! At worst, it’s enslavement status) that is baked into being born female. They never wish for that! Oh, no! They can see the disadvantages of being actually born female, but they have no real inkling what it’s actually like to live it. They never sign up for the drudge work of being female: the unpaid household labor, the childcare responsibilities, the invisibility, the imprisonment, the exclusion from public life. They only want the outer trappings — the clothes, the hair, the being deferred to in the chivalric sense of having doors opened for them, having their meals and gifts paid for by someone else. They absolutely abhor what would go along with being an actual woman: being ignored, being talked over, being shunted aside, being invisible, being excluded, being looked down upon, being paid less, being oppressed in the million and one ways that women are oppressed. They like having their cake and eating it too: invading women’s spaces, taking women’s places, beating women at sports and taking their team spots, placements, wins, trophies, prizes, scholarships, and everything else. They love the opportunity to be champions and victims at the same time! They like being able to lie with impunity, being able to force everyone else to play along and validate the lie, and to punish anyone who won’t play along.
No, I doubt that any of them genuinely wishes to have been born female.
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That does not contradict what I said at #1. They are oblivious to all that downside stuff.
Myopia could well be part of the trans condition.
Omar, myopia is certainly a part of trans activism. The rest is some weird concretion of misogyny, homophobia, narcissism, unhappiness, desperation, delusion, attention seeking, tribalism…
Too bad Jonathan hadn’t read this first before embarrassing himself.
https://thecritic.co.uk/do-women-only-sports-categories-matter-if-youre-rubbish/
He has, of course, bravely hidden the post.