Dude is furious
Ew. Yet another horrible man I didn’t know about.
It’s a bit late to stop buying Harry Potter.
More seriously, what horseshit. No we’re not “wealthy.” No this is not plutocrats grinding the faces of the poor. What an idiotic thing to say. Trans ideology is not progressive or socialist or socialist-adjacent or leftwing in any other way. It’s an absurdity adopted by a lot of gullible wannabe radicals who don’t know their ass from their elbow.
“some isolated billionaire”? Meaning JKR? Jeez, we should all be so isolated. More centrally, we’re not talking about “a little girl” here, we’re talking about boys who pretend to be girls and want to invade Girlguides. It’s not sheer, pointless cruelty to tell boys no, they can’t invade Girguides. The pointless cruelty would be allowing them to.
Apparently the Ness guy writes books. I look forward to not reading them.
Patrick Ness is a Yank who lives in Britain. He writes Young Adult books that are reportedly full of identity politics stuff.
Ness seems awfully jealous of a woman whose YA fiction far outsells his own. Outdone by a TERFy woman – that must chafe.
I’d perhaps quibble a bit about the claim that it’s boys who pretend to be girls and want to invade the Guides. After all, we’re talking about 11-year-olds here. I’d wager that we’re probably talking more about a particular subset of “soft” boys – some of whom, but not all, may be gay – whose bafflingly drippy parents have wittingly or unwittingly told them that the explanation for their softness is that they’re girls.
At that age, I don’t think they’d want to invade Guiding. I suspect, rather, that they’ve been brought up to think that that’s honestly where they belong.
Yes that’s a fair point.
Although I suppose it could be that even 11-year-old boys have been fed the rhetoric since they were toddlers. The people who teach small children seem to be peculiarly drawn to the ideology.
This past weekend, my wife and I wewnt to see a production of the musical Annie at the Stratford Festival. It was cheezy, corny, and very well done. A lot of fun. The children (all girls) playing the other orphans were phenomonal. Unfortunately, in the program, most of them had she/her beside their names. I can only assume that they were coached and encouraged to do this by adults, be it parents, teachers, or production staff. it saddened and pissed me off at the same time.
Ugh. Maddening.
not Bruce, as someone who has one foot in the theatre world, I see that a lot. More common, though, is they/them. I’m not sure I’ve seen any youngsters with they/them, though. I’m not sure the younger kids really understand non-binary (hell, I don’t understand it, and I’m 65 and have a Ph.D. in Biology). Maybe the kids just aren’t using they/them at an early age.