No YOUR crusade is ugly
Just shameless lies in the Guardian.
The article is a toe-curling pile of flattery of a fantasy writer called Jessica Townsend, so of course it has to fling some sewer scrapings at Rowling in the process.
Townsend is going into her press tour for Silverborn at a time when the world’s most famous children’s author, JK Rowling, is publicly railing against the rights of trans people.
Liars liars liars. No she is not. She is publicly railing at attacks on the rights of female people, and explaining how trans ideology is incompatible with women’s rights.
“I’m very happy to be quite blunt about it: I’m gutted. It is so upsetting and it’s so perplexing, and I will never understand it,” she says. But Rowling’s ugly crusade has only reinforced Townsend’s innate sense of duty towards the “tiny brains and hearts” in her audience.
The tiny brains and hearts that are all in the wrong bodies, no doubt.
The more I read about people, particularly women, defending the whole idea of ‘trans’, the more I appreciate Arty Morty’s perspicacity. The reason they are so shocked at the very idea that anyone doesn’t believe as they do, he explained, is because they have in their heads an entirely imaginary person – the archetypal ‘transwoman’ who genuinely is an actual feminine woman with a birth defect which is entirely irrelevant to her character. She’s sweet, and vulnerable, utterly harmless – and non-existant. Like those Christians who go into raptures over the imaginary Jesus in their heads, and will happily commit atrocities to defend their faith whilst convinced that they are holy, they have invested their own happiness and sense of self in a fantasy construct just as much as the ‘trans’ people themselves have done. Anything done to defend that which is holy from those who are evil, is justified.
As you no doubt recall, I was a devout believer for most of my life. It took a lot for me to lose my faith (I was a Roman Catholic until my fifties) and it is therefore probably not surprising that I fell for the ‘trans’ cult not long after. Ironically enough, my loss of faith in both fantasies came about through ‘educating myself’ – just as we are exhorted to – and paying careful attention to the explanations of non-believers, which we are most certainly exhorted to ignore as evil.
So I have a great deal of understanding for people like Townsend. There are a great number of us, after all, who were in the same position once; devout believers, hoodwinked by our deep desire to be a member of a tribe and convinced by pseudoscientific explanations. Some of us turned away because we were supported by critical thinkers patiently pointing out the massive contradictions (which are amazingly easy to justify, in our own minds, for a true believer); others have woken up by having the cult turn on them for merely questioning an article of faith.
The really fortunate people are those whose brains weren’t deformed from early childhood by religious indoctrination, and are immune to the appeal of cults of any flavour. And it’s fortunate for the rest of us that you exist, and are willing to offer a helping hand to anyone who wants to escape.
That’s the beauty of it. All the nastiness is flowing one way. Oh, Townsend has been convinced by the propaganda that Rowling is being nasty; but I’ll bet that, if pushed, and like every other person who has been challenged in the same way, she’ll be quite unable to find a single nasty thing that Rowling has written.
:” ‘JK Rowling, is publicly railing against the rights of trans people.”
“Liars liars liars. No she is not. She is publicly railing at attacks on the rights of female people, and explaining how trans ideology is incompatible with women’s rights.”
Or to put it another way, she is challenging the idea that people born male should be able to not only call themselves women, but also to insist that others endorse and transmit that bullshit; all the while claiming an entitlement to invade womens’ restrooms etc, and provide cover for the odd rapist. Which also always leaves it open to them to have a go at a spot of rapistry themselves, if they happen to be so inclined.
Why did the interviewer even *bring* up J. K. Rowling at all, except to indulge in a bit of virtue-signalling with Jessica Townsend?
Miss Townsend sounds like a total conformist who never, ever, thinks for herself about anything.
The mundane examples we’re left with do seem to fall rather short of the Platonic Ideal we are told they embody.
Not without a lot of hand-waving and
readinghallucinating between the lines. True Believers have convinced themselves (and too many others) that simple facts are somehow “controversial” or “transphobic.” Hearing statements like “There are only two sexes”, or ” Men can’t become women”‘ takes them aback because they’ve long since banished such thoughts from their heads without ever having had good reason to do so. Their Butterworth Gasps are the discovery that others Doubt their Truths, which are supposed to be Self-Evident (or at least more efficiently policed).Pointing out the Un-belief of others directs attention to any doubts you yourself might harbour, turning TERF hunts into demostrations of Faith and Devotion, as well as badges of honour. That MRAs tag along to righteously bash women for brownie points and woke cookies is an ancillary matter. The title of Defensor Fidei is open to anyone willing to do the dirty work.
Unfortunately much of the media has followed suit, believing that where they are told by trans activists that there’s smoke, there’s a raging pyre, ready and waiting to be stoked with hundreds of trans victims being shoveled into it.