Oooh she said what?
Oh good, another ten minutes hate.
Pop star Jade Thirlwall has led a crowd of thousands in an anti-J.K. Rowling chant during a music festival known for celebrating LGBTQ+ culture.
While performing on the Main Stage at Mighty Hoopla in London Saturday evening, Thirlwall ignited the crowd when she chanted “transphobes” and the crowd responded: “Fuck you!”
She then changed the prompt to “J.K. Rowling” to which the crowd responded with another enthusiastic “Fuck you!”
Great. Brilliant. Woman incites crowd to scream hatred toward a woman for the crime of knowing and saying that men are not women. What pleasant times we live in.
Rowling, author of the acclaimed Harry Potter series, has come under intense scrutiny during the last few years for her comments about women and transgender rights.
Listen, Indy: crowds screaming “fuck you!” is not “intense scrutiny”. It’s not any kind of scrutiny, it’s mindless hatred of a kind that can incite violence.
The author, 59, first made controversial comments about the transgender community in December 2019. Since then, she has published and retweeted numerous posts containing hateful rhetoric toward the trans and non-binary communities.
Liars. It’s not “hateful rhetoric” to say that men are not women. I’ll tell you what “hateful rhetoric” is: it’s shouting a woman’s name to get the response “fuck you!”
Rowling has denied being transphobic, but has previously stated that she would “happily” go to prison for misgendering a trans person rather than refer to them by their preferred pronouns.
That’s not “phobic.” It’s not hatred to decline to refer to a man as “she”. Furthermore, it’s not ok to order women to call men “women” so how about focusing on that instead?
She’s even gone so far as to dismiss concerns that her views on transgender people will damage her legacy. When asked in 2023 by interviewer Megan Phelps-Roper about her legacy in the podcast titled The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, the Harry Potter author said she doesn’t think about it.
Gone so far as? How is that any kind of going far? Why shouldn’t she dismiss such pompous “concerns” that she doesn’t share and are none of anyone else’s business?
Whoever wrote this drivel is not very good at the job.
“I think you could not have misunderstood me more profoundly. I do not walk around my house thinking about my legacy, what a pompous way to live your life thinking about what my legacy will be. Whatever! I’ll be dead, I care about now, the living.”
Well said – yet Indy dimwit considers it going so far.
I can remember when it was an ok news outlet.
Imagine if Thirlwall’s crowd had shouted those insults about environmentalists, trade unionists, or advocates of the UK rejoining the European Union. I can say the Indy would not give it such uncritical coverage.
Another Pick-Me band, the British Lambrini Girls,
Not only write songs attacking the opponents of gender self-identification, they also sell ‘Fuck TERFs’ caps:
https://www.lambrinigirlsband.co.uk/product/fuck-terfs-cap-black/
No doubt the 1956 version of the Lambrini Girls were selling ‘Attack Nasser!’ caps.
Between trans and Trump, the world has become a nasty place indeed, at least for those who care about other people, and who prefer things to be grounded in reality (as much as we can know reality).
Yeah, probably in the UK they wouldn’t have gotten unctuous coverage. In Nebraska, I bet the paper would come up with 98.6 reasons that we need to understand the small town farmer and those who feel overwhelmed by their life being taken away (yeah, they would probably say life, when not even their livelihood is taken away, at least if they follow the few moderate rules that accrue to farmers…which is almost nothing, since until recently they were exempt from most environmental rules).
This was, of course, specifically in the context of talking about rapists on trial, and women being harassed by the cops over Twitter posts.
To understand why this is ‘gone so far’, you have to remember that public shaming over wrongthink is the only weapon these twits have. They must destroy reputations, because they cannot destroy the arguments. And so, for someone to declare that their best weapon is utterly infantile is mocking the entire edifice in a single step.
A while back I saw someone post denigrating JKR saying she should find something useful to do with her billions instead of making trans lives miserable. I responded that she had funded a rape crisis centre and that was surely admirable, no matter your views. That got me blocked and labelled a transphobe. It’s not that the discussion lacks nuance, it lacks any possible meeting ground. You must be 100% on one team, or you’re by default the worst of the worst.
The twits in question are so repulsive that they are an argument for thinking transism is a nightmare all by themselves.