What did JK Rowling do wrong?

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That would have been before the operation or whatever it was that changed your posting style? You were different then, afterwards it wasn't just that your posts were difficult to understand, which they still are, it was that the personality behind them was different, more boasting and bragging, more taunting, which combined with the difficulty of reading them in the first place made you into a poster who few wanted to engage with. You might not realize it, but I'm treating you with a certain amount of respect in that I'm not making excuses for you on account of whatever happened, I'm treating you like any poster who comes at me in the way you have, everyone gets a fair shake with me.

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I just now found that some of these language issues may be starting to get resolved, hopefully.

According to The Times Published Some Transphobic BS Over the Weekend by James Factora, Them, July 5, 2022:


Here is a relevant Twitter thread from the Trans Journalists Association, and here is TJA Best Practices for Trans-Inclusive Language in Abortion Coverage (PDF).

(If anyone wants to discuss or debate the question of why a lot of cis women -- and, apparently, trans people too -- find terms like "people with vulvas" to be objectifying or alienating in the first place, let's discuss this in the separate thread Sexual objectification of women, & why it's oppressive.)

Thank you for finding that guidance. The language use it suggests makes a lot of sense, and shouldn’t require anyone to do backflips to get it right.

Ultimately language convenience is usually going to win out. And those suggestions are convenient.

Here is an article J.K. Rowling Doubles Down on Transphobia in International Women’s Day Twitter Rant by Samantha Bergeson, Mar 8, 2022, about J.K. Rowling's opposition to a proposed bill that would make it easier for trans people in Scotland to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate.

If this bill were to pass, there would still be a process involved, but a less difficult one, and there would still be a waiting period, but a shorter one.

Here is the relevant Twitter thread.

The first three are generally regarded as good, if otherwise unremarkable. I knew someone who read The Cuckoo's Calling before the author was revealed, and she liked it well enough.

Book 4 is when the trans stuff starts creeping in (and that came out before the big fuss last summer). Don't know anyone who has read them other than specifically to pick that stuff out.

I'm now halfway through book 3 (getting darker and edgier for sure compared to the previous two), they're entirely conventional detective novels, if well written ones as obviously Rowling can tell a story. I actually don't know why I was skeptical of these in the first place, I enjoyed the HP books, and most of those are basically structured like mystery novels when you actually look at how they're put together, with the clues and hints leading up to the big reveal at the end. The close reading is pretty funny when you think about it, people buying up rather lengthy books that a billionaire YA author puts out under a pen name in order to analyze them for whiffs of her politics so they can complain about her on Twitter, it's kind of pathetic aside from the degree to which the mainstream media has been caught up in it, NPR actually ran a story with the "critics say..." framing, when the "critics" in question were literally Twitter randos.

I initially thought her little essay didn't seem terribly unreasonable. Like, okay, consenting adults should be able to transition and live in peace, people should receive whatever medical attention is appropriate which may not necessarily be transitioning. Some kids do 'try on' gender nonconformity/diversity as a social thing and it's important that that can be distinguished from children who are truly suffering from dysphoria. None of those points seemed unreasonable.

However, when I viewed her twitter, it was full of batshit stuff generalising all transgender persons - especially MtF trans women - as pedos and criminals. Supporting people who call transgender people outright slurs. That is not something I can respect or take seriously. There's no intelligence or reasoning behind it. It's, like, 'ew, transgender icky'.

To me it reminded me of many Catholics I grew up with, who would say they 'love' gay people as neighbours in Christ, that they 'take people as they are', etc... but would then go unhinged rants about homosexual pedophiles, who can 'get away with it because they're gay', and who 'are always messed in the head'. People would say they 'love' gay people, but they would never actually talk about actual gay people in anything other than a negative light.

As a teenager it f*cked me up. When all you hear and know about gay people is that they end up as degenerates, criminals, pedos, or alone and mentally ill, it truly makes you think there is no path for happiness and normal happy relationships the way heterosexuals have. Things are great for me now but it really is terrible to experience. I imagine it would be similar for transgender persons.

So. What she says she believes, and says she supports, is one thing, and is not particularly horrific. But what she actually does, and the sentiments she actually expresses outside of formalised, prepared letters or statements, are really not worth respecting in my view.

Cite?

I don't have time to go digging through all her tweets, but here's a recent tweet of hers supporting the LGB Alliance, which appears to be a British group of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals who dislike trans people.

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Rowling, J.K. (2021) 'J.K Rowling's Twitter Account', Twitter.

I said it was on her twitter, not an article. Here is the link to her account: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/

If you're looking for a specific tweet or something, I mean, you can just go on her twitter account and read it. Right now I've blocked twitter on my computer for the next several days so I'm not going to be digging up specific tweets. But there was plenty of stuff right there when I viewed it.

Here is a tweet, not by J.K. Rowling herself but retweeted by her, promoting this article, which seems to me rather generally anti-trans.

How is it anti trans?