Fuck you Joanne.
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Rowling should have stopped saying things in like 2005 tbh
All she had to do was hold onto the ball and run out the clock
Literally just take it to the corner flag and turn around
I don't understand this sports metaphor but that's on me for chiming in on a British community discussion of a British celebrity that I do in fact no a little bit about. The good news is you can tell me its from basically any sport y'all like on the isles and I'll be like "wow so fascinating"
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Tennant called transgender critics “a tiny bunch of little whinging f*ckers who are on the wrong side of history, and they’ll all go away soon.”
Is the real headline here. And good for him.
I'd rather not give what's her name any more attention over this crap.
Also, calling Tennant a "Harry Potter actor", while true, feels like a calculated insult to a man who has played Doctor Who, The Purple Man, and Crawley.
He was also barely even in Harry Potter, if we are going by screen time pretty sure Harry potter is the least relevant part of his career.
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There’s a few butt-hurt TERFs here downvoting. I wonder if the endorphin rush from such a rebellious act will carry them through the day.
Transphobes are half the reason we got rid of downvotes over here. They’re simultaneously blowhards and too cowardly to speak.
too cowardly to speak
Have you considered making an effort to be a person they would like to speak with?
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Thankfully the vast majority of the cast of the Harry Potter movies ended up being decent people. They are the ones that young people should look up to, not whatever the fuck Joanne has become.
She's taking the Graham Linehan route, dedicate your whole life to bashing trans people and spreading hate against them, to the point where you ruin your entire legacy and your own personal relationships.
She can keep fighting against trans people's right to exist, but trans people will just fight back at every turn.
advocated for banning trans women from [...] sports teams.
What do people here think of this?
It's an incredibly complicated issue, even if you look at individual cases (like Caster Semenya) and there's almost no easy way to define what you mean by a woman. Ultimately it's down to the individual sporting organisations to decide how to call it based on expert advice and any decision is going to disadvantage some athletes. If they think the decision is wrong, then there should be a way to appeal decisions because it can come down to difficult analysis based on each individual's life history.
A compelling argument I've heard is that the greatest performance enhancing drug is being exposed to testosterone during puberty and that seems to be the base line a lot of the sporting organisations use. However, even then it is difficult to call for individuals and would need expert testimony on each individual case.
A compelling argument I’ve heard is that the greatest performance enhancing drug is being exposed to testosterone during puberty and that seems to be the base line a lot of the sporting organisations use
It might be compelling, but that doesn't make it true (the testosterone in puberty part, not the sports organisations using transphobic rhetoric part, though as you can see bellow, even the International Olympic Committee, arguably the biggest global sports organisation, doesn't advocate this thinking)
several key conclusions coincide with findings from the IOC funded study, including.....Testosterone levels do not predict athletic performance or overall athleticism.
Well, either expert testimony or a transphobic bore screeching about it on Xitter.
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She really is firmly determined to take anyone who's ever cast doubt on her intelligence and decency, and prove them thoroughly right.
The sooner JK Rowling is charged with hate speech, the better. How the fuck has she been allowed to get away with it for so long I don’t know.
How the fuck has she been allowed to get away with it for so long I don’t know.
Those in power agree with her, and are probably glad she's so willing to do their dirty work for them
I think this is a good place to add context for those outside the UK that don't pay attention to politics, especially foreign politics:
The UK is having elections on July 4th. The House of commons has... 650 seats, of which the Conservatives (Tories, equivalent UK version of US Rupublicans) have ~350 seats.
They are expected to literally lose hundreds of seats in this elections and fall out of power. Labour (UK equivalent of US Democrats) has not been as progressive as people expected/wanted, but they are expected to be the big winners. Hopefully the UKs situation improves from the past 14-15 years of the Tories rule... seems like they've gone scorched earth, and the UK is a shadow of what it was even a decade ago.
Those same whiners in power, are about to experience a near political power extinction event.
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I think it's simpler. Those who are in power are gar too full whitted to really do not care and do not really consider this to be an issue. It's not so much that they agree or disagree with her, it's more that they just don't care
I'm not sure that's actually better really but isn't any important distinction.
If you think those in power in the UK, widely known as TERF island, aren't deliberately and actively trying to harm trans people (among others), you've not been paying attention,.
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You don't think people should have the right to speak free from government interference? I very much disagree with her, but I don't want to live under a fascist state that bans opposing opinions.
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The government is entirely on her side
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She added: “For a man who’s supposedly a model of compassion and tolerance, he sure does want a lot of people to cease to exist.”
What a dumb cunt she is
How can she not see the projection? Do people get their ability to not tell on themselves removed when they cast that magical first Tory vote?
It turns out she's just a very uninteresting person. Infinite money and somehow can't find something better to do with her time.
Hmm maybe if you keep attacking the people who stand for good, that means that you're the evil one with dumb, shitty, and wrong ideas? Ever think of that you dumb fuck Rowling?
he sure does want a lot of people to cease to exist
Does anyone understand what group of people she's even refering to here? Women who have gone through sexual assault? Is changing in front of a trans woman=not existing? Genuinely confused
Women who have gone through sexual assault? Is changing in front of a trans woman=not existing? Genuinely confused
I interpreted it to mean that Tennant wants female sexual assault survivors who have issues being treated by males (and all the other kinds of people Rowling mentioned) to cease to exist so that Tennant doesn't have to account for their needs.
Bobby Brewster was better than Harry Potter. Change my mind!
I can't as Bobby Brewster and the Winkers' Club is clearly the superior title.
I think she believes that if we respect trans women, women cease to exist.
right...
Calling someone Taliban while at the same time sharing a lot of Taliban ideology is the kind of delicious irony people like Rowling are completely oblivious to.
Tennant: TERFs are whiny fucking babies
JK Rowling, Court Jester: whines like baby
