Elon Musk, Jonathan Chait, and Debbie Hayton are among the diverse figures distancing themselves from Rowling’s increasingly open hostility to trans women.
Elon is super transphobic too though… Constantly dead naming his Daughter. Don’t know anything about the other two.
The article is interesting in pointing out how this strategic distancing from the rhetoric can make them look more moderate without ever actually stating more moderate positions.
Kind of says something then when even the musk rat is going, “Woah, dial it back there”
I’m kinda really tired of these inane and inaccurate takes on Musk’s tweet. He doesn’t tell her to “dial it back” at all. In fact he opens by agreeing that transphobia is great, but that it’s all Rowling talks about and she should diversify her content. That’s it. He’s not distancing himself from her or anything of the sort. These articles are dangerous to suggest otherwise in my opinion.
Does that mean she thinks little girls, post menopausal women and sterile/infertile women are not women ? Damn, that’s an interesting take.
Johnathan Chait is one of those people who postures himself as a centrist lib but manages to come up with the worst, most brain-melting galaxy brained takes that he’d be less annoying if he just admitted he was a chud. He’s a vocal critic of “political correctness,” wrote an article in 2016 titled, “Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination,” once claimed that kids were unironically identifying as attack helicopters, and when he got called out for it on Twitter he doubled down and said it didn’t matter if it was true, just if it would be bad if it were true (which was especially funny because it happened hours after The Onion put out a story calling out that exact behavior) and lastly, he once fell for BOFA. He’s an absolute joke, a loser, a bigot, and a professional clown pretending to be a journalist.
I’m glad this is posted in blahaj. Easily could become bait for offensive comments.
More on point – she isn’t merely controversial. That would imply that the reasonableness of her position is debatable, but it’s simply wrong. She’s been unacceptable for a long time because of her extremely inappropriate statements and actions, which from her high-visibility position causes real harm. To me, this isn’t new information.
Yeah exactly! Anyone who has been paying attention or is the target of her vitriol has known that she’s been too toxic for a long time. Many years. My hope is that her public image plummets as she continues to show everyone how awful she is.
I applaud Rowling for her hostility. Not because I agree with her, but because others say the same thing but hide it behind nicer words and those are way more dangerous, because it is harder for people not knowing much about transgender people to see the damage done, the hatred spread. With Rowling even the most uninformed people realize that it is off, wrong and bad.
If Rowling agrees with a “reasonable TERF” they have now to distance themselves from her and it is fun to watch that happen. No you can’t distance yourself from someone who just says the silent part out loud, you are in the same boat, so keep row(l)ing!
Wow. I wasn’t aware there was such a thing as too transphobic for Debbie Hayton.
She’s just hostile to them because no one will fuck her.