Harry Potter author JK Rowling has said she would prefer two years in jail over using a trans person’s correct pronouns.
I would prefer to not live in a place that would put someone in jail for something as asinine as pronoun usage.
You don’t and won’t, she is misrepresenting the situation
How often are you correctly gendered as a percentage as you go about your life?
Im not even sure what your asking. But again who the F cares if your living in some facist state putting you in prison. See what im trying to say is the fantasy land she is talking about is worse than the subject she is talking about.
Nah, how often does the kind of dehumanization she’s gleefully defending hit you?
This thing you’re so confident you want to defend to the death her right or whatever…
…how often does the thing you are opining on harm you?How am I in any way defending her. Because I say living in a police state would be worse. If I say having radiation sickness would be worse is it to much. Nothing is worse than the gender thing? I think I get what your asking. Not in a long time but plenty when I was young. You have to remember though that in those days it was totally common for gym teachers to refer to boys in girl terms I think because they thought it would motivate them or some shit. So not just jerk kids.
And you feel that qualifies you to speak about what should and should not be done in response to transphobia, does it?
No. Being human qualifies me to remark on another remark another human made. My comment isn’t even about trasnphobia as I have said like a million times. Its that she makes this delusional thing about being put in jail for speech which is a way worse situation. And yes that end part im making a qualification on how bad transphobia might be but I don’t need some sort of degree to have an opinion on human nature. I am a human. Anyway I will take having my sex misidentified constantly over living in a non free state. What is wrong with you that you would think thats a better situation?!
You sure do know alot about the proper way to respond to an oppression you don’t experience. Very impressive, that.
So, since I’m trans, am I allowed to say that instituting a law where we jail people over saying something rude seems awful to me.
Maybe it’s just because I’m an American, used to our constitutionally protected freedom of speech. But I think the ramifications for an average person misgendering someone should probably be limited to social ramifications rather than government ordained punitive ones.
Now if it’s a doctor or government employee or something there’s a discussion to be had.
You’re allowed to be wrong, but at least your nose and partially your business. She isn’t going to pick you, though.
There is a high probability that’s a snootier reply than you perhaps deserve. Not in the best place today. I don’t retract it by I turn the volume down.Not that I think anyone should be in jail for anything ever, but intentional rebuke of a trans person’s gender should result in a severe assbeating and social censure.
“She isn’t going to pick you” lol as far as I’m concerned JK Rowling can die in a fucking fire. Harry Potter is ass anyway. You’re just angry that there are people out there who don’t want to see people arrested over non-crimes.
I’m more perturbed people unaffected by her fuckshit deign chime in to say her bullshit hypothetical “…would be terrible, to be fair” as if it’s a thing or she and her worldview need defending. As though the people who need to speak up about how everyone’s a perfect right to be a bigot are the ones unaffected by that bigotry.
You, I’m more annoyed at for encouraging them. They’ll never learn to channel their Birbiglia that way.
Still, I’ve no quarrel with you.This whole thing hasn’t even been about what is or isn’t true, but who should and should not shut the fuck up and when.
Can she fuck off for two years then, please? And then do so again after that, and again, and again…
Is there even a law requiring the proper pronoun be used for a person? Seems like you could be a dick and call everyone by the wrong pronoun and still not go to jail.
There isn’t one nor is there a proposal for one, she is misrepresenting the situation.
Bigots love claiming victimhood where there is none…
This is such a stupid hill to die on.