TERFs: “Rowling is just pro-women”

Rowling: “Hold my butterbeer!”

    • grte@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      I don’t think that’s unexpected. This is going to come out of left field a little but please humour me. Recently there has been talk of ‘AI psychosis’ where people lose touch with reality because they overuse AI chatbots and their obsequious behaviour reinforces unhealthy mental states. Well, I think that is likely a more general effect that doesn’t actually require chatbots. I think wealthy people are able to cut themselves off from most people while simultaneously ensuring that the people that are around are yesmen, which I suspect leads to the exact same thing as people are calling ‘AI psychosis’. It would explain why so many wealthy people are so…Off.

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      2 months ago

      Honestly, that is what most rich people do. When you no longer have to struggle to get anything you want and you don’t really even have to work or worry about anything, shit like this is what you are left with.

  • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Being antitrans is inherently antiwoman, given that transwomen are women.

    Ignoring that, antitrans measures require gender proof, which is surveillance, which is antiwomen.

    Policing bathrooms for example will only harm, to protect against a baseless claim that “men” are for some reason choosing to be socially ostracized for funzies and to be a pervert.

  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    I can’t fix her.

    Well before her anti-trans and anti-fem rhetorics and meltdowns stays the monolith of her piblishing awkward stories under a man’s pseudonym. Treasured Mama Ro gave up her femininity because, with her overwhelming notoriority over the world, these could’ve sold bad or hurted her main brand. Her fans among kids and teens don’t know, that in UK she forgot her own lessons about courage and being yourself, she masquaraded as man because it benefited her at that point. She was cooked way before she sounded her dumb opinions.

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    2 months ago

    Please, no one think this is making excuses for her at all, because she’s utter trash, but I wonder if it would require some pretty intense mental disorder to be this focused on other people’s lives, and wanting so badly to make them suffer.

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      2 months ago

      When it’s supported by religion we’re not allowed to call it that for some reason.

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    2 months ago

    People who go “she’s not against trans people, she’s just trying to protect women” sound exactly like those who say “I’m not against gay people, I’m just for traditional marriage”.

    They don’t fucking grasp that opposing gay marriage is opposing gay rights and they don’t fucking grasp that opposing trans people being able to use public bathrooms is against transgender people.

    Then they go “oh they can use public bathrooms, as long as they use the correct ones” completely ignoring post-op trans people who look like the gender they identify as. Why are they ignoring post-op trans people? Cause clearly, they don’t believe people should transition at all.

  • casualvagrancy@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s literally not what she said. She did not say to photograph or harass women in toilets. She said to call the police about men in women’s restrooms.

    If trans women are women, then there should be no problem with that language. Or are you saying that trans women are actually just men? That’s pretty messed up and trans-phobic of you.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Lemme do some thinking for you: If you have a bunch of aggressive people who say they’re going to harrass men in the women’s restroom, and who do not accept that trans women are women, then you need to be worried about the safety of trans women.

      If someone believed that all puppies were the spawn of the devil and said they were going to kill them all on sight you wouldn’t go “well I don’t believe they are the spawn of the devil so obviously there is no danger.”

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        2 months ago

        It seems like you’re making the assumption that trans women will look or behave differently from other women. How will the aggressive puppy killers know who to harass?

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          2 months ago

          Hey, so you’re obviously not here for a serious conversation so I’m gunna leave you in your mud puddle by yourself, champ. You probably already feel this way, but you aren’t worth it.

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      2 months ago

      Tell me you can’t read without telling me you can’t read.

      "Photographing, reporting and disseminating such men’s images online will be a piece of cake.” she absolutely expects people to do the policing and has encouraged it

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      2 months ago

      Unironically, treating trans men like they don’t exist and holding trans women to an unrealistic standard are the strongest examples of treating them as the gender to which they identify.

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        2 months ago

        Right?

        Being a man = you just get to be that and no one really has to define what it is because its rude to suggest that you aren’t a man so its just whatever, no one really cares except other dudes and they mostly only care about themselves.

        Being a woman = EVERYONE gets to have input on what that means.

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          2 months ago

          I’m not implying being a man is worse expectation-wise, but it is just not at all accurate to say men aren’t belittled all the time for not “being man enough”.

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            2 months ago

            Oh another man on tv called you not manly enough? Try fielding daily bullshit about your nail color, hair color, eyeliner thickness, how fat or thin you are (fat men aren’t fat lois, only fat women are fat), how much worth you have based on whether some old ugly fucking loser wants to fuck you. I can go on forever. Fuck being a woman.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              It’s not a competition and this is not even remotely a good way to talk about this, but yes, men on TV and in every day life often denigrate other men.