I feel like this is what happened with Linehan, what started as being mocked or corrected for ignorance rapidly hardened into outright war because he couldn't handle being owned on the Internet
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 September 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
Entitlement plus underlying previously unexamined bigotry
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 September 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
does her end game have to be any deeper than affecting public/political attitudes towards transgender people? she's already a gazillionaire, now she's found her passion
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 20 September 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
Tbh I am hesitant to point out the actual reason as both are extremely litigious
― scampo italiano (gyac), Sunday, 20 September 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
As people used to say of Linehan 'What's the end game here?',
Linehan now does a daily newsletter pointing and screeching at trans people on twitter, since his main account for abusing them directly was banned, and mocking people who turn the replies off on any given tweet. (He charges 8 quid a month for the ability to post comments on the blog version of his newsletter.)
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Sunday, 20 September 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
The worst thing is that when The Observer dies all the worst ppl will just start writing for The Spectator or cow mag (the Jenny Turner -- in her latest for the LRB -- essay is quite good at covering these fault lines)― xyzzzz__, Monday, 21 September 2020 4:13 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 21 September 2020 4:13 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
its already happening - hadley freeman, one of the guardian's many transphobe writers, wrote a piece in it the other day to complain about the oscars and then tell an anecdote where she explained to a friend how transphobic she is
I've become radicalised about gender, says Hadley Freemanhttps://t.co/09hOkimPxp— The Spectator (@spectator) September 19, 2020
― ufo, Monday, 21 September 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
I don't think Rowling holding awful transphobic views and her receiving misogynistic abuse are in any way mutually exclusive.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 21 September 2020 01:39 (three years ago) link
it's problematic when it's used as a tool to shut down discussion that is specifically calling her out for being transphobic.
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 September 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
Neither justifies the other, obviously. But women in the public space with controversial views - good or bad - always get pushback that is more virulent, more personalised and more sexualised than men do. I don't know why this situation would be any different.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 21 September 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
it's a consistent tactic of Linehanian terfs to categorise any pro-trans speech as misogynistic.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Monday, 21 September 2020 02:00 (three years ago) link
JKR receives the same kind of violent and sexualized abuse for being outspoken about Scottish independence and Brexit. Her sex is absolutely a reason for that.
― everything, Monday, 21 September 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
I find it striking how suddenly people like Freeman appear to care deeply about edge cases in prison management and the finer points of eligibility in athletics competitions, having never evidenced any prior interest
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 September 2020 06:38 (three years ago) link
This is entirely fine and thankfully one of the most famous and beloved authors in the world has no influence
JK Rowling platforms anti-trans shop selling ‘lesbians don’t have penises’ and ‘f**k your pronouns’ merch https://t.co/PtgoTSQEGY— PinkNews (@PinkNews) September 23, 2020
― ciorapomenitul (gyac), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
i'm sure this has been said, but i do not understand having that level of wealth and caring about this issue in this manner
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
damn, is this a conservative paper psy-op too
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
This is a good if weird read:
I don't know what the interviewer was expecting but Butler shutting down every poorly offered anti-trans dogwhistle here is something.https://t.co/hy9KFWqSRG— Ian Williams (@Brock_toon) September 22, 2020
https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
my college hero
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
and she's just whipping ass in this interview
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
"I think we are living in anti-intellectual times, and that this is evident across the political spectrum. The quickness of social media allows for forms of vitriol that do not exactly support thoughtful debate. We need to cherish the longer forms."
I tend to agree.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
that was a great read, butler still as sharp as ever.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
wow, she just cuts through all the bullshit in those questions so perfectly, amazing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
and she's just whipping ass in this interview― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 15:29 bookmarkflaglink
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 15:29 bookmarkflaglink
Just FYI, Judith Butler is nonbinary and uses they/them.
― Masonic Lockdown (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 24 September 2020 07:27 (three years ago) link
The footnote in the article mentions that Judith Butler goes by she or they.
― braised cod, Thursday, 24 September 2020 07:33 (three years ago) link
TROUBLED BLOOD is as good or better than the other Cormoran Strike/Robin Ellicott novels. J. K. Rowling is a wonderful storyteller and a gifted stylist. I'm loving this one.— Stephen King (@StephenKing) September 28, 2020
Read the room my guy.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
look, the man pumps out like fifty blurbs a day. He can't be expected to vet every single one
― Number None, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
lol it doesn’t matter, she already unfollowed him after he tweeted in support of trans women
― seumas milm (gyac), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
I just feel like a guy that spends as much time on Twitter as he does would find this a pretty easy pothole to avoid stepping in.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
Instances where you can't separate the art from the artist. vs. instances where you can.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
https://clickhole.com/the-saga-continues-jk-rowling-has-revealed-that-ron-weasley-became-patient-zero-for-coronavirus-after-messing-up-a-spell-where-he-tried-to-turn-a-bat-into-a-larger-bat-he-could-have-sex-with/
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
Because I'm petty, I'm going to gather you all around and tell you about that time JK Rowling was extremely wrong about something and, by being wrong about it, poisoned Google search results for it for years afterwards and generally made the world ignorant about it— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) September 29, 2020
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
Lol that Judith butler thing is p hilarious as there seems to be some implicit suggestion that there is some kind of intellectual equivalence here
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
(by here I mean in the article)
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 23:28 (three years ago) link
I mean King pumps out shitty books by the truckload, not astonishing he would also like to read shitty books.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
re: that arthur chu thread, it's kind of astonishing how lazy and poorly thought out jk rowling's universe is, considering how big a deal it became
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
Harry Potter is not the millennial LOTR, it's the millennial Battlefield Earth.
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
People love CS Lewis and his worldbuilding is balls too, as Tolkien pointed out.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
I do enjoy how the Wizards all make fun of "muggles" for trying to approximate magic, all while waiting months for owls with letters to arrive while the muggles get emails, texts, or snail mail in mere days.
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
A superior list.
More than 200 writers and publishers sign letter in support of trans and non-binary people https://t.co/bXG7z9bU0z— Guardian Books (@GuardianBooks) September 30, 2020
― seumas milm (gyac), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
tbf I think it's made clear that Weasley dad's stance that muggle tech is actually very impressive and wizards should respect it more, while idiosyncratic in their world, is to be seen as correct.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
Yeah but he’s seen as a weird fetishist, like a western hentai collector or something.
― seumas milm (gyac), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
Funny you mention that, Rowling actually revealed in 2009 that Ron's dad loves hentai
― ✖, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
xp right but I think narrative voice has it that it's an example of wizarding world's shortsightedness that he's seen as a weird fetishist, resonating with the general wizard bloodline obsession!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-01/25/15/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-01/sub-buzz-28441-1485375523-1.jpg?downsize=600:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto
― Number None, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
like I like that these wizards had strong olfactory coping mechanisms cos even if I knew the poo and pee would flee after a flick of the wand, dear god, the sensation of wading in it and smelling it for those 3 seconds would make me hurl
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
This is the YA fantasy version of Badger's Star Trek: TOS treatment.
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
The vagueness made the Potterverse a great sandbox in which the fandom could play. Rowling has said many disturbing and distressing things, but you should have seen the butthurt entitlement when JKR started saying things that contradicted fans' cherished fanon.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:04 (three years ago) link
You don’t even have to read that Arthur Chu thread to get that, is the thing, you just have to look at that map of wizard schools or read that tweet about wizards shitting themselves where they stood (!)
― seumas milm (gyac), Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
I'm with M John Harrison, world-building is for rpgs tbh
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
yeah but Harrison has style
― Number None, Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
When Rowling starts writing impressionistic mosaic novels set in the world of Hogwarts we can stop scrutinising the exactitude of that world. As it stands, the later Potter books are essentially bad RPG sourcebooks anyway.
― chap, Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link