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From the New York Times news section:
J.K. Rowling Criticized After Tweeting Support for Anti-Transgender Researcher
J.K. Rowling on Thursday expressed support for a British researcher who lost her job for tweeting that transgender women cannot change their biological sex.
By Liam Stack
Dec. 19, 2019J.K. Rowling, the creator of the “Harry Potter” series, was criticized by gay and transgender rights groups on Thursday after she expressed support for a British researcher whose views on transgender people were described by a court as “not worthy of respect in a democratic society.”
The researcher, Maya Forstater, lost her job last year at a think tank in London and filed a lawsuit earlier this year alleging discrimination based on what she called her “gender critical” views, which she has expressed often on Twitter. Among them is the belief, which Ms. Forstater tweeted on Wednesday, that “it is impossible to change sex.”
An employment tribunal in London ruled against her on Wednesday, saying her views were “not a philosophical belief protected” by British law but were instead “incompatible with human dignity and fundamental rights of others.”
“It is also a slight of hand to suggest that the claimant merely does not hold the belief that trans women are women,” the court ruled. “She positively believes that they are men and will say so whenever she wishes.”
And we can’t have that.
Mr. Rowling criticized that outcome and said she supported Ms. Forstater, who did not respond to a message seeking comment on Thursday.
“Dress however you please,” Ms. Rowling wrote on Twitter, where she has more than 14 million followers. “Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill.”
Ms. Forstater’s case was widely reported in Britain but became an international news story because of Ms. Rowling’s tweet — and because of the backlash to it, which was powered in part by longstanding suspicion among some L.G.B.T. advocates that the author held negative views of transgender people.
Much of that suspicion has focused on Ms. Rowling’s social media activity. In 2018, she was criticized for liking a tweet that referred to transgender women as “men in dresses.”
A representative for the author said she’d had a “middle-aged moment” and hit the like button accidentally, according to The Guardian. But some critics viewed incidents like that differently in light of her expression of support for Ms. Forstater. …
Anthony Ramos, who leads GLAAD’s engagement with celebrities on L.G.B.T. issues, said in a statement that Ms. Rowling had “now aligned herself with an anti-science ideology that denies the basic humanity of people who are transgender.”
On Thursday, Alphonso David, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, the most influential L.G.B.T. advocacy organization in the United States, accused Ms. Rowling of being an anti-transgender fundamentalist and demanded she apologize for her statement.
If the court so ruled, the court is a moron. (‘Slight’ of hand).
POPs, perfectly defined..
A scientific fact unprotected by the cancerous mutant which grew from Western law? Is this really about trannies or is this an idiotic deckchair rearrangement regarding race? Either way I have faith that science will smash its way through law, even in the former domain of Cnut.
But, in the Cnut story, the king was on the side of reality and contemptuous of empty rhetoric. There's no doubt where he would stand on the transgender issue.
We would be lucky to have someone like Cnut as king again: no hope of that with the current heir, or either of Diana's sons.
A slight misspelling there,
luvmate.https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/sleight
Should Dickie Brandon have Frau Fortstater dismissed, she ought to seek employment with our Selective Service System. “Gender” is still a non-issue with them, as it should be with everyone. They still go by sex.
More common sense:
How does our debt compare to our net worth?
The poorest person in the western world, today, lives better than the kings of most of the past. And those who are in the poorest places on earth are alive because of the surpluses of the western world. Crumbs from the rich mans table.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
“Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.”
They want to dictate what *we* call them. And they want to shame for being disgusted by the thought of sleeping with them.
luvmate.https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/sleightShould Dickie Brandon have Frau Fortstater dismissed, she ought to seek employment with our Selective Service System. "Gender" is still a non-issue with them, as it should be with everyone. They still go by sex.More common sense:How does our debt compare to our net worth?Replies: @WowJustWow, @Bubba, @HallParveyIf you have a net worth of zero, you’re already richer than the poorest X million people combined.
Go trannies.
As ridiculous as trannies are, they are like straight-faced Monty Python barbarian-army within the gates of PC.
I would point out when the Donald was going through one of his bankruptcies, that I was technically richer than he was. Didn’t impress my dates.
⏫ TRUMP 2020 ⏫
______________
(1) https://www.thesimpledollar.com/credit/bankruptcy/donald-trump-bankruptcies-corporate-and-personal-debt/Replies: @Reg Cæsar
The worm may be turning a bit in World War T.
The comments in WaPo, where they ban anyone to the right of Alyssa Milano, are 90% in support of biology.
Part of the problem with theys is theys’ main tactic is to hector and annoy anyone who won’t refer to them as they. All from some dude with blue hair or a lesbian wearing a bowtie. Annoyance Activism, so popular with liberals these days, very shortly reaches the stage of diminishing returns.
Woke Feminists v. Deviant Men. The cannibalization continues.
Stop dating people who don’t understand accounting!
I don’t care, J.K. has been a psycho SJW lefty 1% for years now since Potter became a phenomenon. She’s getting the hate she richly deserves as the mob she was part of turns on her.
For a a few years now, I’ve deemed no SJW worth saving, since they don’t believe in fair play, reciprocation, playing by the rules, etc. When Franken got attacked, I laughed and helped them. Same here.
Let the lefties be hoisted on their own petard.
Hope you don't mind another pedantic intervention on this thread (besides 'slight'), but she has been hoisted by her own petard.Replies: @Dieter Kief
And the “Woke” continue to turn on and devour each other. Praise the Lord for small miracles.
Trump humorously made the point on a talk show (think it was Letterman) that the homeless living on the streets of New York were worth more than him when he declared bankruptcy.
What’s the point of having FU money if you can’t say what you think. Rowling should stick to her guns.
I hope she pushes back, she certainly never has to sell another book. But it's poetic justice. Let the SJW fall into the pit she dug for other people!Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Verymuchalive, @Desiderius
A lot of the big banks are woke at the highest levels. We're not there yet, but I can see a day when the CEO of Chase, Citi, or BoA orders a wealthy conservative's funds frozen because they find that person's views unacceptable.Replies: @J.Ross
longstanding suspicion among some L.G.B.T. advocates that the author held negative views of transgender people.
LGBT advocates should stop suspecting that some people hold negative views of transgender people and accept the fact that nearly everyone does, whether or not they’ll admit it. #IStandWithDaveChappelle
Anthony Ramos, who leads GLAAD’s engagement with celebrities on L.G.B.T. issues, said in a statement that Ms. Rowling had “now aligned herself with an anti-science ideology that denies the basic humanity of people who are transgender.”
So it’s anti-science to point out that “it is impossible to change sex.” Not only that, but by doing so you are denying their basic humanity. Aren’t you actually affirming their basic humanity?
luvmate.https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/sleightShould Dickie Brandon have Frau Fortstater dismissed, she ought to seek employment with our Selective Service System. "Gender" is still a non-issue with them, as it should be with everyone. They still go by sex.More common sense:How does our debt compare to our net worth?Replies: @WowJustWow, @Bubba, @HallParveyhttps://usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a trans-woman’s high heel stamping on a human face-forever.”
Unless the bit in quotation marks has been translated into Yanklish (and should, therefore, not be in quotation marks), whoever wrote the decision is a fucking illiterate; this should not surprise anyone familiar with the class of legal third-raters who populate the benches of this sort of tribunal.
Sleight of hand, you fucking halfwits.
Just saw a headline saying “Mark Hamill Apologizes After Liking JK Rowling’s Transphobic Tweet”. What a clusterfuck.
Watching these crazed numbskulls rip themselves asunder is extremely enjoyable. Will Western culture survive this civil war? Probably.
Hey, she made Dumbledore queer, so what’s the beef?
Bill in Glendale
What does Rowling’s dad have to do with anything?
Ross, you were right, science managed to smash through. The 2020 Miss America won by using science to show that hydrogen peroxide can indeed be worthy of high praise.
If she wants to show her smarts why doesn't she go to chemistry or physics contest instead of showing elementary school tricks?
…Maya Forstater…
Well, while the world didn’t come to an end in a Zombie apocalypse in 2012 because of the Mayan calendar…
…Maya Forstater’s world sure has come to an end in the Tranny apocalypse of 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon
Ex-men vs. feminists. Are we living part two of WWT? WWT II?
If anyone in this world has Fuck You Money, it’s JK Rowling.
“The They” is kind of fetching for a band.
Same domain, but with the letters rearranged.
This is about humiliation. They want to force you to believe 2+2 = 5, and then they can make you believe anything and they own your mind.
NEWS FLASH*
In the event RBG retires from the Supreme Court on health grounds, sources close to the DNC say Dems will be putting forward the London Employment Tribunal for nomination.
*OK, just a parody, but in the UK, while Boris thinks he won power, this case shows in actual fact it’s presiding judge Titania McGrath who holds it- and wields it- and intends to keep it.
In the West, Conservatives-in-office are, as Mark Steyn says, just the seat-warmers for the Progressive Left.
That is really good advice for any long term relationship, and probably short term ones as well.
The They a tribute band for Wendy Carlos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos
The latest: militant anti-Trump singer Camila Cabello exposed for having racist Tumblr: https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/camila-cabello-apologizes-for-past-racist-tumblr-posts.3055150/
@SteveSailer: Lipstick Alley is an enormous online forum mostly populated by educated black American women, there’s a lot in there to delve into from a HBD perspective. You’ll find some interesting things such as that they absolutely hate mixed race women, they find black Brits annoying, they lust after famous white men, etc. Would recommend as a potential source of iSteve news that gets reblogged there as well.
They even have an entire sub forum about light skin vs dark skin: https://www.lipstickalley.com/forums/colorism-the-dark-skin-light-skin-debate.435/
Case in point. Go to youtube and search “interracial couple.” The top results tend to be about WMBF couples. The same pattern repeats itself in many commercials selling aspirational products. As it turns out, you cannot have a cellphone commercial without a WMBF couple. And if Peloton had used a Mixed Race Black Girl they would have likely saved themselves a PR headache.
The real subtext of Steve’s “Let’s Talk About My Hair” articles is that homelier minority women are trying to pretty themselves up for their high status White prince, or at least, fend off his evil twin, Count Haven Monahan. It’s very much like a kinky-haired version of Rapunzel, but where Rapunzel fumes on Woke Twitter during her down time.Replies: @Rubaiyat
Slight of hand. Isn’t that what they said about Trump?
Grok that for a moment. Savor the Orwellian nature of that statement: a simple statement of fact is “not worthy of respect in a democratic society.”
So stating a scientific fact – that sex is a real biological category and an immutable human trait – is now “anti-science”.
It’s as if the Khmer Rouge had taken over Britain. Perhaps they have – the Khmer Rose.
To those people who, four or five years ago, asked: “What’s wrong with gay marriage. What harm could recognizing it do?” This is what’s wrong with it. This is what recognizing it did. There is never an endpoint to the LGBT agenda. There is only a steady assault on everything that is normal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezMld3tavi0
J.K. Rowling had a Larry David moment, but she has a billion dollars so there isn’t much anyone can do to her. Peak Potter was a decade ago so, sure, they can ban her books but it won’t much affect her bank account.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/latino-littering-denialists-draw-this-line-in-the-sand/
Worth mentioning that he links an iSteve post on the topic from a year ago.
Hopefully Unz picks up on it.
Wait, how is she a beauty pageant winner, she’s not black?
Autogynephilic hypno-porn addicted junkies the lot of them.
Feeling all tingly when the manage to lure another kid into their “lifestyle”.
The hijacked institutions are rewiring the collective brain through behavioral conditioning applied by the law.
The media and various other corporations are rewiring the collective brain through visual and audio triggers and imprints.
The pharma-mafia is rewiring the collective brain through drugs.
The academia is rewiring the collective brain through sustained talk-based brainwashing, and grade-based conditioning.
Each of them is trying to crush the autonomous individual core of the citizen, while stealing his country and destroying his children. When combined, their power is awesome, chipping away at you from all side.
THEREFORE: Stay healthy. Stay strong. Hide your power level. Build your empire. Give realistic talks to your kids. Make connections. Give no excuse to be unpersoned or imprisoned. Vampires only get in if you invite them in. The devil only gets your soul is you sign a consent form. Maintain mental hygiene, do not allow in viruses and corrupted scripts. This is not a game.
“Soon we may be needing all our prison space for political offenders. Common criminals … are best dealt with on a purely curative basis.”
By definition, if you can’t say what you think, you do not have FU money.
One think I like about how this story is developing is that the anti-trans side has learned from progressives to latch onto an issue quickly and milk it and ignore any inconvenient facts. This works. Being a goody two shoes doesn’t work. Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.
Most of the blacks-killed-by-cops stories, for instance, don’t pan out when you look at the facts. The “He was no angel” syndrome. But nobody cares … until months later when nobody is paying attention. By that point protestors have reaped the benefits of the initial outrage and are on to the latest incident.
So it delights me to read lame attempts to quote the judicial opinion on this woman’s firing or to dip into the fact record to try to slime her. Nobody cares. I don’t know what is true, and I don’t care. I’m just happy that people are jumping on it and using this decision as a cudgel against the tranny movement.
See the Richard Jewell movie!
JK Rowling is as anti-White and Politically Correct as they come. Good to see her taste a bit of what she has wrought.
She will learn nothing from this by the way.
If you stop your accounting at comparing the net worth of orange man during one of his bankruptcies with the net worth of a bum, I suggest further studies. There’s a learning curve ahead.
http://i.imgur.com/qdweVpP.pngReplies: @Alan Mercer
I thought the Guardian article was good:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/19/jk-rowling-trans-row-court-ruling-twitter-maya-forstater
The judge saying that calling these trans people with male genitals men when they have transitioned to women is whatever word salad they wrote is telling. It is telling that there is power behind this stupidity. It is power which cannot be fought face to face and will have to be subverted one carefully composed comment at a time.
I applaud J. K. Rowling on twitter and I don’t like Rowling and I don’t like twitter but I applaud it nevertheless. Anonymously here on the internet. Out there in the real world I will be keeping this to myself.
Did Trump ever declare personal bankruptcy, or did businesses he owned declare bankruptcy? (His self-effacing humor nonwithstanding.)
Lopped-off Bach
Hamill is an utterly worthless tool.
Just yesterday I thought about J.K. Rowlings and the societal reasons for Brexit (cf. Robert Putnum – there is a region of too much diversity). Her novel Casual Vacancy speaks quite a lot of such tensions and problems – and not least about the diversity-inclinded deteriortion of (the) underclass (girls); she seems to understand some important things. And such insights cause trouble these days…
Such women can often be found with a generalised contempt and fear of men and 'TERFs' are just essentially feminists who resent men and thus don't feel any empathy for transgendered men, rather they hate them even more. That's the crux of the issue, TERFs aren't saying 'this is terrible, we're hurting all these people with these maladaptive coping mechanisms because you can't change your sex', they're saying 'you're still a man you creep and a potential rapist!'. It's the tone of hatred that is the main issue but it's also what helps them say these things in public. You can see this too in other critiques that seem only concerned with it as a form of 'conversion therapy' for gays and lesbians, as if the problem with mutilating a child is that you're potentially doing it to a gay or lesbian child.
In every other way Rowling is a ridiculous SJW stereotype.Replies: @Silva, @Dieter Kief, @Jane Plain
But is it “steep”?
I remember the story was he threatened to declare personal bankruptcy to make a deal with his creditors.
Yes, clearly a mistake that requires an apology and penance.
And a boot to the face.
Forever.
By Harry and St. Trans!
We can’t have that. LGBT advocates have the total right to rest assured that their freewheeling ideas (Whatever they are today. Praise be!) are accepted completely, in Room 101 style, by anyone, anywhere at any time.
War is Peace
Funny Money is Wealth
Russia is the Enemy
Furries are Animals.
Ah, Ms. Rowling is finally getting it. Fluidity is not her friend.
For a a few years now, I've deemed no SJW worth saving, since they don't believe in fair play, reciprocation, playing by the rules, etc. When Franken got attacked, I laughed and helped them. Same here.
Let the lefties be hoisted on their own petard.Replies: @Simon Tugmutton
Agree completely.
Hope you don’t mind another pedantic intervention on this thread (besides ‘slight’), but she has been hoisted by her own petard.
I think the science will support Maya Forstater. Here’s her take.
https://medium.com/@MForstater/i-lost-my-job-for-speaking-up-about-womens-rights-2af2186ae84
if she can avoid the feminist overgeneralization of what caused her to take on the issue.
Well we know that apologizing to homofascist bullies only begets more harassment from them. Standing up to them, besides being on the side of truth, will encourage others to do the same.
It would be funny if she got the Morrissey treatment and she couldn’t advertise her books, bookshops wouldn’t display them etc.
Very few environments more PC than a bookshop (new books, that is – second hand is OK).
When the rightie Sun columnist Richard Littlejohn had his only novel, To Hell in a Handcart, released, it was almost impossible to find on bookshop shelves. I used to make a point of asking if they had it and the reactions were as if I’d asked for the Illustrated Mein Kampf Special Oak Leaf Cluster Edition.
I hope she pushes back, she certainly never has to sell another book.
But it’s poetic justice. Let the SJW fall into the pit she dug for other people!
Mein Kampf Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. Nothing special about them.
Don't know if they were Quercus robur or Quercus petraea though.
GLAAD is influential with the NYT, fearful big Corp and sociology majors it’s not influential beyond that. The vast majority of people would agree with JK and the woman fired.
I hope JK doesn’t apologize. Let the weirdos rage.
I think it’s simpler. Rowling is the kind of woman who finds abusive men attractive, has bad experiences with them and develops a kind of hyper fear of them because she doesn’t understand that not all men are like that, you can imagine if everyone in the opposite sex you were ever enamoured with abused you, it’d potentially warp your perspective. Her first husband and father of her child was a Spanish man who beat her regularly enough that she left him back in Spain and took her daughter back home with her to essentially live off her parents. By incredible luck the book she spent all her spare time writing actually made money. (Otherwise it might be a perfect story of terrible life choices and irresponsibility)
Such women can often be found with a generalised contempt and fear of men and ‘TERFs’ are just essentially feminists who resent men and thus don’t feel any empathy for transgendered men, rather they hate them even more. That’s the crux of the issue, TERFs aren’t saying ‘this is terrible, we’re hurting all these people with these maladaptive coping mechanisms because you can’t change your sex’, they’re saying ‘you’re still a man you creep and a potential rapist!’. It’s the tone of hatred that is the main issue but it’s also what helps them say these things in public. You can see this too in other critiques that seem only concerned with it as a form of ‘conversion therapy’ for gays and lesbians, as if the problem with mutilating a child is that you’re potentially doing it to a gay or lesbian child.
In every other way Rowling is a ridiculous SJW stereotype.
I did not know about the Portugese mishaps of Ms. Rowling. She is a tough cooky. Hasn't she had one the biggest literary hits in the history of GB? I mean - kudos!
(I have not read but maybe 50 Harry Potter pages. And then, and then, and then, and then... - But, as I said: Casual Vacancy is great. It is one of my top-ten books in the anglosphere after the war. No. 1 is Alan Sillitoes The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. I want this one to be in my coffin when the day comes.
The comments in WaPo, where they ban anyone to the right of Alyssa Milano, are 90% in support of biology.
Part of the problem with theys is theys' main tactic is to hector and annoy anyone who won't refer to them as they. All from some dude with blue hair or a lesbian wearing a bowtie. Annoyance Activism, so popular with liberals these days, very shortly reaches the stage of diminishing returns.Replies: @tono bungay, @SunBakedSuburb
Perhaps the comments are sane, but the reporters clearly swallow the whole pro-trans business. I was quite struck by the evident support they showed for the progressive team.
I’m in love!
From Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”
FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me ‘Loretta’.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It’s my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But… you can’t have babies.
LORETTA: Don’t you oppress me.
REG: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: crying
JUDITH: Here! I– I’ve got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can’t actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans’, but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What’s the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c
Vox’s article about this was hilarious.
As ridiculous as trannies are, they are like straight-faced Monty Python barbarian-army within the gates of PC.Replies: @keypusher
OK, but the Judean People’s Front couldn’t get you fired for calling them the People’s Front of Judea.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/19/jk-rowling-trans-row-court-ruling-twitter-maya-forstater
The judge saying that calling these trans people with male genitals men when they have transitioned to women is whatever word salad they wrote is telling. It is telling that there is power behind this stupidity. It is power which cannot be fought face to face and will have to be subverted one carefully composed comment at a time.
I applaud J. K. Rowling on twitter and I don't like Rowling and I don't like twitter but I applaud it nevertheless. Anonymously here on the internet. Out there in the real world I will be keeping this to myself.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
That’s the problem right there.
I hope she pushes back, she certainly never has to sell another book. But it's poetic justice. Let the SJW fall into the pit she dug for other people!Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Verymuchalive, @Desiderius
LOL!
Has he apologized for The Last Jedi yet?
Come on, that would be like asking Peter Dinklage to apologize for having no good dialog in the last two seasons of Game of Thrones.
Non-cock Bach rock?
http://i.imgur.com/qdweVpP.pngReplies: @Alan Mercer
I think knowledge acquired goes on the horizontal axis and effort on the vertical. It violates the graphing instincts of anyone who’s taken physics (independent var = t), but uses a terrain metaphor (steeper = harder).
“We are women, and if you don’t accept it we’re gonna kick your ass, harass you and/or drive you out of business!”
Very feminine!
God help any poor soul who ever has to face a “tribunal.” We’ll be getting more than our share of those here in the US soon enough. Conveniently located below your local Ministry of Love
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/475333-iowa-man-sentenced-to-16-years-for-hate-crime-after-setting-pride-flag
OT, magic dirt is real:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/astonishing-medical-potential-soil-northern-ireland-graveyard-180973741/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
The New Woke Code of Chivalry dictates we must promote White Male, Black Female couples incessantly in media and ads — basically, a high status White Prince selects a Black damsel over some evil White and Asian stepsister bitches. The Black girl fulfills her Princess Fantasy, while the White guy gets to demonstrate his Woke noblesse oblige with his penis.
Case in point. Go to youtube and search “interracial couple.” The top results tend to be about WMBF couples. The same pattern repeats itself in many commercials selling aspirational products. As it turns out, you cannot have a cellphone commercial without a WMBF couple. And if Peloton had used a Mixed Race Black Girl they would have likely saved themselves a PR headache.
The real subtext of Steve’s “Let’s Talk About My Hair” articles is that homelier minority women are trying to pretty themselves up for their high status White prince, or at least, fend off his evil twin, Count Haven Monahan. It’s very much like a kinky-haired version of Rapunzel, but where Rapunzel fumes on Woke Twitter during her down time.
Normalizing Asian women as the proper mates for White men means you have already chugged the race mixing kool aid.
Most of the blacks-killed-by-cops stories, for instance, don't pan out when you look at the facts. The "He was no angel" syndrome. But nobody cares ... until months later when nobody is paying attention. By that point protestors have reaped the benefits of the initial outrage and are on to the latest incident.
So it delights me to read lame attempts to quote the judicial opinion on this woman's firing or to dip into the fact record to try to slime her. Nobody cares. I don't know what is true, and I don't care. I'm just happy that people are jumping on it and using this decision as a cudgel against the tranny movement.Replies: @Glaivester
I think it is a good idea to apply the same standard to reporter Kathy Scruggs’ sex life.
See the Richard Jewell movie!
Humorous, but inaccurate. (1)
When Trump businesses have been through bankruptcies, he lost money along with other investors. He personally lost over $10MM during the first corporate Chapter 11 filing when he had to back some personal guarantees.
⏫ TRUMP 2020 ⏫
______________
(1) https://www.thesimpledollar.com/credit/bankruptcy/donald-trump-bankruptcies-corporate-and-personal-debt/
We don’t spell it that way over here either, FYI. Anyway, it’s “sleight”, as in “sly”-ness: see “high” / “height” by way of analogy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/british-academic-wants-ban-insults-nerd-and-geek-hate-crimes
Ironically, can’t one turn into the opposite sex using polyjuice potion and various spells in the Potterverse? I suppose one is not really what one has changed into because magick.
That’s a good piece. Thanks for linking it. I’ll add some more in the most recent relevant thread.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/latino-littering-denialists-draw-this-line-in-the-sand/
Worth mentioning that he links an iSteve post on the topic from a year ago.
JK Rowling is right. You can’t change sex.
Race, on the other hand, can be switched overnight.
London 1. (I think Ron should get a paternity test here.)
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/HP_20558_Weasley_Granger_FL.jpg
London 2.
https://www.whatsonstage.com/s/wos-photos-production/114911.jpg
San Fransisco
https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/potter-1010-03.jpg?w=620
New York cast. (Again, it's weird they don't even cast mixed race girls to be her daughter)
https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/04.-hpcc_grangerweasleyfamily_photo-by-matthew-murphy.jpg?w=2000&h=2000
Melbourne. (A funny reminder of how few black people there are in Australia that they couldn't cast as dark as they apparently prefer)
https://media.timeout.com/images/105286179/630/472/image.jpgReplies: @Reg Cæsar
Bill in GlendaleReplies: @Abe
Which suggests she has serious man issues- basically is scared of them, if her fantasy male hero-protector figure is a big soft lavender teddy bear.
I think this is why there is more pushback against World War T down at Airstrip One- based on my cursory observations, British women are more often nakedly misandrist than American women and therefore a bit less likely to meekly submit to a trans agenda obviously against their own obvious interests (trans men in female sports, etc.)
Maya Forstater is right.
Hope you don't mind another pedantic intervention on this thread (besides 'slight'), but she has been hoisted by her own petard.Replies: @Dieter Kief
If there’d be a nice buton, I wouldn’t have commented.
⏫ TRUMP 2020 ⏫
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(1) https://www.thesimpledollar.com/credit/bankruptcy/donald-trump-bankruptcies-corporate-and-personal-debt/Replies: @Reg Cæsar
The lady I was dating in those days worked for a legal publisher, as did my future wife. It’s quite possible both knew more about this than I did!
The comments in WaPo, where they ban anyone to the right of Alyssa Milano, are 90% in support of biology.
Part of the problem with theys is theys' main tactic is to hector and annoy anyone who won't refer to them as they. All from some dude with blue hair or a lesbian wearing a bowtie. Annoyance Activism, so popular with liberals these days, very shortly reaches the stage of diminishing returns.Replies: @tono bungay, @SunBakedSuburb
“The comments in WaPo”
Woke Feminists v. Deviant Men. The cannibalization continues.
Belatedly discovered that Steve had already linked it in his Twitter feed.
Hopefully Unz picks up on it.
“What a clusterfuck.”
Watching these crazed numbskulls rip themselves asunder is extremely enjoyable. Will Western culture survive this civil war? Probably.
Haven’t Miss America contestants been showing the effects of hydrogen peroxide for decades?
Does FU money exist anymore?
A lot of the big banks are woke at the highest levels. We’re not there yet, but I can see a day when the CEO of Chase, Citi, or BoA orders a wealthy conservative’s funds frozen because they find that person’s views unacceptable.
Race, on the other hand, can be switched overnight.Replies: @Altai
No, you’ve got it all wrong, Hermione was always meant to be black.
London 1. (I think Ron should get a paternity test here.)
London 2.
San Fransisco
New York cast. (Again, it’s weird they don’t even cast mixed race girls to be her daughter)
Melbourne. (A funny reminder of how few black people there are in Australia that they couldn’t cast as dark as they apparently prefer)
https://i.etsystatic.com/7745761/r/il/ddfebf/1881336841/il_794xN.1881336841_gnjx.jpg
I read that she took refuge in Scotland with her sister.
But it’s true her parents were well-heeled and the story of her being “a single mum on benefits” is accurate but in essence untrue.
She went to a fancy private school, and was head girl. She was rejected from Oxford, but only the top students ever even apply.
“By incredible luck the book she spent all her spare time writing actually made money.”
I do wonder what the real story of the Harry Potter saga is. The one that we’ve been fed is that the child of one of the agents who was going to reject it saw the manuscript, read it, and loved it. If you believe that story I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
By the way, I just saw a Facebook billboard promising that there was a group for "everyone" -- if they're advertising, they must be hurting, and how are they pledging to purge more and more people every day if there's so much room?Replies: @Jane Plain, @TheMediumIsTheMassage
A publisher informed Rod McKuen at an event that there was no longer a market for poetry. He was crestfallen, and asked the man of the 40,000 self-published copies he sold out of the trunk of his car was the best he could hope for.
40,000, you say? He was in print in no time, and sold millions.
Hollywood wisdom:
https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-nobody-knows-anything-william-goldman-11-24-79.jpgReplies: @Jane Plain, @Jane Plain
The not very original thought occurs that a lot of Harry Potter readers are probably a bit mentally unbalanced or kinda fresh & green-tinted and live in gaybow-colored liberalo-world and the attendant online bubbles most of the time.
They will be REALLY REALLY upset.
Harry Potter is supposed to have been a cultural engineering project by a British Blairite think tank. Rowling wrote it the same way Zuckerberg invented Facebook.
By the way, I just saw a Facebook billboard promising that there was a group for “everyone” — if they’re advertising, they must be hurting, and how are they pledging to purge more and more people every day if there’s so much room?
I'd need some proof before I believe this.
The story goes that poor little single mum on benefits wrote the first Harry Potter book after she took refuge with her sister in Scotland, fleeing an abusive marriage. I don't doubt that she wrote the book and at the time Rowling was indeed a single mother living in straightened circumstances.
BUT, she came from an upper middle-class home and went to U of Exeter. She went to a "mixed comp" school, not a public school, my bad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyedean_School
But was "head girl," which is a singular honor.
She wasn't some poor kid from a Council Estate (the projects, in American English).
Further, I don't believe the "literary agent's kid fished the manuscript out of the reject pile" story, either.
But until I get proof that she didn't write the Potter series, I'll call your bluff and say you are spreading fertilizer. So show your hand.Replies: @J.Ross
There are a zillion fantasy novels published every year and most of them don't amount to anything. Rowling happened to write a better than average one that came at the right time and, yes, probably had connections with publishing and the press that allowed it to gain an initial audience, but I don't think it was a vast conspiracy, as much as any entertainment product attaining prominence is a conspiracy (read: organized effort).
A lot of the big banks are woke at the highest levels. We're not there yet, but I can see a day when the CEO of Chase, Citi, or BoA orders a wealthy conservative's funds frozen because they find that person's views unacceptable.Replies: @J.Ross
Supposedly when Tom Monahan had his big idea to locate Domino’s Pizza franchises close to or on military bases and, a few hours later, became wealthy, the first real Wealthy Person thing that happened was a mafia-like meeting with other wealthy people regarding what he was allowed to do. He avoided their society after that. Of course the folks who are already wealthy have their little projects and concerns, and will act to protect them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Gill#Philanthropy_and_political_action
Such women can often be found with a generalised contempt and fear of men and 'TERFs' are just essentially feminists who resent men and thus don't feel any empathy for transgendered men, rather they hate them even more. That's the crux of the issue, TERFs aren't saying 'this is terrible, we're hurting all these people with these maladaptive coping mechanisms because you can't change your sex', they're saying 'you're still a man you creep and a potential rapist!'. It's the tone of hatred that is the main issue but it's also what helps them say these things in public. You can see this too in other critiques that seem only concerned with it as a form of 'conversion therapy' for gays and lesbians, as if the problem with mutilating a child is that you're potentially doing it to a gay or lesbian child.
In every other way Rowling is a ridiculous SJW stereotype.Replies: @Silva, @Dieter Kief, @Jane Plain
Not Spanish, Portuguese. Which finally explains to me why Slytherin’s first name was “Salazar”, thanks.
Case in point. Go to youtube and search “interracial couple.” The top results tend to be about WMBF couples. The same pattern repeats itself in many commercials selling aspirational products. As it turns out, you cannot have a cellphone commercial without a WMBF couple. And if Peloton had used a Mixed Race Black Girl they would have likely saved themselves a PR headache.
The real subtext of Steve’s “Let’s Talk About My Hair” articles is that homelier minority women are trying to pretty themselves up for their high status White prince, or at least, fend off his evil twin, Count Haven Monahan. It’s very much like a kinky-haired version of Rapunzel, but where Rapunzel fumes on Woke Twitter during her down time.Replies: @Rubaiyat
“basically, a high status White Prince selects a Black damsel over some evil White and Asian stepsister bitches”
Normalizing Asian women as the proper mates for White men means you have already chugged the race mixing kool aid.
FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It's my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But... you can't have babies.
LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.
REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: crying
JUDITH: Here! I-- I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What's the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality."Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Here’s the scene. A transcript doesn’t do it justice.
SPLITTER!!
They will be REALLY REALLY upset.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
I thought they were 9 to 12 years old, usually too young to be mentally unhinged.
Iowa man sentenced to 16 years for after setting Pride flag on fire
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/475333-iowa-man-sentenced-to-16-years-for-hate-crime-after-setting-pride-flag
Such women can often be found with a generalised contempt and fear of men and 'TERFs' are just essentially feminists who resent men and thus don't feel any empathy for transgendered men, rather they hate them even more. That's the crux of the issue, TERFs aren't saying 'this is terrible, we're hurting all these people with these maladaptive coping mechanisms because you can't change your sex', they're saying 'you're still a man you creep and a potential rapist!'. It's the tone of hatred that is the main issue but it's also what helps them say these things in public. You can see this too in other critiques that seem only concerned with it as a form of 'conversion therapy' for gays and lesbians, as if the problem with mutilating a child is that you're potentially doing it to a gay or lesbian child.
In every other way Rowling is a ridiculous SJW stereotype.Replies: @Silva, @Dieter Kief, @Jane Plain
Casual Vacancy is a great novel. It is not resentful against men at all! But it is pretty aware of the societal disruptions, which too much diversity causes, not least for underclass teenagers. – I’ve read it some seven five years ago, becoming more and more astonished about the quality and social insights of Casual Vacancy. And this Rowling-novel still keeps my mind busy. Which – I hope you don’t mind, that I argue now strictly from my subjective point of view – is outstanding (does not happen that often), and – I admit it again – is for me personally a sign of a good hunch of literary value of this (quite underrated) novel. To put it even more bluntly: This is a great book, not least for people who know about Rotherham et. al. – and maybe for those who don’t even more so…
I did not know about the Portugese mishaps of Ms. Rowling. She is a tough cooky. Hasn’t she had one the biggest literary hits in the history of GB? I mean – kudos!
(I have not read but maybe 50 Harry Potter pages. And then, and then, and then, and then… – But, as I said: Casual Vacancy is great. It is one of my top-ten books in the anglosphere after the war. No. 1 is Alan Sillitoes The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. I want this one to be in my coffin when the day comes.
Ricky Gervais’ comment hits the Transgender-nail on its very head! – Great – big laugh, too!
You mean like this?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Gill#Philanthropy_and_political_action
The horizontal axis is attempts or time and the vertical is portion of the given skill set learned. The curve asymptotically approaches 100%. The steeper the learning curve, the easier a subject is to learn.
I hope she pushes back, she certainly never has to sell another book. But it's poetic justice. Let the SJW fall into the pit she dug for other people!Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Verymuchalive, @Desiderius
Get it Right, Man.
Mein Kampf Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves. Nothing special about them.
Don’t know if they were Quercus robur or Quercus petraea though.
By the way, I just saw a Facebook billboard promising that there was a group for "everyone" -- if they're advertising, they must be hurting, and how are they pledging to purge more and more people every day if there's so much room?Replies: @Jane Plain, @TheMediumIsTheMassage
“cultural engineering project”
I’d need some proof before I believe this.
The story goes that poor little single mum on benefits wrote the first Harry Potter book after she took refuge with her sister in Scotland, fleeing an abusive marriage. I don’t doubt that she wrote the book and at the time Rowling was indeed a single mother living in straightened circumstances.
BUT, she came from an upper middle-class home and went to U of Exeter. She went to a “mixed comp” school, not a public school, my bad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyedean_School
But was “head girl,” which is a singular honor.
She wasn’t some poor kid from a Council Estate (the projects, in American English).
Further, I don’t believe the “literary agent’s kid fished the manuscript out of the reject pile” story, either.
But until I get proof that she didn’t write the Potter series, I’ll call your bluff and say you are spreading fertilizer. So show your hand.
I'd need some proof before I believe this.
The story goes that poor little single mum on benefits wrote the first Harry Potter book after she took refuge with her sister in Scotland, fleeing an abusive marriage. I don't doubt that she wrote the book and at the time Rowling was indeed a single mother living in straightened circumstances.
BUT, she came from an upper middle-class home and went to U of Exeter. She went to a "mixed comp" school, not a public school, my bad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyedean_School
But was "head girl," which is a singular honor.
She wasn't some poor kid from a Council Estate (the projects, in American English).
Further, I don't believe the "literary agent's kid fished the manuscript out of the reject pile" story, either.
But until I get proof that she didn't write the Potter series, I'll call your bluff and say you are spreading fertilizer. So show your hand.Replies: @J.Ross
You probably believe that the working hours “impeachment rallies” hyped through the lyingpress were spontaneous and genuine, or that recently liberated Kuwaitis lining streets for American soldiers happened to each have miniature American flags to wave because, even under Iraqi occupation, Kuwaitis are the world’s most passionate and industrious vexillologists. Every minute you are targeted by a million focus group tested nonsensical lies and it is adulthood, not paranoia, to swat most of it away like Prince Philip (who by the way is still alive).
I just want to know whether you have any evidence that JK Rowling didn't write the Harry Potter books.
Stop deflecting. What evidence do you have?Replies: @J.Ross
So, when you go to a pageant/beauty contest they judge your beauty? Shocker! Absolutely shocking and disgusting behavior.
If she wants to show her smarts why doesn’t she go to chemistry or physics contest instead of showing elementary school tricks?
Then there’s Lola the 5700 year old women which was determined by her DNA from pre-historic chewing gum.
https://www.livescience.com/ancient-chewing-gum-reconstructs-lola.html
Ricky Gervais is a funny guy, Dieter. See his British version (original) of The Office or a movie set in NY City called Ghost Town.
There is a scientific way to determine a person’s sex with certainty: that person’s chomosomes.
Is a person male or female, or is the person mentally ill?
There is no need for Orwellian verbal gymnastics.
Has he apologized for The Last Jedi yet?
Come on, that would be like asking Peter Dinklage to apologize for having no good dialog in the last two seasons of Game of Thrones.
I hope she pushes back, she certainly never has to sell another book. But it's poetic justice. Let the SJW fall into the pit she dug for other people!Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Verymuchalive, @Desiderius
In the unlikely event she stands her ground she’ll be the pit and those after her the ones taking the fall.
If you don't mind - have a look at comments No. 49 & 103.Replies: @Desiderius, @Jane Plain
London 1. (I think Ron should get a paternity test here.)
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/HP_20558_Weasley_Granger_FL.jpg
London 2.
https://www.whatsonstage.com/s/wos-photos-production/114911.jpg
San Fransisco
https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/potter-1010-03.jpg?w=620
New York cast. (Again, it's weird they don't even cast mixed race girls to be her daughter)
https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/04.-hpcc_grangerweasleyfamily_photo-by-matthew-murphy.jpg?w=2000&h=2000
Melbourne. (A funny reminder of how few black people there are in Australia that they couldn't cast as dark as they apparently prefer)
https://media.timeout.com/images/105286179/630/472/image.jpgReplies: @Reg Cæsar
That girl’s hairstyle– they’ll be hearing from Disney’s lawyers!
You think she plagiarized it? From whom?
Why? That sort of thing happens all the time. Virginia Lee Burton tested everything she wrote on her own sons. Why would an agent or editor or anyone else be a better judge of what children would like than an actual child? In the marketing world, they call this “testing”.
A publisher informed Rod McKuen at an event that there was no longer a market for poetry. He was crestfallen, and asked the man of the 40,000 self-published copies he sold out of the trunk of his car was the best he could hope for.
40,000, you say? He was in print in no time, and sold millions.
Hollywood wisdom:
No, I never said that and I never implied it.
Please read the comment to which I was responding.
No, it’s more likely that American men are less chivalrous and thus less likely to defend women from the trannies. Women aren’t going to risk their livelihoods and physical safety without someone stronger to back them up.
> not going to "risk their livelihoods and physical safety" unless there is a male defender
> "he attacked that tranny, what a disgusting nazi. give me money to heal"Nietzsche was RIGHT about women.
A publisher informed Rod McKuen at an event that there was no longer a market for poetry. He was crestfallen, and asked the man of the 40,000 self-published copies he sold out of the trunk of his car was the best he could hope for.
40,000, you say? He was in print in no time, and sold millions.
Hollywood wisdom:
https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-nobody-knows-anything-william-goldman-11-24-79.jpgReplies: @Jane Plain, @Jane Plain
“You think she plagiarized it? From whom?”
No, I never said that and I never implied it.
Please read the comment to which I was responding.
I agree about the eventual triumph of science.
But, in the Cnut story, the king was on the side of reality and contemptuous of empty rhetoric. There’s no doubt where he would stand on the transgender issue.
We would be lucky to have someone like Cnut as king again: no hope of that with the current heir, or either of Diana’s sons.
Wait – and we’ll see! – – – She is tough.
If you don’t mind – have a look at comments No. 49 & 103.
If I'm wrong, whatever, but we'll see.Replies: @anon
Thanks! – so, Ricky Gervais’ brilliant tweet is quite like the man = his tweet the man in a virtual nutshell, hehe! – I’ ll have a look!
> strong wymen who don’t need no man
> not going to “risk their livelihoods and physical safety” unless there is a male defender
> “he attacked that tranny, what a disgusting nazi. give me money to heal”
Nietzsche was RIGHT about women.
They want to dictate what *we* call them. And they want to shame for being disgusted by the thought of sleeping with them.Replies: @speider
Hear, hear!
Real, i.e. natal female, lesbians have felt the brunt of boys in dresses for years. Check out the website “TERF is a slur” for pages and pages of examples of their deranged thinking. For those whose sense of humor tends to the ridiculous, I recommend the YouTube channel of boy-in-a-dress “some women have penises” Riley J. Dennis, replete with bouncing Adam’s apple. His (!) view, in sum, is that sexual preference is socially conditioned and that if a lesbian won’t “date” (have sex with) _him_, while not being an actual bigot, she definitely has “transphobia” issues (“nobody falls in love with genitalia,” yada, yada, yada).
For their part, juiced and mastectomized bearded ladies (i.e. trans “men”) have not been as much on the radar screen of most actual gay men. This has not stopped self-appointed gay church ladies from decrying honestly held preferences “for guys with outdoor plumbing” as – wait for it – “transphobic”. There is a difference between being fearful and being grossed out. I make no internet recommendation for examples, out of respect for my fellow men. After all, what is seen cannot be unseen. Proceed with caution. You have been warned.
If you don't mind - have a look at comments No. 49 & 103.Replies: @Desiderius, @Jane Plain
I have. It is entirely possible that the movies have poisoned my appreciation of the books, but I doubt it. I’ll put her novel #177 on my list of books to read once I put down this phone. Was supposed to be my 50th birthday, will try again at New Years.
Gervais is replying to a parody acct. Unclear if he’s knowingly doing so.
https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1208093175941914625?s=21
luvmate.https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/sleightShould Dickie Brandon have Frau Fortstater dismissed, she ought to seek employment with our Selective Service System. "Gender" is still a non-issue with them, as it should be with everyone. They still go by sex.More common sense:How does our debt compare to our net worth?Replies: @WowJustWow, @Bubba, @HallParveyAnd all 26 eat, sleep and breathe just like all the other seven billion of us. And develop health problems as they age.
The poorest person in the western world, today, lives better than the kings of most of the past. And those who are in the poorest places on earth are alive because of the surpluses of the western world. Crumbs from the rich mans table.
Wherever man has conquered,
On the quest for frontiers new,
I'm glad that he's always had to do
The number one and two.
It makes it all so ordinary,
Just like you and me,
To know the greatest heroes,
They had to shit and pee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iab9YKocUcw
A publisher informed Rod McKuen at an event that there was no longer a market for poetry. He was crestfallen, and asked the man of the 40,000 self-published copies he sold out of the trunk of his car was the best he could hope for.
40,000, you say? He was in print in no time, and sold millions.
Hollywood wisdom:
https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-nobody-knows-anything-william-goldman-11-24-79.jpgReplies: @Jane Plain, @Jane Plain
I was responding to “J. Ross” who implied that Rowling didn’t write her books.
I’ve never thought, said or implied anything like that. Of course she wrote the Potter series.
I question the story about the agent. “That sort of thing happens all the time.” No, your example isn’t the same thing.
“Virginia Lee Burton tested everything she wrote on her own sons. Why would an agent or editor or anyone else be a better judge of what children would like than an actual child? In the marketing world, they call this “testing”.”
Yes, and Burton was smart to do that. So then why didn’t the agent just give the MS to his kids and ask them what they thought? It’s that little accidental twist combined with the dishonesty about her background that makes me suspicious.
I don’t know about UK but for years she was marketed in the US as a “single mum on benefits.” Not one year ago I explained the scam to an acquaintance and she was dumbfounded.
To any American, “single mum on benefits” means comes from a poor or working-class background, EBT, AFDC, low educational attainment.
I explained that she was an upper middle-class girl from a high earning family, mom was some kind of scientist and dad was some kind of engineer. Explained about being rejected from Oxford, going to U of Exeter (good school), explained what a “head girl” was, the works. Explained that it’s easy to get bennies in UK, she was just on the lam from a bad marriage and didn’t want to go home to daddy because she hated him.
Acquaintance was actually angry that she’d believed all the BS, now called fake news, about Rowling.
I am not detracting from her accomplishment as a writer. She wrote those books, she deserves her success. But when you get suspicious of one part of the image, you get suspicious of all of them.
If you don't mind - have a look at comments No. 49 & 103.Replies: @Desiderius, @Jane Plain
I’m putting my two cents on Rowling stands her ground.
If I’m wrong, whatever, but we’ll see.
Sure hope so, just for the lolz. Feminist online catfights are fun to watch!
George
How is Title IX handling this? Can men apply for women’s NCAA sports? Can they demand scholarships based on their superior performance?
Sure hope so! Watching feminist catfights in uni over gibs would be even MOAR fun!
He knew it’s a parody account. Check his tweets:
How is Title IX handling this? Can men apply for women’s NCAA sports? Can they demand scholarships based on their superior performance?
A transgender man talks about their scholarship.
Even though I was feeling so bad, it was very hard for me to build up enough courage to say anything, because I was afraid that other people wouldn’t accept me. After freshmen year I told my
closest teammates that I identify as a guy. At first they laughed and thought it was a joke, and I
couldn’t bring myself to correct them. But over time, it got to the point where it was unbearable
to keep living like this. For a while I felt like I had to choose between playing basketball or quitting
to transition into the person I want to become. But I didn’t want to walk out on playing a game
that I love, and that has afforded me a full scholarship to pay for my education. So I finally beg
https://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/Transgender_Handbook_2011_Final.pdf
Not only that they want to force us to believe that 2+2 = 5, they now insist that that it is a scientific fact that 2+2 make 5. If you disagree they want to toss you in jail. This is exactly what this illiterate judge has done in the UK. God, where on earth are the scientists and the smart lawyers? To show up this judge for the illiterate and tyrant he/she is should be a cakewalk. Aren’t there biological and genetic tests that can show the real sex of a person as opposed to gender fantasies?
If I'm wrong, whatever, but we'll see.Replies: @anon
I’m putting my two cents on Rowling stands her ground.
Sure hope so, just for the lolz. Feminist online catfights are fun to watch!
George
How is Title IX handling this? Can men apply for women’s NCAA sports? Can they demand scholarships based on their superior performance?
Sure hope so! Watching feminist catfights in uni over gibs would be even MOAR fun!
I don’t believe any of that stuff.
I just want to know whether you have any evidence that JK Rowling didn’t write the Harry Potter books.
Stop deflecting. What evidence do you have?
It’s all a matter of huwomenity.
By the way, I just saw a Facebook billboard promising that there was a group for "everyone" -- if they're advertising, they must be hurting, and how are they pledging to purge more and more people every day if there's so much room?Replies: @Jane Plain, @TheMediumIsTheMassage
A cultural engineering project to what ends?
There are a zillion fantasy novels published every year and most of them don’t amount to anything. Rowling happened to write a better than average one that came at the right time and, yes, probably had connections with publishing and the press that allowed it to gain an initial audience, but I don’t think it was a vast conspiracy, as much as any entertainment product attaining prominence is a conspiracy (read: organized effort).
Hubris? Watership Down was sold to teens in the UK, and to grownups in America.
Miss Rowling herself sharply rebuked Rush Limbaugh for using her as a model of someone who worked her way out of poverty. Stephen King would have been a better example, but he agrees with her, not Rush.
I see the New York Times have corrected this error, but I can’t help thinking that Mr. Stack wrote that as a subtle insult.
Lost a friend after I mocked Harry Potter. Maybe she and I will be on speaking terms again now. So that’s good.
“That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it.”
The poorest person in the western world, today, lives better than the kings of most of the past. And those who are in the poorest places on earth are alive because of the surpluses of the western world. Crumbs from the rich mans table.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Donovan covered this almost 50 years ago:
Wherever man has conquered,
On the quest for frontiers new,
I’m glad that he’s always had to do
The number one and two.
It makes it all so ordinary,
Just like you and me,
To know the greatest heroes,
They had to shit and pee.
I just want to know whether you have any evidence that JK Rowling didn't write the Harry Potter books.
Stop deflecting. What evidence do you have?Replies: @J.Ross
Class arrogance. Rowling “writing” the books is totally compatible with her having help. If her help came from think tank wonks, it lends a nudge attempt with an ideological edge, whether the nudge works or not. As far as where all of this was going, well, has your child been to tranny storytime lately?
You have no evidence.
Such women can often be found with a generalised contempt and fear of men and 'TERFs' are just essentially feminists who resent men and thus don't feel any empathy for transgendered men, rather they hate them even more. That's the crux of the issue, TERFs aren't saying 'this is terrible, we're hurting all these people with these maladaptive coping mechanisms because you can't change your sex', they're saying 'you're still a man you creep and a potential rapist!'. It's the tone of hatred that is the main issue but it's also what helps them say these things in public. You can see this too in other critiques that seem only concerned with it as a form of 'conversion therapy' for gays and lesbians, as if the problem with mutilating a child is that you're potentially doing it to a gay or lesbian child.
In every other way Rowling is a ridiculous SJW stereotype.Replies: @Silva, @Dieter Kief, @Jane Plain
“By incredible luck the book she spent all her spare time writing actually made money. (Otherwise it might be a perfect story of terrible life choices and irresponsibility)”
That’s an exaggeration. She didn’t make terrible life choices she made a few bad ones, have you?
Second, spending time writing a book that may or may not get published isn’t a bad life choice. It’s admirable.
Putting nearly 1800 comments on this website is unproductive and a much worse life choice.