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here's two articles about how JK Rowling just posted on X an upskirt photo of Freda Wallace, a transgender woman, after deadnaming her and misgendering her repeatedly online.

The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in

Rowling posted the picture taken from below because the trans woman, she said, was "refusing to debate me."

sailatina3

Thank you for posting without the fucking destiel meme

puppygirllaika

"X did nothing wrong" actually no, X did a lot of things wrong. X fucked up. But I also know that people like X live their lives under a microscope, and that accusations against them tend to get magnified by bias both conscious and unconscious alike, and frankly it scares the crap out of me that you have not only chosen not to question what you've heard, but that you are seeking such drastically disproportionate vengeance on a total stranger. that's not normal.

puppygirllaika

this post has generated a staggering number of comments/replies/asks all saying some version of "Nice try laundering your argument, but we all know you're talking about [specific person], and i hate you for defending them." and literally none of them have correctly identified who i was thinking about when I wrote this, but all of them have named a trans woman as said specific person.

crunchbuttsteak

Just finished reading "whipping girl"

It’s a good book.

10/10

Everybody, trans or cis, should read it.

heycallmered

people will really come into kink spaces and say you can't forcefem women like there wasn't a feature length movie about an elderly gay man forcefemming a woman as part of scheme to thwart an elaborate assassination attempt before the killer even determined their target

llama2237

What... What movie is this.

heycallmered

ain't no way in hell this post even breaks 500

marmoset-marmoset

i was trying so hard to remember the nonexistent assassination subplot in My Fair Lady

rneliflua

"shipping and blorbofication are not inherently at odds with understanding a story's deep themes" and "some people can't grasp the themes of a story because they never learned how to engage with stories outside of the lens of shipping and blorbofication" are two statements that can coexist

rneliflua

blorbofication to me is when you love a character in such a laser focus way that you somewhat detach them from the narrative from which they are inserted and treat them in a way roughly similar to how you'd treat an oc for which you still have no story and just like to put them in situations just for fun. which there's nothing wrong with btw, it's just that it can easily lead to people forgetting the character engine in a narrative and not just a barbie doll

kayla-denker

My roommate is transmasc. We were just talking about their reluctance to use the men's bathroom even as they "pass" more and more as a man, which is starting to cause people to give them concerning looks when they use the women's. They said they still use the women's because they feel more comfortable there. Which is fine, we shouldn't have gendered bathrooms anyway. But I told them "you might not feel as safe when you eventually get 'accused' of being a trans woman in the women's bathroom." To which they replied "oh, I'll lust lift my shirt and show them my mastectomy scars. That'll prove I belong in there."

Oh but "everyone is subjected to transmisogyny" (according to tMRA chuds, not my roommate), right?

This is the point of TME/TMA. This is why non-transfeminine people aren't subjected to transmisogyny.

I can't fall back on my AGAB to "prove I belong" in women's spaces.

life-onthe-murderscene

does your roommate go by solely they/them or are you degendering them because it sounds like they at least go by he/him

kayla-denker

Their pronouns are they/them. They will accept he/him, but prefer they/them.

What exactly made you confident enough to say "it sounds like they go by he/him," since I never once called them that or said that's what their pronouns are, I didn't even call them a trans man, because thats not how they identify. I said "transmasc."

kayla-denker

Ah, that would be what gave you the confidence....

possibly-evil

there are so many lines in I Saw The TV Glow that go so hard. "there is still time" is the one everyone talks abt, understandably. but also

"I found my heart, Isabel. I found yours too. And it was still beating."

like. even if you don't know it. your heart is still out there. YOU are still out there. it might be far away, on the other side of the tv screen, but it's still there. and it's still alive. it refuses to die.

support

One legitimately weird thing about Tumblr is that we literally can’t code for shit, many people quit working at Tumblr due to a hostile work environment, and we can’t seem to program a simple blogging website to not flood your RAM.

monopoison3r

nearing the 10 year anniversary of banishing editable reblogs

sailatina3

Very funny that the people who think bro/dude is not misgendering are the same people who think calling them "whiny" IS misgendering.

rattanwhip

What's in a name

facelessoldgargoyle

Can you tell me about worm?

girlballs

agnes digital giving you a delicious brownie that's secretly laced with the hrt that makes you an uma. call that an estrojan horse

crunchbuttsteak

A brief timeline of JK Rowling’s descent into TERFdom

As I’ve seen some misinformation floating around here, i thought i would provide a short timeline for JK Rowling’s terf arc. Not only is this a key resource against bad faith arguments, but can also provide an example as one of the most well-documented instances of TERF radicalization.

21 March, 2018: JK Rowling likes a tweet calling trans women “men in dresses.” A representative for Rowling calls it a “middle aged moment.” (Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jk-rolwing-transphobic-tweet_uk_5ab77230e4b054d118e3b789)

25 June, 2019: Rowling follows notorious transmisogynist Magdalen Berns on twitter (source: https://www.thepinknews.com/2019/06/25/jk-rowling-under-fire-following-transphobe-twitter/). Rowling later calls Berns “immensely brave young feminist and lesbian.”

20 December 2019: JK Rowling tweets in defense of Maya Forstater, whose employment contract was not renewed for deliberately misgendering her colleagues. (Source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/uk/jk-rowling-transgender-tweets-scli-intl-gbr/index.html)

22 May, 2020: Rowling likes another tweet by transmisogynist gay activist Fred Sergeant that attacks and deliberately misgenders trans woman Alex Drummond. (Source: https://www.nydailynews.com/2020/05/19/jk-rowling-likes-another-anti-transgender-tweet/)

6 June, 2020: Rowling tweets in response to an article with a headline that contains the phrase “people who menstruate,” suggesting that this phrasing is erasing women. This is the earliest example that could plausibly be seen as an attack on trans men.

10 June, 2020: JK Rowling publishes the TERF Wars essay on her website.

The modus operandi of TERFism is to attack and demonize trans women. Their “concerns” over trans men are there to provide rhetorical cover, a shallow justification after the fact.