rent-em-spoons

[garmbreak1]

“this information perpetuates a harmful narrative that–”

okay but is it fucking true?

[feotakahari]

“Is it true?” is an important question, but in some ways, it’s overvalued. The second question must be ”is it relevant?” Like when that immigrant accidentally shot that woman, and suddenly all the anti-immigration people could talk of nothing else. The fact he was an immigrant wasn’t relevant to why he fired the gun, but it was treated as relevant just because it was true.

[bees-and-mice-and-frogs-and]

Sometimes it’s not what you say, it’s what you don’t say. [The quiet part, not usually said aloud.]

A young woman was assaulted in the toilets by a transwoman! [Therefore all transwomen are dangerous predators.]

I was mugged by a black person the other day. [Therefore my racist fear of black people is justified, they’re all criminals.]

My female boss just passed me over for promotion again. [She’s reflective of all women being bitchy, bad managers.]

Oh, you don’t want to deal with that Jewish shop, they short changed me. [Cheating us, as they always do.]

When we add descriptors of people, we need to be careful of why they’re there. Sometimes it’s just adding a nice little detail about the person: my gay son, my Chinese son in law, my Jewish coworker. It might be relevant to the act you’re discussing (a Muslim coworker observing Ramadan for instance.) Sometimes, though, the inclusion of these identifiers isn’t necessary, and you’re using them to identify a group at large and pin the behaviour on the group, as in my above examples.

When someone does it, its well worth wondering: what is the quiet part they’re not saying?

There are people out there saying the quiet part aloud, and uh… Usually we don’t want to be associated with them, hence why people don’t say it. They dance around it, like the above.

[garmbreak1]

some of this is on me for vagueposting, I understand. I was thinking about a 99% Invisible episode where they talk about Dafen, the Chinese village where they make copies of other art pieces, where one of the narrators claimed that articles about it perpetuate a “harmful narrative” about modern day China being a little weak on the creativity side, without addressing whether that’s actually true or not. Obviously you could not have known that.

Is it an issue that I didn’t degender the driver that almost hit me the other day?

[bees-and-mice-and-frogs-and]

Meh, despite all I have to say on the issue I am also of the opinion it’s not that deep. For the most part in person to person interactions, nobody is implying anything by adding a bit more information (usually people just do it for verisimilitude.)

It’s more when people are saying stuff online or in the press you should really wonder what they’re not saying.

[garmbreak1]

Understandable.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

>Like when that immigrant accidentally shot that woman, and suddenly all the anti-immigration people could talk of nothing else. The fact he was an immigrant wasn’t relevant to why he fired the gun, but it was treated as relevant just because it was true. 

(Terms and conditions apply.) 

It was absolutely relevant to the fact that he was released by a sanctuary city even though the cops wanted him, which allowed him to steal someone’s gun and shoot a random woman by accident. 

And given that you left out “illegal” and call the other side “anti-immigrant”, I’d say you’re not exactly unbiased. 

“Is it true” is the most relevant question. “Is it relevant?” is a second order question.

>Sometimes it’s not what you say, it’s what you don’t say. [The quiet part, not usually said aloud.] 

Just say ’dog-whistles’, it’ll save everyone time.    

>I was mugged by a black person the other day. [Therefore my racist fear of black people is justified, they’re all criminals.] 

I find it interesting that you don’t contemplate the fact that such an incident could create a racist fear, even if the person knows it’s irrational and wrong. 

Not only are you making assumptions about people’s ‘real’ meaning, you’re viewing them in the most uncharitable light possible. 

If the black mugger shouted racial slurs at their victim during the crime, and the victim is non-black, the mugger’s race is actually relevant, because it might be a hate crime, and the victim may be warning their friend of the same race to stay away from that particular neighbourhood. 

Of course, it’s ironic that you chose this, when the press made a big deal out of hate crimes against Asians a year ago (?) without mentioning how they were unusually likely to be committed by black people.

[association-of-freed-people]

I like the BLM narrative that suggests the rioters were black people so it was genuine protest or it was okay.

There’s so much to unpack in this attitude.

1. The rioters weren’t uniformly or even majority black. Just by what was televised and recorded it was evident that white kids in the form of Antifa and white cons played a huge role in the firebombing and destruction of the areas that suffered most. There was plenty of documented minority resistance to the destruction of minority neighborhoods. These people may as well not exist according to advocates of the “fiery but peaceful” narrative.

2. The notion that it’s okay for black people to riot and destroy themselves and their economic prospects is racist as fuck and rooted in insidious white supremacy, not the media caricature of a torch carrying Brownshirt.

Anyone who espouses an opinion that evokes the bigotry of low expectations is revealing themselves. Listen to them closely. If they make excuses for people based on the color of their skin it tells you how they think of people generally and the stereotypes they embrace.

They are the Kelly Osbourne’s of the world who will ask “who do you think will clean your toilets” during a debate on the merits of open borders. Their racial bigotry is simmering just under the surface waiting to erupt and it’s completely integrated with their personality.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

The most disturbing thing about the new documentary “What Is A Woman?” is that this might not even be the most insane and irrational interview in it.

[bisexual-lemon1]

God you can look in Matt Walsh’s eye and see how much he wants to commit a hate crime

[minty-trash]

Fuck Matt Walsh. All of my homies hate Matt Walsh.

A woman is anyone who identifies as woman. Pushing any further than that would be transphobic.

Transphobes define women with “the ability to bear children” but… That’s not necessarily true. What about those who are infertile? Have been through menopause? Is your grandma no longer a woman because she physically can’t have children?

Then they’d go to the vagina definition, but that leaves out intersex people. They might have both forms of genitalia. They could have something entirely different. Trans women can have surgeries that would give them a vagina. At that point, do they become a woman in your eyes?

Sex and gender both exist on a spectrum, whether you like it or not. The best way to describe a woman is “anyone who identifies as a woman” because of that, and the fact that trans people exist.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

Q: What is a woman?

A.  A woman is anyone who identifies as woman.

Q. But what are they identifying AS?

A. A woman

Q. But what IS a woman?

A.  A woman is anyone who identifies as woman.

Q. But I don’t understand: what IS the thing they are identifying AS?

A.  A woman

Q. You keep saying that. But what does the word “woman” MEAN??

A.  A woman is anyone who identifies as woman.

[Repeat]

____

This is what is known as a circular definition and it’s just a merry-go-round of insanity: You can’t define a word by using the same word in the definition. That prevents anyone from knowing what you are talking about. It would be like someone hearing the word “spoon” for the first time:

Q: What is a “spoon”?

A. A spoon is anything someone says is a spoon.

Q. But I’ve never heard this word “spoon” before: what is this thing they are saying is a spoon?

A. A spoon is a spoon.

Q. But what IS that? What IS a spoon?

A. A spoon is anything someone says is a spoon.

The issue at hand is that it DOESN’T work. At all. You are embracing an absurd circular definition that is incapable of making any sense, because it is the only position you can take to support your ideological beliefs. Which also don’t make any sense.

[jibril-deactivated20190420]

[knowledgeequalsblackpower]

i scrolled passed this several times before actually reading it. i’m not used to two white men talking sense…

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Ignoring your clearly racist commentary, this is actually false. 

First off, many, if not most dishes that black slaves made were recipes brought over from Europe (France) and Canada. Black slaves didnt make gumbo and dredged fried Chicken in Africa, they learned it in the US. They were taught how to cook those meals in the first place. 

Second, Most southerners certainly weren’t rich. Most didn’t even own slaves. To say that they didnt know how to cook is very very wrong. Rich people may not have been knowledgeable about cooking but the majority middle and lower income families did. 

French Influence is a HUGE part of Southern Cooking. Creole cooking is an evolution from various immigrants. Actual diaries from black house slaves at the time very much confirmed that they were given recipes to go off of and taught how to cook for their slave owners. A vast majority of Africans, especially poor Africans captured and sold (by other Africans, remember) only really had knowledge on how to cook food from their specific culture, if that (as many cultures left cooking to the elderly, the women, etc.) 

To say that the food was just invented by black people is deeply dishonest. It is only something you say when you want certain groups to like you. 

-An educated black man with two culinary degrees who doesn’t blindly believe what people on television, who want you to like them, say. 

[gservator]

Honestly it’s like people who claim barbecue was invented by Black people, as if people haven’t been burning meat over charred wood for 10’s of thousands of years.

[uppermandible]

also, the staples of soul food, watermelon, fried chicken, cornbread, etc, were allsouthern foods before hand, due to cornmeal being more plentiful and cheapert than wheat flour, chickens being highly cost effective livestock, and watermelons being rediculously high-yield fruit. literally all southerners ate this stuff, even pigs feet, possum, etc. because most people in the south were poor, white and black alike.

black eyed peas became popular as people food only after General sherman burned literally every other crop on his way to the coast, forcing the (mostly white) people to live off them.

while we cannot ignore the contribution of black contributions to southern cuisine, it is simply false to claim that southern cuisine exists solely because of black people.

[gservator]

That is another great point.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Soul food itself, actual food that can be credited to black Americans (not all, but much of it), came from using scraps that slave owners didnt want. Braised greens can be credted to black people. Stewed chiterlings (pig intestines) can be attributed to black people (although other races such as native americans and norther mexicans also ate pig intestines in their own ways), and the like can be attribured to black people. But dredging marinated chicken in eggs and flour before frying was NOT invented by black people. Making soups and stews using roux was NOT invented by black people. Literally just putting pig meat with vegetables was NOT invented by black people. They were taught these things from slave owners and fellow slaves and servants (some of whom were certainly white) and simply worked to perfect and occasionally evolve those recipes.

To say otherwise ignores a ton of history and culture that was built by non African Immigrants and their home countries.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

People in the notes out there still thinkijg stuff like Gumbo and mac and cheese casserole were invented by Africans.

No.

Anything to appear #woke

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I’ve been trying to ignore how woke Alton Brown is, then I stumble across this post again.

[cannibal-rainbow]

“they” (1 word) is shorter than “he or she” (3 words)

“they” is more inclusive than “he/she”

“themself” flows more naturally than “him or herself”

“they” is less clunky than “(s)he”

it’s time to replace the awkward “she or he”

[edgar-allen-potpourri]

“hey can you go ask they what does they want for dinner, and when is they coming over to watch movies with they?”

[edrec]

“Hey, can you go ask them what they want for dinner, and when they’re coming over to watch movies?”

Step one is learning how to talk like a human person.

[anghraine]

Friendly reminder:

“I shouldn’t like to punish anyone, even if they’d done me wrong.” —George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“A person can’t help their birth.” —William Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)

“But to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“Every Fool can do as they’re bid.” —Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738)

“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” —King James Bible, Matthew 18:35 (transl. 1611)

“God send every one their heart’s desire!” —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (~1600)

“Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.” —Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia (1580)

“If … a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayne…” —William Bonde, The Pylgrimage of Perfection (1526)

“And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, / They wol come up and offre a Goddés name” —Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale (~1380)

“þan hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiȝt houndes alle heie wodes, / til þei neyȝþed so neiȝh to nymphe þe soþe [Then hastily hied each person on horse and on foot / hunting with hounds all the high woods / ‘til they came so near, to tell the truth]” —William and the Werwolf (transl. ~1350-1375)

“Bath ware made sun and mon, / Aiþer wit þer ouen light [Both were made sun and moon / Either with their own light]” —Cursor Mundi (~1325)

[advanced-procrastination]

We’ve been using they/them/their pronouns to indicate a person with unspecified gender for a long ass fucking time. The only reason it’s become a big issue lately is because it can be used as a semi-respectful term for trans and non-binary folks and we can’t have that can we

These fucks are literally trying to change our language to hurt trans/nb folks, and claiming that’s just the way its always been

[polyhorde]

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Singular “they” predates

Singular “you”

[cisnowflake]

This post has inspired me to misgender people more aggressively. Thank you.

[turtleduck-inc]

clowns over here really pretending that the pushback comes from language that has the capacity of addressing people respectfully and not the wannabe tyrants larping as revolutionaries trying to force everyone to speak exactly the way they want them to.

[beardedmrbean]

Anon that wanted me to look up John Cleese I'm gonna guess this is what you were on about.

I really liked this bit.

“You’re really going back,” interjected panel moderator Dan Pasternack. “This is getting so uncomfortable,” Velez interjected, asking, “[Is this the new] Dave Chappelle special?”

Sloan reportedly said, “I don’t want to have a struggle competition,” to which Cleese declared that he not only wanted reparations from Italy but also from France.

Really going back: How far back is too far back then, at what vintage do people lose the right to talk about this kind of thing?

This is getting so uncomfortable: I thought these kinds of conversations were supposed to be uncomfortable, or is it about who is feeling uncomfortable?

[wanderer-chronicles]

John Cleese responds to claim his mic was taken away after slavery joke

John Cleese has responded to reports that he had his microphone taken away at an onstage event after making comments about slavery.

John Cleese doubles down on slavery, reparations jokes amid backlash

During a panel discussion at SXSW, John Cleese told fellow comedian Dulcé Sloan, who is Black, that the British gave her "free passage" to t

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

John took their narrative and flipped the script.

People that uncomfortable with being confronted by their own logic being used against them are clearly not as secure as they say they are.

[association-of-freed-people]

“Backlash” for stating historical facts.

Crazy fucking times.

[xphilosoraptorx]

King

[shoujoboy-restart]

Didn't Britain already got their reparations by indebting the shit out of Portugal while stealing from Brazil to finance their industrial revolution? Like you guys rejected most of what the Romans provided when they colonised you a millennium ago while your entire economy and society was funded on the back of slavery in much less and more recently than that, plus continuing to do so by colonising other countries when you objectively didn't need do so and causing genocides and imperialism from the 18th and 19th on, acts which Britain said are big no-nos and everyone in the world should gang up against those who do so, two times, in WWI and WWII.

Reparations go to countries and communities that suffered excessive exploitation and aren't able to stand on their own because of that...which is not the case for Britain lol.

Funny joke and yass slay for calling out hypocriay, but your country literally cried for help from countries they oppressed for help on their "imperialism big no-no" narrative and immediately did just that after.

[problematiquebitch]

Honestly it will never cease to amaze me how white people will cry and ignore history in favor of making themselves the victim and hyper fixate on instances in which they experienced hardships as a gotcha when British imperialism and what Britain has done doesn't get zeroed in the way how it should and people get numb to it.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Sounds like a whole bunch of words to hand-wave away uncomfortable claims by attacking the people making them. I love how you used "hyper fixate", as if you're the person who determines the exact amount of fixation someone should do. 

As if Cleese didn't point out that everyone's ancestors did bad things to someone else at some point. 

You're also proving his point about the competition to be most oppressed.

[the-four-humors]

Rapidly approaching the point of unfollowing people who clown on “Let men be masculine” posts, regardless of how close I am to them.

Like, you know trans men exist, right? You know there are men who have trauma regarding feminine clothing and make up? Men who get treated as “woman lite”, who get portrayed as slim waifish twinks?

You know there are men who get told that testosterone is poison? Who are warned about mutilating their beautiful, pure, feminine breasts? Who are told they’ll be ugly if they grow facial hair or go bald?

You know you follow one of those men???

[jasontoddschildbearinghips]

No cause you’re right. I get reeeaaally bad vibes from this growing negative attitude towards masculinity as a whole. Or calling men who aren’t comfortable wearing women’s clothing or aren’t comfortable with being misgendered toxic or something. And then you bring up trans men to these people on the left and they’ll be like “oh well of COURSE trans men are allowed”. And I’m just like.

I don’t want to be given a pass for something you’re not gonna allow cis men to do BECAUSE THAT MARKS ME AS TRANS. AND THEREFORE DESTROYS THE ENTIRE GODDAMN POINT.

Oh and one other thing, you ever notice SOME of the “trans men can be feminine too!” stuff can feel a little more like they’re saying “be feminine so I can feel comfortable.”? Don’t get me wrong, I love my GNC brothers, I think trans men can be feminine obviously but … we know that. When I say “I’m uncomfortable with femininity” and your response is “well you don’t have to be!” That is transphobic. Do better.

This is gonna make people angry, isn’t it?

[doberbutts]

It’s the same with “I’m pre-transition” being met with “well but you’ve socially transitioned so you don’t have to medically transition :)”

Like. No. I want to. I want to medically transition. Bring on the T and the surgeries literally that’s exactly what I want so when I say I haven’t transitioned that’s what I’m saying. I’m not saying that those who can’t or don’t want to medically transition aren’t trans, I’m saying I specifically me myself and I am not done transitioning and haven’t started.

Going “:) you don’t have to medically transition! :)” to someone who has already stated they want to medically transition IS transphobic. Stop telling people not to pursue medical options if they want it. Stop telling people it’s better for them to stay in a body they hate because you’re more comfortable viewing them as completely distinguishable from cis people.

Some men actively want to be men. Some men have a lot of dysphoria and trauma regarding being viewed as anything besides a masculine man. Clowning on posts made by trans guys about protecting our right to express ourselves in whatever gendered or non-gendered way we want is always a bad look.

[the-four-humors]

YES, I actually did want to add on to my own post that trans mascs aren’t the only men who could benefit from reminders that masculinity is good!

Cis gay men often get pigeonholed by cishet people as being feminine (“fruity” is not a haha funney Tumblr joke, it’s, if not a slur, then borderline one) and I’ve seen a lot of masculine cis gay men get ridiculed for being gym bros. I think a lot of straight society expects gay men to be flamboyant twinks, and anyone who dares not to be is assumed to be overcompensating when… look, gay men like men. They like masculinity! Let them be manly in peace.

I am a white person so I don’t want to speak over men of color, but I have recently read a lot of posts on Tumblr by black men explaining that their masculinity is treated as a threat, especially to cis white women. And when it’s not treated as a threat, it’s treated as a fetish.

Then you get into other men of color, like how Asian men are treated as feminine by default, when they… aren’t.

And disabled men are infantilized to hell and back…

Men should be free to be as masculine as they want. To treat men and masculinity as inherently “toxic” (because the meaning of “toxic masculinity” has been so watered down and misunderstood) is some real bioessentialism shit.

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID/ yeah i also feel like the og post could also be talking about all masculinity automatically being assumed to be bad and toxic /End ID]

[syabm]

 >To treat men and masculinity as inherently “toxic” (because the meaning of “toxic masculinity” has been so watered down and misunderstood) is some real bioessentialism shit. 

The feminists who talk about ‘toxic masculinity’ have always described it as a toxic set of societal standards, not something biological. Also, mainstream feminism effectively says any society run by men (IE “patriarchal”) is inherently going to oppress women, because every Patriarchal society in history is treated as inherently misogynist.

Again, they say it’s not bioessentialism, but social standards, but they’re still saying ‘men in power will consistently hurt women, no matter the time or place", and that’s pretty obviously sexist and wrong. Whether or not minority labels are attached to that ‘man’. Whether or not the feminist calls herself a radfem or TERF.

In short, the anti-male rot goes down to the core. The only difference is that “toxic masculinity” supposedly cares about helping men.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

EDIT: OP blocked the syabm account for this post. Instantly. I’m pretty sure OP only cares about minorities, not men.

[jonsolocup-deactivated20220621]

[thetreeofliberty]

CALL THEM OUT

[aardvarkingmad]

[onespoton1]

[ad-hominem-sappies-deactivated2]

Why does this fucking matter. Why.

[durkin106]

Because there's a certain group of people that believe just saying you're a thing makes you a thing, and they're wrong. And they need to be reminded of it. And if they don't want to be reminded of it then they can shut the fuck up and quit demanding everyone else contributed to their masquerade.

[d3nt4l-d4m4g3]

I'm a ssa that has been considering transitioning because I feel like it's the only option for me. I'm dsyphoric to the point I can't go for walks, work out, eat, or do much of anything else without feeling guilty about my body. I also hate being referred to by my name and she/her pronouns. Do you have any advice?

I think another anon has already asked this same question: I am gay, I am in deep distress, should I transition? And my answer remains: do not transition.

I am struck by your phrasing: "I can't go for walks, work out, eat, or do much of anything else without feeling guilty about my body." Why do you believe that what needs to change here, then, is your body? If you attack your body, doesn't that confirm your guilt?

You do not need to confirm your guilt. You have no need to be guilty about your body. You were given this body for yourself to live in. In all likelihood, it is a healthy body. In all likelihood, you can go on walks, work out, eat—which in itself is a miracle. So why would you punish your remarkable, healthy body then? Instead, unlearn the guilt.

I used to feel so awful and awkward every place feeling like a failed woman. It felt like everyone was watching me, and thinking.. ."she isn't doing it right." I thought that when I became a man, I would feel like I was "doing it right"—my personality. What actually happened was I became more and more preoccupied with what others thought of me: was I passing? I was more afraid than ever before. If I did it right, I'd feel euphoric. But then if I "did it wrong" and a stranger misgendered me or something, my day would be ruined.

Another anon messaged me to tell me how dumb it was of me to advise dysphoric females to "get over" their dysphoria. Yeah, when they put it like that, it does seem like rather useless advice to the current sufferer. But I still want you to know that it is extremely possible not to hate yourself anymore, and a more reasonable path than punishing your body which never failed you, than harming yourself for not fitting in with most of society. Transitioning is ritualized self-harm. I do not care if you are the most dysphoric, "shower-with-the-lights-off" person on the planet, I will never tell you "you know what, you get a pass." You don't. You don't get to hurt yourself. You aren't "so gay" that you're allowed to hurt yourself. Nobody gets left behind.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

And the foreign terrorist probably read them unlike the trailer park domestic terrorist.

[anarchpunk]

Broski

You know he orchestrated the kidnapping and rape of hundreds of thousands of children as well as various genocides?

What in the absolute fuck is wrong with you?

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Ah, yes, because clearly two carefully posed and arranged for publicity shots represent, uh...something?

I also like how the ‘social justice’ account is supporting the rich kid turned mass-murderer over the (former) single mom who dropped out of high school because she was pregnant to get a job as a McD’s assistant manager, and who claims her views were shaped by actual life experiences.

Sounds very classist, if you put it that way.

[shadows-ember]

And when the end came, he threw women in front of him

[fedgf1-deactivated20220521]

I always love how many “social justice” folks that supposedly stand up for the poor and disenfranchised toss around “trailer park” as an insult.

Is it perhaps because they’re associated with the white lower class and it’s always okay to denigrate white people?

I’ve lived in a mobile home community and the house was one of the nicest places I’ve ever lived because the scenery around us was beautiful and we proudly took care of our remodeled home. I had both white and Hispanic neighbors and I wonder if OP would ever call any of them trailer trash to their faces.

[gluttonousgoddess]

The stories literally ARE transphobic are you kidding me

Literally how? They don't mention transgendered people anywhere.

Just because a story doesn't have a group doesn't mean it is x-ist against that group.

Do I think the story needs transgendered people? Not really. The plot isn't about genders. Shoehorning it in wouldn't end well. Could it have been a nice character development arc? Certainly. Was it necessary? Not really.

So you don't go "ugh, cis people", I myself am transgender.

[gluttonousgoddess]

Since they want to hide in the tags instead of reblogging for the world...

Rita Skeeter is not a "transgender caricature". She is a sketchy news reporter/tabloid writer that uses her magic quill to write down notes that didn't happen so as to massively skew her reports.

What she is is shady, a parody of news reporters who get away with writing whatever they want, government controlling the news to influence people...but not a transgender caricature. Nothing she does or is implies such.

Ignoring that, let's assume she was. That's not what makes her unlikeable. What I just posted describing her is.

Please, if you want to hate things, have actual reasons to hate. Like hating JKR's transphobia. But there are not examples of it in the story. Revisioning history is how we have teens and even adults not knowing the history and origins of many if any of the holidays they celebrate.

Please, do the transgender community a favor. NEVER COMPARE US TO THAT PIECE OF SHIT REPORTER AGAIN!

[siryouarebeingmocked]

>Rita Skeeter is not a “transgender caricature”. She is a sketchy news reporter/tabloid writer that uses her magic quill to write down notes that didn’t happen so as to massively skew her reports.

Wait a second. If she's a trans caricature, wouldn't that make Sirius and McGonagall and the Marauders also caricatures?

Is this the same kind of person who thinks anything to do with transhumanism is necessarily transgender-themed? Do they look at anything with "trans" that involves changing the human form and think "this must be about being trans...somehow!"

Or are they just someone who’s jumping on the JKR cancelling bandwagon no matter how little sense it makes?

[psiotechniqa]

Rita Skeeter is a parody of BRITISH tabloid journalism

and JKR isn’t transphobic - she’s in support of women and women who’ve been unfortunate enough to get raped. This bullshit all started because british police have some absolutely borked rules that allowed anyone they arrest to self-identify as any gender they want, and their courts haven’t really figured out how to handle a “woman on woman” rape case, so a lot of rapists simply declare they’re women and get off with lighter sentences...

...sentences in women’s prisons, where they rape again

this is what JKR spoke out against

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Really? That's what it was about? Do you have a source?

Incidentally, class, the UK says it's not rape unless it's performed with a penis, which is used to forcibly penetrate a man or woman. So if a woman forced someone to penetrate her, or used something else, it wouldn't count as rape.

[psiotechniqa]

The problem with finding the source is that damn near nobody actually shows screencaps of the original tweets anymore.

I’ll try to digging them up:

ok, I almost got it right (the british prison trans rape thing is true though)

It started with this here BS:

A female scientists in the UK was fired for making “transphobic” statements - basically pointing out that as a scientists she knew damn well that you cannot change your biological sex, only change things cosmetically and superficially. JK knew this person, and supported her:

After that initial shitstorm, she started posting similarly themed things like this:

and

and there is absolutely nothing wrong with what she’s saying here.

she also got in on the coments:

So ya - in classic SJW fashion: JK didn’t really do anything wrong, the SJWs are making shit up and smearing her - and then crying wolf when anyone tries to point any of this out

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Wasn't "sex and gender are two different things" a major part of pro-trans activism for a very long time?

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Yes, which is also incorrect dumbass sociology rebranding of actual scientific concepts, like pretty much everything the SJWs believe. Which is why they can just drop it on a dime if it doesn't serve their purposes anymore.

[xphilosoraptorx]

SJWs:

[capitalism-and-analytics]

[cultofthepigeon]

the fuck shit idiot whos putting elon musk on my dash? develop a prefrontal lobe

[blighttownbitch]

I’m sitting here trying to figure out what he even means by this. Demand the removal of freedom. Wtf? Nobody is doing that, he’s making it sound like the loss of rights is consensual or something. Don’t get it.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Tyrants like to use designated groups as scapegoats for imaginary threats in order to justify tyranny and authoritarianism. If they’re good enough, they can get popular support for said tyranny, because the people think it will make them safer.

[thenorthlord3]

My boy Ben was pointing this out near 250 years ago

[siryouarebeingmocked]

*essential liberty, *temporary security

Which actually makes his point even stronger.

[ultramaga]

It’s funny to see the Leftists defending tyranny on the grounds that they say Elon is a terrible person. Doesn’t matter if he’s the worst person in the world, what matters is the argument. But they can’t deal with it, and attack his character instead. Some of the attacks are just insane. “He organises coups!” Yah, I’m sure he has some secret base underneath a volcano for that. Another is “he inherited wealth!” That is the most damning thing for a Leftist. Having someone ELSE inherit money! How very dare he!

[rtrixie]

Lmao all it takes is one peaceful mass protest for these freaks to go hiding in their holes

[disgruntledseagull]

What a GIANT PUSSY

[association-of-freed-people]

[the-lost-alchemist]

[association-of-freed-people]

This reads like Gersh Kuntzman having a Reddit conversation with himself.

[welldocumentedconsent]

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

Reblog to Honk in support

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

It’s always these people who have the pronouns in their name that talk about having a panic attack from honking. Do they grow these people in a lab?

Also this goes without saying, but if you’re having a panic attack you’re not gonna be posting on Twitter.

[traveling-spartan]

I hope they know this is providing further encouragement.

[cisnowflake]

Honk on boys.

[rent-em-sp00ns]

[association-of-freed-people]

Variety and Lady Gaga

[association-of-freed-people]

[jlongbone]

The funniest thing I've seen was a tweet saying 'If marvel hates Nazis using the punisher logo so much, they should give Frank a leftist trans girlfriend who has a 'fuck cops' tattoo and makes Frank get on his knees to kiss it' and its just like

How insecure do you have to be to try this hard instead of knowing full and well frank castle would already dislike nazis?? Miss girl...

We need to start gatekeeping fandoms

[escapekit]

What If They Were Black? US-based Advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners has created a campaign for Courageous Conversation Global Foundation to encourage conversations around bias in the American justice system. The shirts show the insurrectionists as persons of colour, while statistics on the back of the shirts detail the disproportionately harsher treatment meted out to minorities by cops and courts.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

You still can't prove actual discrimination with hypotheticals.

Also, they weren't "insurrectionists", just rioters.

And if you want to talk about racial bias, how 'bout we look at the difference in the way the media treated months of BLM riots that destroyed countless livelihoods and killed dozens of people, compared to an 'insurrection' that managed to kill...nobody at all.

Heck, there were a lot of articles which refused to discuss the fact that riots even existed, especially in early days. Many BLM supporters seemed completely unaware that the riots they endorsed were physically hurting actual people.

This isn't 'encouraging conversations'. This is propaganda.

[quicklyseverebird]

Also considering the fact that even according to democrat senators like Elizabeth Warren, many of these Jan 6 arrestees are being literally tortured in solitary confinement, I’m not sure they are making the statement they think they are.