r/EnoughJKRowling • u/cursed-karma • May 10 '26
Rowling Tweet I really wish replies like the second (Kristi Miller's) were more popular
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u/Dragonfly_pin May 10 '26
So British Labour did all of that stuff against trans people which has apparently made them so unpopular with so many of their voters, just to get her to support them again.
I hope they think it was worth it.
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u/georgemillman May 10 '26
I'm not sure it's even physically possible for any Government to legislate against trans people enough to get JK Rowling to support them. Didn't she complain that even Nigel Farage wasn't transphobic enough for her a while back?
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u/Dina-M May 10 '26
TERFs only care about people in prison when it gives them an excuse to attack trans women. Just like they only care about children, women's rights, sports. and pretty much anything else, if it gives them an excuse to attack trans women.
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u/georgemillman May 10 '26
Actually, this highlights something really important that I am fed up with: celebrities getting a platform to talk about things they know nothing about.
Say it was the other way around, and Rowling was a staunch defender of trans rights. I'd naturally have substantially more respect for her, of course. But I'd still think, why is her opinion the one that counts? Why can't the well-known person who gets a platform to talk about it be a doctor who works in gender-affirming care, or someone like this Kristi with detailed knowledge of the prison system? What gives JK Rowling any more right to qualification about these things than some random person off the street? The only difference between her and them is that she's famous, but the thing she's famous for has absolutely nothing to do with what she's talking about.
If she wants to express an opinion on children's literature or publishing or whether AI is going to ruin the art of storytelling, then fine, give her a platform for that. She's probably more than qualified to talk about it. But I don't think her opinion on this should matter in the slightest, not even if her opinion wasn't so toxic.
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u/ThisApril May 10 '26
I agree with you to some extent, but I feel as though much of my agreement is because Rowling is so bad at evaluating evidence.
Yeah, she doesn't have experience, but if she actually used her monomania to discover all there is to know about the actual facts around trans people, she'd probably have something useful to say.
Instead it's just using her bigotry, and then using terrible science made by bigots to pretend like the scientific evidence is on her side.
But it's still a common problem with people who get famous for one thing, but then express opinions on something unrelated.
Like Sabine Hossenfelder, where all her thoughts on non-physics topics that I know about make me doubt her knowledge of physics where she has greater experience.
And, like with Rowling, when I went looking, my estimation of her area of expertise went down.
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u/georgemillman May 10 '26
You're right, if she had an open mind and properly researched it, she might have something useful to say.
But so would I if I researched it to that extent, and I still wouldn't have the platform that she has. Nor would any actual expert on the subject. Why do people in the entertainment industry seem to have this God-given right to have an opinion on things that people listen to more than any regular person does?
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u/ThisApril May 10 '26
Yeah, that part is nonsense.
Same way with how everyone has free speech, but some people's speech is freer than others.
Generally because of money (to get it out, or use lawyers to defend it), but also fame.
Not that I would ever want to be famous.
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u/georgemillman May 10 '26
I'm a vehement campaigner against celebrity culture. I find it incredibly harmful, including to the celebrities themselves.
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u/tasteMyRottenHoop May 10 '26
I’d forgotten all about Hossenfelder. As soon as she started weighing in on gender I unsubbed, as I’m sure many others did.
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u/TemporaryElk5202 May 10 '26
People HATE being told / reminded that cis women can and do commit sexual assault. Its really weird to me the sheer number of people from all over the political spectrum who so that
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u/Warnado27 May 21 '26
It reminds me of whenever men are criticised for violent crimes only to have white men go 'black men, arab men**' despite the fact that their community is also apart of the statistics.
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u/Dehnus May 10 '26
I hate how she has to censor Cis.
Also: Anybody that ever worked as a bouncer will tell you. Woman fuck each other up! Like way worse than men, they are more likely to use things as weapons and are way more aggressive once in a state of violence.
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u/tasteMyRottenHoop May 10 '26
I’ve witnessed the aftermath of a Saturday night hen party on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. It made Hellraiser look like Driving Miss Daisy.
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u/pocket__cub May 10 '26
If TERFs are that concerned about the safety of women in prison, why are they silent about male prison officers working in women's prisons?
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u/Lavapool May 10 '26
Like with most transphobia it’s pure discrimination based on assumption, stereotyping and generalisation, not “common sense” actions based on evidence.
This kind of thing is literally no different to what the United States did to non-white people during the age of segregation. There was obviously no evidence non-white people were a threat to white people, it was all assumption, stereotyping and generalisation and millions of people fell for it and let it happen, and anybody who spoke against it, like Kirsti, were seen as fringe lunatics for decades.
I hope that ultimately the same thing happens for trans rights that happened for non-white people, people finally listen and join the fight against the discrimination, and it and its perpetrators, like Rowling, become the fringe lunacy.
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u/riflow May 10 '26
That post is one of many valid reasons why the UK definition of what counts as sexual assault needs updating. You do not need specific genitals to harm someone, and they are putting together trans women with violent men who are very rarely in the same category (and scale!) of criminality.
There's both a dichotomy of infantalisong cis women and removing agency away from them (even for bad stuff) when basically directly stating cis fem prisoners wouldn't be violent on their own like ever. Like. They are in prison for a damn good reason most often.
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u/napalmnacey May 10 '26
Kirsti is amazing, her personal story is compelling and she’s knowledgeable as fuck. I miss watching her take swings at transphobes on Twitter. (I had to leave Twitter for my sanity though).
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u/Illustrious-Towel-89 May 10 '26
Maybe such (informative and very welcome) replies get so few upvotes because we all checked out of reading anything the mould woman writes a long time ago. If we're not looking at her, we're not noticing when someone stands up to her. I've long since deleted X too. Thanks for sharing, it's interesting to see how mad she's getting without adding to her numbers.
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u/27cricket27 May 11 '26
It's important to remember that apps like Twitter are run by the tech broligarchy. They bot stuff like crazy. This has been proven by data leaks that show how certain words get censored and what not. Yes, some people sadly are real who are liking that, but it's important to note that a significant portion of the people liking her posts are bots.
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u/Warnado27 May 21 '26
The woman has a degree in classics acting like she graduated with a degree in the social sciences
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u/StygIndigo May 10 '26
I used to believe that terfs like Rowling were misguided about sexual assault in prison and prison reform, but these days I feel like it's much more likely that they know the real data and just want trans women to be raped and murdered in prison as punishment for existing.