So originally I was sceptical about the TERF claims on rowling (because I didn’t want them to be true), I’d assumed terminally online people had decided something silly (as has happened before), but the more I looked at it and thought about it, the more I thought, “Ok, I don’t really have proof here, but the odds are looking pretty fucking likely that she is, surely it’d be quite easy for her to just say something publicly like “trans women are women” and it’d be all over”.
The problem I’m having at the minute, is my wife still thinks that it’s all probably something that’s been blown out of proportion, and I can’t explain to her why I’m not excited by the new Strike novel, or why I won’t play the Harry Potter game. How do I prove to her that it isn’t something that’s been blown out of proportion and that Rowling really is a TERF
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May I recommend Shaun’s YouTube video: https://youtu.be/Ou_xvXJJk7k?si=Y1gdLj8D_MP2VolX he kinda puts it beyond reasonable doubt.
Also Contrapoints’ WitchTrials: https://youtu.be/EmT0i0xG6zg?si=Y8mDHupp8xlC28vk and Lindsay Eliis’ Death of the Author: https://youtu.be/NViZYL-U8s0?si=bkD5X10Nzv9tRsAF have background - and are very entertaining!
I’m 6 minutes in to Shaun’s video and it’s already beyond reasonable doubt lol, while I kind of want to explain this to her myself (because she’s super busy atm, so a 20 minute video will be a hard sell) but I doubt I’d do as good a job so I think I’ll just send her a link. Thank you very much for the links!
Shaun is fantastic!! I came here to share it if no one else had
For what it’s worth, the video game is terrible on its own merits, being essentially Anti-Semitism: the Videogame.
The goblins are a collection of anti-Semitic tropes, and the game explicitly makes putting down their rebellion for their own freedom as a good thing, where the “lesser-species” goblins deserve to be subjected by the human wizards.
So, there’s that as well.
She doesn’t like the term (most TERFs don’t), but she promotes the exact same viewpoints as the most infamous TERFs. Namely that sex is biological, unchangeable, and defines your life in a way that supercedes gender… She claims to have “trans friends”, and “support them”, but how is that possible when she denies the essence of our identities??
She uses her massive platform to amplify TERF arguments and is something of an icon in anti-trans circles. She boosts stories that portray trans people in negative light. Which should tell you everything.
Indeed. Remember when she tweeted that trans people didn’t deserve rights in the UK because male prisoners could “just claim” to be women in order to get put into women’s prisons so they could rape indiscriminately?
If you pirate the game you can play it without supporting her if that’s something you want to do :)
That’s still supporting her…
You might not be giving her money directly, but you are helping to keep her relevant…
