Society associates femininity with vulnerability. So, a woman who performs femininity better, who's gender conforming, is believed easier. I'm nonbinary and arguably butch. I'm big and strong. And she was soft and small... When you're a transfemme, being big and strong makes you vulnerable. Femininity is social power.
I'd rather be alone in the woods with a bear than a random man. But I'd rather be alone in the woods with a man ranger, or a fisherman, or a man ecologist, or an Aboriginal man engaging in traditional practices, or a man mycologist, or a man botanist, than a bear. Those men all have good reasons to be in the woods, so I bet they'll leave Me alone. Plus, I live in Australia, so a bear in the woods is pretty strange.
Gossip is also a means for women to abuse their ex-girlfriends. It's a serious problem in the gay community. It's called DARVO. If you know your ex is going to accuse you of abuse in the future, and you have no morals, you can shoot first and appropriate these defence mechanisms against your victim.
Whisper networks have a tremendous potential to abuse women, especially trans women. It happened to Me, set off a chain of dominoes that lead to My ex-wife being raped, and ultimately left Me so riddled with trauma that I lost My career due to poor mental health. I was homeless.
I don't want the women who use whisper networks to be punished. But I don't feel okay with whisper networks' existence. It feels like having a loaded gun on the table, and anyone who's a good enough liar can pick up that gun and use it to hurt someone. Usually, someone queer. Rowling's friends have done it.
So there was one week where he was a known rapist, and it was illegal to call him that? One week seems like a reasonably short duration for the paperwork to be sorted.
Which is funny because Piefed runs on a less memory safe programming language, yet it uses half the memory for a server of the same size. And it's got better mod tools!
Yeah this shit is abuse. The mentally well people around her, who are enabling this disease and lying about her health, are abusing her. And she, in turn, is abusing the young people who look up to her and trust what she and her marketing team say about health and beauty.
Anorexia is like covid, it's a contagious disease. You can be suffering and killing other people at the same time. You have to take the vaccine or talk to a therapist while you're well, so you don't hurt others when you get sick.
I don't really know much about Tea, but isn't the entire point of the app to disclose information about other people without their consent? I can personally see why the pro-privacy crowd would dislike the users of that app. As someone familiar with DARVO and leery of gender essentialism, I also get skeeved out by Tea.
The Owl House is a kids show, yet Luz Noceda manages to completely reform the demon realm's education system and government. It is possible for heroes to actually improve the world they inhabit to a better standard than when they found it. Harry just didn't do that.
Voldemort got the giants on his side (other than Grawp) by promising them equal rights. The Ministry of Magic is very oppressive towards magical creatures, and this is intended by the author. Dumbledore points it out after he and voldemort wreck the wizard supremacist statue. So Voldemort is (dishonestly) promising equality to the giants to get them to revolt. The giants want equal rights.
So at the end of the last book, Harry kills Voldemort. And the giants lose their rebellion and go back to being excluded from society and denied the right to wands. And the final line before the epilogue is "all was well".
Rowling is savvy enough to identify problems in society, but she cannot write stories about solving problems in society, because she doesn't know how. She doesn't understand human rights. She never stood for improving rights.
Okay so I've read a LOT of analysis of that line, and done a fair amount Myself. There are two camps on it: One group says Robert is a repressed trans guy. The other group says Joanne is pretending to lean trans, in order to present herself as an insider and speak from a position of both authority and sympathy, so she can lie to people better.
Rachel Rostad wrote a great poem about the racism and misogyny embedded in Cho Chang's writing.
To JK Rowling, from Cho Chang.
When you put me in your books, millions of Asian girls across America rejoiced! Finally, a potential Halloween costume that wasn't a geisha or Mulan! What’s not to love about me? I’m everyone’s favorite character! I totally get to fight tons of Death Eaters and have a great sense of humor and am full of complex emotions!
Oh wait. That’s the version of Harry Potter where I’m not fucking worthless.
First of all, you put me in Ravenclaw. Of course the only Asian at Hogwarts would be in the nerdy house. Too bad there wasn't a house that specialized in computers and math and karate, huh?
I know, you thought you were being tolerant. Between me, Dean, and the Indian twins, Hogwarts has like... five brown people? It doesn't matter we’re all minor characters. Nah, you’re not racist! Just like how you’re not homophobic, because Dumbledore’s totally gay! Of course it’s never said in the books, but man. Hasn't society come so far? Now gays don’t just have to be closeted in real life—they can even be closeted fictionally!
Ms. Rowling. Let’s talk about my name. Cho. Chang. Cho and Chang are both last names. They are both Korean last names. I am supposed to be Chinese. Me being named “Cho Chang” is like a Frenchman being named “Garcia Sanchez.”
So thank you. Thank you for giving me no heritage. Thank you for giving me a name as generic as a ninja costume. As chopstick hair ornaments.
Ms. Rowling, I know you’re just the latest participant in a long tradition of turning Asian women into a tragic fetish. Madame Butterfly. Japanese woman falls in love with a white soldier, is abandoned, kills herself. Miss Saigon. Vietnamese woman falls in love with a white soldier, is abandoned, kills herself. Memoirs Of A Geisha. Lucy Liu in leather. Schoolgirl porn.
So let me cry over boys more than I speak. Let me fulfill your diversity quota. Just one more brown girl mourning her white hero.
No wonder Harry Potter’s got yellow fever. We giggle behind small hands and “no speak Engrish.” What else could a man see in me? What else could I be but what you made me? Subordinate. Submissive. Subplot.
Go ahead. Tell me I’m overreacting. Ignore the fact that your books have sold 400 million copies worldwide. I am plastered across movie screens, a bestselling caricature.
Last summer, I met a boy who spoke like rain against windows. He had his father’s blue eyes. He’d press his wrist against mine and say he was too pale. That my skin was so much more beautiful. To him, I was Pacific sunset, almond milk, a porcelain cup.
When he left me, I told myself I should have seen it coming. I wasn't sure I was sad but I cried anyway. Girls who look like me are supposed to cry over boys who look like him. I’d seen all the movies and read all the books. We were just following the plot.
I also wanna recommend Zero Woolfe's video "You weren't supposed to like Hermione": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycaSiLp1J_U&t=14, whose arguments I would struggle to do justice to if I tried to summarise.
Buuuut, I will add My own piece of evidence in support of Woolfe's point:
The annoying girl who likes reading is so convinced of her own self-righteousness, and so socially oblivious, she tries to become a woke activist. She creates a laughable anti-slavery organisation called SPEW, and tries to tell the slaves that she knows their needs better than them, going so far as to try and trick them into becoming free. What a stuck up bitch! This is what happens when women read too many books!
It really sucks how billionaires are appropriating trans culture
Society associates femininity with vulnerability. So, a woman who performs femininity better, who's gender conforming, is believed easier. I'm nonbinary and arguably butch. I'm big and strong. And she was soft and small... When you're a transfemme, being big and strong makes you vulnerable. Femininity is social power.
Not feeling very good rn...
That's a great point I never thought of.
I'd rather be alone in the woods with a bear than a random man. But I'd rather be alone in the woods with a man ranger, or a fisherman, or a man ecologist, or an Aboriginal man engaging in traditional practices, or a man mycologist, or a man botanist, than a bear. Those men all have good reasons to be in the woods, so I bet they'll leave Me alone. Plus, I live in Australia, so a bear in the woods is pretty strange.
Gossip is also a means for women to abuse their ex-girlfriends. It's a serious problem in the gay community. It's called DARVO. If you know your ex is going to accuse you of abuse in the future, and you have no morals, you can shoot first and appropriate these defence mechanisms against your victim.
Whisper networks have a tremendous potential to abuse women, especially trans women. It happened to Me, set off a chain of dominoes that lead to My ex-wife being raped, and ultimately left Me so riddled with trauma that I lost My career due to poor mental health. I was homeless.
I don't want the women who use whisper networks to be punished. But I don't feel okay with whisper networks' existence. It feels like having a loaded gun on the table, and anyone who's a good enough liar can pick up that gun and use it to hurt someone. Usually, someone queer. Rowling's friends have done it.
So there was one week where he was a known rapist, and it was illegal to call him that? One week seems like a reasonably short duration for the paperwork to be sorted.
Yeah
Which is funny because Piefed runs on a less memory safe programming language, yet it uses half the memory for a server of the same size. And it's got better mod tools!
Yeah this shit is abuse. The mentally well people around her, who are enabling this disease and lying about her health, are abusing her. And she, in turn, is abusing the young people who look up to her and trust what she and her marketing team say about health and beauty.
Anorexia is like covid, it's a contagious disease. You can be suffering and killing other people at the same time. You have to take the vaccine or talk to a therapist while you're well, so you don't hurt others when you get sick.
I was there in the trenches on that day! And I tried to persuade a man to have empathy for his wife!
I wish the flotilla would defed actual conservative, centrist, and tankie instances rather than fellow anarchost instances
I don't really know much about Tea, but isn't the entire point of the app to disclose information about other people without their consent? I can personally see why the pro-privacy crowd would dislike the users of that app. As someone familiar with DARVO and leery of gender essentialism, I also get skeeved out by Tea.
I made a post about how I had a nicer time playing Sea of Thieves with a woman than with a bunch of boys, and got called a sexist.
Is there any downside?
Luckily, My bio mum has huge tits and many lovers. Just like Me!
The Owl House is a kids show, yet Luz Noceda manages to completely reform the demon realm's education system and government. It is possible for heroes to actually improve the world they inhabit to a better standard than when they found it. Harry just didn't do that.
Do it!
Abandoning trans rights should be a financial threat to any organisation. Don't donate to collaborators!
Voldemort got the giants on his side (other than Grawp) by promising them equal rights. The Ministry of Magic is very oppressive towards magical creatures, and this is intended by the author. Dumbledore points it out after he and voldemort wreck the wizard supremacist statue. So Voldemort is (dishonestly) promising equality to the giants to get them to revolt. The giants want equal rights.
So at the end of the last book, Harry kills Voldemort. And the giants lose their rebellion and go back to being excluded from society and denied the right to wands. And the final line before the epilogue is "all was well".
Rowling is savvy enough to identify problems in society, but she cannot write stories about solving problems in society, because she doesn't know how. She doesn't understand human rights. She never stood for improving rights.
Okay so I've read a LOT of analysis of that line, and done a fair amount Myself. There are two camps on it: One group says Robert is a repressed trans guy. The other group says Joanne is pretending to lean trans, in order to present herself as an insider and speak from a position of both authority and sympathy, so she can lie to people better.
Personally, I only found out about that interview during the research phase of a blog article I had already decided to write, about how Robert really hates women and views womanhood negatively, so maybe he's trans. https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/does-jk-rowling-want-to-be-a-man-568cb1aa4ca5
Rachel Rostad wrote a great poem about the racism and misogyny embedded in Cho Chang's writing.
To JK Rowling, from Cho Chang.
When you put me in your books, millions of Asian girls across America rejoiced! Finally, a potential Halloween costume that wasn't a geisha or Mulan! What’s not to love about me? I’m everyone’s favorite character! I totally get to fight tons of Death Eaters and have a great sense of humor and am full of complex emotions!
Oh wait. That’s the version of Harry Potter where I’m not fucking worthless.
First of all, you put me in Ravenclaw. Of course the only Asian at Hogwarts would be in the nerdy house. Too bad there wasn't a house that specialized in computers and math and karate, huh?
I know, you thought you were being tolerant. Between me, Dean, and the Indian twins, Hogwarts has like... five brown people? It doesn't matter we’re all minor characters. Nah, you’re not racist! Just like how you’re not homophobic, because Dumbledore’s totally gay! Of course it’s never said in the books, but man. Hasn't society come so far? Now gays don’t just have to be closeted in real life—they can even be closeted fictionally!
Ms. Rowling. Let’s talk about my name. Cho. Chang. Cho and Chang are both last names. They are both Korean last names. I am supposed to be Chinese. Me being named “Cho Chang” is like a Frenchman being named “Garcia Sanchez.”
So thank you. Thank you for giving me no heritage. Thank you for giving me a name as generic as a ninja costume. As chopstick hair ornaments.
Ms. Rowling, I know you’re just the latest participant in a long tradition of turning Asian women into a tragic fetish. Madame Butterfly. Japanese woman falls in love with a white soldier, is abandoned, kills herself. Miss Saigon. Vietnamese woman falls in love with a white soldier, is abandoned, kills herself. Memoirs Of A Geisha. Lucy Liu in leather. Schoolgirl porn.
So let me cry over boys more than I speak. Let me fulfill your diversity quota. Just one more brown girl mourning her white hero.
No wonder Harry Potter’s got yellow fever. We giggle behind small hands and “no speak Engrish.” What else could a man see in me? What else could I be but what you made me? Subordinate. Submissive. Subplot.
Go ahead. Tell me I’m overreacting. Ignore the fact that your books have sold 400 million copies worldwide. I am plastered across movie screens, a bestselling caricature.
Last summer, I met a boy who spoke like rain against windows. He had his father’s blue eyes. He’d press his wrist against mine and say he was too pale. That my skin was so much more beautiful. To him, I was Pacific sunset, almond milk, a porcelain cup.
When he left me, I told myself I should have seen it coming. I wasn't sure I was sad but I cried anyway. Girls who look like me are supposed to cry over boys who look like him. I’d seen all the movies and read all the books. We were just following the plot.
I also wanna recommend Zero Woolfe's video "You weren't supposed to like Hermione": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycaSiLp1J_U&t=14, whose arguments I would struggle to do justice to if I tried to summarise.
Buuuut, I will add My own piece of evidence in support of Woolfe's point:
The annoying girl who likes reading is so convinced of her own self-righteousness, and so socially oblivious, she tries to become a woke activist. She creates a laughable anti-slavery organisation called SPEW, and tries to tell the slaves that she knows their needs better than them, going so far as to try and trick them into becoming free. What a stuck up bitch! This is what happens when women read too many books!