The Witch Trials of JK Rowling podcast

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Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

+1

"delusional"
"something men didn’t like"
women's prison!
and other faux hysterics

Standard RWNJ/TURF talking points.

If the trans “debate” isn’t misogynistic, why do people use TERF but without any equivalent term for men? Why do we say “trans women are women” 10x more frequently than we say trans men are men? Why do non-medically transitioned trans women demand to be in women only spaces (ie women’s prisons) while the trans men don’t? Why do trans women threaten to rape women but trans men don’t?

How many men are on DCUM and trashing transgender people 24x7? I mostly see hostile women - many older and/or lesbians.

If men were relentlessly attacking transgender people we could come up with a name for them. TERM?

Feminists aren’t relentlessly attacking transgender people. They are advocating for biological women and being attacked and threatened for it. By transwomen.

Certainly not all feminists. The feminists who are called TERFs do relentlessly attack transgender people. You know, the gender critical types.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

+1

"delusional"
"something men didn’t like"
women's prison!
and other faux hysterics

Standard RWNJ/TURF talking points.

If the trans “debate” isn’t misogynistic, why do people use TERF but without any equivalent term for men? Why do we say “trans women are women” 10x more frequently than we say trans men are men? Why do non-medically transitioned trans women demand to be in women only spaces (ie women’s prisons) while the trans men don’t? Why do trans women threaten to rape women but trans men don’t?

How many men are on DCUM and trashing transgender people 24x7? I mostly see hostile women - many older and/or lesbians.

If men were relentlessly attacking transgender people we could come up with a name for them. TERM?

This has nothing to do with DCUM because the word "TERF" wasn't invented on this forum, nor was it invented for this forum. (Nor do I see women here "trashing" transgender people but that's a separate issue.) Women don't do anything to transgender people except to ask them to respect our spaces. Men, on the other hand, are responsible 99% of the time for beating up, raping and/or killing transgender people.

Yet we get called TERF? For simply not feeling comfortable with OUR hard-won rights and safe spaces being appropriated or eroded? It's the absolute height of sexism.

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Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

This is exactly how the public gaslit JKR, who actually doesn't hate trans people.

As long as they don't expect any rights, JKR will allow trans people to exist. What else could anyone want (besides rights)?

What rights is Rowling trying to take away from trans people?

She thinks there should be some parameters around accessing public bathrooms and being kept in prison with someone of the opposite biological gender. She is generally fine with trans women accessing bathrooms but would like some parameters to prevent men who aren't trans from entering.

So convicted rapists who self-ID as women now have inalienable rights to be housed in women’s prisons?

Yes, in Scotland. And she is concerned because in some cases, male rapists have identified as female after the arrest and demanded to be housed in a women's prison, where they raped female prisoners. She feels that this is not an acceptable approach.

It should be 100% obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that it’s unacceptable, yet here we are.

I thought so, but the podcast was illuminating about why the trans community is upset about this. They feel that their gender identities are often complicated and don't conform to expectations, and they don't want to leave it to other people to interpret which bathroom or prison is correct for them. They believe people can only reliably determine their sex for themselves, so observable traits like penises are not reliable determinants for things like bathrooms and prisons.

I don’t understand why any of that trumps women’s rights to safety and bodily autonomy.

I wasn't persuaded by it. I think that women are a vulnerable population and that they deserve some protection based on the weaknesses inherent to their biology. But, I previously didn't understand why trans people were upset about any of this, and now it makes sense to me. They think that the risk to women is acceptable when weighed against the risk of not having their gender identity validated by society.

If transwomen want their gender identity validated by society, doesn’t that mean somehow winning the approval of half of society, which is … biological women? How is alienating and turning against half of society a winning strategy to gain general acceptance? Or do transwomen only want to be validated by biological men?

Transgender women are only "alienating" anti-trans women. The rest of us are fine and support all women.

NP. Keep telling yourself that. I guess you’re pro-rape-threats?

Those two things are unrelated so logic fail.

I'm anti-rape-threats and anti-trans-haters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

+1

"delusional"
"something men didn’t like"
women's prison!
and other faux hysterics

Standard RWNJ/TURF talking points.

If the trans “debate” isn’t misogynistic, why do people use TERF but without any equivalent term for men? Why do we say “trans women are women” 10x more frequently than we say trans men are men? Why do non-medically transitioned trans women demand to be in women only spaces (ie women’s prisons) while the trans men don’t? Why do trans women threaten to rape women but trans men don’t?

How many men are on DCUM and trashing transgender people 24x7? I mostly see hostile women - many older and/or lesbians.

If men were relentlessly attacking transgender people we could come up with a name for them. TERM?

Feminists aren’t relentlessly attacking transgender people. They are advocating for biological women and being attacked and threatened for it. By transwomen.

Certainly not all feminists. The feminists who are called TERFs do relentlessly attack transgender people. You know, the gender critical types.

Citation? How do they "relentlessly attack transgender people"?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

+1

"delusional"
"something men didn’t like"
women's prison!
and other faux hysterics

Standard RWNJ/TURF talking points.

If the trans “debate” isn’t misogynistic, why do people use TERF but without any equivalent term for men? Why do we say “trans women are women” 10x more frequently than we say trans men are men? Why do non-medically transitioned trans women demand to be in women only spaces (ie women’s prisons) while the trans men don’t? Why do trans women threaten to rape women but trans men don’t?

How many men are on DCUM and trashing transgender people 24x7? I mostly see hostile women - many older and/or lesbians.

If men were relentlessly attacking transgender people we could come up with a name for them. TERM?

Feminists aren’t relentlessly attacking transgender people. They are advocating for biological women and being attacked and threatened for it. By transwomen.

Certainly not all feminists. The feminists who are called TERFs do relentlessly attack transgender people. You know, the gender critical types.

That’s just a term now used for any woman who voices a concern about anything trans-related, ever.

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Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

This is exactly how the public gaslit JKR, who actually doesn't hate trans people.

As long as they don't expect any rights, JKR will allow trans people to exist. What else could anyone want (besides rights)?

What rights is Rowling trying to take away from trans people?

She thinks there should be some parameters around accessing public bathrooms and being kept in prison with someone of the opposite biological gender. She is generally fine with trans women accessing bathrooms but would like some parameters to prevent men who aren't trans from entering.

So convicted rapists who self-ID as women now have inalienable rights to be housed in women’s prisons?

Yes, in Scotland. And she is concerned because in some cases, male rapists have identified as female after the arrest and demanded to be housed in a women's prison, where they raped female prisoners. She feels that this is not an acceptable approach.

It should be 100% obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that it’s unacceptable, yet here we are.

I thought so, but the podcast was illuminating about why the trans community is upset about this. They feel that their gender identities are often complicated and don't conform to expectations, and they don't want to leave it to other people to interpret which bathroom or prison is correct for them. They believe people can only reliably determine their sex for themselves, so observable traits like penises are not reliable determinants for things like bathrooms and prisons.

I don’t understand why any of that trumps women’s rights to safety and bodily autonomy.

I wasn't persuaded by it. I think that women are a vulnerable population and that they deserve some protection based on the weaknesses inherent to their biology. But, I previously didn't understand why trans people were upset about any of this, and now it makes sense to me. They think that the risk to women is acceptable when weighed against the risk of not having their gender identity validated by society.

If transwomen want their gender identity validated by society, doesn’t that mean somehow winning the approval of half of society, which is … biological women? How is alienating and turning against half of society a winning strategy to gain general acceptance? Or do transwomen only want to be validated by biological men?

Transgender women are only "alienating" anti-trans women. The rest of us are fine and support all women.

Here’s the thing. Women claiming that they are women isn’t anti-trans. It’s pro-women. And I’m as liberal as they come, but biology is real. There are actual differences between transwomen and women, even those who medically transition. It’s stupid to pretend that there aren’t. It has nothing to do with accepting anyone’s gender identity. But transwomen are taking up all the air in the room when AFAB women need to focus on regaining our rapidly diminishing rights.

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Anonymous wrote:JKR may be extremely wealthy but at the end of the day she is just one more woman who has received countless graphic rape threats for saying and doing something men didn’t like.

Yep.

https://terfisaslur.com/j-k-rowling/

That website is painfully spot-on. It's time we reclaimed the word TERF, along with our sacred anatomy as women.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

+1

"delusional"
"something men didn’t like"
women's prison!
and other faux hysterics

Standard RWNJ/TURF talking points.

If the trans “debate” isn’t misogynistic, why do people use TERF but without any equivalent term for men? Why do we say “trans women are women” 10x more frequently than we say trans men are men? Why do non-medically transitioned trans women demand to be in women only spaces (ie women’s prisons) while the trans men don’t? Why do trans women threaten to rape women but trans men don’t?

How many men are on DCUM and trashing transgender people 24x7? I mostly see hostile women - many older and/or lesbians.

If men were relentlessly attacking transgender people we could come up with a name for them. TERM?

This has nothing to do with DCUM because the word "TERF" wasn't invented on this forum, nor was it invented for this forum. (Nor do I see women here "trashing" transgender people but that's a separate issue.) Women don't do anything to transgender people except to ask them to respect our spaces. Men, on the other hand, are responsible 99% of the time for beating up, raping and/or killing transgender people.

Yet we get called TERF? For simply not feeling comfortable with OUR hard-won rights and safe spaces being appropriated or eroded? It's the absolute height of sexism.

I'm explaining why I use the term TERF. Because I'm addressing women. I will start using TERM when I start coming across anti-trans men.

Women are absolutely trashing transgender people. Regularly on DCUM. On this thread, we have "delusional" for starters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

+1

"delusional"
"something men didn’t like"
women's prison!
and other faux hysterics

Standard RWNJ/TURF talking points.

If the trans “debate” isn’t misogynistic, why do people use TERF but without any equivalent term for men? Why do we say “trans women are women” 10x more frequently than we say trans men are men? Why do non-medically transitioned trans women demand to be in women only spaces (ie women’s prisons) while the trans men don’t? Why do trans women threaten to rape women but trans men don’t?

How many men are on DCUM and trashing transgender people 24x7? I mostly see hostile women - many older and/or lesbians.

If men were relentlessly attacking transgender people we could come up with a name for them. TERM?

Feminists aren’t relentlessly attacking transgender people. They are advocating for biological women and being attacked and threatened for it. By transwomen.

Certainly not all feminists. The feminists who are called TERFs do relentlessly attack transgender people. You know, the gender critical types.

No one is attacking them. We just said that we have our own needs and are threatened with rape in response. And when we argue against that, we are labeled TERF.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

This is exactly how the public gaslit JKR, who actually doesn't hate trans people.

As long as they don't expect any rights, JKR will allow trans people to exist. What else could anyone want (besides rights)?

What rights is Rowling trying to take away from trans people?

She thinks there should be some parameters around accessing public bathrooms and being kept in prison with someone of the opposite biological gender. She is generally fine with trans women accessing bathrooms but would like some parameters to prevent men who aren't trans from entering.

So convicted rapists who self-ID as women now have inalienable rights to be housed in women’s prisons?

Yes, in Scotland. And she is concerned because in some cases, male rapists have identified as female after the arrest and demanded to be housed in a women's prison, where they raped female prisoners. She feels that this is not an acceptable approach.

It should be 100% obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that it’s unacceptable, yet here we are.

I thought so, but the podcast was illuminating about why the trans community is upset about this. They feel that their gender identities are often complicated and don't conform to expectations, and they don't want to leave it to other people to interpret which bathroom or prison is correct for them. They believe people can only reliably determine their sex for themselves, so observable traits like penises are not reliable determinants for things like bathrooms and prisons.

I don’t understand why any of that trumps women’s rights to safety and bodily autonomy.

I wasn't persuaded by it. I think that women are a vulnerable population and that they deserve some protection based on the weaknesses inherent to their biology. But, I previously didn't understand why trans people were upset about any of this, and now it makes sense to me. They think that the risk to women is acceptable when weighed against the risk of not having their gender identity validated by society.

If transwomen want their gender identity validated by society, doesn’t that mean somehow winning the approval of half of society, which is … biological women? How is alienating and turning against half of society a winning strategy to gain general acceptance? Or do transwomen only want to be validated by biological men?

Transgender women are only "alienating" anti-trans women. The rest of us are fine and support all women.

NP. Keep telling yourself that. I guess you’re pro-rape-threats?

Those two things are unrelated so logic fail.

I'm anti-rape-threats and anti-trans-haters.

No, sorry, you’re pro-rape-threats. I said it, so it’s true. Why do you hate women?

Not much of a discussion here if you're going to be irrational and hysterical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

+1

"delusional"
"something men didn’t like"
women's prison!
and other faux hysterics

Standard RWNJ/TURF talking points.

If the trans “debate” isn’t misogynistic, why do people use TERF but without any equivalent term for men? Why do we say “trans women are women” 10x more frequently than we say trans men are men? Why do non-medically transitioned trans women demand to be in women only spaces (ie women’s prisons) while the trans men don’t? Why do trans women threaten to rape women but trans men don’t?

How many men are on DCUM and trashing transgender people 24x7? I mostly see hostile women - many older and/or lesbians.

If men were relentlessly attacking transgender people we could come up with a name for them. TERM?

Feminists aren’t relentlessly attacking transgender people. They are advocating for biological women and being attacked and threatened for it. By transwomen.

Certainly not all feminists. The feminists who are called TERFs do relentlessly attack transgender people. You know, the gender critical types.

No one is attacking them. We just said that we have our own needs and are threatened with rape in response. And when we argue against that, we are labeled TERF.

BS. It happens regularly on DCUM threads related to transgenderism.

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Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

This is exactly how the public gaslit JKR, who actually doesn't hate trans people.

As long as they don't expect any rights, JKR will allow trans people to exist. What else could anyone want (besides rights)?

What rights is Rowling trying to take away from trans people?

She thinks there should be some parameters around accessing public bathrooms and being kept in prison with someone of the opposite biological gender. She is generally fine with trans women accessing bathrooms but would like some parameters to prevent men who aren't trans from entering.

So convicted rapists who self-ID as women now have inalienable rights to be housed in women’s prisons?

Yes, in Scotland. And she is concerned because in some cases, male rapists have identified as female after the arrest and demanded to be housed in a women's prison, where they raped female prisoners. She feels that this is not an acceptable approach.

It should be 100% obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that it’s unacceptable, yet here we are.

I thought so, but the podcast was illuminating about why the trans community is upset about this. They feel that their gender identities are often complicated and don't conform to expectations, and they don't want to leave it to other people to interpret which bathroom or prison is correct for them. They believe people can only reliably determine their sex for themselves, so observable traits like penises are not reliable determinants for things like bathrooms and prisons.

I don’t understand why any of that trumps women’s rights to safety and bodily autonomy.

I wasn't persuaded by it. I think that women are a vulnerable population and that they deserve some protection based on the weaknesses inherent to their biology. But, I previously didn't understand why trans people were upset about any of this, and now it makes sense to me. They think that the risk to women is acceptable when weighed against the risk of not having their gender identity validated by society.

If transwomen want their gender identity validated by society, doesn’t that mean somehow winning the approval of half of society, which is … biological women? How is alienating and turning against half of society a winning strategy to gain general acceptance? Or do transwomen only want to be validated by biological men?

Transgender women are only "alienating" anti-trans women. The rest of us are fine and support all women.

NP. Keep telling yourself that. I guess you’re pro-rape-threats?

Those two things are unrelated so logic fail.

I'm anti-rape-threats and anti-trans-haters.

No, sorry, you’re pro-rape-threats. I said it, so it’s true. Why do you hate women?

Not much of a discussion here if you're going to be irrational and hysterical.

Ha. I would wonder if there were a glimmer of self-awareness in your response, but I know you’re not really capable of that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

Also, for gd's sake, go read a book about the actual witch trials some time and ask yourself if any of the people who were murdered at the time were also billionaires whose biggest complaint is that a few people on twitter don't like them.

JK Rowling is doing fine. I would really ask you to find someone else as your martyr.

DP, not the person you're replying to, but wow. Talk about cognitive dissonance and logical fallacies. I actually wrote out all the ways you deliberately ignored the parallels, deliberately mischaracterized/minimized Rowling's experience and your ignorance of the historical witch trials...but you know what? You clearly don't want to know the truth. You're brainwashed and you won't listen to the podcast anyway. Good luck in life.

Oh yeah super brainwashed. That's the only reason that I find it distasteful to compare one of the richest, most powerful, and completely alive people in the world with people who were murdered in the 1600s. I'm the troublesome one here, fer sher.

People got mad at her on Twitter. Her books still sell gazillions of copies. She is free to travel where she likes. She is free to say what she likes. But yeah, some people disagree with her on Twitter and oh POOR JK Rowling. Won't anyone think of JK Rowling. Why all she wants to do is deny a vulnerable group of people their identities and rights - as the Republican party is essentially gearing up to round up trans people and put them in camps - but won't anyone think of poor JK Rowling!

And pray tell - what is the "cognitive dissonance" that you are noting here? What are the fallacies? Or are you now practically a witch trial victim too because someone on the internet isn't being all "WOW thank you for sharing this IMPORTANT podcast with me!"?

NP PP you are unhinged and coming off as quite unstable. Maybe you should actually listen to the podcast. And you are truly crazy if you think only Republicans are against transgendered wo-men invading a lot of hard fought women spaces, especially the young girls. Here is a hint, There are plenty of Democrats and Independents who reluctantly find themselves in agreement with many republicans on this issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

+1

"delusional"
"something men didn’t like"
women's prison!
and other faux hysterics

Standard RWNJ/TURF talking points.

If the trans “debate” isn’t misogynistic, why do people use TERF but without any equivalent term for men? Why do we say “trans women are women” 10x more frequently than we say trans men are men? Why do non-medically transitioned trans women demand to be in women only spaces (ie women’s prisons) while the trans men don’t? Why do trans women threaten to rape women but trans men don’t?

How many men are on DCUM and trashing transgender people 24x7? I mostly see hostile women - many older and/or lesbians.

If men were relentlessly attacking transgender people we could come up with a name for them. TERM?

This has nothing to do with DCUM because the word "TERF" wasn't invented on this forum, nor was it invented for this forum. (Nor do I see women here "trashing" transgender people but that's a separate issue.) Women don't do anything to transgender people except to ask them to respect our spaces. Men, on the other hand, are responsible 99% of the time for beating up, raping and/or killing transgender people.

Yet we get called TERF? For simply not feeling comfortable with OUR hard-won rights and safe spaces being appropriated or eroded? It's the absolute height of sexism.

I'm explaining why I use the term TERF. Because I'm addressing women. I will start using TERM when I start coming across anti-trans men.

Women are absolutely trashing transgender people. Regularly on DCUM. On this thread, we have "delusional" for starters.

One person used delusional, so now we are all “trashing transgender people.” But you aren’t painting us all with a broad brush. Right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This feels like the same person posting over and over, trying to convince us that it's ok to dislike trans people.

This is exactly how the public gaslit JKR, who actually doesn't hate trans people.

As long as they don't expect any rights, JKR will allow trans people to exist. What else could anyone want (besides rights)?

What rights is Rowling trying to take away from trans people?

She thinks there should be some parameters around accessing public bathrooms and being kept in prison with someone of the opposite biological gender. She is generally fine with trans women accessing bathrooms but would like some parameters to prevent men who aren't trans from entering.

So convicted rapists who self-ID as women now have inalienable rights to be housed in women’s prisons?

Yes, in Scotland. And she is concerned because in some cases, male rapists have identified as female after the arrest and demanded to be housed in a women's prison, where they raped female prisoners. She feels that this is not an acceptable approach.

It should be 100% obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that it’s unacceptable, yet here we are.

I thought so, but the podcast was illuminating about why the trans community is upset about this. They feel that their gender identities are often complicated and don't conform to expectations, and they don't want to leave it to other people to interpret which bathroom or prison is correct for them. They believe people can only reliably determine their sex for themselves, so observable traits like penises are not reliable determinants for things like bathrooms and prisons.

I don’t understand why any of that trumps women’s rights to safety and bodily autonomy.

I wasn't persuaded by it. I think that women are a vulnerable population and that they deserve some protection based on the weaknesses inherent to their biology. But, I previously didn't understand why trans people were upset about any of this, and now it makes sense to me. They think that the risk to women is acceptable when weighed against the risk of not having their gender identity validated by society.

If transwomen want their gender identity validated by society, doesn’t that mean somehow winning the approval of half of society, which is … biological women? How is alienating and turning against half of society a winning strategy to gain general acceptance? Or do transwomen only want to be validated by biological men?

Transgender women are only "alienating" anti-trans women. The rest of us are fine and support all women.

Here’s the thing. Women claiming that they are women isn’t anti-trans. It’s pro-women. And I’m as liberal as they come, but biology is real. There are actual differences between transwomen and women, even those who medically transition. It’s stupid to pretend that there aren’t. It has nothing to do with accepting anyone’s gender identity. But transwomen are taking up all the air in the room when AFAB women need to focus on regaining our rapidly diminishing rights.

You can claim you are a woman. That hasn't changed.

The Republicans are pushing this as a wedge issue - that is why the topic is taking up all of the air in the room.