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recent bookmarks from jmAlice Goldfuss clarifies JK Rowling's "dress however you please" anti-trans comments2019-12-20T13:23:35+00:00
https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/1207733012290400256
jmJK Rowling hates trans people, but I want to talk a little bit about the *way* she hates them so you can recognize it in the wild.
She says “Dress however you please” and “Call yourself whatever you like”
At first glance it sounds supportive, but it isn’t
It’s disengaging
She is taking a very real and concrete issue (the acceptance of trans people as humans with full rights and respect in society), minimizing it to some surface level features (appearance and names), and then abdicating any responsibility
She is purposefully mischaracterizing trans people as adults playing dress-up and then claiming to be fine with that...at a distance
The language she uses is similar to language used to minimize gay people
“You can kiss whoever you want behind closed doors!”
It’s also similar to the old favorite “I don’t care if you’re black, white, or purple!”
Purple people don’t exist, but now they’ve minimized the issue of racism and swept it away while claiming to be supportive
All of these phrases add up to the same message:
“I support you, as long as you don’t change my experiences or inconvenience me in any way.”
And that’s not actual support
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