I made the mistake of going to her Twitter to see the actual tweet but I couldn’t find it in the fucking ocean of anti-trans shit she is tweeting and retweeting.
Including the Communist Party of Great Britain too when they put out an anti-trans statement. She has completely lost her mind.
This is another reason why you shouldn’t have billionaires. Now that they don’t gotta work, all they do is tweet (see also Elon).
Argghhhh that’s not what the quote means arrrghhh!
Trans people have always existed and language is catching up. Nothing has been renamed, we just gave names to things that didn’t have them before. There isn’t any contrivance there, that’s just how language do be all the times. It’s almost as precisely as far away from the mark as you could get from that quote.
There was a super cute story in one of my Polynesian anthropology textbooks. So a teenager named “Maria” kept acting like a boy and hooking up with girls. So the village got together and had a renaming ceremony. Maria became Mario. Got married to a woman a few years later. Adopted some kids. Everyone moved the fuck on.
There were some like…fairly minor things to get around when I was way younger but that was mostly cause abolishing gender as a concept had been sorta the stance I had learned and it took a bit of learning to get to where I fully understood things or at least as much as I do now, but it never once occurred to me thst being trans wasn’t valid or anything. Like even if deep down I never believed it, that wouldn’t really matter cause it’s what other people wanna do with themselves.
My pet theory is that gender identity is such a crucial part of their identity that the idea of someone transitioning melts their identity in a way that, say, racism does not. Like racism melts their brains but some white dude who is all hopped up on that still has to see non whites when they crawl out of their hole. Does that make sense? Like it reaffirms that “those people are different” while a trans person isn’t playing by “their rules” hence all the weirdos obsessed with their brainwormed idea that a celeb is secretly trans. Sorry I’m not good at fully articulating the theory yet, it’s total armchair psychology, but that’s the vibe I read.
Dont you think its sad? They could do anything they want but they spend their time on that site.
Im a complete loser and severly mentally ill yet even i have better things to do than to go there.
Its like midas shit you have all the gold but you are still miserable.
it actually comforts me a little like as miserable and suicidal I am, I know I’m more fulfilled than jkr or chaya raichik
Imagine the opportunity cost of being on Twitter as a rich person. Any second you’re scrolling through paid content (I feel that Rowling doesn’t know about adblock) is a second where you can’t sleep, eat genuine wasabi, do LSD on a super soft carpet or fund and organize domestic [redacted]
in a parallel universe, another bubble of expanding spacetime seperated by unimaginable physical distances, there lies an exact copy of Earth down to the subatomic level, although existing nearly two hundred years in the “past”. a man, Friedrich Engels, the unremarkable son of factory owners, is again having another late night discussion with his best friend and comrade.
suddenly he feels a sharp, cold almost knife-like sensation start at the top of his spine and end at his tailbone. he immediately doubles over and throws up.
“too much to drink?” his friend asks. “no Karl. I just felt something i can’t describe.”
Even J.K. Rowling is reading theory.
:mao-shining:
What’s your excuse?
Go at it slowly and use a dictionary. Learning how to read something dense and information based should really be taught in schools but since doing so might require sticking to one book over a couple grades that isn’t happening with how things are. Now i find it odd when I read something written with modern language that’s also meant to entertain. My brain is like ‘oh right, books can also be movies that you read.’
