Posted on 06/07/2020 10:57:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling faced another backlash Saturday after issuing a cheeky tweet on sex and gender that opened up a new chapter in her ongoing feud with LGBT advocates.
"If sex isnt real, theres no same-sex attraction," Rowling tweeted to her 14.5 million followers. "If sex isnt real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isnt hate to speak the truth."
Rowling tweeted those comments around 6 p.m. ET. Within an hour, she was trending on Twitter and received thousands of responses.
In another tweet, the U.K.-based author criticized a prominent idea among the left -- that people can menstruate if they're not women. "People who menstruate," she tweeted, linking to an op-ed with that phrasing. "Im sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?" she asked sarcastically.
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But that isnt always where it hits hardest.
These cretins are violent and threaten their families never mind their own bodies. Happened before, itll happen again.
Where you been. lady? There are people out there who will ruin you or even kill you if you speak the truth.
"She turned Dumbledoor into a fag!"
“It isnt hate to speak the truth.”
Where has the idiot been for the last 10 years (or longer)?
Hey, the trannies better back off, Rowling knows fantasy when she see it.
She’s rich enough, and popular enough, to withstand the barrage of criticism. Nobody can get her fired.
Perhaps she even discovered that she doesn't have to listen to everyone telling her how to spend it.
Of course it is...where the hell have you been???
"Brawndo. It's got electrolytes."
Climate Change. Bad.
Alar. Bad
Killer bees. Bad
The Next Ice Age. Bad.
Radon Gas. Bad.
Nuclear power. Bad
Electric Cars. Good.
Windmill power. Good.
Masks on the un-infected prevents Covid-19. Good.
Putting sick people in nursing homes. Good.
Black Lives Matter. Good
Antifa. Good.
Leftists really are that stupid. Convince me we should let them live.
In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. Ones standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.
Theodore Dalrymple, "Our Culture, What's Left Of It?"
Nuclear power. Bad
= = =
Stalin would jail scientists that did not follow their screwed up approach.
Except the Nuke scientists. They were allowed to real work.
It is simply too expensive to build a plant when 75% of the costs is eaten up in regulatory inspections, permissions and massive overkill safety requirements.
And then the Greens will sue you, and with judge shopping, they can ALWAYS find a friendly and stupid judge.
Will J.K. Rowling be cancelled by the left?
Yes.
Oh thanks for that image. Good thing dinner is hours away. :)
Sorry about that :-)
Neither is "wrong" per say.
Mentally ill people have been identifying as impossible things since there have been mentally ill people.
You can identify as a supernova if you like. However it is wrong to try to use political and social pressure to force other people to go along with their delusion.
Bruce Jenner got accollades and Rachel Dolezal got fired. I guess it’s A-OK for NAACP to fire someone because their skin is white?
Gender is fluid because it is a language term and language has to be fluid.
Aviatrix was the feminine gender term for a female who flew air planes which has fallen into disuse as the gender neutral term "Pilot" came into common usage.
The correct word for the state of being biological man or a woman is sex. It has always been sex.
Sex is solid because it is based in biology. It is not fluid. A mammal, which is what humans are, has only two sexes, male and female. That is immutable.
Yes.
That is using political and social pressure to force other people to go along with certain delusions. As I have stated, that is wrong. Not illegal as the laws are written but wrong. There is a difference.
I guess its A-OK for NAACP to fire someone because their skin is white?
They can fire someone for having Limburger sandwiches for lunch if they like.
Unless you have an employment contract that says you can only be fired for certain reasons during a specified length of time it is a-ok to fire someone for any number of reasons.
Now we do currently have laws saying you can not fire someone for certain reasons one which is for racial heritage. If the NAACP fired her because of her skin shade she would have a cause for legal action against them.
Now if she represented herself as being of a certain racial heritage on her application for employment and she is not of the heritage then they can fire her for lying on her employment form with no repercussions.
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