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submitted 5 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

It was no April Fool’s joke.

Harry Potter author-turned culture warrior J.K. Rowling kicked off the month with an 11-tweet social media thread in which she argued 10 transgender women were men — and dared Scottish police to arrest her.

Rowling’s intervention came as a controversial new Scottish government law, aimed at protecting minority groups from hate crimes, took effect. And it landed amid a fierce debate over both the legal status of transgender people in Scotland and over what actually constitutes a hate crime.

Already the law has generated far more international buzz than is normal for legislation passed by a small nation’s devolved parliament.

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[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee -3 points 5 months ago

I haven't read her shit in years, but I remember reading something like a decade ago, and there's a straight line from the 'goddess feminism' of the 80s, which seemed like her thing, to terf shit. Please don't make me look it up; only one of us has to see this to convince you.

I'm sure she doesn't think she hates (cis)women. None of them do; not even dudebro Nazis.

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I'm not putting it on you to prove it or convince me, but just as a general statement, I need solid and concrete proof before I ascribe a feeling to someone else contrary to their own claims. Something that's generally a bit of an asshattery thing to do imo since they're the one feeling their feelings and I can't actually know.

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Generally valid, but fascists are kind if an exception, because they're never honest, and taking them at their word is rude to everyone else.

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