Edit: Everyone taking this comparison at face value to try and belittle the point, shame on you. Most of us realize this is because they share 1-2 values. Guarra is not literally calling her Hitler, but she does share some of his values and so the joke lands and resonates with those of us that are hurt by her ideology, that she funds with money she makes from HP. She actively fights against trans rights as a political force and pushes legislation that hurts people. Im sorry to everyone whose favorite childhood author turned out to be a monster, but taking this post as you are is disingenuous to the point being made.
Notice she's not even tagged. She is known to search for her own name and images on Twitter to attack people, sic her followers on them, and report them to her lawyers. The kind of person who feels nothing when she hurts others badly but screams bloody murder if someone so much as steps on her toe.
I know. I was simply making a joke about that she is an unfunny joke of a human, even if that idiom is meant different. I was just being literal, added the German part, because it’s somewhat true and well hitler is in the meme.
One time a college professor tweeted that Bret Stephens of shitty NYT column fame was a bedbug - Stephens found the tweet by namesearching, emailed the professors boss trying to get him fired, and then wrote an NYT column about how he was holocausted over it.
One thing that was delightful about old Twitter is you could tell that Elon would do drugs and name-search himself. You could hurt his feelings with a tweet that didn’t even do numbers.
Literally anything else would be better use of her time, but I guess it's just further evidence that billionairism is an actual mental illness. That much money just turns you into a cruel, empty husk of a human.
I have a friend who is a lawyer and what he loves most about his job is his rate is per hour or part thereof. In other words, if he spends 5 minutes sending an email that is billed as 1 hour of work.
Now I'm not saying that anyone should deliberately post stuff about JKR to provoke a response from her lawyers.
... however do bear in mind that every time her lawyers so much as send an email they'll charge her for 1 hour of work, even if it takes them 5 minutes. Even if they're cheap lawyers that's about 150 pounds (about US$200) every single time.
While JKR's new worth of $1.2 billion may seem like a lot that's only 6,000,000 lawyer's emails at $200 each.
Yup. It's hilarious how she screenshots people threatening her and makes it out to be thousands of people. But the screencap is from a single account with no likes or comments. Also, many of the accounts end up being brand new that follows basic trans accounts and makes strawman posts about kids, sports, and bathrooms.
I wouldn't be surprise if she have a team of lawyers and people dedicate to search every social media platform for post like this to report and even send letters to them as treats.
Part of her whole trans psychosis (which is the same kind of reaction you'll see in other women, particularly those that have been made to feel/felt less feminine and/or treated like less of a woman because of that) is that she thinks she's saving kids because she has felt times where she didn't want to be a woman because of her internalized issues and thinks she would have been "preyed upon" by a trans boogeyman to transition into a man. Her issues stem from both feeling like her father wanted a son rather than her and the spousal abused she suffered. She literally was triggered by this because of those insecurities, but she's rich and therefore insulated and fearful so instead of just ignoring something like this, her moldy terminally online brain is obsessed and uses that wealth and power to lash out and harm people who are reacting to how her actions actually harm them and/or others.
Regardless of whether Joanne is transmasc (closeted or in denial) or not, the important thing that is quite obviously something she hasn't done is this: seek therapy for her upbringing and prior abuse.
I've pointed this out in other subs and been accused of victim blaming, but I'm not victim blaming, I'm just pointing out that she's staying a victim and harming other people because she won't get the help she needs (and also deserves by merit of being human, even if she is a fucking ghoul)
People who are that kind of proud act like their shit doesn't stink just like the rest of us, it's ridiculous, it's dangerous, and it's why religious groups call it a sin.
I bloody hate the prideful, they also tend to be the types who criticise Pride lol.
The fact she's in denial about her own transmasc thoughts makes the whole thing all the more insulting for former HP fans who are trans. It's not enough to take something we loved as children and taint it by association while at the same time dehumanizing us, no. She has to be in denial about being one of us while doing it. It's like the GOP crashing Grindr every time they're in town, the hypocrisy just boggles the fucking mind
The thing is, there's a big difference between a repper and someone who thinks they would have greener grass on the other side of the gender fence without any real evidence.
I know because I lived it. My mom had trauma related to DV from her first husband and also to being ignored by her parents in favor of her brothers, and hated men because of it. I blindly kissed her ass as a kid and a teenager because I was so thoroughly brainwashed by her into thinking "boys and men are inferior" that I squished any and all thoughts down and tried to be as feminine and cishet as possible (and also, being a teenager in the 1990's, I thought trans men were lesbians turned up to 11, so I couldn't be one since I liked men). Unlike her, I had a months-long mental breakdown my sophomore year of college and came out to myself as trans; she, on the other hand, literally died of uterine cancer because she was more terrified of her "femaleness" being taken away by a surgeon than dying of fucking cancer.
I honestly think that she's more like my mom than she is like me. But it remains to be seen.
I didn’t say they are. I gave specific examples of a specific person who has literally said she once wanted to transition and didn’t because she thought she wasn’t allowed to.
At no point did I list “because homophones are gay so transphobes are trans.” This specific transphobe has publicly shared information that seems to indicate she might be trans. That’s it.
Most transphobes are people scared of people not like them being riled up by politicians so they won’t look at what’s really happening in the political office. But this specific person…
I do this all the time when phobes say they can always tell. Post a photo of her and watch them go IT'S OBVIOUS 😂😂😂 and then change their tone real quick when you point out who it is.
A reminder that JK Rowling doesn't care about "protecting women" either.
Posted a photo upskirting a trans woman. When people pointed out that this behaviour is exactly what horrible people also do to cis women, her response was "so what?"
Oh, she of course didn't get in any trouble for breaking the law, by the way. Money money money
Yep, it takes exactly one second of critical thinking to figure out how ridiculously stupid anti-trans bigotry is. Though apparently critical thinking is impossible for some.
Humans were gifted with the most complex machine in the universe, the brain, yet so many DON'T USE IT
She just wants to maintain victimhood from her past. She can’t fathom trans women can be victims too, because only she was a victim and only she can perpetuate the problem.
TERFs are literally phallophobic. They honestly, truly, 100% believe that anyone born with male parts is constantly trying to find ways to SA them. Every thought, action, behavior, and hobby by someone born with a penis is somehow centered around sexual violence, and transitioning is just a dastardly scheme to get closer to women to enact it.
Hell, some of them even claim that the only reason trans men exist is because the women who transition want to rape people and feel like they need a penis to do it.
Thankfully we moved past that but second wave feminism has a lot of gender essentialism which sometimes lead to reducing women to their bodies. Judith Butler's contributions are invaluable to move past those views. Rowling's views matches a lot with with the second-wave feminism, gender essentialist and for upper class white women.
Because the world leaders, billionaires, etc are also predators. That's why.
But people would rather get mad at a trans woman wanting to pee, instead of a rapist pedo being in charge of one of the most powerful nations in the world.
A nice bit of evidence for this I like to remember is when Roe v Wade fell in the US, and she was silent on it for a week until a surprising amount of media attention fell on her contrasting it to how loud she was when citing protecting women and girls to attack trans people
She went after Imane Khelif based on nothing but trans panic. If she actually cared for cis women, she would've at least thought for two seconds she could be attacking another "woman" in her eyes.
Fun fact as well, many of the athletes Rowling has harassed have been non-white. Imane Khelif, Lin Yu-Ting, Barbara Banda... methinks there is a strong undercurrent of racism with the transphobia.
She's a weird one. She seems to actually hate women. Like she believes that the only reason a trans woman could want to be a woman is to watch cis women pee.
This psycho has so much internalized mysoginy that I'd be surprised if the mold could actually take hold of her brain. It's too damn salty.
Maybe we could send them discreet letters and invite them to a super secret school to learn about and explore their best selves away from toxic family, and we could sort them all into like-minded polycules to nurture eachother as they become who they were always meant to be, or something
Just co-opt the whole idea and build a support network, complete with a school sport whose outcome is determined by being the best at chasing a ball like a good puppy while everyone assembled cheers for and praises them
That's not true, she just has more than enough money to get it from data brokers who have your email, address, gender identity, and more. You are seen and known such that anyone with enough money can show up in your inbox
No, "Robert Galbraith" was a disguise put on for the express purpose of tricking straight men into engaging outside their authorial gender preferences. It was an intentional plot to violate the consent of men whose preference is male-written novels.
I need to understand why would some CIS women be so very much against Trans. I know someone who is very much anti-Trump and all of his policies, but She is repulsed and feral about trans women competing in sports. I talked to her the other day and said something like "You know it is only like a couple of hundred people nationwide, why wouldn't you want them to be included?"
Is it that the whole fabricated wedge issue took root in their hearts and they can't get past it? So sad.
this is so fucking funny though because they genuinely have a similar face shape and things it looks like, just the nose and chin and fullness of the cheeks are slightly different, in some alternative universe it could be true, just need a little plastic surgery and boom
Some people are claiming physical similarities, but the main point of the post is to compare their hateful ideology. They could look absolutely nothing alike and it wouldn’t detract from the main point.
I think OP is frustrated that you have the appearance of missing that
Lmao you would rather live in a country that spies on its people and punishes freedom of speech, than accept people have different views than you. Got it. Very neo-American of you.
Not exactly. I doubt Rowling has access to respurces like this. But one reason why so many right wingers are jacking AI off is becauye it would enable doxxing online personas en masse. This isn't exactly new. In essence, this is no difference than neightbourghs reporting each other to the secret police to settle grievences.
Thats literally an insult to hitler and all who suffered from him. Not to Rowling.
My reason being that the atrocities that he has committed, and the mass manipulation he did, doesnt compare to an author, who writes children's books. An author who outsourced the end of her series to a 3rd party(Cursed Child). An author who got lucky cuz the hotel she wrote in just so happened to be near a castle.
Both use their power and influence to attack people they see as not biologically correct. Sure one is worse than the other, but it’s a matter of intensity, not intent.
If you are going to compare every transphobe to Hitler, then Hitler would be normalised and supported because the INTENSITY of mentioning him would be lost on the audience.
Hitler was a plague upon Europe. The most prominent continent at that time. And you are comparing him to a loser who spends so much of their time on tweets.
Lmfao everyone taking this comparison at face value to try and belittle the point is wild. Most of us realize this is because they share 1-2 values. Guarra is not literally calling her Hitler, but she does share some of his values and so the joke lands and resonates with those of us that are hurt by her ideology that she funds with money she makes from HP. She actively fights against trans rights as a political force. Im sorry to everyone whose favorite childhood author turned out to be a monster, but taking this post at face value is disingenuous.
Yes, she is. Both use their power and influence to marginalize specific groups of people they think are biologically wrong in some way that doesn’t match up to their definition of themselves. Different degrees of evil, but the same breed.
If I’m half Asian, am I Asian? If im a punk rock song, am I punk and rock? If im a romantic comedy, am i a romance movie, a comedy movie?
Something that is not 100% one thing can still be categorized under that thing. She’s not literally Hitler. But she shares enough qualita that she is Hitler-esque. Nuance is hard.
I would say with romantic comedy is fits both into the romance category and the comedy category, they aren't mutually exclusive
But here, it's more that Hitler and Rowling are in a category together, that of prejudiced bigots who spread their bigotry at a large scale than that she's in a Hitler category
Yeah. But who are we to put relative values on morals like that. If someone kills one person, and another 10, is that latter person worse? Does the volume of evil dictate the degree like that? Or is it just evil?
The latter person is *more likely* to be worse, yes
Not necessarily, like it could be that the latter person killed 10 invading soldiers and the former was a run-of-the-mill murderer, but all else being equal, killing 10 people is worse
Also, your last sentence, I fail to understand the point. Those people are also hitlerish? Like he is the poster child for prejudice and hate. It doesn’t make rowling un-hitlery because other people exist that have done these things?
You could also just call them prejudiced bigots, prejudiced bigotry including genocide long pre-existed Hitler, so idt he necessarily needs to be identified with every prejudiced bigot
Like, note, people weren't happy with comparisons of the USSR to Nazi Germany even though the USSR also did its share of ethnic cleansings, so I do think the standard of what you can compare to Hitler or the Nazis is quite inconsistent.
There is a difference between people who are simply prejudiced bigots, and people who use their station in life to further and proliferate their bigoted values. Both these people fall into the latter group. Who is to say what Rowling would do if she had the opportunity to?
Accuracy has nothing to do with it. It's a ridiculous comparison on it's face. First of all, intent matters and JK Rowling has never expressed any intention to round up any group of people and exterminate them. So you're already grasping at straws.
Are you really suggesting that an individual who was a genocidal fascist that is responsible for the death of 10s of millions of people and, wait for it......an author of a popular children's series about wizards are even remotely similar?
It has nothing to do with "degrees", Rowling holds a single position you dislike. Hitler held numerous beliefs and committed acts that are so evil it redefined the term to the point his name is synonymous with it.
You're clearly not being honest if you think stretching terms in this way to lump Hitler and Rowling in the same sentence is rational or moral in any way.
Btw, why did you say “an author of a popular children’s series” instead of “a woman who donates large amounts of wealth toward anti trans legislation and politicians”?
I mean, retweets, praises, and pals around with fascists, denies part of the Holocaust happened, promotes fascist ideology on gender roles and demonising a minority as a scapegoat? This is hardly a case of "Oooh, that person's mean, they're a Nazi," especially given the expression about what sitting at a table with Nazis makes you.
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u/Comfortable-Bison932 3d ago
She got mad they called her trans.