“DIRT BAG”
Oh goody – another man on a site purportedly for women, raging about a woman who writes something he dislikes.
Remember went J.K. Rowling went fully mask off about her transphobia in June, publishing an essay on her personal website about how she thinks trans women pose a threat to cis women’s personal safety? And how she, the second-highest paid author in the world worth at least $670 million, feels “police[d]” by trans randos on Twitter who don’t like her tweets (and all while failing to mention the concurrent worldwide uprising against the actual police that was just getting started at the time, to boot)? I know! Truly bananas! If I were a multimillionaire who hated trans women, I would simply go be rich and transmisogynistic in my Scrooge McDuck-style money vault in peace. The derangement! Unhinged!
But he’s not, he’s a trans woman who hates women, and does it noisily at Jezebel. Harron Walker, he calls himself, and there’s a nice little thing next to his byline where it says “Filed to: DIRT BAG” with a more arrow, under which it lists JK Rowling, Mariah Carey, and the target of his current rage, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Isn’t that cute? Isn’t it winsome? If he didn’t identify as a woman he probably wouldn’t do that, but he does identify as a woman, so I guess calling women he disagrees with “DIRT BAG” is fine. In other words same old same old: trans activism is the new misogyny.
What’s his problem?
Well, at least one person thought the Harry Potter lady’s essay was good: novelist and writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author of Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, and, probably most notably slash perhaps most ironically now, We Should All Be Feminists. In a new interview with The Guardian, Adichie refers to Rowling’s screed as “a perfectly reasonable piece,” calling its author “a woman who is progressive, who clearly stands for and believes in diversity.”
I don’t think feminism needs men like Harron Walker pontificating about the feminism of women like Adichie or Rowling, much less calling them DIRT BAG and sneering at the “irony” of their feminism.
Adichie’s comments are disappointing, obviously, but they’re not exactly surprising. Three years ago, the author faced deserved criticism for saying that she finds the idea that trans women are women “difficult” to accept, countering that “trans women are trans women” and that “gender is not biology.” Hemming and hawing over this for years on end is so mind-numbingly dull. Just call me a dude and let us both get on with our days!
You’re a dude – and a foul-mouthed woman-hating dude at that.
Since JKR has not demonstrated any “transphobia”, the whole argument after that is shit. In fact, any argument that assumes JKR’s “transphobia” is shit. Sorry, can’t get past that false assumption. Non starter. :P
Ok. You’re a dude. Now piss off and stop bullying women.
Funny thing is, “Trans women are trans women” is actually a statement in support of the notion of a ‘gender spectrum’.
I spoke to younger transwomen on reddit a while back. About 3 or 4 of them. None of them had a problem with “transwomen are transwomen.” (These were the kind who are sexually attracted to dudes.)
This is just a grab-bag of woke points, none of them having any relation to any other. What does JKR’s wealth have to do with her feeling policed? What does the current anger against police have to do with her feeling policed? What does JKR’s failure to mention that anger have to do with her feeling policed?
To think this guy calls JKR’s thoughtful essay a screed!
Everything to do with being a living thing is biology.
And everything biology is chemistry. In short, literally nothing to do with feelings, which are part of our biology apparently, but are not the sum total of it. More like an emergent property.
I’ve been wondering what Mariah Carey has done to get into the ‘Dirt Bag’ file, though not enough to actually visit the guy’s site to find out. However, coincidence has me reading Bill Bryson’s Notes From A Big Country, and on p366 is this quote from Carey:
So, why she is in the ‘Dirt Bag’ file is still a mystery for me, but that quote certainly qualifies her for anybodies ‘Questionable Sense of Humanity’ folder.
Just a tad.
I had to read it a couple of times for it to sink in. Jeez.
I note, by the way, that the file is named ‘Dirt Bag’ rather than the more obvious ‘dirtbag’. Could this possibly be to highlight the ‘bag’ part because of course women = bags, and these women are particularly dirty bags rather than mere dirtbags, which is a less-offensive term which could apply to either sex?
Yes. I think it’s very clearly meant to remind us that women are filthy creatures because of that terrifying empty space.