Have some more stones to throw at the witch
Another treacherous ungrateful shit joins the pack.
Rupert Grint has become the latest Harry Potter cast member to speak out in response to author JK Rowling’s recent comments on transgender issues.
In a statement, the actor – Ron Weasley in the Potter films – said “I firmly stand with the trans community”.
What a treacherous self-serving shit. By saying that he implies that Rowling stands against “the trans community.” By saying it he implies that she’s malevolent and harmful and bad, and needs to be ostracized and monstered by shits like him and Radcliffe and Watson.
“Trans women are women. Trans men are men. We should all be entitled to live with love and without judgment.”
But they’re not. Trans women are not women; that’s what “trans” means. Trans men are not men; that’s what “trans” means. It’s a lying bullying slogan worthy of 1984 and people should stop robotically repeating it on command.
As for being entitled to live with love and without judgement – that’s bullshit too. No we should not all be entitled to that. Love is relational, and it’s not subject to command or coercion. Judgement is inevitable in life, and nobody is entitled to say “Judge all those other types of people but not my type – I get to be immune from judgement.”
Grint, now 31, told The Times: “I firmly stand with the trans community and echo the sentiments expressed by many of my peers.”
Yeah exactly – it’s a creed, and you recite it obediently just like your peers. High five.
The BBC ends the article with
A school in West Sussex has dropped plans to name a house after Rowling, saying it did “not wish to be associated” with her views.
Her views that women are women and men are not women.
Can someone point me to exactly what Rowling said/wrote about trans people rather than anyone else’s commentary on what she said?
“Mr. Grint, which of her statements—exactly—do you disagree with?”
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling
@James
Here’s her explanatory essay:
https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/
This bizarre bromide that we get to live free of “judgment” is certainly a sign of the First World mindset. Really? Then why does Rowling not get to live free of judgment?
Oh well, now that this clown has shot his woke load, he can go back to being a nobody.
Also Jim did you mean to sign in with a different name? That’s why your comment got held for a bit, until I saw it.
It looks like very little of the courage and loyalty that Rowling wrote into Harry, Ron, and Hermione managed to rub off onto the actors who portrayed them.
At some point, I’m sure that all three of them will regret this response.
So many people, that if they took the small amount of time out of their lives to find out what JKR’s views really are, would actually be allied with her, only to give in to herd mentality bleeding-heartism in support of people who don’t deserve the time of day. Fashionably in line with the trendy, wrongheaded, loud, pseudo-victims. Really disgusting how these clowns who play make believe for a living can’t support a righteous woman and her absolutely spot on viewpoints. To hell with them, they were cute kids in the movies, but now we see how ugly they are in thier real lives. It’s not JKR who ruined Harry Potter for me, it’s the little ingrate actors who now go against her for no good reason, just to say they ally themselves with the illegitimate, mysoginist trans bastards. So disgustingly stupid and cowardly.
Was wondering when he would get around to joining the pile on… Glad Rickman is dead…
I’m not glad Rickman is dead, I would hope, were he still alive, that he would be mature enough to stand in support of JKR. He was one of the bright lights of the HP movies in my opinion. Maybe some of the other actors who are more reasonable and literate will show their support of her, if they aren’t too cowardly to be called TERF or transphobic, which are basically meaningless, childish, playground taunts. Grow up, people!
By mischaracterizing Rowling’s position as an “attack” against trans people, instead of a defence of the health and safety of women and girls, woke twitter gets to add another charge on the docket, namely her timing. “She chooses now, in the midst of a pandemic, during the worst racial strife in America in fifty years, to escalate her campaign against the most marginalized and downtrodden minority in the world? What amonster! Where are her priorities?” It’s a little different when her actions are portrayed for what they are, an action on behalf of more than half the human population of the planet. Words matter. Perspectives matter. Even fucking headlines matter. In the current media climate, more will hear (and believe, on no more than the word of others) that Rowling is a TERF than will read her own words on the subject.
If standing up for the legitimate boundaries, rights and safeguards of girls and women constitutes an “attack” on trans “rights,” then trans “rights” need some major reformulation. Any movement or campaign that insistantly seeks to erode, bypass, or remove any of the boundaries, rights and safeguards established for the benefit and protection of girls and women deserves all the pushback and resistance it gets.
I can imagine how this all transpired: JKR is quoted saying something contrary to the notion of reality being purely a created fiction and, ironically, this one version is the one we all have to abide by (how does that work really?) So the zealots ambushed each and every person JKR has ever worked with and cornered them. Seeing how honesty was working out in JKR’s case it was just easier to accept the alternate reality – not particularly brave but understandable. Now we are all left having to argue with and being demonized by the biological equivalent of flat earthers – some of whom have enough scientific credentials that they should know better.
Pliny, yes ‘credentials’ ain’t what they used to be. I’m still appalled at the so called PhD’s that are churned out to idiots who can’t take the time or mental effort to understand even the most basic of things that I learned in grade school, and it wasn’t a particularly good school at that. Sometimes just taking the time to read quality writing and making an effort to understand it makes all the difference, whether you agree with it or not. But knee jerk disagreement with the Cliff’s Notes version of anything is lazy and ignorant. 280 character tweets are woefully lacking in any real understanding of anything.
“Your Name’s not Bruce? June 12, 2020 at 5:48 pm
“At some point, I’m sure that all three of them will regret this response.”
One could wish . . . but I wouldn’t hold your breath.
As actors, none of them have gone anywhere. They’re all 60’s 2D Disney actors – chosen to fit very narrow roles for a few “episodes”. Now they’re grasping for straws – maybe they should try singing – it seems to have worked out well for other Disney child choices.
The franchise machine denied them normal childhoods, and social media denies them the ability to develop an adult relationship with the real world.
Yes, they get regular rotation with Colbert and Jimmy Whichever, but . . . regardless, if they ever do regret this dribbling, it’s unlikely anyone will ever know.
“twitter June 12, 2020 at 6:25 pm
I’m not glad Rickman is dead, I would hope, were he still alive, that he would be mature enough to stand in support of JKR.”
For sure!
No matter how much trivial irrelevance this nonsense may spray onto the film versions, the child actors at best lucked into adequate characterizations. It is invariably the adult actors who drew you in to the world. Alan Rickman’s characterization of a character as apparently slippery as Snape over so many films is possibly unprecedented in film. There was an incredible level of understanding and trust between author and actor going on there – it’s extremely unlikely Rickman would be supportive of this nonsense.
I mean, I’d hope that he’d do the right thing but I’m not optimistic… Likewise with Terry Pratchett (though given the transparency if his thinking if you read enough if his books I suspect he might not be shitty).
Funny thing about villians in dramatic roles, they usually steal the show. Not quite so with Rowling’s work, the truly bad guys are rather underdeveloped and hollow, and the interesting characters are the ambiguous ones, Snape, Lupin, Sirius Black, Lucius Malfoy, etc. Mostly well played in my opinion, not to mention the brilliant Maggie Smith, Kenneth Branagh (who’s production of Hamlet is still my favorite, btw), Robbie Coltrane, John Hurt, Emma Thompson, etc., who all did pretty great jobs in the HP movies as good guys. A lot of the actors involved in the HP movies have not publicly weighed in on the subject, probably to their credit, but i would be nice to see some support of JKR, as she has done nothing so wrong but exercise her right to tell it like she sees it, and how she sees it seems pretty agreeable to me.
It would be nice to see more public support of JKR, but I think people are now well aware of the cost of such support. This one simple truth, that only women are women, has become the most blasphemous thing one can say in public. Lost jobs, cancellation, inquisition-scale persecution… if someone really loves being an actor, she can’t afford to pay that price. The worst places one can utter the New Heresy are Hollywood, Academia, and Silicon Valley.
Papito, I would add Broadway, though it gets less attention. My life lived with one foot in Science and one foot in Theatre threatens to pull me apart, but since I am as firmly grounded in science as I need to be, I do resist the tugging on that other foot to go off in the direction of this sort of nonsensical thinking, but my experience is that theatre people are very definitely woke. So woke they appear to be high on caffeine. And another sad thing about theatre is that they are often only poorly informed, tending to read only that which agrees with what they have chosen to accept, and always, always, always going with the most “progressive” view, as stated by the guardians of the gate.
And there are a lot of women in theatre that have declared themselves men or non-binary. I haven’t met much in the way of men that have, but for a while, so many of the actors were transing I wondered whether we would be able to fill any women’s parts, though only for young women (which is the age group most women’s parts are written for). Older women, not so much a problem, but also many fewer parts written for them.
Thanks for providing the link. I can now read her actual views
James is my birth certificate name. Jim is what I’m usually called.
I guess I somehow changed things so my official name gets put in almost automatically
I changed it for you. If you decide you’d rather be more formal you can always do it again next time!
That’s a powerful essay. When I was a young woman, I sort of believed I was going through something so odd, so different, that I was a freak. No one talked about domestic abuse. The girls at my school were all upbeat, preppy, peppy…no doubt a lot of them were hiding horrors, too, but no one ever saw, anymore than anyone ever saw my scars.
As I aged, I learned that my story is unfortunately too common. I have only now started writing about it, for the same reasons Rowling gave – not because I’m ashamed, but because it is still so difficult. I sometimes find myself shaking with fear and anger as I write, and have to stop, go back to safer writing, breathe.
That’s the biggest problem, isn’t it? At least if you survive, if you escape it, the biggest problem is that the fear remains. It doesn’t take much to bring back the memory, to bring back the fear. And they want me to allow men in the same bathroom with me, to call me a bigot if I so much as jump and start in fear when a big male with thick muscles walks in the room where I am vulnerable. I cannot do it; I cannot remain calm. It is impossible. I have spent years in therapy, and am still in therapy. I rarely talk about my fear, only my depression. For some reason, fear seems shameful. We value strength so much in our society, it is hard to discuss fear even with a sympathetic therapist who is paid to listen to me and not call me horrible names.
I couldn’t explain my fear to my husband when we were dating. I finally took my writing over to his house, mostly my poetry, and left it with him to read. He struggled to deal with the pain he saw, but then we were able to talk. He still finds out most of it by reading my writing, because I still struggle to talk about it, even with someone who is loving, kind, and sympathetic. And who is angry a hell that I was treated that way.
And the goddamn trans activists exploit this fear. Oh, I don’t think they are as unaware as some people say, trying to give them a pass. They know we are afraid, and they turn it against us. They use it to gain our compliance, our weak little cries and whimpers saying don’t hit me again, I’ll be good, transwomen are women, here, have my rights, I don’t need them as much as you do. Yes, they see our fear, like predators on the prowl. They are men, trained to dominate women, trained to see themselves as entitled, and they express every bit of their man-cave training in shouting at, threatening, and battering women.
Sorry for the long rant. Sometimes a person just needs to get it off their chest. I’m crying right now, and I don’t like to cry. I trained myself a long time ago not to cry because it spurs them to hit you harder. Now I’m crying, and I can’t help it. Maybe it’s time for me to have a headline: J. K. Rowling made me cry, and I’m not sorry.
Iknklast:
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