Vocabulary war
News outlets need to stop adopting the language of trans ideology.
“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling was hit Monday with renewed criticism calling her views transphobic as she releases her latest book, a mystery novel about a serial killer who dresses as a woman to prey on his victims.
The novel, “Troubled Blood,” is to be published Tuesday as the fifth installment in the “Cormoran Strike” detective series, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Strike’s latest mystery revolves around a cisgender man who dresses as a woman, according to a review from The Telegraph.
There’s no such thing as “cisgender.” Referring to “a cisgender man” makes about as much sense as referring to “a man with a head.”
I also don’t much like that “Rowling was hit Monday” in the opening sentence; looks too much like wishful fantasy.
The theme is being called out by those who have highlighted Rowling’s history of sharing transphobic opinions online
Aaaaand by the third paragraph we’ve tipped our hand: Rowling is assumed guilty and the people bullying her are assumed stunning and brave.
Some tweeted that although Rowling is still alive, her career is most likely dead, while others imagined Rowling gone so they could enjoy the “Harry Potter” series without associating the novels and films with her.
“in memory of jk rowling,” one user tweeted. “she ain’t dead, but she killed her own career by proudly hating trans people & no one would really miss her that much anyway #ripjkrowling”
All this is fine, apparently.
Actress Cynthia Nixon spoke about the impact of Rowling’s comments on her transgender son, Samuel, in an interview with The Independent posted Monday. Nixon said the author’s comments were “really painful” for her 23-year-old, who has loved the “Harry Potter” series throughout his childhood.
So Cynthia Nixon is encouraging her offspring to live a delusion, and also expects the world to do the same. Not a very reasonable approach.
The rest of the piece is all the usual guff. It’s pathetic.
Jesus, so Nixon “dissected” JKR’s tweets and it was “painful” for her 23 year old transgender son? Really? How much dissecting did she do? Nothing Rowling has said could even remotely be considered an attack on trans people or anything of the kind. Sounds like some bandwagoning going on. Poor trans youth person, so hurt by a tweet, so much pain. How terrible for you, you wealthy, illiterate snowflake.
Deciding to call any disagreement with Gender Identity Theory “transphobic” was a brilliant vocabulary move on their part. One immediately pictures people moving their seat on the bus.
Perhaps some TRA’s think a few more rape and death threats might teach Rowling to stop “hating.”
It’s been a while since I read her monumental letter on trans issues. Wasn’t it basically that transwomen pressuring lesbians to have sex with them was problematic and also that some girls with other issues were being fast-tracked into transitioning and quite a few were coming to regret it?
Cynthia Nixon has built her career on pretending to be someone she is not. That’s called “acting” or “performing”.
Am I surprised that her son has learned from his mother’s skills?
And did Cynthia Nixon miss the memo about pronouns? Surely Samuel is not a “he”, but a “they”.
A “cisgender man who dresses as a woman” is redundant, by the terms of the trans cult. If TWAW, then the only kind of man who can dress as a woman is a “cisgender” man.
@5 Papito, you’re simply too logical. :)
@Papito;
Not at all: a transman could be in disguise, or doing drag.
If an adult finds it “very painful” to be called female, that adult’s inability to process or accept plain reality is the issue. And the solution to this issue is not to demand all people refer to her as a man, as that would be a request to replace one person’s inability to deal with their own body, to a societal requirement to lie about that person’s body. And so that person’s mental well-being becomes contingent on other people, rather than having to work through it themselves.
Hit post too soon.
Psh, worry-wort! You act as if mass fantasies about someone’s death ever spill over into action! Since when does that ever happen?!
/most obvious sarcasm ever
Holms, I somehow missed the part where Nixon’s daughter is 23. I thought we were talking about a child here.
Yeah, Cynthia, this one’s on you. If you raised a kid so fragile that, at twenty-three, she gets bent out of shape by someone who’s not even talking to her, then you did a poor job of parenting there. And get that poor young lady some belated therapy.
Twenty three‽ And needing tweets to be interpreted by her mother‽ I was a married mother myself at twenty-three. And autistic, into the bargain. My mother wouldn’t have dreamt of telling me how to interpret what I read.
I read the Harry Potter series as each book came out, to my youngest sons. My grandchildren have read/are reading them too. Everyone, including me, enjoyed them immensely – not one has based their self-esteem on being a Harry Potter Fanatic, though.
tigger, my mother stopped interpreting (or even knowing) what I read for me as early as 13. My teachers taught me well; she taught me well; I was able to figure out what things meant and what they meant to me without a mother hovering over me explaining every damn word. I would have hated that; she would have hated that. We both had better things to do with our lives. (Well, I did. She mostly preferred to spend the day in bed, but I suppose if that’s what you want to do, that’s doing better things with your life.)
This is just another aspect of helicopter parenting.
iknklast, I wonder if there’s a correlation between helicopter parenting and ROGD.
I grew up in a culture that expected parents to hand over as much responsibility to their children as possible at the appropriate age. So, a mother would be expected to do everything for a baby, let a toddler feed themselves and dress themselves (with a little help until they could manage to get most of them on the right way round), let a child of eight run errands (and keep an eye on younger siblings) and walk themselves to school. By the time we reached our teens, we were pretty much trusted to keep ourselves amused after school and at weekends, so long as we had finished our homework on time and turned up for meals.
I pretty much raised my kids the same way, and they have raised/are raising theirs to be independent adults by the time they are legal adults. NB that doesn’t mean we don’t give help and support whenever they need or want any! It’s just that we don’t try to live their lives for them.
Even back then, though, we all knew of children (usually singletons) whose mothers did everything for them until well after the age we’d been doing stuff for ourselves. Including their homework. It must have been so very boring for those mothers, having to stay at home all day, that living through their children was the only way they could feel fulfilled. To be honest, with five children and a 24 hour business, I didn’t have time to helicopter even if I had wanted to (and I really didn’t).
tigger, that sounds very much like where I lived. Coupled with the fact that my mother was the laziest person I have ever known, and we were quite independent early. My mother loved it when I got to college and no one expected her to do any contact with the school anymore even for the smallest of things, like calling me in sick.
That’s why I get so shocked today when my students say “I couldn’t pick up my homework assignment because my mother changed my password and didn’t tell me what it is” or I get calls from parents following up on dear little Junior – who is a legal adult and in charge of his/her own records. Parents struggle to understand why I will not just tell them what they want to know. Sorry, must have signed permission from adult student…I have gotten screamed at a few times.