TMV

Unusually stupid.

How did Rowling attack “the most vulnerable population in the world”?

So…rapists who identify as women are the most vulnerable population in the world? No, I don’t think that can be right. There’s the being a rapist bit first of all – raping isn’t being vulnerable, it’s being raped that’s being vulnerable. Then there’s the part about being a man. Men who rape: most vulnerable in world? No, I’m not buying that.

Let’s think of some genuinely vulnerable populations in the world. Women in Afghanistan, there’s one. Then you can add women in a long long long list of countries – women are vulnerable because of religious misogyny, because of poverty, because of violence, because of preferential treatment for sons and brothers, because of tradition – the list is long.

Uighurs. People in Somalia, people in Syria, people on Pacific islands that are disappearing because of climate change, people in countries torn apart by war, people in authoritarian countries, people in areas ruined by drought, people who have lost everything in wild fires – I could go on like this for hours. There are literally billions of very vulnerable people in the world, and I don’t think for one second that men in prosperous countries who identify as women are anything like as vulnerable as that. Many are subject to ridicule or hostility or both, I don’t doubt that, but the hyperbole that’s built up about how “vulnerable” they are is ludicrous. And as for rapists – which was the subject of Rowling’s tweet – how about the vulnerability of the woman raped? Eh?

AngryBlackLady full of shit on this one.

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