Zeroing in on what matters
Well, that’s quite something.
Ooooh yes, that’s the important thing here – not the rapist who pretends to be a woman, not the rapist who pretends to be a woman by wearing slasher fingernails and platinum hair where his face is supposed to be, not the rapist who pretends to be a woman and wants to be in a women’s prison so that he can terrorize and prey on them – no no no no no, the important thing here is that JK Rowling mentioned his name (which has been widely reported in mainstream news outlets).
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Updating to add another hot take.
No it isn’t, actually. Not everyone – nowhere near everyone – agrees that “deadnaming” is a thing at all, let alone “a form of persecution” let alone “a form of persecution of a vulnerable minority” by which he means a woman doing it to a man who is a convicted rapist. So no, “deadnaming” in the sense of using the real name of a convicted rapist is very far from recognised as a form of persecution of a vulnerable minority. The rapist is not the vulnerable party here.
Rapists (and others who commit violent or serious crimes) don’t get to change their names to hide their crimes. That’s a legitimate legal ground to deny someone a change of name.
“Deadnaming” is merely your framing of the issue. “Correctly identifying” is what ordinary people call it. Telling the truth is not “persecution.” That’s just another part of the fantasy world of pretending that men can be women, when they simply can’t.
Correctly identifying dangerous criminals is not the “bad action” in this scenario. If you can’t tell that, your moral compass is seriously out of whack.
Women tend not to rape. Women don’t have penises. I would say that any “transwoman” who has been CONVICTED of rape has lost their [imaginary in any case] “woman” privileges. They have exposed themselves as a predatory male.
And all this crapola about accusing the entire transwomen population of guilt by association based on a “few” “bad-apples” is missing the entire point.
The point is that men (as a demographic) are much more violent than women. And some of that violence is directed towards women. Which makes us [men] a statistical danger to women. And men who (for whatever reason) claim to be transwomen are (it seems) just as prone to engage in that violence as men who do not.
So just as women don’t know which man in the traditionally men’s clothes is a threat, they don’t know which man with the wig, lipstick, minidress, Lee Press-On Nails is a threat.
I wonder why so many people these days only recite the first half of the saying. The full saying? It only takes a few bad apples to spoil the whole barrel.
To my mind, that means that anyone saying that it’s only a few bad apples is admitting that the whole barrel is spoilt.
Women traditionally changed our names on marriage. It has always been a legal requirement for us to disclose all previous names on official forms, applications for employment, etc. No woman has ever suggested that someone using her previous name was trying to kill her, or that they were behaving abhorrently.
But this misplaced sympathy and brotherly affection for a rapist who is as blatant an example of fakery as anyone could wish for, and thus a perfect example for the cult to disavow, shows more than anything else that they know that it’s all fakery; they have to collect everyone under the umbrella or admit that no-one belongs there.
Re bad apples, I came across a good history of the adage and the reversal of meaning. The 1970 song “One Bad Apple” by the Osmonds may have played a role in the popular reversal.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/one-bad-apple-spoil-the-barrel-metaphor-phrase
Let’s see, you’re not supposed to tell a rape victim how to feel about predatory males. So this Ryan John Butcher is telling J. K. Rowling, a rape victim, how to feel about predatory males. Got it. Typical rubber and glue thing.
As a previous rape victim myself, I find his behavior more than repugnant; I find it threatening.
When it comes to class, Rowling has eleventy times eleven times more of it than these guys.
Can we hope that the locution as a bona fide homosexual is a sign that the word homosexual is being proudly reclaimed by those starting to notice that gay-and-lesbian has become tainted by such misogyny? The bourgoisie will be so pleased to get the word gay back.
Hold on, I thought that the current narrative was that “trans women” are not a threat to women, it is the predatory men that are. Isn’t complaining about deadnaming this particular rapist an admission that he is actually a “trans women” and, therefore, that “trans women” can constitute such a threat? Good to know.
Demanding consistency is transphobic!
“Deadnaming” is an imaginary thought crime. Yeah, in reality it’s just telling the truth, whether you’re referring to a violent criminal like Adam Graham or a despicable cheater like Will “Lia” Thomas or Rhys “Rachel” McKinnon, alias “Veronica Ivy”. Same as “misgendering.” These are men and no one should feel pressure to lie about it. I realize that the UK had this ridiculous thing called a “non-crime hate incident” that police were required to waste their time on, but I’m in the US and don’t have to worry about that.
And “trans-identified males” is much more accurate than “transwomen.”