Unworthy
Update: I started in medias res here, thinking I’d already shared the origin story, but I must have been to busy swearing about it on twidder. It was this:
/update
It’s even worse than that. The actor who plays Viola, Georgia Frost, is one of the trio who went to JK Rowling’s house and then publicized their visit with the (obviously intended) result that her address was plastered all over social media. A very nasty piece of work. It’s all the more annoying because Viola is a marvelous character and Georgia Frost is clearly not. She doesn’t deserve to play that part.
For this is the very same Georgia Frost who this week appeared in a picture taken outside the Edinburgh home of Harry Potter author JK Rowling.
Frost was standing next to fellow ‘trans activists’, ‘drag king’ Richard Energy (real name Janina Smith) and drag queen Holly Stars.
The picture, which clearly showed Rowling’s address, was posted on social media.
Its effect? To stir up online abuse of the author, who has found herself accused of transphobia ever since she mocked an online article in June 2020 which used the words ‘people who menstruate’ instead of ‘women’.
The trio, whom Rowling has accused of trying to ‘intimidate’ her for ‘speaking up for women’s sex-based rights’, were carrying placards with the messages ‘Trans Liberation Now’, ‘Trans Rights Are Human Rights’, and ‘Don’t Be A Cissy’…
The Mail goes on to detail the abuse that rained down on Rowling as a result of this malicious act.
Much of the onslaught is unprintable. Rowling contacted the police, who said in a statement that they were aware of the incident last Friday and ‘inquiries were continuing’.
Frost, Smith and Stars said they stood by their actions but revealed on social media the following day that ‘while we stand by the photo, since posting it we have received an overwhelming amount of serious and transphobic messages so we have decided to take down the photo’.
They received nasty messages. They don’t say a word about the nasty messages they incited people to send to JKR.
Malicious brat Georgia Frost does not deserve to play Viola.
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things doesn’t belong.
The only way that works is if cis is bad, which is precisely the message that children are getting. Cis is a slur. It doesn’t just mean not trans. It means not trans from within the Genderist framework. An infidel isn’t just someone who isn’t Muslim, but rather someone who isn’t Muslim from within the Muslim framework. It’s the same thing.
Not to mention that “cissy” is clearly a play on “sissy,” which is a term that has long been used to abuse gay men and/or men who don’t conform to gender stereotypes. Way to throw the “LGBs” under the bus to promote the “T”s.
Excellent points.
It’s a bit of mask slippage, isn’t it? “Don’t Be a Cissy” probably sounds about right to this crew because their ideology rests on defending traditional gender roles. There is no room for “sissies” in their world, because gay boys should all be transed.
I mean, “Don’t be a sissy,” is one of the things said to William in William’s Doll. It’s part of the denigration of anything feminine, of stepping outside boys’ social prescription.
Using it straightforwardly as an insult shows the perverse self-hatred at Genderism’s core, among both straight and gay adherents. Just look at the place sissy porn has within the AGP subculture for evidence of that. The sissy is simultaneously a thing to be despised, desired, and envied. It’s all their complex, unresolved confusions and distortions rolled into a singular, near totemic concept. They hate the sissy, but they also want to be the sissy, but they also want the sissy. They’re ashamed of these feelings and turned on by their own shame. (Else degradation wouldn’t play such a part in the fetish.)
Am I missing something? Where is this piece of work playing Viola?
Oops, no, you’re not. I must have thought I’d already posted the origin story here, but I hadn’t. Will amend.
… and the poster lists pronouns for every damn one of them. Sigh.
I’m betting no one was allowed to veto even her/his own listing.