Zip it Eely
Today Elon Musk gave JK Rowling advice on what to write.
The sex/gender issue aside, it’s such an odd thing to say and do. No, of course you may not “suggest” what kind of thing we should “post content” about i.e. discuss. Of course you may not tell us what to talk about. You can ban us from Twitter, but you don’t get to manage us as if we were ballet dancers and you were Balanchine. Get out of here with that crap.
So now of course the “trans allies” are gloating.
Amanda Yen, intern at The Daily Beast:
J.K. Rowling has been on the anti-trans train for years, but her ramblings have gotten so exhausting that even anti-LGBT loudmouth Elon Musk wants her to move on.
Replying to a verbose (700+ words!) post by the Harry Potter author from nearly a month ago, Musk voiced his agreement with the general thrust of her points—which amounted to several blocks of reheated ideas on why she thinks transgender women aren’t women—but gently guided her to other endeavors.
Verbose! What a scandal that she’s verbose! 700 words is way too many to lavish on why trans ideology is a crock of shit. Trans ideology itself of course can perpetrate as many words as it likes.
Indy100 also rushes up to join the excitement.
Harry Potter author J K Rowling’s incessant tweeting about trans people has now reached the point where even “free speech absolutist” and controversial Twitter/X owner Elon Musk is telling the writer to post about something else.
In a lengthy post to the platform last month, totalling more than 700 words, Rowling set out what she believes a woman to be…
Now why on earth would she do that do you suppose? Could it be because so many credulous gomers think a woman is “anyone who says she’s a woman”?
Meanwhile, men still are not women. Dull perhaps, but true.
Incessant tweeting. Could they be more reflexively misogynistic if they tried? Aren’t progressives over the point where they’re not supposed to be telling women to stop expressing opinions. No?
This post by Nick Cohen on J.K. Rowling may interest people.
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/jk-rowlings-triumphr=1orca&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Re #2, I will have to wait for it to be archived, but the opening bit: Radcliffe’s response to a suggestion of apology to JKR and detransitioners was “I will continue to support the rights of all LGBTQ people, and have no further comment than that”? How irritating and totally unsurprising.
She’s producing interesting and positive content during work hours (presumably the next Strike novels); can’t be expected not to let your freak flag fly after hours.
Sackbut, #3; I read a piece the other day (possibly in The Guardian but I can’t find it at the moment) in which Radcliffe referred to Rowling as ‘that person’. Arrogant, hateful little shit!
So male entitlement to find discussion about women’s issues to be not interesting, and to assume everyone else sees it the same way. She IS writing about something interesting, even if it doesn’t interest Elon Musk. And why doesn’t he tell India Willoughby to post about something interesting? Maybe, probably, because he recognizes that Willoughby is a man?
Obviously the gender debate been settled once and for all — since almighty Musk has declared his position on the matter, so let’s talk about things that interest him now, like colonizing Mars, or peculiar baby names.
Theoretically, yes, but in practice they’re more akin to Trumpites: the fewer words the better. Soundbite arguments are so much easier to remember.