Dear Sandy
Ouch. That’s gotta sting.
Dear Sandy,
While you've been in charge at Rape Crisis Scotland, a man now serving time in prison for multiple sexual assaults was 'treated' at the Edinburgh centre.
The man in charge of the Edinburgh centre called rape survivors who wanted single sex services 'bigots.' 1/9 pic.twitter.com/Fzbwfueqo7
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 22, 2024
You claim I misrepresented what happened at the meeting at which rape survivors were harangued by your trans activist partner, who shouldn't have been there at all. Here's the survivors' own account of what happened.
3/9https://t.co/UVtJUmGp3r— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 22, 2024
I can only assume your cosy relationship with the SNP government, which is a big fan of gender identity ideology, made you feel untouchable. 5/9
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 22, 2024
Perhaps you should 'reframe your trauma', as the man you backed publicly told rape survivors to do? Or we could have an in-person meeting where you express your pain, and my partner, who you didn't know would be present, harangues you – exactly as you did to rape survivors? 7/9
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 22, 2024
You've placed higher importance on validating trans-identified men than on needs of female survivors. If I'm not moved by your tears, it's because too many women have cried as a consequence of the ideology you insisted they should embrace they were at their most vulnerable. 9/X
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 22, 2024
I particularly like “Perhaps you should reframe your trauma.”
I think “Dear Sandy” should become the instantly recognizable label for a decisive, lethal retort.
I’ve recently seen quite a bit of this tactic of appealing to pity to avoid criticism for a job poorly (or horrifically) done. Sony just lost something like $400 million on a failed game, and several of the developers involved have tried to get people to shut up about it by framing any critique as cruelty, deploying familiar phrases like “emotional labor”.