Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I was never on twitter. Can you point me to a concise list of what Rowling said and when she said it?
Most social media posts and online news stories just talk around what she said.
This article is where I was getting the 2018 date from: https://theweek.com/feature/1020838/jk-rowlings-transphobia-controversy-a-complete-timeline
And since in that 2018 incident Rowling was trying to backpedal/downplay it, I assume before that she was keeping the mask firmly on.
I forgot that she published novels alluding to anti-trans tropes under a male penname! Sorry Joanne "Robert Galbraith" Rowling, facts don't care about your feelings.
The thread for collecting HPMoR sneers linked to this timeline, but it's paywalled now:
https://www.vox.com/culture/23622610/jk-rowling-transphobic-statements-timeline-history-controversy