You know, I never thought about the fact that quidditch, a game that J.K. Rowling came up with herself is non-gendered. Yet she goes onto social media and screams about how we can’t let trans women compete against the pure and innocent cis girls. Fuck off Rowling.
As I understand, she’s a trans-excluding radical feminist, so within her world view that is probably coherent:
Ideally, sports should be non-gendered, like quidditch, because everyone has equal chances anyways.
Where there’s biological differences or social reasons why women have no chance when competing with men, a women’s league should exist, to give women an opportunity for publicity, prizes etc…
Like, the above makes sense, as much as it ever will do. And factually, trans people do blur the line here and point out the fault in this arbitrary system. I can understand having a brainfart, that if only those trans people wouldn’t exist, we wouldn’t have that concept challenged.
But trans people do exist and trans people are fucking fantastic for feminism literally everywhere else. Blurring those lines means that all those systems where cis men are privileged get put into question just as much. It’s so stupid to get hung up on sports and gendered bathrooms.
The reason people are getting stuck up on sports and gendered bathrooms is that it’s a wedge issue that can be weaponized to keep people fighting and distracted by culture war nonsense so the focus isn’t on the building of the Orange Reich, a dozen companies contributing to almost all the climate change, and our economic system working to keep us enslaved.
I think the whole hypocrisy becomes blatantly apparent, when we start talking about transmen. An US veteran transmen made a very nice post i saw many years on reddit. He has a mighty beard and asked, if anyone thinks women feel safer if he is obliged to use their bathroom.
A trans boy beat up a bunch of girls and felt really bad about it. He wants to compete in the boys’ wrestling league, but the transphobes won’t let him because he has a vagina.
The future transphobes want is a man in the girls bathroom and a man beating up your daughters.
There’s a reason terf stands for trans exclusionary.
They don’t really believe in some bullshit biological essentialism where trans men and cis women are categorised together. They just want all trans people gone. Excluded from society.
Biological essentialism is just an excuse to be dicks to trans people.
Yep. Rowling kept up a facade for a while, but even she admits now that she doesn’t even believe trans people really exist. They thing we are confused, malicious, or deluded.
It is gendered, in the old way. Almost every player is male, aside from Cho Chang. The reason womens leagues were created in the first place was to encourage more women to play.
You know, I never thought about the fact that quidditch, a game that J.K. Rowling came up with herself is non-gendered. Yet she goes onto social media and screams about how we can’t let trans women compete against the pure and innocent cis girls. Fuck off Rowling.
As I understand, she’s a trans-excluding radical feminist, so within her world view that is probably coherent:
Like, the above makes sense, as much as it ever will do. And factually, trans people do blur the line here and point out the fault in this arbitrary system. I can understand having a brainfart, that if only those trans people wouldn’t exist, we wouldn’t have that concept challenged.
But trans people do exist and trans people are fucking fantastic for feminism literally everywhere else. Blurring those lines means that all those systems where cis men are privileged get put into question just as much. It’s so stupid to get hung up on sports and gendered bathrooms.
The reason people are getting stuck up on sports and gendered bathrooms is that it’s a wedge issue that can be weaponized to keep people fighting and distracted by culture war nonsense so the focus isn’t on the building of the Orange Reich, a dozen companies contributing to almost all the climate change, and our economic system working to keep us enslaved.
I think the whole hypocrisy becomes blatantly apparent, when we start talking about transmen. An US veteran transmen made a very nice post i saw many years on reddit. He has a mighty beard and asked, if anyone thinks women feel safer if he is obliged to use their bathroom.
A trans boy beat up a bunch of girls and felt really bad about it. He wants to compete in the boys’ wrestling league, but the transphobes won’t let him because he has a vagina.
The future transphobes want is a man in the girls bathroom and a man beating up your daughters.
There’s a reason terf stands for trans exclusionary.
They don’t really believe in some bullshit biological essentialism where trans men and cis women are categorised together. They just want all trans people gone. Excluded from society.
Biological essentialism is just an excuse to be dicks to trans people.
Yep. Rowling kept up a facade for a while, but even she admits now that she doesn’t even believe trans people really exist. They thing we are confused, malicious, or deluded.
Hard agree with this. Its just rage bait distractions.
I’m amused to see we can categorize idiocy. (I don’t have anything against feminism itself btw.)
It is gendered, in the old way. Almost every player is male, aside from Cho Chang. The reason womens leagues were created in the first place was to encourage more women to play.
Comparing a fiction sport to actual sport? That a nice shortcut.
Fuck off, Joanne
You mean equating.