Ms Rowling: insightful critic of gender policy or myopic [insult]

[parmalee]

Agreed that she should not be "cancelled." But given how often she is quoted, interviewed and invited to speak, she has not been.

There's a tendency for people to get pushback when they cite an unpopular viewpoint - whether it's anti-trans rhetoric, Nazism, people should eat less meat, whatever. All too often, overly sensitive types characterize this pushback as "being cancelled." But as long as the person being "cancelled" is loudly complaining about it, and people like yourself are echoing that - they are, by definition, not being cancelled.

As I have said before, she's a member of an older generation, one whose Overton window simply cannot move to allow trans rights. Her opinion is, of course, as valid as anyone else's - if somewhat bigoted.

Yes. By and large, talk of "cancelling" is pretty much a strawman. No one is being silenced or censored, and those who have, say, lost positions or their "standing" within society are overwhelmingly people who have committed pretty heinous offenses which are ofttimes even criminal.

Then of course, there are those who do not lose any of these things; but rather, are rewarded with the presidency and positions within the president's cabinet

 

[Tiassa]

Racism is important in discussing transsexualism because?

Racism and misogyny are very similar.

Again you prove a point:

I really don't take this site too seriously, so I may reflect that.

You told us who you are. You've made good on that. People take you seriously at their own risk.

 

[parmalee]

Racism and misogyny are very similar.

Though here I was more interested in the strawman-ish fixation on "cancelling" and suppression of speech and where it intersects with the curious confusion over whether something that may be true ought necessarily be said, simply because it is true. (I think? Honestly, I'm not even all that certain about what words ought to be italicized here.) As well as where such intersects with a sort of thought policing, wherein the "appropriate" attitude towards something is thrust upon certain subjects with (presumably) no consideration of the unique circumstances which may well inform these subjects' attitudes towards that something.

 

[Konchog]

Long time no see, Konchog. Welcome back. May I ask what it was that prompted you to contribute to this particular discussion?

The email and the comment I quoted is what brought me in. As for JKR's views, I believe she can think whatever she likes, but I do not subscribe to them, and what she thinks has no bearing or influence on my life, or of the society, laws, or company I keep.