Rowling writes novel about a man who dresses as a woman to kill women

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

https://www.queerty.com/jk-rowlings-new-book-man-dresses-like-woman-kill-people-20200914?utm_campaign=wp-to-twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Yikes.

This offends me both as a proponent of LGBTQ rights AND as a horror writer. Like, the 1960s called and they want their plot device back.

[Madner Kami]

Leaving aside, that it's Rowling writing this of all people, but this storyline is problematic because ... ?

[CharlesPhipps]

To be fair, while a bad look, it could simply be she's inspired by Norman Bates versus making a transphobic political statement.

She IS a transphobe, though, and "could be" doesn't give her any reason to be trusted.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Ok I really really didn't expect her to just walk through into questionable implications of bigotry.

[Madner Kami]

Ok I really really didn't expect her to just walk through into questionable implications of bigotry.

Noone is ever the villain in their own story.

To be fair, while a bad look, it could simply be she's inspired by Norman Bates versus making a transphobic political statement.

She IS a transphobe, though, and "could be" doesn't give her any reason to be trusted.

As I tried to imply, I recognize who she is and what her stance on... transism (is that even a word?) is, but Fuzzy seems to not just take offense of Rowling being Rowling, but on the actual base of the story too, which strikes me as wierd. I don't see the reason about being personally offended, just because the antagonist or villainous protagonist has character-traits which are are congruent to traits of mine.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Ok I really really didn't expect her to just walk through into questionable implications of bigotry.

Noone is ever the villain in their own story.

Trump probably is.

For real though she may still be trolling.

[Madner Kami]

Trump probably is.

No. That particular motherfucker thinks he's the only sane person on the planet and a superhero on top of it. He's much of the same caliber of self-delusion that Ayn Rand was and probably considers himself to be the real-life basis for John Galt. (And yes, I am aware that "Atlas Shrugged" was written before Trump was a thing, but do you really think that twat is aware of that or even cares? I wouldn't be surprised if he's either too stupid to realize that or actually really thinks, that his personality overshines reality and time.)

[TGLS]

As I tried to imply, I recognize who she is and what her stance on... transism (is that even a word?) is, but Fuzzy seems to not just take offense of Rowling being Rowling, but on the actual base of the story too, which strikes me as wierd. I don't see the reason about being personally offended, just because the antagonist or villainous protagonist has character-traits which are are congruent to traits of mine.

Well, I think it's because of that isn't entirely accurate. The baddie in this one dresses as a woman so he can walk into a woman's washroom and kill women, which plays into the old anti-trans canard "Dudes are going to use trans bathroom rights to attack women in the bathroom". It's not even the case of "I like X, and you made X the villain".

[ProfessorDetective]

Ok I really really didn't expect her to just walk through into questionable implications of bigotry.

Noone is ever the villain in their own story.

To be fair, while a bad look, it could simply be she's inspired by Norman Bates versus making a transphobic political statement.

She IS a transphobe, though, and "could be" doesn't give her any reason to be trusted.

As I tried to imply, I recognize who she is and what her stance on... transism (is that even a word?) is...

I think the word you're looking for is 'transgenderism'.

[J!!]

My response to anything celebrity related remains the same:


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