re: #211 Nyet

So, I’m slow, but I’ve read around about the JK Rowling situation and judging by the fact that she follows some explicitly transphobic accounts and stands together with an anti-trans activist, she indeed holds at least some transphobic views. Bummer.

Well, just following them wouldn’t necessarily mean anything. (For example, atheists tend to follow wingnut preachers on social media, because you need to know how they are thinking to protect yourself.)

Retweeting coded language from TERFs might not even necessarily mean she is one (that’s the point of culture jamming coded language).

However, when it was pointed out to her and she doubled down on her defence, that kind of made it apparent. She does not appear to believe all people should be treated on their merits, and the anti-scientific notion that gender must fit into one of two boxes that match your bits.