I like to take things apart to see how they work; objects, ideas, systems.
Jewish, c/s-ish, autistic, antifascist, maker of useful stuff.
they/them or he/him
I used to think that if you could show someone their ideas are inconsistent, that would lead them to explore and potentially change their views
Then someone taught GCs to use the word "gaslighting" to blame any doubts they feel on the person they're talking to and here we are...
Short thread on tokenizing Jews to dodge criticism.
@jk_rowling
spent much of yesterday arguing that trans people weren't targeted by Nazis. I think it's clear they were but there's a discussion to be had about emerging identities and projecting modern concepts into history.
1/5
In doing this Rowling was ignoring the scholarship and advocacy of Jewish groups including the
@HMD_UK
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust in the UK and the
@MJHnews
Museum of Jewish Heritage in the US. She clearly stated that she considered them lesser sources than Malcolm Clark.
3/5
Rather than having that interesting discussion, Britain's most financially successful living author chose to mock the idea of trans people being victims of Nazi violence. She offered a thread by LGB alliance co-founder, filmmaker and non-jew Malcolm Clark
@TwisterFilm
2/5
She should read Rinder's words from 2021
"There are those that are still rejected by their communities, whose mental health has suffered, who have become homeless, who have been bullied for their sexuality or gender identity."
/end
@No7Sammy
Weirdly not included in the official list of books the library chose to display. They have a copy of her 129 page pamphlet, it's only been checked out twice in total.
Anyway after spending her time talking over Jewish groups on the subject of Nazi crimes, she's today retweeted this rather lovely post from Rob Rinder. To me this says "I can't be antisemitic, I have a Jewish friend" this is tokenism and false allyship
4/5
@HJosephineGiles
It's fun down in the Midlands where we had waves of linguistic colonisation. Breedon Hill in Derbyshire is Bre (Celtic hill) Dun (Old English hill) Hill.
@BookfairLDN
For anyone expressing any version of "there was no need for any of this back in my day"
Yes there was, it's just that people either withdrew from society or suffered needlessly. You didn't see it because it was hidden.
This is lovely. Well done
@BookfairLDN
@BadWritingTakes
Isn't Maya famous for being against trying to get people fired for reasons unrelated to their jobs? Isn't that her whole mythos? Her entire brand?
Maya trying to get folks fired, it's like Staniland not asking strangers about pënises, or Glïnner telling an actually funny joke
@IGsAreGR8
@jk_rowling
That would be assigning modern identities to historical figures, like people claiming Shakespeare was bi. We know he wrote love sonnets about men and women but he wouldn't have been familiar with bisexuality and we can't ask him.
See, interesting discussion. Also it's LGBTQ+
@AidanCTweets
I find it odd when GCs believe in autism - a neurodevelopmental difference diagnosed through behavioural observation and discussion with psychologists and which has no objective physical test...
...but don't believe in gender because they claim to be strict materialists.
@ProfDaveAndress
This is... disappointing. I fear any good criticism she gets may be drowned out by the torrents of misogyny and racism she will receive as well.
@ripx4nutmeg
@LGBwiththeT
@ThePosieParker
Apologise for her insulting their staff-member and calling to double down? Kellie admitted that she didn't need to say anything, and to swearing at them and losing her temper. Even if her attack wasn't aimed at their receptionists protected characteristic, you can't abuse staff.
@IamGCWendy
@Genderwang
That's a shame, she should have called you a Britain First supporting, racist, migrant hating, xenophobic conspiracy theorist arsëhole as well.
None of this is true, you just choose to blame minoritised people for all your fears and faults. Grow up.
@_inverse_square
@jack_turban
I thought Jack's point was that he is an expert in the field and Sapir is a political scientist with no specialist knowledge in this subject. Jack's job is researching his area of expertise and Leo's job is writing conservative articles.
@pwgm80
Good thread but I still haven't seen any evidence that she even has a DSD. There's a letter from a distinctly dodgy unofficial sports body (the IBA) which says nothing more than "we have evidence but we're not going to show it to you, trust us" and then just heaps of conjecture.
@RoseSchmits
I for one think we should go back to to the simpler times before the theys and thems. What's wrong with a boy playing a women dressed as a man falling passionately in love with man while trying turn down a different boy playing a women?
@A_Kickarse_Lady
TERFs
"we're not a movement of middle-class conservatives"
Also TERFs
"Look at my £3000 fridge in my farrow and ball painted fitted kitchen, it's covered in overpriced novelty merch! Such fun"
@lemmelime
@jack_turban
Truth doesn't mind being questioned but even truth gets annoyed when the same questions are asked over and over again and the questioner doesn't listen to their answers.
@muddaub
I can't not play music in my head. When I started taking ADHD meds I gained the ability to control what song is playing but there's always a song.
I had a kale smoothie for breakfast, avocado on toast for lunch, and an impossible burger for tea and I'm 'not a vegan' just because I ate a live family of baby mice for pudding?
@_celia_bedelia_
Oh hey
@ReaILesbian
is a slipknot fan! I'm not super into their music but I admire their consistent advocacy for trans rights, they seem like a good bunch.
I read Milli Hill's blog post on trans women and lactation, it's bad for everyone, here's how - with notes. TLDR: it's nonsense, either she doesn't understand the source material, or she's being dishonest, or both...
1/3
@OwenJHurcum
Also just the worst skeleton. The thoracic girdle and lower arms are particularly messed up, pretty sure we've only got two bones in our forearms and last time I checked my clavicles were on the outside of my lungs.
@ThePosieParker
Kellie, when you were insulting the receptionist, was there a poster like this anywhere? Because you don't get to abuse staff, even if you don't like their protected characteristics.
@SheaChristie3
@KateBMwriting
Has Kate seriously decided that the champion Algerian women's boxer is too pious to sit on a man's shoulders but not too pious to be a boxer?
Kate probably decided Imane couldn't be a woman when she wasn't wearing a niqab, expecting all Muslims to be the same is islamophobic.
@SmoothDunk
9-5? Hilarious. Bet the yellow person even had paid breaks, job security and a decent pension.
Honestly some boomers don't know they're born.
@bindelj
Veteran campaigner against male violence compares intimate partner violence, domestic abuse, stalking and rape to the very real threat of having to share a public bathroom with someone she finds icky.
@BioTransNelson
@legaltweetz
Have you considered the possibility that you're just woefully out of touch? Why do trans men have beards - it's probably because most young men have beards these days, sorry you've not kept up.
@JustMisogyny
Ok, putting aside that 4 is completely valid - how do you think this 'helps' you.
Most women aren't pregnant, many women can never be pregnant, how can you tell someone is a woman? There's something else.
@ornowitza
@jk_rowling
Do you seriously not know the difference between entertainment and real life? Do you think Bugs Bunny was trans when he put on a dress to fool Elmer Fudd?
@notCursedE
On Friday they called a 56% increase in transphobic hate crimes "a few hurty tweets"
On Monday they lost it over the 2 year old hurty tweets of an SNP youth organiser.
I hate this, it's like trying to argue with jelly but jelly that our nations major institutions take seriously
@PierreJouet
@BadWritingTakes
Helen Joyce has a degree in Maths, Kathleen Stock has a degree in Philosophy, Maya Forstater - business studies, Milli Hill - English Lit, Rowling herself - French and Classics.
None of your ''experts'' have any relevant qualifications or experience, sit down Pierre.
@notCursedE
So this all started with her being accused of repeating Nazi ideas about trans people and has ended with Joanne "trans healthcare is conversion therapy for turning gay people straight" Rowling agreeing with Nazi views of trans people?
@_DylanHamilton_
@GussieGrips
@NicolaSturgeon
I heard Nicola Sturgeon used tax payers money to book all the taxis in Edinburgh and had them form a parade down the Royal Mile just to inconvenience this one woman.
@notCursedE
And it's led me to one of those fun little X dot com arguments where someone tries to tell me that publishing Nazi apologia doesn't make someone a Nazi apologist.
After the weekend I was told to watch
@AHFdoco
I have. My favourite part is when
@simonjedge
threatens 'a reckoning' against
@OwenJones84
and
@IndiaWilloughby
TLDR it's TERF Twitter the film. Bad faith arguments, bad memes, terrible audio mixing, aimed at the already radicalised
@NickFletcherMP
Landlord MP with no science qualification, who is widely recognised as a misogynist. His most significant contribution to parliament is that time he complained about the Doctor in Dr Who being played by a woman.
Are we meant to take this guy seriously about anything?
To be clear, as a British Jew, the pro-palestine marches of the last 10 months have not made me feel unsafe, the fascists trying to burn mosques, police stations and hotels housing migrants absolutely do.
@smiletissunnah
@mushycrouton
@ImWatson91
The point is that many of us live in the west and our governments are providing the weaponry that's being used in this genocide. We're fighting to get our governments to stop doing that. That's what the marches are for FFS.
@mrjamesmack
@YorksMan82
Just remember folks, anyone caught vandalising the decor can legally be expelled and barred, "protected philosophical beliefs" or not.
@JamesEsses
@JohnLewisRetail
Bad press, is that when you and your minions labelled ordinary staff members as dangerous deviants and went on to publish their full names and work details? What was their crime? Not being straight, not being GC and not being closeted.
I hope those you endangered are safe.
@KatyMontgomerie
As a Jew, whenever I see someone saying "Jews think/want/believe" they're always either a hardcore antisemite or about to try and justify something awful.
@setoacnna
To be fair it's impossible to meet a transphobe without discussing trans people, they have nothing else.
*Transphobe ordering a coffee*
"An extra hot cappuccino please and define woman!"
@_celia_bedelia_
Apparently she wasn't.
Also the guy is a professor of marketing who's just released a Jordan Peterson style self-help book. He's clearly just trying to get the fash interested in his nonsense.
@KevinLikesMaps
@MxDrewSimms
I was finally diagnosed with Autism yesterday, I spent 35 years trying to work out why I felt different and found out a lot about myself, I think more trans autistics are 'out'.
Maybe we're less comfortable trying to fit societal expectations, maybe we just know ourselves better?
To be clear, as a British Jew, the pro-palestine marches of the last 10 months have not made me feel unsafe, the fascists trying to burn mosques, police stations and hotels housing migrants absolutely do.
@HLeeHurley
It's so bizarre. Popped over to have a look at the comments and they're saying that the captions are lying to cover up Caolan's error - as if re-recording a minute long piece to camera would be too much work. Absolute clowns.
@SybrenDer
@lemmelime
@jack_turban
Decades of peer reviewed science, over a hundred years of unequivocal historical records, thousands of years of history...
Short thread on tokenizing Jews to dodge criticism.
@jk_rowling
spent much of yesterday arguing that trans people weren't targeted by Nazis. I think it's clear they were but there's a discussion to be had about emerging identities and projecting modern concepts into history.
1/5
@KingMidas4ever
@MillieCheesey
That's a cartoon of a bodybuilder who accidentally entered a race, she's definitely going to lose. I ask again - have you ever seen a runner?
@JustMisogyny
Your point that your statement doesn't actually help you because it doesn't give you a non-circular definition of "woman" which is ultimately what you're after?
@ThoughtSlime
I genuinely think working with or around the limitations we have makes the art better and more interesting. Can't do something? Try something else. I don't enjoy drawing enough to perfect it so I take photographs and I'm enjoying it and getting better at it.
@SexMattersOrg
"we think we're correct but ordinary people keep telling us they don't share our 'concerns', why don't they realise we're right?"
At some point you really should consider whether the fact that ordinary people don't share your 'concerns' might suggest that they aren't legitimate.
@SloaneFragment
Literally hundreds of people every day saying horrifyingly racist and violent stuff about Dawn Butler and Diane Abbott
Liberals: we shouldn't bring race into this
Tennant: kemi should shut up.
Liberals: saying a Black woman should shut up, racism!
@Glinner
You helped by being near people who did the actual work, since then you've spent your time attacking pro-abortion campaigners and raising up anti abortion campaigners.
Stop claiming credit for marginalised people's work, stop using a legitimate struggle to smuggle in your hatred.
@No7Sammy
I think it's part of the reason they hate us autistics - I cannot appear normal and even if I could I wouldn't value it.
LGBTQ+, neurodivergent folks, marginalised people of every kind - we're all aberrations in their nice, neat, beige world.
@TorquilMacneil
@tm1fox
@supergutman
He promotes the 'great replacement' and 'cultural marxism' conspiracy theories which are repackaged Nazi propaganda. Oh, and in may he told a conference that Nazism and The Holocaust occurred because Germany "mucked up".
He's a Nazi apologist.
@MonicaLennon7
For those in the comments asking "where's the transphobia and hate?" I put together a pretty lengthy thread analysing the film and it's themes complete with clips and quotes. There's a fair bit of misogyny and conspiracism as well.
After the weekend I was told to watch
@AHFdoco
I have. My favourite part is when
@simonjedge
threatens 'a reckoning' against
@OwenJones84
and
@IndiaWilloughby
TLDR it's TERF Twitter the film. Bad faith arguments, bad memes, terrible audio mixing, aimed at the already radicalised
Next up, Male Violence;
Apparently trans women don't experience misogyny - this is a ridiculous idea. I am not a gay man but I've experienced homophobic abuse, bigots don't check that they've properly identified your protected characteristic before attacking you for it.