I have feeling that she just “made it up”, and her real concern was related to the resurgence of (actual) leftist thoughts in the mainstream and she doesn’t want to pay any taxes. Since some segments no longer saw her as a “successful woman”, but as the same as her fellow millionaires but a woman, she looked for some exit plan.
Source: her early anti-Corbyn stances.
If you ask: people can gaslight themselves into believing dumb things, so as she submerged herself into the depths TERFdom, she slowly started to believe it herself for real this time.
“The writings of young trans men reveal a group of notably sensitive and clever people.
“The more of their accounts of gender dysphoria I’ve read, with their insightful descriptions of anxiety, dissociation, eating disorders, self-harm and self-hatred, the more I’ve wondered whether, if I’d been born 30 years later, I too might have tried to transition.
“The allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge. I struggled with severe OCD as a teenager.
“If I’d found community and sympathy online that I couldn’t find in my immediate environment, I believe I could have been persuaded to turn myself into the son my father had openly said he’d have preferred.”
“As I didn’t have a realistic possibility of becoming a man back in the 1980s, it had to be books and music that got me through both my mental health issues and the sexualised scrutiny and judgement that sets so many girls to war against their bodies in their teens.
“Fortunately for me, I found my own sense of otherness, and my ambivalence about being a woman, reflected in the work of female writers and musicians who reassured me that, in spite of everything a sexist world tries to throw at the female-bodied, it’s fine not to feel pink, frilly and compliant inside your own head; it’s OK to feel confused, dark, both sexual and non-sexual, unsure of what or who you are.”
It would be in very poor taste for me to voice any speculation on another person’s gender identity.
It’s also worth pointing out that traditional femininity is treated with disrespect throughout the Harry Potter series. All the “good” female characters subvert it in some way, by being smart or ugly, because Joanne doesn’t seem to have matured past 90’s-era film tropes.
Why is her main character a boy in a genre already saturated with boys and begging for female leads? Why did she deliberately obscure the fact that she’s a woman by abbreviating her name? Why does she write under a male pseudonym? It all sounds so feminist and progressive, doesn’t it?
Le Guin had the grace to be embarrassed that she hadn’t even considered a female wizard, and she went on to write fantastic novels about that exact topic. Writing that also made me realize that girls literally cannot be wizards in Harry Potter canon, lol. It’s like she read Equal Rites but only paid attention to the problematic parts.
I can strongly relate to most of what she has said here except for the part about being able to be persuaded to be a boy. I’m not a girly girl but i’m all woman. I just resent being told what that means.
Huh, that’s pretty interesting. I believe I heard once that she also was the victim of sexual assault at some point, though I don’t know if that was early enough to influence the mentality reflected in the passage you cited. Of course none of that absolves her of the harm she’s enabling, but it certainly sheds some more light on her vehemence on the topic.
Yeah, whether she’s trans is clearly uncertain - it would make sense in retrospect, but it sounds like at the very least she has experienced alienation from womanhood and femininity, which could be for many reasons. That is an aspect of being trans in the opposite direction that is interesting - it goes against the grain of mainstream belief by placing preference on femininity and womanhood over manhood.
it seems personal for her, she admitted she would have transitioned if it had been an option growing up…
I have feeling that she just “made it up”, and her real concern was related to the resurgence of (actual) leftist thoughts in the mainstream and she doesn’t want to pay any taxes. Since some segments no longer saw her as a “successful woman”, but as the same as her fellow millionaires but a woman, she looked for some exit plan.
Source: her early anti-Corbyn stances.
If you ask: people can gaslight themselves into believing dumb things, so as she submerged herself into the depths TERFdom, she slowly started to believe it herself for real this time.
no way when did she say that
“The writings of young trans men reveal a group of notably sensitive and clever people.
“The more of their accounts of gender dysphoria I’ve read, with their insightful descriptions of anxiety, dissociation, eating disorders, self-harm and self-hatred, the more I’ve wondered whether, if I’d been born 30 years later, I too might have tried to transition.
“The allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge. I struggled with severe OCD as a teenager.
“If I’d found community and sympathy online that I couldn’t find in my immediate environment, I believe I could have been persuaded to turn myself into the son my father had openly said he’d have preferred.”
“As I didn’t have a realistic possibility of becoming a man back in the 1980s, it had to be books and music that got me through both my mental health issues and the sexualised scrutiny and judgement that sets so many girls to war against their bodies in their teens.
“Fortunately for me, I found my own sense of otherness, and my ambivalence about being a woman, reflected in the work of female writers and musicians who reassured me that, in spite of everything a sexist world tries to throw at the female-bodied, it’s fine not to feel pink, frilly and compliant inside your own head; it’s OK to feel confused, dark, both sexual and non-sexual, unsure of what or who you are.”
https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/06/10/jk-rowling-trans-terf-essay-transphobia-gender-identity-dysphoria-mental-health-harry-potter/
It would be in very poor taste for me to voice any speculation on another person’s gender identity.
It’s also worth pointing out that traditional femininity is treated with disrespect throughout the Harry Potter series. All the “good” female characters subvert it in some way, by being smart or ugly, because Joanne doesn’t seem to have matured past 90’s-era film tropes.
Why is her main character a boy in a genre already saturated with boys and begging for female leads? Why did she deliberately obscure the fact that she’s a woman by abbreviating her name? Why does she write under a male pseudonym? It all sounds so feminist and progressive, doesn’t it?
Le Guin had the grace to be embarrassed that she hadn’t even considered a female wizard, and she went on to write fantastic novels about that exact topic. Writing that also made me realize that girls literally cannot be wizards in Harry Potter canon, lol. It’s like she read Equal Rites but only paid attention to the problematic parts.
I can strongly relate to most of what she has said here except for the part about being able to be persuaded to be a boy. I’m not a girly girl but i’m all woman. I just resent being told what that means.
Huh, that’s pretty interesting. I believe I heard once that she also was the victim of sexual assault at some point, though I don’t know if that was early enough to influence the mentality reflected in the passage you cited. Of course none of that absolves her of the harm she’s enabling, but it certainly sheds some more light on her vehemence on the topic.
thank you!!
Yeah, whether she’s trans is clearly uncertain - it would make sense in retrospect, but it sounds like at the very least she has experienced alienation from womanhood and femininity, which could be for many reasons. That is an aspect of being trans in the opposite direction that is interesting - it goes against the grain of mainstream belief by placing preference on femininity and womanhood over manhood.
Wow, those “accidental” trans themes make a lot of sense now.