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J. K. Rowling Is Officially Too Toxic to Defend
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I don't really get what the endgame is for her here.
She's gone from one of the most praised authors with an incredible backstory, to someone so toxic only a fringe group of older people will support her - in less than a decade.
I fully understand her wanting women to have safe spaces, but she's gone way beyond this, to the point where one of these has to be true.
She was never about wanting women to be safe, and this is just an agenda for her.
She's had some kind of breakdown and probably needs some kind of intervention to get her off the internet, out of the public eye for a few years, and somewhere she can recover.
Either outcome is quite sad for a person that wrote a book series that shaped millions of childhoods, and followed up with books to show that she wasn't just a one-hit wonder. She could have churned out several more books, contributed to more children's dreams, but she decided to crusade against something that barely affects anyone.
Highly recommend watching Natalie/Contrapoints' video about JKR: https://youtu.be/7gDKbT_l2us?si=wSUCa8FXu3nPIFVd
One key point in here is about JKR's article she wrote about her motivations. In it, she describes how she was a victim of assault, and how when she heard about Scotland's new law giving more freedoms to trans people, it triggered her into reliving her assault.
Somehow, JKR is associating trans rights with a literal attack on her person that she suffered years ago. Once you understand this, it suddenly makes sense that she has such intense vitriol for trans people. It makes sense why she's fighting tooth and nail against the rights of marginalized people -- because to her, she's fighting back against very real pain.
Of course, there is no actual connection between trans rights and her assault. She wasn't attacked by a trans person, and the person who assaulted her isn't the leader of pro-trans activist movements.
And so unfortunately it looks like she legitimately is having a mental breakdown. She needs to see a professional yesterday.
That's easy.
She always have been like this. She just hid it well long enough until after she made her fortune.
I think it is #2, we've seen it happen plenty of times. Glinner is another example, and the Wings guy if you're Scottish