Andrew Garfield Finally Watched HARRY POTTER, Praises Films Despite J.K. Rowling Controversy

@CAPTAINPINKEYE - JK believes men are men and woman are woman, despite her being in agreeance with everything else the left push, that was too much for them so, like a typical cult, they banished her for it and branded her with the usual isms, regardless of her actual stances.

@CAPTAINPINKEYE -

@CAPTAINPINKEYE - To go into a bit more nuance, because this topic deserves it: Rowling is a survivor of domestic abuse at the hands of her first husband. She has also dealt with sexist discrimination her entire life. Pseudo-progressive keyboard warriors have now waged a smear campaign against her for the last five years because she has criticized the trans rights movement for infringing upon rights, protections and dignity of women.

This included:
- demeaning names women have to put up with for the sake of "inclusion" (like "menstruating people" or "cervix-havers")
- the attempt to re-define what a woman even is in a legal sense against their will (erasing the relevance of biological sex and replacing it with the vaguely defined psychological concept of gender, which is a problem because biological sex is what women's rights are based on and always have been)
-allowing biologically male people into women's dressing rooms, shelters and sports leagues which entire point is to prevent exactly that for the sake of safety and fairness.
-Actually sending male sexual predators into women's prisons because they claim to have transitioned somewhere between their arrest and their conviction. There is even a story of a victim having to pay compensation to her rapist, for "misgendering her".

To be very clear: Trans people themselves are of course NOT to blame for this. They have a right to participate in society and express themselves authentically without fear like everyone else. It's just easier said than done here. This is a very complicated conflict between the rights two marginalized groups that seem to contradict each other.

And instead of working to solve that issue their so called "allies" just shout their simplified hashtags and go on increasingly hostile smear campaigns against any and all women who dare to speak out about it. Rowling has become pretty much their favorite punching bag. Among other things they have:
- Flooded the internet with false quotes, misinformation and violent and mysogynist memes
- Stalked and doxxed her
- Harrassed her children
- Trolled her creative children's competition for charity with pictures of "lady dicks".
- rallied and platformed behind her abusive ex-husband and put him on the front page of Pink News with the headline "I hit J.K. Rowling and I'd do it again!"
- Relentlessly bullied countless people just for streaming Hogwarts Legacy (a Harry Potter video game), including a young Ukrainian refugee.

All in the name of trans rights and apparently without realizing that these smear campaigns are exactly what she is really criticizing.

@HashTagSwagg -

So obvious. So true.

@HashTagSwagg - Got you

@Drace24 - Excellent comment.

@Drace24 - "Trans people themselves are of course NOT to blame for this. They have a right to participate in society and express themselves authentically without fear like everyone else."

And yet they're the target of hundreds of laws limiting their rights to participate in society and express themselves authentically without fear. What do you think we should do about that?

@HashTagSwagg - Don't forget that she is a very vocal critic of Donald Trump because he is just another sexist pig walking in on women in their dressing rooms to "inspect them".

@SATW42 - I'm using "you" not as "you personally" but in "you people", "you keyboard activists", "people who talk like you", etc. Because that is how english works. I don't care if this accurately describesyou in your mind or if you personally contributed to any of these things. No one wants to admit it, weirdly. But tweets calling her "scum", "trash" and "stupid ugly bitch" in response to her coming out as a survivor of domestic abuse gained hundreds of thousends of likes and I've seen little to no effort from within the progressive/trans rights/anti-Rowling crowd to hold itself accountable for their monstrous shit, so forgive me if I don't fall for the usual pearl clutching.

Yeah, I bet you would like my criticism to fit your narrative better, but I can genuinely say, I have not seen bigger and more crappy stuff than whatI already desrcibed. I know Rowling's tone got significantly sharper and less concillatory as it was in the beginning and I don't like that. But after all the smearing, the bullying, the lies, the insults, the threats she had to put up with, I can kinda see why she doesn't care about being respectful anymore.

@AgentofSH1ELD - Always looking out for me

@SATW42 - That's kind of his move. He only has very broad brushes with which to paint, it seems.

@Drace24 - "How the [frick] should I know? I'm neither a woman nor am I trans."

I would admire this level of self-awareness and restraint if you brought that same energy to talking about what the "problems" are.

"Dump this hyperfixation on the popular slogan "Trans women are women"."

But . . . trans women are women. Doesn't mean cis gender women aren't women. There's an implied "too" in there, like Black Lives Matter, Believe Women, stuff like that. It's meant as a counter argument to the statement "Trans women are men."

"The movement attempts to cram trans-women and cis-women into one box, pretending there is no meaningful difference between them,"

No, it doesn't. It seeks to keep trans women from being pushed out of the box entirely.

"I don't understand what the problem is with just letting trans-women be trans-women. Their own group. Treated like women, but without rejecting the entire concept of sexual biology."

No one is rejecting the entire concept of sexual biology. What we are doing is acknowledging the reality that gender is not inextricably tied to sexual biology, and that in a society that insists on a strictly binary understanding of gender, trans women fit better alongside other women than they do alongside men. A society that openly accepted trans women on their own terms would be great, but that's not what we have now, and simply shutting up and hoping it gets better doesn't seem like a viable option right now. Speaking of which . . .

"Allies can just shut the [frick] up."

You first. Sincerely. I would love nothing more than to wake up in a world tomorrow where trans folks didn't have to worry about millionaire bigots telling their massive audience of followers that trans folks' mere existence poses an existential threat to women. But until that day, respectfully, absolutely [frick]ing not.

"I have yet to meet one actual trans person who has a problem with Rowling or Harry Potter."

I'll be honest with you: neither have I. Not in person, anyway. My trans and non-binary friends and I don't really talk about Harry Potter or JKR. We mostly talk about the things we love, movies and music and pro wrestling, the interests we share that our friendships are built on.

Another thing we talk about, when they bring it up, is how scary it is for them right now. How public campaigns painting trans women as rapists and perverts and sports cheats put them at risk of violence every day. So when I see someone like JKR, or Graham Linehan, or Dave Chappell, or any other rich asshole who's decided that "making trans folks miserable" is their defining personality trait, it pisses me off, and I do what I can to not support that person.

Not even going to touch your point about how straight white people shouldn't use their privilege to call folks out on their bigoted behavior. Men should speak up for women. Straight folks should speak up for queer folks. Cis folks should speak up for trans folks. But, you know, when there are real threats, not bad faith boogiemen being concocted by reactionary think tanks to keep the culture war going.

@Clintthahamster - "But . . . trans women are women."

And you erased their trans identity right there. Is this such a difficult concept to understand? Trans women are trans women. They are not women. They are not men. They are trans women! Their lived realities, needs and challenges do not fit either group: they are their own. They can and should be treated as, in lack of a better word, honorary women in every way that matters, without disregarding their biological reality. Because that would not help them! And it's disadvantaging cis-women too.
What a woman is is legally, biologically and sociologically defined. To also keep gender, a psychological concept, in mind is not wrong. But you try to use it to overwrite what womanhood against the will of women, despite it being a legal definition that 4 billion people on this planet depend on WITH THEIR LIVES and that generations of women fought for, into a vague umbrella term, so that trans women can be crammed into it with no regard for either group.

I can tell you right now: This will age as badly as that color-blindness bullshit that white people came up with in an attempt to prove to each other how anti-racist they are without ever actually talking to a black person and that they now have to fight against too because it's obviously just ignorance, not tolerance.

It's like saying "Disabled people are abled people!" and think that helps with ableism. As a disabled person myself I can tell you: No, we're [frick]ing not! We are our own group with our own needs and challenges and denying that amounts to erasure.

Just kick this shit out of your brain! People are not shapeless colorless blobs. We're different and that difference can be acknowledged without falling into bigotry. If trans-women could just be trans-women they wouldn't disappear in a sea of billions of cis-women that simply do not have the same physical, mental or societal per-requisites. And cis-women wouldn't need to accept the complete relativization of their basic rights and identities.

You seem to think you just need to stoically keep repeating that dumb slogan over and over and pretend to be too pure/stupid to think about it and then you can tell yourself to be a good person. Great strategy, buddy. Is it working?

"Another thing we talk about, when they bring it up, is how scary it is for them right now."

Oh, you are trying emotional extortion? Sure, why not. It's only a manipulation tactic common in abusive relationships, so I guess that's on theme. But fine. If you want to make this a "who has it worse" competition, let's do it. More women get raped or murdered every day than trans people even are in existence. Do you think women are so protective of their hard earned rights because they just want to be mean to trans people? No! They've seen what life is like without them. Some of the original suffragette's fighters are still alive - and on the shit list of people with furry avatars and rainbow emoji in their twitter handles posting violent memes about them.

For all of human history, Women were forced to grow up in a world that still heavily views them as second class citizens, property or prey. And every time they open their mouths about their positions, there are men telling them they are crazy, nasty, evil or insane. In ways that look eerily similar to what you do right now. Have you noticed how many women the trans rights movement is calling "terfs" and "bigots" and "scum" and "monsters" are survivors of violence and discrimination? You should have.

None of this is of course supposed mean that the challenges trans people face don't matter in comparison. Of course they do! No matter how small their group is. Which is why I think it sucks SO [frick]ING HARD that you try to pit women and trans people against each other.

Here is a quote I really like:

*"If you could come inside my head and understand what I feel when I read about a trans woman dying at the hands of a violent man, you’d find solidarity and kinship. I have a visceral sense of the terror in which those trans women will have spent their last seconds on earth, because I too have known moments of blind fear when I realized that the only thing keeping me alive was the shaky self-restraint of my attacker. All I’m asking – all I want – is for similar empathy, similar understanding, to be extended to the many millions of women whose sole crime is wanting their concerns to be heard without receiving threats and abuse."*

You know who said this? It was J.K. Rowling. That's the first thing she said after people like you tried to bully her for criticizing the activists (not trans people) for bullying women. I don't know about you, but this doesn't read like Mein Kampf.

I admit she seems to have given up on de-escalation since then. But I find it hard to blame her for that after all the hateful, misogynist and plain evil shit that this movement has been throwing at her in the name of trans people, just like she said. She was not the one who made trans people look bad here.

So if you truly care about trans people as much as you say, here's an idea: How about you stop your petty smear campaign against a children's book writer who tries to protect people from going through what she did, and just LISTEN TO WOMEN!!! Why is that always so [frick]ing hard? Just take their concerns serious and work towards re-conciliation. Would probably help more than picking a fight with literally half of humanity and piss off and alienate lots of desperate women who then become easy pickens for far-right culture warriors. Because so far it looks like that only seems to help the REAL transphobes get elected, who happen to also hate women's rights. Good job, buddy. Applaud the grand ally, everybody.

@SuperiorHeckler - which is also why I absolutely cannot stand whatever the [frick] that acronym stands for now. Im even gay and I think they are [frick]ed up.

@MyCoolYoung - lol, that’s pretty great

How has she felt about the movies thus far?.

@TheVisionary25 - she actually loves them. I’m enjoying it. She’s so perceptive. Asking a lot of questions and noticing a lot