Let see how she fares after a year has passed in jail.
I'm all for social experiments on those unwilling to adapt to society.
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How much time is she willing to do to avoid minding her own fucking business. I'm guessing it's a lot
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What even IS the importance of sex?
Women bear children, so are materially disadvantaged when it comes to sex. They can be raped and get pregnant as a result. This can't happen to men. This is compounded by sexual dimorphism meaning women are weaker on average, though the tails definitely overlap.
This means special laws are needed to protect women wherever sexual dimorphism has the potential to disempower - for example, the right to safe abortions, certain economic protections for mothers, and perhaps even some protected spaces.
I don't have the answers, but that's the basis of the argument. We've come so far in the West it's hard to see the material inequality written into our DNA. With modern contraception it can be especially hard to recognise the reality of our bodies, and certainly natural to resent it.
Don't men have worse health problems including higher infant mortality rate? Do you think we should be legislating to even the playing ground in that aspect?
In an ideal world, yes.
How?
Just because some people are at an apparent genetic disadvantage, does not follow that we should attempt to legally remove inequities.
This would both be unfair to those considered advantaged in some way, and impossible to implement.
Alright mate.
It's almost like people are looking for a reason to talk about how much they hate JKR, and in turn promote her.
The Streisand effect is in full display here.
Everytime people bring out the three minute hate drum, the righteous come around and sneer, so there is a echo chamber, but there's always somebody new, somebody who's never been introduced to the debate before, who now pays attention to this person... And they might end up agreeing with this person.
So giving all this attention to one person over and over again, is creating them more converts than it's costing them. It's just promoting the personality at this point. It'd be more effective to ignore them, and just promote your own viewpoint. There wouldn't be any controversy, there wouldn't be free media attention....
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/opinion/jk-rowling-transphobia.html
Because she has asserted the right to spaces for biological women only, such as domestic abuse shelters and sex-segregated prisons. Because she has insisted that when it comes to determining a person’s legal gender status, self-declared gender identity is insufficient. Because she has expressed skepticism about phrases like “people who menstruate” in reference to biological women.
Her take isn't crazy - it's not supportive, but not phobic either, and she clearly enjoys the media attention and public debate. She thrives in it.. so she wins everytime people give her attention
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