Labour MP, Lloyd Russell-Moyle accuses JK Rowling of exploiting her sexual assault
JK ROWLING Submitted June 27, 2020, 7:41 p.m. by Barber_AcrobaticAre you actually fucking kidding me, I may have to revisit this in the morning when I'm calmer but WHAT?
"Recently, of course we saw people like JK Rowling suing her own sexual assault as justification for discrimination against a group of people who were not responsible for it" -Lloyd Russell-Moyle
Did he even bother to read what she wrote?
When can we bring up our sexual assaults and our rapes and the times that men have belittled us and made us feel worthless and inhuman? Because it feels like never is the only answer they'll accept. If you bringit up when everything is 'fine' then you're just dragging the mood down or bringing up old news. But use it to illustrate a point that YES THESE THINGS DO HAPPEN then you're weaponizing it and that's a BAD THING.
So far I can only find a DM link to (we we can't use here) it but Julie Bindel has screenshots on her twitter (I'm not sure if that's OK to link to?)
And weaponize trauma? Like how they weaponize suicide ideation and jusitfy all the violence they hurl at women "because they're just fighting for their liiives, and weaponzing double digit trans deaths as genocide and the most oppressed?
Discrimination would be refusing to let you have the same services afforded to others. Justified segregation for security and privacy is not discrimination. It's not another person's duty to be your therapy tools.
Everyone who says that men do not side with TIMs over women needs to read this. Clearly they do. They may dislike TIMs for being gender-nonconforming men, but men will side with their own any day.
Yes, men always side with men.
Ah, because it's always the woman's fault, huh?
Did a transwoman assault JK, nope, but a prostate haver certainly did.
You can use archive.is to post DM links - it works just like a link shortener.
How many Tory politicians have spoken against the abuse Rowling has received? The only one I have heard of is Jackie Doyle.
Yes of course, all women go around manipulating men into abusing them so we can use it later to play act at being a victim for attention. /s
This is horrible. I hope he gets consequences.
The far right's blatant about their misogyny. The only positive thing to say about that is at least they're honest, none of the left's "enlightened" reasoning and pretense. Leftists will throw women under the bus just as quickly and blame them for not flinging themselves under the bus fast enough. I'm glad English voters sent them a message. May they continue to lose with that attitude.
He has "apologised" now. Owen Jones retweeted someone saying the quote "has been maliciously torn from its context by the Sunday Times and Daily Mail as part of a right-wing hate campaign against trans people." These men hate women and its not even subtle.
Male violence was responsible and she wanted to talk about it. How would he like it if he was sneered at about something bad that happened to him.
It just blatant misogyny, and the epitome of rape culture, to think that Rowling bringing up her personal experiences of rape, sexual violence, and abuse, somehow delegtimises or cheapens the value of the opinion she expressed. She's not capitalising or exploiting or 'using' her experiences of VAW to push an agenda, she's citing her individual experiences to help her readers understand, and empathise, with women like Rowling who understand that sex-segregated spaces in society exist PRECISELY to protect and defend women against VAW and patriarchal violence.
VAW is real, VAW exists and is a problem, and a woman bringing up her own experiences of VAW to explain why a particular policy (sex-segregated spaces) is so important and crucial to protect the safety and security of women in society is valid, legitimate, and in no way cheapens or devalues the opinion she expressed.
This intellectually-dishonest argument from MP Russell-Moyle reminds me of the whole hashtag 'SurvivorPrivilege' on Twitter, because some guy on Twitter claimed victims of rape and rape survivors had 'survivor privilege' because they could cite their experiences of rape to somehow bolster their opinion. Its nonsense. Women cite personal experiences of VAW in order to raise public awareness and understanding of why VAW is such a problem in our society, and to push for policy and legislative changes to solve and address that issue. Silencing or attacking a woman for bringing up VAW is nothing more than a sinister attempt to sweep the scourge of patriarchal violence under the rug, keeping it out of sight entirely.
He's backtracked now that people have called for him to be sacked over this.
Men constantly accuse women of this BS. Anytime we have a boundary. The only appropriate response for any woman at all times is to lay there like a bump on a log and let men abuse her however they want.
Somebody else posted in support of him saying ‘women have a history of weaponising their sexual assaults to further oppression against marginalised people’. We’re only getting raped by the hundreds of thousands to spite others, ladies! If we get assaulted we should at least have the courtesy to never speak of it in case the rapist feels bad. (Heavy sarcasm in those last two sentences obvs).
Well, there were fears that the #metoo movement was going too far and would ruin innocent men’s lives with false accusations on a massive scale.
That hasn’t really happened all that much (not saying there are never false accusations, but they are few and far between and the major men “taken down” by the accusations did indeed turn out to have been guilty of what they were accused of).
Next best thing to leverage against women speaking out about their sexual assaults? It oppresses makes, but THIS time it oppresses males supposedly uncomfortable in their bodies.
Yet all the transgender people I know of that really do seem to have gender dysphoria don’t seem to think JK Rowling was being transphobic. Go figure.