Anyway it seems Contra is going with the same "JKR is lonely from fame" hypothesis that Devin Lytle also suggested Which I think in both cases is projecting the unique isolation of being an online celebrity upon the very different dynamic of being a normal celebrity
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Fuck this shit, you *don't get to do that*! You don't get to go "well, we all know Rowling is a good person, other than the fact that she's a raging TERF." Cite your goddamn sources What, did she buy ice cream for your softball team? WHY is Rowling a good person, Wynn
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She strikes Rowling following Magdalen Berns from the record because she "doesn't want to do guilt by association". Oh my, how shocking of her What about Rowling liking a tweet erasing my friend's Blackness and calling her a man? Are you going to get to that one, Wynn?
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She cites the Maya tweet from 2019 where JKR uses very explicit weasel language to imply that she personally thinks trans women are unlovable and unfuckable and of course she just glosses over that bit
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Contra is at the very least pointing out that JKR is a craven animal who finds the sleaziest, most oblique ways to express utterly horrid things because she's obsessed with giving herself plausible deniability if people start to think less of her for it
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She's also rightly acknowledging that the 2019 tweet was, in keeping with this stratagem, belittling trans women's identities by reducing it to a matter of name and costume When she actually bothers to unpack obvious dogwhistles, she's very good at it
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I am weary of this dead horse meme where every time a trans person gets mad online they become a prepubescent Marxist-Leninist
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I am amused that Wynn is as tired of explaining what TERFs are as I am
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In the interest of giving credit as well as spewing vitriol I will concede that at the very least there is probably some cis person who will watch this video and go "oh, so THAT'S why JKR's tweets were terrible"
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This section of the video is actually somewhat useful, since she's discussing the sophistry of polite bigotry—the treacherous way that people like Rowling say "I know and love [marginalization] people, BUT" and then immediately get exonerated no matter how they end the sentence
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She could have just focused the thesis on that—on how statements like Rowling's exemplify the polite, wounded bigotry of the white liberal middle-to-upper class—and had a much tighter, more efficacious and less invidious essay
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Wynn is basically citing Nietzsche's "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster" maxim to defend why she insists upon empathizing with and understanding bigots, which, uggghhh Fine, I'm a monster The kind that gets portrayed by Doug Jones
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Oh okay she did call attention to the "who'll have you" clause of the 2019 tweet *very* briefly
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Props for using the imagery of Taylor Swift's "You Need To Calm Down" as a model for the way very privileged people tend to flatten the dynamic of bigotry into something that vividly excludes themselves because as much as I want to make out with Katy Perry, fuck that video
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Twenty, but I took a break to warm up my souphttps://twitter.com/HenryWHall/status/1354286998136254465 …
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okay this part is good not like breathtakingly insightful or anything, but helpful and anodynepic.twitter.com/ei9tYp0Ad1
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If the rest of the video is like THIS—and we'll see if it is—then it'll be like pretty much most of the content she released in 2020, a relatively cogent and insightful video that's just needlessly and inexplicably frontloaded with a lot of weird aggravating garbage
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One thing Contra excels at is unflattering impersonations of other people, even though I don't always love where she targets it Since I know she'd hate this, I just want to point out that in another life she'd be a formidable and utterly ball-annihilating MTI at Lackland AFB
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I don't love Contra's criticisms of the "trans women are women" slogan but honestly a disagreement of this nature is too reasonable for the scope of this thread
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Kinda feel like she's erasing transmisogyny a little but honestly I would be completely at peace if she just never discusses transmisogyny ever
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honestly respect the power move of just filming yourself in a bathtub
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And at last we're FINALLY talking about the fucking essay
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I say finally but I'm the one who's been watching this video for like three hours
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Pointing out that female bathrooms are policed according to femininity and not according to genitals/chromosomes, yeah, pretty inoffensive trans 101 stuff
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Contra rightfully addressing a point that I don't think gets labored enough, which is that "Reasons For Speaking Out" isn't some finely outlined manifesto—it's a circuitous, karenizing screed, drowning in reassurances and rationalizations There's no "craftsmanship" present
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It probably wouldn't have been harmful for her to go into the intelligence-insulting methodology Amol Rajan used in giving JKR an award, since she mentioned it earlier, but bleh, not germane to the topic, fine
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The math she's doing here to disprove the boogeyman of ROGD—pointing out that the largest escalation of treatment happened after the poorly-named "transgender tipping point" is fine
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