In terms of refusing to abandon intersectionality just to win debates cheaply... I'll just say that I've seen far, far fewer trans people and trans allies say shit like "Well Caitlyn Jenner is RICHER than you so she's BETTER than you" than TERFs saying it about JK Rowling
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It isn't about wealth. She's just a better writer than you, dude. In any other context, a guy saying he was actually more skilled than a woman highly accomplished in her field would be seen as shitty and misogynistic. And yet...
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Replying to @riverhills_xx @arthur_affect
He isn't saying that. He's saying he's a better person than her. And he's right. He's also a better person than you. Because he isn't a bigot.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jkfecke
I'm not, like, a better writer than women generally, I'm not even a better writer than the women I follow on Twitter But most everyone I follow on Twitter is more thoughtful and a better communicator than Rowling
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Is this opinion colored by her horrific politics? Of course it is I do, however, upon consideration, stand by it
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"I can't think clearly because I'm overrun with emotions at the horror of seeing a woman who thinks biology should be acknowledged in discussions of women's oppression", basically.
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Nah my opinion of her writing, her success and the political/commercial circumstances of that success had been souring for years I mean Alan Moore made Harry Potter the Antichrist in his comic in 2012 and I basically came around to thinking he had a point
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