The conversation about transsexual rights would be very different, if it were actually about just leaving transsexuals alone to think what they want and do what they want with consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes.
Oh, I hadn't thought of that. Ah. Yes I kind of see that.
Bloody women eh? Why don't they know their place!
On the contrary, you asked why did she get involved, and she mentioned several reasons why.
If you want to say where specifically in the letter she did that, we could then discuss it.
There's nothing wrong with not explaining an opposite view when one is putting forth their own view.
It's not an appeal to a base instinct to connect sexual violence with issues of access to female spaces. It's logically connected. Do you not see the logic?
Where, exactly, is her specious reasoning? Please quote from her letter.
Which was the most manipulative place, in your opinion? Again, specifics will allow discussion.
Agreed.
I can see how she has kind of borrowed from the 2nd world war. That is certainly obvious in the later books. I read them to my kids about 6 years ago. Maybe fantastic beasts focuses on it more? I have not seen any of that. I just assumed the original series was trying to kind of map the parallel stories of the real and wizarding world onto one another. It seems very thin and underdeveloped kind of allegory if that's what it is supposed to be. It's like if you look at house elves as some allegory of slavery, it seems cringey, incredibly obvious, and preachy. If you read it as a vehicle for Hermione to illustrating how cringey, incredibly obvious, and preachy she was, I thought it worked. Similarly with pretty much the whole of the world around Voldemort, it's all 2 dimensional cardboard cut-outs that are there to create a backdrop for a few characters who are genuinely well developed, Snape in particular. Turning into an allegory for fascism seems like the Star Wars ring theory. There are as many elements that fit as don't. That, and your article was some Tumblr looking thing about the death eaters being the KKK rather than about fascism. When you go that deep into Harry Potter, you just find assorted stuff that she has gotten from different places that only appears to fit together because it is only as fleshed out as it needs to be. I'm sure one could make it an allegory of all sorts of things by picking through the elements she borrowed from.
No, but presumably Rowling doesn't talk about this stuff continually without interruption at parties either. Having said that, her views on it are the most generic, you might have watched something on the history channel once take that has been articulated over and over and over for the past 77 years. As I was trying to say, if she isn't qualified to opine about trans-women, she certainly isn't about fascism and WW2.
Nah I'm not gonna bother. She's asking for it. Bloody women.
Death Eaters are obsessed with strength through blood purity and strict racial hierarchy, so that's basic Klan doctrine. But add in their emphasis on a single ruler over all magical Britian and turning the ministry into a place where people are vetted for right thinking and proper ancestry by state supported secret police and now it's transparently an allegory for fascism.
That, sure. The one thing to add to your progressive stack thing is that you have to have the right views. There is black, and there is politically black. There is trans and politically-trans. Blair White may be trans, but she doesn't do the pseudo-marxist game of oppressed and oppressor class struggle stuff, so she isn't politically trans. You have to be politically-X for the privilege stack to grant your experiences special status. You have to have the views that correct theory says your class should have before your views count.
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