My first thought was that she was revealing the origin story of her transphobia, much in the way that for other notable transphobes it started with, say, a breakdown in their relationship with their child after the kid came out as trans.
This really feels like Joanne started forcing a conversation about sex onto a male colleague who really, really didn’t want to talk about it and ignored every boundary he put up
"i cannot overstate how little he wanted to talk about this"
astonishing lack of self-awareness. She can tell something's wrong and she assumes the problem is with everyone else, unable to realize that she's the weirdo in this scenario.
Dammit Joanne. If you cornered me in a room and started infodumping about fetishes, paraphilias, and Freud, I would also get extremely uncomfortable for reasons that have nothing to do with whether or not lesbians had penises.
I *think* she's saying that trans femininity is a straight man kink that's got out of hand, but honestly she could be saying practically anything at this point.
feel like you could make one commercial opposing all the current culture war stuff -- just show creepy randos obsessed w your business / school / sex life
What I got out of that is that the guy just really didn't want to talk to J. K. Rowling, and she blames it on trans people, or something, and she just kept badgering him.
fr though, I hate that I can parse this, but this is what she is saying:
1. Lesbians with penises are pushing for access to female spaces
2. Straight/bi women are experts on what men like to do for sex, and talk to each other about it
"Joanne this is my niece's 7th birthday party and you're already through half a box of White Zin. Also you weren't actually invited and we haven't actually spoken to each other since I interviewed you for the Scholastic YouTube channel during Magical May of 2018."
do you know if there’s any research on how transphobia affects ppl/brains and if there’s any other bigotry that acts this way (or maybe the correct comparison is conspiracy theories), between her and lineham it seems to truly degenerate social skills
Thanks for putting in the good work of understanding what these weirdos are talking about so us relative normies don't have to suffer quite as much psychic damage.
My best guess is this is her attempt at a pivot after asking someone she couldn't bully with UK libel laws to give her an example of her bigotry and he went nuclear with receipts
I don't understand how she's so seemingly horrified by the concept of kink when hers -- making random people massively uncomfortable by forcing them to listen to her weird obsession with trans women -- is so. fucking. weird. YKINK, JK.
I'm imagining this "lefty straight man" just being some poor food worker with a Labour button.
Like this is the most This is a Wendy's that's ever This is a Wendy's-ed.
She's sliding into Alex Jones territory, and (as a resident of Rainy TERF Island), I am very, very here for it, because she's starting to harm the mainstreaming of that hate movement.
One thing that needs to be pointed out is that under the Australian definition of sexual harassment, Joanne most likely did some sexual harassment (if this conversation was held within a workplace or connected to work)
It’s really disturbing how casually she violates his boundaries
I *think* she’s saying that because something can be a sexual fetish that it’s only a sexual fetish. Which is simply not how fetishes work.
Which is nonsense. If that were true, many medical practices would be considered sex work.
The thread she's responding to isn't particularly helpful either.
I think the reason some men are criticizing TERFs is because trans people can already access bathrooms and women's shelters and we don't see them committing sexual assault!
TERFs are lying; that's why they're being criticized.
Best I can figure her "reasoning":
-Men are sick perverts, any woman can tell you that
-Cross-dressing is a common kink among men
-Therefore trans women are like that because they're into kink
-Therefore they are into sick shit that they want to inflict on innocent women
Still makes no actual sense
This all sounds like original terf stuff to me, not different than arguments made in The Transsexual Empire about trans lesbians invading female spaces and raping them.
truly can't parse this. "some dudes have a crossdressing fetish. this = trans woman (??), and this = .......... men who want to rape/sexually assault men????" but also something about........ women sharing information but men don't........ yeah the logical progression here fails me
I’ve been in situations like this where a person was obsessed with a fringe theory and therefore hyper-informed about details that a normal person can’t follow, let alone counter without having to do a deep dive on where they’re even coming from.
This is simply creepy as shit. A lot of folks are a-sexual or uncomfortable talking about sex in general and here she is publicly sexually harassing someone who doesn't want to talk about kinky sex by forcing him to talk about kinky sex.
She puts way too much time and effort into other people's business, then makes it her business to make sure everyone's business lives up to her standards. She needs a serious long vacation away from other people's lives. Seriously!
Something about women understanding what it's like to be a man more than a man will ever understand what it's like to be a woman. That's the best I can piece together.
TF is she talking about? I ask this genuinely: have we always had this type of insane among us? Just hidden by social media? I saw a clip of a Danica Patrick podcast and some lady said Justin Bieber changed into a lizard on stage.. seriously. I just logged off and went for a walk.
nodding sagaciously as I huff my own farts and type the phrase "penised 'lesbians'." I am history's greatest brain genius, its last heroic redoubt, steadfastly athwart the tide
She's thinking about penises, Michael. She's thinking about all the ways to use penises, and all the different things penises can do.
It's all about the penises.
Leaving aside the obvious nonsense, I had a pretty wild time in my early twenties, and I met exactly one man who was into cross-dressing as a kink. Genuinely, what the fuck is she talking about here
I love her how friend IRL was like "ew this is gross wtf is wrong with you" and she proudly touted that as some sort of proof rather than stopping to be like "wait, am I being insane?"
