Said Lark Malakai Grey, "co-host of the queer Harry Potter podcast 'The Gayly Prophet,'" quoted in "J.K. Rowling's new book, about a transphobe who faces wrath online, raises eyebrows" (NPR).
Here's the book: "The Ink Black Heart."
September 1, 2022
"She has published a 1,000-page self-insert fanfiction where she's the victim—it's the kind of behavior that you'd expect from a petulant teenager..."
"... not a grown adult with immense wealth and power. I have no idea what she expected, but seeing the internet fill with jokes about the book has been an absolute joy after all the harm she has caused my community over the past several years."
Said Lark Malakai Grey, "co-host of the queer Harry Potter podcast 'The Gayly Prophet,'" quoted in "J.K. Rowling's new book, about a transphobe who faces wrath online, raises eyebrows" (NPR).
Said Lark Malakai Grey, "co-host of the queer Harry Potter podcast 'The Gayly Prophet,'" quoted in "J.K. Rowling's new book, about a transphobe who faces wrath online, raises eyebrows" (NPR).
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I went to the Amazon link and assumed the low ratings were because of Rowlingphobes, but it turns out most seemed to be because of horrid kindle formatting, so I bought the hardcover.
Look, we all knew she was no J. R. R. Tolkien, OK? Read silly books, give yourself silly names, cut your silly balls off.
I agree with Ms. Rowling. Men don't belong in women-only spaces. Not just the girl scouts and girls' sports teams (high school locker rooms!) but also prisons. Putting men in women's prisons just about guarantees that some stupid woman is going to get raped. This is a blatant disregard of prisoners' human rights. Most female inmates are just losers who are imprisoned for economic, non-violent offences often linked to their financial situation or experience of violence. It is outrageous that these losers also get raped.
The NPR story keeps saying Rowling is "transphobic." She's been called that by people who demand allegiance to their ideology. I don't think it's an accurate description of her views.
Whether it's a good book is another question. I've read some of her Robert Galbraith books, but I don't think I'll tackle 1,024 pages.
'Said Lark Malakai Grey, "co-host of the queer Harry Potter podcast 'The Gayly Prophet,'
Typical. Someone who doesn't or can't create anything on their own wants to appropriate the work of another, and twist it to their own perverted purpose.
This is called being a leech...
Just like Philip Roth or John Updike, Rowling's fiction is sometimes inspired by the central conflicts in the author's life. And some people on the other side of the conflict have to find a way to preemptively condemn it. Because justice.
"I don't think it's an accurate description of her views."
Actually, after what she's been through with those psychos, she has every reason to be afraid of them.
Conversations in the transgender spectrum.
Trans/homophobia are in a class of disorders through projection.
I forgot that objective truth was cool again. Silly me.
"Transphobe"
Absolutely. Anyone who thinks the idea of being born the wrong sex, that a transcendent power that assigns X and Y chromosomes in accordance with some kind of cosmic plan but occasionally muffs it, is lunacy, is obviously a psychotic monster who richly deserves the -phobic label and must be destroyed.
re: "transphobe"
Ms. Rowling has demonstrated quite clearly she isn't afraid of trans folks or their allies. So there is clearly no "phobia".
I'm wondering why these loonies haven't adopted the "denier" label, as in "climate denier", for example...
All the harm she caused my community.
I wonder what harm other than to an overinflated sense of entitlement that could be?
If anyone knows about horrible self insertiob fanfic, its Harry Potter fans.
This sort of extreme writing is dangerous. It's dangerous to our Democracy. It's literal violence. And JK Rowling is going to be made to pay.
I was listening to the President's spokesperson today and she reminded all Americans of this central fact:
"When you are not with where the majority of Americans are, then, you know, that is extreme.” - White House Press Secretary Katherine Jean-Jemima.
I would be remiss to remind Ms. Jemima that the "majority of Americans" once classified her as 3/5ths of a person. Then they kicked her ass right off that syrup bottle.
Might not want to go with the "majority" sweetheart. Find yourself back in a cotton field.
I assume ~0% of the people making jokes or criticizing the book have actually read the book.
I expect in the near future some of her critics will hold the book in their hands, scan their eyes over the pages, and believe they are reading her book when in fact they are reading a book they made up in their head, not the one she wrote.
"My life is a figment of someone else's imagination and I hate that person."
That's a sad, sad place to be.
When will those fucking dishonest liars at NPR stop wrongly using the word “transphobic?”
Tucker Carlson has made this point repeatedly: To the Left, words are violence.
She's the Chief Pilot of Trans Phobic Airlines
Well she won't cave in to the mob, so their attack of last resort is to give her a bad Amazon review and try to smear her with bad names. Awwww. Poor sad babies. When it comes to political clout, their imagination ran away with them, mostly because other people are cowards.
Speaking of all things trans, Chris Rufo at City Journal had a recent piece about how the Children’s hospital in Chicago was pushing trans ideas out to little kids via the Chicago public schools. And we know from one of Ann’s recent posts, Libs of TT exposed how hospitals in Boston and DC were mutilating kids under 16.
I think both Nebraska Medicine and Children’s Hospital in Omaha are doing the same thing. National Review had a story about how Children’s Hospital was a sponsor of Gay Pride week and it had a booth at the exhibition hall soliciting for customers.
On its website, the Nebraska Medicine Gender Identity clinic has an intake form for children under 12. Twelve!
Nebraska Medicine is the money-making operation of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, UNMC gets tax money. The Big Red.
Both Nebraska Medicine and Children’s are giant advertisers in the Omaha market so the so-called media won’t do a report.
This is fully expected by me from the heathens at Big Red. Cutting off healthy organs just to make more money. I can guarantee you that none of this evil is going at Creighton Medical School or the Catholic Hospital in Omaha.
But a new day is coming to the Nebraska Unicameral. This stops next year.
The trans "community" is a joke, and desisting teens sau their therapists were egging them on, saying they'd never be happy if they didn't hurry and go on hormones.
I mean they're social transitioning at 13, get double mastectomy at 16, regretting the whole thing at 19. And admitting that they just thought they weren't pretty enough to make a girl (or not macho enough to be a boy).
It's a travesty and it's been foung on under the radar for years. Good on Rowling for calling them out.
Well, when someone of this caliber insults you, time to pay attention.
My name is Lark Malakai Grey (he/him). I’m a tarot reader, and the co-host of the podcasts The Gayly Prophet and EsGAYpe From Reality. I am also queer, trans, disabled/chronically ill, a Pisces/Scorpio rising and moon, a Gryffindor, and an INFJ.
I have been reading tarot professionally since 2015, and unprofessionally since 2008.
If I had as an offspring a petulant teenager who published a 1000 page anything, I'd think, "Well, not too shabby."
The Gayly Prophet.
She misspelled profit.
Paddy O
"Rowlingphobes"
Stealing that.
"To the left- words are violence." yep.
Up next - the left morph into the KGB. Not kidding.
I like the Robert Galbraith series and I intend to read this book. The whole series is in some ways "dark." It's life in England as it is now; life in an administrative state without God, country or, for most of them, family. Each book in socially centered in some facet of that life. For example, the first was in the world of the super-model and the people most central to that world in a given moment. So it's not surprising that Rowling is writing about the world of Twitter mobs. Being attacked by organized online mobbing when her book about organized online mobbing comes out will probably just show the accuracy of her depiction of the Twitter mob scene. "Ink black heart", hmm, I'm guessing she's critical of Twitterati. Not bloggers, I hope. But - I haven't read it yet. It takes days to get through a book of hers and I usually end up reading day and night. But maybe I'll hate the book. Or maybe I'll never comment again. Later.
Sounds like a doorstop of a book.
Might sell some to virtue signaling buyers, but likely forgotten by the holidays and unread by most buyers and critics.
"Harm to my community" is without meaning. Go find someone who claims to have been harmed as a person, have them explain it.
Clearly shes slytherin
Trans - a state or process of divergence. Trans/neos/pseudos/quasis in the spectrum should wait until well after puberty, to clear their state of confusion, regrets, dreams, and as an informed adult, decide if surgical, medical, or psychiatric corruption to simulate gender is still their best choice. This is why there is a movement to discern between stable and dynamic conditions.
Ive written about 450 pages,
The third one about body mutilation is a little too disturbing the second one about a vendetta against writers is a little too on point
"seeing the internet fill with jokes about the book has been an absolute joy "
She must have a different internet.
I think I'm sympathetic to Rowling, but not to the point of reading some 1,000 page book. I'm minimally informed about trans issues and debates and have little motivation to become better informed...I don't see much point to cutting your penis off, but I guess the point is you don't want to have a point, so to speak. Anyway, what do I know about cultural phenomenons. I thought tattoos would be a briefer blip than disco or belly button bling, but that's not how it's turned out. Tats everywhere: Anglican Bishops, Vatican bureaucrats, hedge fund managers. . . Maybe dysphorics (if that's the word) will become a significant part of the electorate and put Biden over the top in the next election.
Buckwheathikes said...
"When you are not with where the majority of Americans are, then, you know, that is extreme.” - White House Press Secretary Katherine Jean-Jemima.
I would be remiss to remind Ms. Jemima that the "majority of Americans" once classified her as 3/5ths of a person.
>>>>>No "we" didn't. You are a no-information moron for still making that claim. The 3/5's reflected a compromise on counting populations to establish how many congressional representatives each state would have. That was a condition the slave South demanded to ratify the Constitution. Among anti-slavery northerners it was a bitter price to pay in order to found a country before the British could take it back, colony by colony. NO American citizens voted on that issue.
Then they kicked her ass right off that syrup bottle.
>>>> NO, "we" we didn't. Asshole wokists forced the syrup makers to do that------NOT the majority of Americans. And they did that w/o Americans voting on it.
Might not want to go with the "majority" sweetheart. Find yourself back in a cotton field.
>>>>When did the majority of Americans ever want blacks in cotton fields? The population of the pre-civil war North was much larger than the South.
>>>>You're a first class ignorant dipshit. But I suspect that like Inga, Howard, Freder/Arturo/Heywood, readering. Left Back, Cooke et al, you'll keep coming back to troll us.
>>>>I'd ask you to provide evidence for your claims, but you---like the dolts I listed--- never do. Just say silent. You will prove me right.
Heh.... It's the Amazon #1 fiction release at present. Thank you, Barbra Streisand!
Throughout my lifetime, NPR has been using the strategy of forwarding and normalizing the activist cause, no matter the issue. Environmentalist, feminist, racist, etc. Pretty obviously this drives sentiment, public opinion and country Left, towards the activist. It forces many liberals to make essentially false choices between activists and anything vaguely ‘conservative’ and part of any tradition (marriage, speech, and even use of language).
It’s helped drive our politics into current dysfunction and towards many European outcomes. I know the activist mindset enough to know such true believers never take responsibility for that which they’ve helped destroy. Most take pride in thei accmpishments, and will keep driving our politics towards their true beliefs.
This has allowed movement towards radicalism and a new more violent public square (enemies are evil, just ask JK Rowling). It’s forced out ‘normal’ and middle of the road people in favor of activists , even those who work at NPR.
The premise for any value I get from similar outlets and institutions being used as the filter for news...is low. I pretty much know the game, because I can only win by not playing.
Such people won’t let me not play their game, obviously, and have co-opted many games...I understand.
In fact, I watched similar strategies at play in the academy, which helped lead to a wholesale failure of stewardship of many things I love, and these things are vital for our civilization.
Can you tell me some things I don’t know? There’s so much I don’t know.
I wasted several years of my reading attention on Scientific American, well past the point in time when they unraveled from a science journal into a purely partisan unscientific crapzone, in the vain hope that they might one day return to what they had once been.
I learned from that. And so I dropped NPR completely several years ago without holding on to that period of false hope. They are nothing more than woke now.
I was disappointed to see it and can’t imagine it’s any good. I hope I’m wrong and it is good because otherwise it’ll be sport for the haters for the rest of her career.
She buys ink by the barrel, but her opponents get all the free pixels they can use. I think she is wrestling with pigs but still enjoying it.
People who talk about harm to their "community" because of someone's stated opinion or words should terrify everyone. If they're that brittle, heaven help us if they ever get into power. Alas, they already have plenty of power, inciting fear and self-censorship in this giant game of The Emperor's New Clothes in which we have to pretend that men can give birth, trans women are no different than biological women in their capabilities, and sex isn't fixed at birth.
"Putting men in women's prisons just about guarantees that some stupid woman is going to get raped."
Why are you insulting the victim in your scenario?
I actually read the book. Nothing transphobic about it. Not a chore to plough through the thousand pages. Resorting to ad hominem attacks to prevent a frank and thorough analysis of a book is just one aspect of the discouragement of evaluating works based on their actual content. A lot easier than engaging in actual argument.
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