I would have thought it was almost impossible to make me look like David in any circumstance, but the Goliath that is JKR & her followers might just manage it. I believe there is some middle ground where listening & understanding is possible, and I must prove it.
@KirstieMAllsopp I think Ms. Rowling has been extraordinarily restrained and polite given what has been hurled at her. No need for you to insert yourself there.
@SuzyQue27155082 If you go back to the beginning of this particular 48 hours period you’ll find that JKR decided to take odds with my views, I had never mentioned her name.
I'm interested in the words 'decided to take odds with my views', Kirstie, which implies that I was looking for some way to attack you personally, which I wasn't. I certainly do take odds with people trying to rewrite history, though, as you did in saying airily that we've always been able to debate so-called gender affirming care for minors. As I've already proved to you, many of those attempting to raise concerns around puberty blockers, and the ideology that led them to be used off-label, have paid for it with their careers, their reputations and their mental health. You've previously dismissed concerns about what's been done to young people in the name of ideology, along with the well-founded fears of women most in need of single sex spaces, as 'moral panic'. As far as I'm concerned, high profile people who've cheered all this on, without bothering to inform themselves of the real world implications of their feel good slogans, are complicit.
@jk_rowling @SuzyQue27155082 I have no interest in making this about me, or about you. I believe that there is a middle ground where people with a genuine desire to listen & learn can discuss these things with compassion. There are too many issues impacting today’s world which are scarily divisive.
@KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 It's as though I'm being lectured on the etiquette around dinner party table talk. Some very compassionate and knowledgable people who tried to find the middle ground on this issue received only violent threats and career loss in return, a fact you still refuse to acknowledge.
@jk_rowling @SuzyQue27155082 You know what this isn’t a bad idea, perhaps everyone should start behaving as if we were breaking bread under the same roof. The restraints that we impose on ourselves when accepting another’s hospitality would improve Twitter, and the wider debate immensely. 🍞
Throughout this exchange, you’ve focused solely on how politely we talk, rather than the substance of what’s being talked about. It seems you’d rather critique style than actually engage with the subject. Many in this debate don’t have that luxury. These matters affect them too deeply. I don’t think many women would want to break bread with those who’ve threatened them with death and rape, I’d be surprised if those who were bullied out of jobs fancy making small talk with their ex-colleagues and I doubt detransitioners want to pass the salt to therapists who shoved them onto hormones and approved them for surgery after woefully scant assessments.
@jk_rowling @SuzyQue27155082 So many of your comments look to the past, and I can understand why, but unless everyone looks forward and finds a way of communicating with compassion and without blame, then your aim of helping young people will be almost impossible.
@jk_rowling @KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 The lack of self-awareness is astonishing, frankly. Having spent a good year dismissing her 'fellow diners' perspectives as a ridiculous moral panic, she proposes that we all be a little more respectful...?
@jk_rowling @KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 I think K. Allsopp is a narcissist using this conversation as her narcissistic supply. She is enjoying the distress and frustration she causes in others. She will argue black is white just to see the pain she causes.
@jk_rowling @KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 Some people will just never get it, it’s like they are multi resistant to all forms of what is actually being said and what is actually happening in reality! I feel Kirsty is one of those people
@jk_rowling @KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 The David and Goliath analogy she used yesterday doesn’t seem to be holding up too well. She was never going to come out on top of this and the hole she’s digging just gets deeper and deeper. It’s like telling a child not to the touch a flame they’ll get burned, over and over
It is fascinating how manipulative her responses are. It’s not worth your and any one else’s attention. This is why I love translating. One pretty much has to boil down an utterance to its core message, before reformulating it in the target language. But at this stage it’s easy to see who simply produces hot air and/or makes unclear statements. I’m not working as a professional translator, but from time to time I translate your tweets and occasionally longer texts (e.g. your essay). There is always so much content in and between the lines. Sometimes they are not easy to deal with, because it requires quite some abilities in using the written word to not just transport the message, but also the sound and style (thanks to a wonderful editor with the essay), but you are always clear and honest. Thank you.
@jk_rowling @KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 I can only see JKR’s side of the conversation because Kirstie “both sides” Allsopp has blocked me 🤷♀️
@jk_rowling @KirstieMAllsopp @SuzyQue27155082 oh the F—-ing irony!!!!!!!! Believe it or not, trans people do not have the ‘luxury’ of debating their very existence with people who have no expertise and a huge social media reach. But we do it anyhow. And most of us have stayed calm and rational. understand yet..?