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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: "Today in My Harry Potter Class..."
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 22:06:38 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>In article <uus142$278b4$1@dont-email.me>,
> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> >On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 23:25:40 +0000, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >>"Today in my Harry Potter class at Baylor University, we had a hard and
>> >>necessary conversation about JK Rowling and her hatred of trans- people. We
>> >>decided novelist Rowling, who wrote with compassion about diversity, equity,
>> >>and inclusion, is worth our attention. Twitter Rowling? Shame on her."
>> 
>> >>https://x.com/Greg1Garrett/status/1775307079126806960
>> 
>> >>------------------------
>> 
>> >>"Today in my Harry Potter class..." is a prime example of why the rest of us
>> >>shouldn't have to pay off anybody else's student loans.
>> 
>> >If the class were on modern literature then I could see the subject of
>> >Harry Potter coming up. The rest of the discussion of JK Rowling and
>> >her opinions on trans people really doesn't belong in any class, not
>> >even one on philosophy or modern events. It's just not worthy of
>> >discussion in a class on anything other than  a class on JK Rowling
>> >which wouldn't belong at any school.
>> 
>> Please stop repeating this everybody. She DID NOT offer an opinion on
>> trans people. At other times, she expressed sympathy for what they've
>> gone through.
>> 
>> She offered an opinion on denial that WOMEN and their needs exist. A charity
>> distributing much-needed feminine hygiene products in Africa, in rural
>> areas in which they are not available, refused to say "women" on their
>> literature. JK Rowling was appalled at the virtue signalling and wrote
>> a sarcastic comment to that effect. The charity wrote about products for
>> "people who menstruate" or something like that, and later claimed that
>> they were trying not to offend certain women in amenorrhea, either
>> because of disease or menopause. Somehow other women experiencing normal
>> periods might be offensive to other women in amenorrhea, something no
>> such woman has ever said.
>> 
>> She offered no opinion of trans people. This was, is, and always will be
>> a lie.
>
>She's said other things since then directly about transgenders in both 
>sport and in prisons and in women's private spaces, like locker rooms 
>and showers.

Might as well. She was already being slammed.

As far as I'm concerned, she's still speaking up for women's rights.