The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 10:13 pm
I should also add if you really want to piss me off then one way to go about is to talk down to me.
I really couldn't care less how pissed off you are given you started this nonsense by posting up that tweet and adding your own content to it, so whatever sense of outrage you feel is entirely self-inflicted. But as you seem happy to keep digging, let's really put this to bed shall we?
The person who originally posted the reply to the Mail's tweet - a guy called BlackKnight10k - doesn't seem like he posts a particularly great deal about trans-related issues, doesn't make a habit of going after Rowling (in fact I can find no mention of her in his tweets at all other than in the one in question), and in general just seems to be a pretty decent guy not keen on people who are arseholes - he's anti-MAGA, anti-racist, doesn't like Andrew Tate and so on. There's no context here whatsoever to suggest his line that they should have to get in the ring with Khelif is anything more than a jibe that - given Khelif is a boxer - makes sense. You can argue it's crude, not funny or whatever, but it's an incredible stretch to make out it's some sort of female-hating face value statement of fantasising about wanting to see a woman get beaten. Nothing in the context of who the author is suggests it's anything more than a throwaway line from someone rightly angry at Musk and JKRs behaviour. Not even 'banter'.
The guy who posted the reply you liked so much, however - portraitinflesh - has history of sticking up for Rowling. To the point that, even when he's actually trying to be balanced about her, he doesn't make a very good job of it:
In that one tweet he does say he's disappointed, but still offloads blame to the IOC and misgenders Khelif - thus perpetuating the erroneous claim she's male. Why's he going to bat for JKR now and previously? No idea and to be honest I don't care. Maybe he's a big Harry Potter fan. Maybe he wants to be a white knight character. Maybe it's sunk cost fallacy and he can't properly bring himself to reassess someone in light of new/accumulating evidence to the contrary. Regardless, he's got form, and so his reply
does have relevant context - he's following his pattern of sticking up for JKR whatever the issue, and as such he has deliberately or emotionally read far too much into Mr Blackknight's tweet, then replied as if how he sees it is obvious to everyone rather than an overblown concoction that makes quite a few mental leaps.
So far though, all we really have is someone over-reacting to a tweet. It's the internet, it happens.
But then we come to you. You see the reply Mr Flesh wrote, and you decide to present it to us as evidence of...something..., with the following additional flavour:
A lot of TRAs can't help themselves.
Problem is, although Mr Flesh got on his high horse about what was posted, he didn't accuse or claim Mr Blackknight was a trans rights activist. In fact, no one did. No one except
you. And that speaks volumes to *your* biases, or sunk cost fallacy, or whatever. You've read a clapback tweet that appealed to your established beliefs, not bothered to think about whether the person being accused of fantasising about seeing a woman being beaten has actually said anything
like that, and then you've spread it further AND you imply that Mr Blackknight has repeat form for this sort of thing because - based on nothing other than the single tweet you've already taken painfully literally and the reply to it that's equally misguided - you call him a trans rights activist in the most pejorative sense of the phrase.
So if you don't like being talked down to, I suggest the following:
1. Do your research
2. Don't jump to conclusions
3.
Definitely don't jump to wildly negative conclusions about someone's behaviour, embellishing someone else's jumping to conclusions, and then post on an internet forum about it
4. Maybe stop digging now?
You posted your message in this forum hoping for a reaction. You got one. But your message was a shit take of a shit take - so sorry if the reaction was "this is blatantly cobblers" rather than a round of applause, but that's not on me.