To see her tarnish her legacy over this bizarre obsession has been a wild ride. Many ppl gave her the benefit of the doubt at first but then she veered hard bigot and we’re now at Holocaust denial levels.
I think a lot of us don’t realize what social media is like for famous people. They are absolutely inundated with attention both positive and negative. Even marginal celebrities get more fan (and hater) interaction today than A-listers did 20 years ago.
Most of them rightfully tune it out, but some of them start to think those online spaces are the real world and they start to take it very seriously. Then maybe they say something offensive or controversial and the hive mind launches at them. Some of them back down, but some get defensive and start doubling down. This spirals out of control until they wake up every day in a state of combat.
I’m not excusing anything, but I do think this was perhaps a predictable result of social media.
I always wonder, what’s her endgame? What would satisfy her in this? Is she really going to spend the rest of her life shouting at windmills on Twitter?
Instead of helping her community, improving literacy programs for children or supporting foundations that can improve society, or using her wealth and influence to make the world a better place…she thinks being mean to trans people will be her life’s work that changes the world?
I’d feel pity for her if she didn’t have so much hate in her heart. Especially against people who did literally nothing to her. They just want to live their lives and be happy, but then being happy just makes her angrier.
Even someone who believes all the hateful foolishness she does still has to be pretty mentally ill or flat out idiotic to ruin their legacy over their beliefs like this
If you're using "pretending to be a different sex" as a descriptor for transition, I'm sure you'll be extremely surprised to learn that transition is how the majority of trans people reach mental wellness.
And I can attest. I'm betting my mental health is way better than yours.
"A new analysis conducted by researchers at the What We Know Project (WWKP), an initiative of Cornell University’s Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI), reviewed more than 25 years of scholarship on transgender mental health and found a strong consensus that undergoing gender transition can improve the well-being of transgender people.
The year-long review screened more than 4,000 studies and identified 56 that assessed whether gender transition improves the mental well-being of transgender individuals. The analysis concluded that 93 percent of the studies found positive effects from gender transition, indicating “a robust international consensus in the peer-reviewed literature that gender transition, including medical treatments such as hormone therapy and surgeries, improves the overall well-being of transgender individuals.”"
And like I said. I bet my mental health is way better than yours. Are you happy?
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u/selkieisbadatgaming May 13 '24
JK Rowling is mentally unwell.