A renowned transgender horror author who signed a letter last week condemning The New York Times’s coverage of trans issues has tweeted that she wants to slit J.K. Rowling‘s throat.
Isn’t that incitement to violence? Have the police been round to check his thinking? Or does it only work one way?
SheHe had earlier decried the murder of British transgender teenager Brianna Ghey 16, and suggested Rowling and her ilk had stoked violence which led to the killing. Cops have yet to share a possible motive for the murder, which has seen two 15 year-olds arrested.
This is risible nonsense. Given that the police have not made any comment about the motive yet, it is too soon to make any assumptions. However, even if it was because this child was trans, it has nothing to do with Rowling. After all, Rowling has never made any reference to violence against anyone, unlike Felker-Martin.
In Felker-Martin’s debut novel, Manhunt, published in February 2022, Rowling is murdered by being burned alive.
The book is promoted as ‘an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and trans men on a grotesque journey of survival.’ It has been lauded as ‘visceral’ ‘gripping’ and ‘brilliant’ by NPR and the New Yorker.
I think we can safely say that this is a piece of unreadable, self-indulgent shite.
An addendum to this, it’s received a significant amount of one star reviews because it is misogynistic, trite, badly written and fantasises about rape. The reaction to these reviews is that they are ‘transphobic.’ Well, that’s a surprise.
If the only people left on earth are transgender people then that’s an end to humankind. As transwomen can’t have babies and trans men don’t have sperm then then that’s it curtains to humanity.
I guess that rapist in a dress in Jockland might be able to help them out?
Baboom Tish!
Women can impregnate men these days and men can have babies. You haven’t been paying attention.
“In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking.
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.”
And if you really believe anything goes then you also believe that it is righteous to make death threats or incite violence because the ‘Others’ are trying to restrict you (and are therefore evil and not worthy of tolerance).
“A renowned transgender horror author”
“Renowned”? Who? I’d never heard of him. But he seems like an unpleasant piece of work. As you say – one to avoid.
If you dig a little, ‘unpleasant’ is an understatement. A misogynist who obsesses about rape and puts that into his books. Repugnant is closer, I think. Deeply, deeply repugnant.
I suspect that no-one at the ‘Mail’ understands English enough to really understand what ‘renowned’ actually means.