he bad faith, the ulterior motive, the dog whistle bigotry. The hate that’s hidden within a woman’s cry of pain, and which only they can see. To the rest of us, it looks as though nothing has changed.
The new misogyny: just like the old misogyny.
Nothing has changed
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We’ve long lived in an era where to be a victim is to be seen as something desirable, a sort of odd virtue. We remember the “victims” of the Magdalene laundries who published faked memoirs.
I recall after the Tube bombings, a certain woman appeared many times on television expressing the hope that we could forgive and forget. There was a definite sense of: surely not every victim shared that belief, so why is she being privileged over her less forgiving co-victims. The obvious conclusion is that is is not sufficient to be a victim. You have to be a victim expressing the approved narrative. No victim is easy to challenge. The dissenter will be accused of insensitivity or worse. So if you are a victim expressing the approved narrative, so much the better.
The same is happening with J K Rowling. And the answer is definitely NOT to say that personal experience of victimhood trumps alternative arguments.
If not then every “feeling” of the transgender lobby trumps J K Rowling
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