I have so many questions for the poor, uncomfortable cishet male “friend” JKR was very much sexually harassing in that story
EVEN IN HER OWN WORDS you come away with a clear sense that a man was stunned into silence by the horrifying shrieks of a harpy he did nothing to encourage or engage
“he had no comeback, therefore I win” is such Troll Logic and you sort of expect it on Twitter but can you IMAGINE having it happen in real life when you’re just like, standing near the punch bowl at a charity gala and JKR corners you just to yell “PENIS” at the top of her lungs in a public place
People really need to get more comfortable saying "what the fuck are you even talking about?!" and giving other people the ol' cut direct, but I strongly suspect the secret sauce here is JKR was talking to someone who works for her in some way, not a "friend."
I wondered about that
you come away from this anecdote with a STRONG sense of “this person is not allowed to be rude to my face without considerable risk to himself but he is REALLY doing the math on that right now”
Not to disagree, but ALSO I feel like this is the story she would tell if that poor guy had said “this is wildly inappropriate, you should not talk to me about it.” That’s nearly what the last sentence of her post says!!
Transphobia truly melts peoples brains. They think they’re making totally reasonable points even while someone is quite obviously horrified by what they’re saying.
right like you would understand a version of the story where she clearly put words in his mouth to be like “wow Joanne you are so wise and right”, but it is BANANAS that this is the version she thinks comes off as exculpatory
Terfs, forcibly making people think about penises in conversations that have nothing to do with penises: IT IS THE TRANSES WHO ARE ALWAYS STICKING PENISES EVERYWHERE, INNIT
She doesn't even call him a friend! "A lefty straight man I know." He's just some guy!! And she thought it would be totally normal to casually strike up a conversation about "penised lesbians" and ask him what his friends' kinks are.
i didn't read this piece, but i did read the one where she said she probably would've transitioned as a young person if she'd had the option… in her own words, black & white, not subtext or implication.
she clearly can't read her own writing
