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As this post seems to be getting seen, may I ask that anyone who does helps boost this one too - J.K. Rowling promoting transphobic sites that sell weapons is not something that should be known about by so few people.

German dictionary:

Countdown to "the dictionaries are captured by woke ideology" and a handful of lawsuits

So factually wrong, both in terms of the technical definition, and her own entirely fabricated definition of "trans woman". And the rest is just a mash up of logical fallacies and grammatical inconsistencies that have no bearing on the function of language in how we describe the world.

The pretend smart always justify themselves by pretending that words are prescriptive, not descriptive.

How long until she sues the dictionary publishers???

How is an entry for Trans first published in 2018 ...Have these people never heard of Trans Alpine Gaul? Trans Sylvania??/

TERFs when using the dictionary to define a woman: 👈😊 TERFs when seeing the dictionary show them trans is an adjective: 🙉

in a world that has Elon Musk, that is a mighty claim! ad i thik you might be right

Stop sniffing sharpies, Jo!

Spot on. Perfect description!

platforming? it’s literally JK Rowling, that’s like when people say not to platform the president by talking about what he said

Sorry let me just maths problem this nonsense equation Trans woman = man who wants to be woman If not trans = simply a man Trans woman minus trans = woman Therefore Woman = simply a....man?

Can she do us all a favor and just die already?

She’s a mediocre halfwit pedant.

AND YET whenever I read it in a departmental document or briefing I just know the person writing is gonna be the worst kind of sealioning butt

I'm pretty sure, that if it's one word, then "trans" actually becomes a prefix. But wait until Rowling sees what happens when you remove the prefix "wo" from certain words.

Wiktionary definition

Local author admits she doesn't know what an adjective is.

In this tweet, she said trans woman as two words. She doesn't even believe her own crap she's spouting.

She is digging herself so deep, it’s not even funny anymore lol

She wasn't as clever as she thought, then the constant doubling down of bigotry has melted her brain. But to a lot of (similarly stupid) people, super rich means super smart. Which, like all their bigotry, has absolutely no basis in reality.

LMAO 🤣 how much weed is Rowling been smoking? And she wrote an award winning book series and got out of poverty. I try to be cool with people no matter who they are. But if it is this kinda stupid, I stay away. Don't need my IQ to drop.

Bigotry interferes with cognitive function. At a basic level, biases are cognitive malfunctions. When a person fails to correct the dysfunction & instead leans on it harder, it steers the brain away from healthy cognition. She can no longer see her own fallacies.

A compound noun of uhhh t and rans? 🤷‍♀️

This has had me cackling like a witch. Author doesn't know what an adjective is.

So “trans isn’t an adjective” and “if the individual being described…” Does she actually not know what adjective means? Because I distinctly remember my primary school teachers telling the class they were “describing words”

she lashed out at the original Harry Potter cast for not saying they supported her transphobia lol, what do you mean???

you mean when their “different opinion” is an embrace of fascism? maybe it’s a “phobia” in the etymological sense, I am averse to them, but it’s a pretty rational aversion. obv that doesn’t apply to MOST opinions though... like, I hate Evangelion, most of my friends like it, never been an issue.

Or. OR. Rowling could grow the fuck up and stop obsessively hating trans people. She's a moron who has at this point abandoned basic grammar because it gets in the way of her hate. You people are fucking lunatics.

Professional writer. Doesn’t know what an adjective is, or a pronoun for that matter. Just wait until she hears about adverbs.

I despise JKR and everything she espouses. But I'm pretty sure Trump would win that competition.

Found my screenshot of the Baroness, and I had forgotten that, yes, she really DID also think 'homophobia' is a fear of men.

Totally

Meanwhile Jk Rowling has become a byword for hatred and misinformation. As soon as I see anything with her name tagged on it I just know it's going to be a pile of shit so I don't bother reading it.

I get it, she's transclever

There is a deep, *deep* irony that this involves Faith Naff of all people. She is (or at least was) one of the biggest self-hating trans people on Twitter. Insanely chummy with Br*anna W*

Well...

JK Rowling doesn't know what an adjective is.

idk bill maher might be able to compete with her on that but i can't think of anyone else

she's so exhausting

Rowling not understanding how adjectives work kinda explains a lot about the quality of her books.

There's a reason why so many of them are lawyers, accountants and journalists.

With her wealth and fame, and considering she could have chosen to be almost anything, this is who she chose to be. I'm glad I never put so much as a penny in her pocket.

I say this all the time but did no one actually read the books?! She’s always been a horrible boring idiot!

What if they are glasses with large gametes?

Very embarrassing for a writer not to know what an adjective is

she talks like a stupid teenager who thinks they're clever. "erm ackshully the thing you said is actually the opposite, checkmate transes" ... are you 12 years old joanne? if we're going to have enemies we at least deserve to have enemies that aren't this bloody thick, it's degrading!

She should take up a new hobby, maybe take a creative writing course?

This. All of this... 👏👏👏🏆 bsky.app/profile/neve...

the mold is really getting to her

She identifies as a writer.

lucky for her there’s no licensure process for writing a novel.

During my Forensic Posting we had a body for autopsy, it was pulmonary embolism, so I was the one annotating the register, the specimen was clearly a transgender but the Gender we annotated was Male, I questioned but my seniors advised that it won’t be accurate as per forensic ethics

Beautifully put.

all she had to do was check with the English oxford dictionary before she opened her mouth to stick her foot in it as a writer myself I consider the ability to use a dictionary to be part of my basic toolbox.

Well, I guess transport, transparent, translate, transcript, transcontinental, etc aren't real words then...

> Elon Musk slides silently into frame

Dusk. A giant outline in body tape at the foot of the Empire State Building, emergency vehicles everywhere, lights flashing. FBI man: "So, what finally took her down?" Street Cop: "The Grammar Police, boss." FBI man: <drags hard on cigarette> "Sheesh. Those guys don't mess."

Dunning-kruger but the peak of mount stupid reaches all the way to the moon

Close, but that specific dubious honour should go to Elon Musk.

PSA if you're a cis woman you're now a man, idk I don't make the rules JK Large Gametes does apparently

Saying you use trans as a noun shows how that person doesn't see Tran people as anything but objects and not, you know, people

I see what you are saying and i raise you Elon Musk

scientists are still trying to find out if being transphobic makes you stupid, or if being stupid makes you receptive to becoming transphobic

Transphobia appears to have rotted her brain.

Hang on, Dan Brown also exists.

Elon Musk erasure

Ummm, Elon Musk???

It has to be between Joanne and Jordan Peterson

Yep. bsky.app/profile/appl...

Probably should rename the Dunning-Krueger Effect to the Joanne Effect.

Our gender identities are across from our sex assigned at birth. If they were the same, we would be cis. That is how those words work.

your own example includes adding a noun to the word because English is an adjective.

Jesus Christ she’s such a colossal idiot

she's proof that British wit has never been anything but one long drawling sneer

im genuinely unable to decipher what the fuck shes trying to say

I'm not saying you're in error. I just think someone in the US has her beat in that metric. :)

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Didnt she used to write for a living or something?

Counterpoint That’s Elon. JK is up there might even be second but there’s JD Vance to think about.

iOS autocorrect version.

The Cambridge Dictionary: Trans Is an Adjective. JK Rowling: Who tf are you?

A difference in understanding of the world leading to a difference in describing it? Wow who would have thought?!

What does she think of the adjective "former", then ? Does a former lawyer cease to be a lawyer ? Or cease to not be not a non-lawyer once upon a time before ? Wait my brain is making knots now 😫

Before he admitted he only bought the site to spread hate because of Vivian.

Where's that photo of that put-upon drummer when you need it to glower for the meme?

I think that’s just because he’s easily bored.

everything musk has done in the last few years, including buying twitter, is driven by how much he hates his daughter.

I mean, she can also be both.

That is, I know what to do now, despite typos, and dyslexia. I do my best not get it wrong & try to tell people the proper way if I see it wrong, but kindly as most people, I do believe, are making an honest mistake versus an intentional targeting. Most would use male terms if they meant to hurt.

Physical, I edited my comment before posting a few times and lost some words. I have some issues with forming sentences too. I don’t search for definitions the same way I use to, I use to just read the dictionary, despite dyslexia. I am not on about anything and I am sorry if I offended you.

Or they'll try to publish their own, like Conservapedia.

...have to work harder to argue against it. But I guess that doesn't matter when your cult just uncritically accepts everything you say.

They make the same point. Only Rowling makes it from the viewpoint of TERFS and Naff from the viewpoint of the rest of us.

If nothing else she's at least somewhere in the top ten contenders for that specific title. Along with Elon Musk and that unkempt Palantir guy. It's a very close race, though. And this particular statement might put her in the lead for a few hours, perhaps even days!