The Orwellian Absurdity Of Logging Rapists As Female

[naomi24]

//J. K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame has once again ridden valiantly into the gender wars — this time to object to Police Scotland’s policy of recording rapes as being committed by women, should the rapist identify as female. Detective Superintendent Fil Capaldi explained that “Police Scotland requires no evidence or certification as proof of biological sex or gender identity other than a person’s self-declaration.”//

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/j-k-rowling-on-the-absurdity-of-logging-rapists-as-female/

Following her accurate declaration that only women menstruate, Joanne is once again being tarred by the twittering twits of Twitter as transphobic. Well she would be wouldn’t she?

[naomi24]

*your post

[ladybirder]

Shirley I agree with your last two posts.

[Mozz71]

I knew what you meant. I'm in no position to have a dig at typos given my recent efforts!

[Khandro]

J.K. Rowling is the victim of 'hate crimes', the supreme irony is that, that is what she is being accused of.

As I said earlier, the group of pond life attacking her are a very small but very vocal band of nasty people, cowardly hiding behind the cloak of anonymity in the internet.

[sp1814]

naomi24

You realise that anyone can click on our names and look at our history right?

Sure even you must know this?

[Mozz71]

Agreed Khandro. Those sort of people are as bad as those who racially abuse sportspeople online. No matter what the opinion of the individual, there is no need for hate speak. If someone can't debate constructively, then the shouldn't reply.

[sp1814]

Mozz71

If I could give you a ‘Best Answer’ for your post at 16:56 I would do.

Glad to see I’m not the only person whose seen past naomi24’s curtain of spite.

But like the end of The Wizard of Oz.

[naomi24]

SP, click away - and welcome.

Yours at 16.52 is a classic. You sure you don’t want to remove that … lest anyone should ‘click’ on you in the future?

[burlyshirley]

Thanks lb.

[Mozz71]

Thank you SP, but as I said, I will not be drawn in. You two enjoy your battles, but I'll watch on from the sidelines.

[sp1814]

naomi24

I don’t need to click - you’re always on here.

[naomi24]

Thanks LB and Shirley. I expect this thread to be closed shortly - as is SP’s habit when his red mist gets the better of him.

[sp1814]

Mozz71

No worries - it won’t be a battle…like most people I have something else to do on a Saturday night.

naomi24 will be hee no doubt, banging her drum at anyone she can find.

Lonely.

[sp1814]

naomi2
Enjoy your online Saturday night…again.

[douglas9401]

I meant the thread in general, naomi.

The two of you can crack on until the inevitable.

[jim360]

// In my opinion, a man can have his penis chopped off and made into a vagina, but he doesn't have a womb or ovaries or can carry babies, therefore he is STILL a man ! //

And, supposing that medical science advances enough to allow ovary/womb transplants, what then? Will you move the goalposts *again* in order to preserve a strictly biological definition of gender? Do you look upon those women who've had hysterectomies as somehow less of a woman?

This is fine, but what needs to be understood is that people like JK Rowling and trans rights advocates are speaking at cross purposes. Trans women are women if one accepts that "woman" is a description of gender rather than biological sex; if one decides instead that "woman" is strictly a biological label, then of course what Rowling says is correct. But what's important to realise is that this is not "the truth", but a choice. What's Orwellian is to take away that choice, to insist that the meaning of a word is fixed not by consensus but by diktat.

[burlyshirley]

IF and when that day happens jim, I may come back and give my opinion, but then again I may not. You'll have to wait and see, won't you ??

[naomi24]

Jim, there are no ‘ifs’ with real women. They are women.