{"id":16257,"date":"2020-06-07T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=16257"},"modified":"2020-06-07T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T14:55:51","slug":"cultural-marxism-on-super-steroids-you-really-cant-make-this-stuff-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=16257","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Marxism on Super Steroids: You really can&#8217;t make this stuff up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u2018There used to be a word for people who menstruate\u2019: JK Rowling gets denounced as transphobe AGAIN<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->RT.com<\/p>\n<p>British author J.K. Rowling is being denounced for insisting there is such a thing as biological sex, for the second time in six months, by the very woke brigades who previously idolized the \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 creator and her books.<\/p>\n<p>Rowling got the avalanche rolling on Saturday evening, tweeting her incredulity about an article mentioning\u00a0<em>\u201cpeople who menstruate\u201d<\/em>\u00a0instead of, well, women.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018People who menstruate.\u2019 I\u2019m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud? <\/p>\n<p>Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cVpZxG7gaA\">https:\/\/t.co\/cVpZxG7gaA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1269382518362509313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>She received over 10,000 replies in just a couple of hours, ranging from rage to pleading.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere are trans men &amp; non-binary people who menstruate you absolute wilting head of lettuce,\u201d<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericalindbeck\/status\/1269401400888356864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said one<\/a>.\u00a0<em>\u201cStop hating trans people you awful weirdo,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pixelatedboat\/status\/1269393764788789248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYour words are causing unimaginable pain. I implore you to listen to trans voices whose lives you\u2019ve changed,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrizzyVoices\/status\/1269392992260911105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one<\/a>\u00a0of the less hostile reactions.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou\u2019re literally becoming a villain in your own book,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said immigration activist Patti Harrison, after basically calling Rowling a racist for using a particular Chinese name in her Harry Potter books.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Party_Harderson\/status\/1269412466632429569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1269412466632429569&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2F491077-rowling-trans-women-row%2F<\/p>\n<p>The series about teenage witches and wizards in a British boarding school, turned Rowling from a struggling single mother into an international bestselling author, and an idol of millions of Harry Potter fans across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Her relatively \u2018woke\u2019 politics \u2013 relentless criticism of US President Donald Trump in particular \u2013 made her into somewhat of an icon of the online Resistance as well. At least until last December, when Rowling spoke up for a British woman fired from her job for the crime of saying that biological sex existed.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Rowling has refused to apologize under the barrage of criticism, instead elaborating her position in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf sex isn\u2019t real, there\u2019s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn\u2019t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>It isn\u2019t hate to speak the truth.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While she respects\u00a0<em>\u201cevery trans person\u2019s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Rowling explained,\u00a0<em>\u201cAt the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it\u2019s hateful to say so.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I respect every trans person\u2019s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I\u2019d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it\u2019s hateful to say so.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1269407862234775552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When the insults and accusations kept coming, however, Rowling became more taciturn, responding to someone accusing her of being a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) by saying,\u00a0<em>\u201cTimes change. Woman-hate is eternal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Feminazi\u2019, \u2018TERF\u2019, \u2018bitch\u2019, \u2018witch\u2019. <br \/>Times change. Woman-hate is eternal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R6YlRFEvgG\">https:\/\/t.co\/R6YlRFEvgG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1269401983095648259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/491077-rowling-trans-women-row\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/491077-rowling-trans-women-row\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__breadcrumbs\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018There used to be a word for people who menstruate\u2019: JK Rowling gets denounced as transphobe AGAIN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}