Ah, that's disappointing. Since Adichie has not publicly commented for a while on trans issues, I hoped she was thinking more critically following from earlier disappointing claims.
Linked below: my thread on why Rowling's anti-trans essay is not perfectly reasonable.
Linked below: my thread on why Rowling's anti-trans essay is not perfectly reasonable.
https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1327995168704880640
“Again JK Rowling is a woman who is progressive, who clearly stands for and believes in diversity,” Adichie said.
I took Adichie to be a better reader than that.
I took Adichie to be a better reader than that.
On criticism against Rowling: “In terms of ideas, it is fundamentally uninteresting. The orthodoxy, the idea that you are supposed to mouth the words, it is so boring. In general, human beings are emotionally intelligent enough to know when something is coming from a bad place.”
Oh boy.
I have some sympathy for why it feels to Adichie that some form of orthodoxy came down on her when she made her trans women comments in 2017. But to read Rowling's blog post, not see or refuse to see the glaring contradictions (outlined in my thread), and say it's fine, nah.
No sympathy for that.
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