"Women fear and resent male violence, which they're most likely to experience from the men closest to them—boyfriends, husbands, and fathers...but the need to survive in a male-dominated society means that women's legitimate fears and resentments often cannot be directed at the men with power..."
So they direct it elsewhere, at the current 'dangerous outsider', and politicians (particularly fear-driven campaigners like the GOP) exploit this enthusiastically.
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Anita Bryant did this against homosexuals in the late 1970s. Currently the 'dangerous outsider' is transgender people, and J.K. Rowling is a loud voice beating the drum and marching along with the Right and Far-Right
Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints, quoted above and linked below) traces the line from Bryant to Rowling in her latest video and does so with deep context and smart commentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmT0i0xG6zg
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But J.K. Rowling and her ilk (like Anita Bryant) is not the biggest problem, the devil, the "final boss" of transphobia. It's the Republican party, the Conservative party, patriarchy. They're just the palatable faces making the call for bigotry, exclusion, and then violence.
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I appreciate so much the work that goes into ContraPoints. The clarity of thought and writing, with enough fun in the presentation to make it easy to keep watching a documentary-length essay, is outstanding and this episode is worth your time, especially if you are still giving any of your mental time to the question of what to do about J.K. Rowling.
4/4.
Dinah 🕊🇺🇦