It is a damning indictment of white feminism that we're finally seeing someone properly stick it to JK Rowling and it's a 25 year old Algerian woman.
There are so many people in the world who have more power than Imane Khelif. So much more. Fucking piles and piles of power laying around, doing fuck all.
And all she wanted to do was box, but she's going to stand up for herself anyway.
And once again, we will all benefit from the work of women of colour.
Imane Khelif's ordeal is adjacent to the struggle for trans rights, but it isn't the same. There is a concurrent struggle for women to be allowed to visually present and behave in public without the degree of persecution they face being directly tied to their adherence to European brood-spouse standards.
Many trans people experience this struggle as well, but the issue of whether niche expressions of gender conformity should be a passport to public life is a larger umbrella.
Ella Emhoff is another person in that same situation.
Fighting for free clearance for authentic self representation in public, decentering those who would police expression according to arbitrary gender ideas, is important work that frees people to contribute their best selves to society. It's the tail of the same beast that Katherine Hepburn was fighting.
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The treatment she was subjected to infuriates me beyond reason. It’s so low to just base it of looks.
I can only give Khelif accolades for the integrity of her demeanour. Suing X and Rowling is a good way forward. Keeping people responsible for their actions is the only way forward. Words have meaning, especially if you have a huge following.
JKR specifically targeted Khelif, which hasn't happened in the past.
Attacking a group is different from singling out an individual. One you can prosecute, the other you can't.
Previously JKR stayed on the "right" side of the law, but this time a line was crossed.
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JKR's been slowly ramping up over the years, and lately gone really over the top.
Anyone who's tried to go after JKR has been threatened by her legal team.
But this is the first time that I know of that JKR has named one person in particular.
IIRC there is also scope under UK law for slander/defamation in addition to harassment, though I think the French case has more standing.
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French law is a mystery to me, but iirc, they were the first to have an actual Misogyny charge so could be more progressive than most
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that being said, the European Court of Human Rights suffers no fools, so even if there're issues in the French system it may still proceed.
This could get really legally interesting (and also expensive for a poor bullied billionaire)
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The UK has some particularly weird speech laws. Basically you can't say offensive stuff about your "betters" or else.
There's movement in the UK system to shut down lawsuits that effectively silence criticism but change is slow.
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