The "fun" part of writing this tweet was deciding which three heinous things I was going to pick. I could have called her racist, classist, fatphobic, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic... I could have called her a number of things, and I would have been able to defend all of them.

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She's an antisemite. Her books are full of slave apologism. She has single-handedly pushed trans rights back by decades. I didn't say her name, but you thought of her.

@encephalophatass.bsky.social
2026-08-13T18:14:43.077000+00:00
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I knew from the first sentence

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2026-08-13T19:37:25.476000+00:00
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2026-08-13T19:41:37.974000+00:00

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Definitely fatphobic or weightist as I called it the other day when talking about doctors and I forgot the term

@yrieithydd.bsky.social
2026-08-13T19:45:15.768000+00:00
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Acephobic as hell too

@kariizumi.bsky.social
2026-08-14T02:27:45.165000+00:00
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Huh, I like weightist

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2026-08-13T19:46:27.773000+00:00
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Ooh. Intrigued. It quotient surprise me but I can't think of an example

@yrieithydd.bsky.social
2026-08-14T06:20:17.773000+00:00
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I tend to prefer -ist to -phobic...

@yrieithydd.bsky.social
2026-08-13T20:07:36.574000+00:00
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Last year, Joanne Rowling, without any prompting from anyone, decided to call asexuality a made up thing on Asexuality Awareness Day I won't dig thru Xitter to find the post but it was the only post that ye that wasn't her hating on trans people.

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2026-08-14T17:28:05.371000+00:00
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Oh I vaguely remember that now. I was trying to think of something in the books that suggested it

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2026-08-14T17:30:00.169000+00:00
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