The smearing of Terry Pratchett
With Terry Pratchett dead, it appears that pronoun wankers like Neil Gaiman feel free to disparage him.
This posthumous hit-job is outrageous. There is no indication that Pratchett would have supported the sterilisation of gender-nonconforming children. There is no indication he would have remained silent about the death and rape threats sent to JK Rowling and other disobedient women (Gaiman’s ‘kindness’ doesn’t extend to her or them). There is no indication he would have supported male sex offenders in women’s prisons (again, Gaiman’s ‘kindness’ does not extend to perhaps the most vulnerable group in society). There is no indication he would have supported the destruction of women’s sport.
Gaiman, a Scientologist, may have found in gender ideology another luxury belief that allows him to feel special while it destroys the lives of countless young people, but he has no right to presume that Pratchett would have been so easily fooled. Pratchett, although he wrote about magic, laughed at the kind of magical thinking that has so entranced his privileged, protected, clueless, harmful friends.
Terry has passed on and can no longer defend himself. Stop smearing him.
I'm a huge Terry Pratchett fan and SO angry about 'Neil Himself' presuming to speak on his behalf. How dare he? Interpreting the characters and situations in Pratchett's stories to assume a support for this baseless and dangerous ideology is stooping pretty bloody low. (I can imagine what Nanny Ogg might tell Gaiman he can go do to 'Himself' and concur wholeheartedly.)
"Luxury beliefs" is exactly it. Neither they nor anyone they know is going to be locked up 24/7 with an HIV positive rapist like the women in California prisons. It makes me furious that none of these "be kind" drones can get it through their thick heads that kindness doesn't mean letting people do whatever they want. Sometimes kindness looks like holding down your wailing, sobbing baby while a nurse innoculates them for a disease that would be much, much worse than their momentary distress. It might look and feel cruel, but most everyone accepts that it isn't. Meanwhile one of those California women is going to die. Because these idiots and other idiots like them were self-rightous enough to insist on being "kind".