Yikes. In its third episode, the podcast pivots (once again) to discuss online polarization, cancel culture, and… Milo Yiannopoulos?
Instead, the episode begins with a graphic quote from Rowling. “There have been a lot,” she says, although it’s unclear at first what she’s describing. “As every woman will know who speaks up on this issue, [there’s been] a huge amount of, ‘I want her to choke on my fat trans dick.’”
“I don’t think all of them mean it literally,” the author says, before calling them “attempts to degrade, humiliate.” She describes threats of violence—people coming to her home, where her children live. “The pushback is often, ‘You are wealthy; you can afford security; you haven't been silenced,’” Rowling says. “All true. ... But I think that misses the point. The attempt to intimidate and silence me is meant to serve as a warning to other women. ...
forums and fan fiction online. It seems designed to shock and also, perhaps, to set up a discussion that comes later about the simultaneous mainstreaming of Tumblr and 4chan—one that seems to imply that they’ve somehow had equivalently toxic effects on public life. The real meat of the episode comes about halfway in, when Rowling and Phelps-Roper begin to discuss “changes” in online culture that “concerned” Rowling. She was “intrigued by the use of the word ‘identify.’” She said, “I don’t see that’s necessarily as a malign thing, because I think we all have an identity, and identity is important to all of us for a stable sense of self. But I was noticing something that I thought was interesting… that then began to disturb me.
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