Jack’s being a little
bleeping smarm with fellow manic pixie dream enby Laurie Penny because Laurie got absolutely bodied by JK Rowling on Twitter yesterday after a long, self-indulgent thread where she claimed that bad book reviews had given her c-PTSD. She then back-pedalled in Monroe fashion like “I didn’t say that, I just meant it triggered a pre-existing condition” but even as someone who would not immediately fall with Rowling on gender issues it was patently obvious that that was implied. Laurie was using serious, debilitating illness to silence dissent, all while blithely unaware that probably hundreds of thousands of people struggle with similar symptoms without the money or ability to self advocate to be even diagnosed, let alone treated (familiar
).
Penny and Monroe are cheeks of the same arse: no integrity and a predilection for claiming that what they - both professional writers - wrote, has been misconstrued. Predictably, though, Jack stayed out of the actual issue because she’s a snivelling fence sitter who doesn’t want to lose any Patreons who are also Rowling stans, so she’s being obsequious to Laurie off to the side instead. Jack is Belgium in 1939 but all the chocolate is actual
tit.