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Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by ThrowawayR2 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @11:48AM (#22248539)
> "The spiral will always find new victims, go to new heights, so it might be better to refuse to kneel, weather the frenzy, your 15 minutes of fame, and then move on once it passes."

There was an recent news article about how J.K. Rowling managed to do what you suggest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/has-jk-rowling-figur...

Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by henrikschroder on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:09PM (#22251015)
Awesome, good for her.

The "transphobia" purity spiral is absolutely maddening, it just hasn't eaten itself completely yet. The current orthodox view inside of it is that anyone who claims to be trans is trans, regardless of their biological gender, psychological gender, gender expression, name, pronouns, or gender dysphoria. So a person who was born female, is female, presents female, uses a female name and female pronouns can still be trans simply by virtue of her saying that she is. Anything else is "gatekeeping", and expressing this view is "transphobic", and sentenced with immediate purity spiral mob justice.

I'm hoping this spiral dies out quickly, so that the LGBT movement can go back to sanity, it's not in a good place right now.

Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by zweep on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:52PM (#22258989)
What works for one of the wealthiest and most famous women in the world may or may not work for a knitting blogger. It would a far riskier play for the blogger than for Rowling.