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The actor Ralph Fiennes has come out in defense of author J.K. Rowling (he was one of the cast in the Harry Potter film adaptations), after she faced reprehensible backlash for daring to criticize the transsexuality movement:

“I can’t understand the vitriol directed at her,” Fiennes told The Telegraph in a recent interview. “I can understand the heat of an argument, but I find this age of accusation and the need to condemn irrational. I find the level of hatred that people express about views that differ from theirs, and the violence of language towards others, disturbing.”

When it comes to “cancel culture,” Fiennes — who played Lord Voldemort in the film adaptations of Rowling’s Harry Potter book series — said he gets “worried if it’s decided that certain classical plays are irrelevant.”

“I think often there’s a superficial reading — Restoration drama is ‘colonialist, hierarchical, quasi racist.’ But they’re just plays,” Fiennes said. “You can turn them on their head. The danger is of labelling stuff.”

“We need to have those voices that risk being offensive,” Fiennes continued, citing Picasso and Henry Miller. “How sad if we sat on any expressive voice that could shake the scenery, that could get inside us and make us angry and turn us on. I would hate a world where the freedom of that kind of voice is stifled.”

It's good to see at least one more actor involved with the Potter adaptations showing some sense here. It's a shame Dan Radcliffe and Emma Watson didn't, nor did Rupert Grint, and they basically threw her under the bus, labeling her a "TERF". Today, in contrast to yesteryear, feminists aren't allowed to run women-only groupings, and men who claim to be women must be accepted no matter what. Rowling wisely stated:

“I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it,” J.K. Rowling wrote in a lengthy essay responding [to] the attacks she has received from transgender activists.

“It’s also clear that one of the objectives of denying the importance of sex is to erode what some seem to see as the cruelly segregationist idea of women having their own biological realities,” Rowling added. “The hundreds of emails I’ve received in the last few days prove this erosion concerns many others just as much.”

“It isn’t enough for women to be trans allies,” she continued. “Women [are told they] must accept and admit that there is no material difference between trans women and themselves.”

“But, as many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume. ‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s head. ‘Woman’ is not a pink brain, a liking for Jimmy Choos or any of the other sexist ideas now somehow touted as progressive,” Rowlings wrote. “Moreover, the ‘inclusive’ language that calls female people ‘menstruators’ and ‘people with vulvas’ strikes many women as dehumanizing and demeaning.”

And that's because, not only does it denigrate their anatomy to speak in such vulgar manners (a major problem in modern society), it also dehumanizes women. And feminists who accept this Newspeak only doom themselves. The slang "cis-gender" is just one of the Orwellian forms of propaganda that's come about lately, used by transsexuals to describe anybody who doesn't practice the "blackface" lifestyle they do. As I'd noted earlier, Ruthie Blum once alluded to the problems that led to what we're seeing now, something that, along with cancel culture, must stop. Rowling did the right thing to speak out, and so did Fiennes.

Update: here's a related item on Rebel News telling of a horrific case in Canada where a father trying to defend his daughter from terrible transgender operations is being jailed for speaking out.

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