J.K. Rowling also writes under a pen name of "Robert Galbraith", publishing over half a dozen titles under that name, most of which have TV adaptations.
Robert Galbraith Heath was the American Psychiatrist who pioneered Gay Conversion Therapy to convert homosexuals through electro-shock therapy.
Of course Rowling denies any connection between these two things. Thus, I'm only stating facts. You can make your own decisions about them, because I know you guys aren't stupid.
Note: She also says she isn't anti-Trans, despite being very clearly anti-Trans.
Yeah I totally, 100% believe that she just made up the name "Robert Galbraith" out of the blue and had no idea about anything at all whatsoever. Just a bizarre coincidence.
I'm so glad I never read any of her books or saw any movie.
I think I saw a report on this a few years ago. Something horrible happened and there was either a little documentary or a long report on a news program.
How TF is this legal? Shocked for not taking off your coat? Then again, our country allows torture in prisons every day. We murder people all the time in the name of "justice."
@Mary625@JizzelEtBass@darwinwoodka@ned
ABA is either mostly used on children or exclusively used on children. I have never heard of it being used on anyone who is not a child. In some places it's the go to treatment for young autistic children.
@Mary625@JizzelEtBass@darwinwoodka@ned
And ABA is often not seen as Conversion Therapy even though it is and so is not covered by bans on Conversion Therapy. And yes I am not talking about just one place. It's often the go to treatment for autistics in many countries. It's seen as helping autistic children become more 'normal' when it doesn't actually. It just teaches them to mask their autism & feel bad every time their autism shows.
I just can't believe we, humans, are so cruel in so many ways. It's still something I struggle with every day, wondering how we can be just so outright and blatantly cruel to each other. We can't blame governments when it is people who make governments run.
But when it comes to children, that's just a whole different class of evil.
I'm sorry. The fear you must feel....I just can't fathom
@Mary625@JizzelEtBass@darwinwoodka@ned
One good point about not being diagnosed until the age of 33, one of the very few in a sea of bad stuff, is I was too old for ABA. My parents would have definitely put me through ABA had they know and if it was available back then. Instead I just got told off for doing things wrong with no idea I had done anything wrong & believed my parents hated me.
@Mary625@JizzelEtBass@darwinwoodka@ned
But I feel angry that many other autistic have & still do suffer ABA & have heard the damage its done to many ABA survivors.
@ned I find it fascinating too that half of Rowling’s Galbraith books according to Wikipedia summaries (I refuse to read them) are extended versions and variations of the transphobic character from Silence of the Lambs. Like all trans people are serial killers to her mind because she watched that one terrible but award winning film at too young an age and developed some sort of bizarre kink.
@ned "Of course, it was just a coincidence. It's also a coincidence that she invented a male murderer who dressed up as a woman while writing under this totally coincidental nom de plume."
@ned I used to own the full set of Harry Potter books as well as "The Casual Vacancy." I have now purged them all from my bookshelves because I couldn't stand to look at them anymore.
@ned The conversion therapy experiments described in the Wikipedia article you linked to are highly unethical and disturbing but it's not clear that they involve "electro-shock therapy" the way that term is normally undestood
@ned You get into Robert Galbraith's history and you find a long history of deeply unethical behavior involving implanting electrodes into the brains of patients, some of whom were under legal duress. Gay and arrested for marijuana possession? Lets drill into your skull and implant some electrodes.
Some of his electrode patients died because of brain abscesses. He also experimented on black prisoners in Louisiana.
This is more like if JKR chose Josef Rudolf as a pen name.
Not related to your post, but your descriptions of the horrors of Gay Conversion Therapy reminds me that I need to remind my #abpoli peeps about this, considering the UCP's supportive stance on the practice.
@ned@Infoseepage Also, you may not be aware that Jason Kenney's brother who has been banned from practicing his gay conversion 'therapy' in BC and Ontario, has now set up shop in Calgary.
@ned While I loathe her transphobia, I don't think that this is the reason she picked the name, because she isn't for gay conversion therapy: she used to support cis gay people, only rejecting trans people (not that this is excusable) and there are a lot of other Galbraiths she could been thinking of, like John Kenneth Galbraith, the economist. It might serve as a somewhat pompous British name.
The claim that JKR used to support gay people is a surprising one, as the only instance of a gay person appearing in her books is posthumous -- that is, she said that Dumbledore was gay, and that's it. This has since been woven into a plot point where his paramour was...
... wizard Hitler.
Since then her true colours have run through the mask, and she's displayed a level of vicious, open contempt for the LGBTQIA+ folks who once found some surcease from the horrors of life, both quiet and loud, in her works.
I believe that any visible support of such groups was dependent upon us supporting her in turn, a commonplace 'ally' tactic to get us to carry water for someone who's laughing behind our backs.
@Wen@ned Huh. So the publishing company did that. 🤔 I wonder if Rowling gave them permission to out her. If not, that would be deeply problematic for trans writers, as it would set a bad precedent.
@Wen@pinkdrunkenelephants@toxomat
"I thought it had probably leaked from the BBC," the author said, adding she had feared someone at the corporation had "put two and two together".
Rowling's secret identity was actually revealed after a partner at a law firm told his wife's best friend.
The friend then revealed Rowling's identity to a Sunday Times journalist.
"I was a bit unlucky the way it happened. My ambition was to try and get three out without being unmasked."
@ned@Wen@toxomat 🤔 So say, a trans or nonbinary person were to write a novel under an assumed name. What's to protect them from having their real name leaked, if a shitty lawyer can just blab like that with no consequences?
She lies so much, I'm sure it was a directed leak but she probably also didn't think of the consequences of the origins of the name being noticed, or she thought that her "base" is so strong that she'd rather appeal to them.
@freemo@toxomat@ned you didn't just ask, you snarked a load of snark at the person you 'asked' after the fact, when it is not commonplace to cite things that are in the public consciousness widely already. This is social media, not a journal. They weren't making a claim that people haven't already largely backed up for themselves.
If you're honestly asking because you don't know (and not looking it up yourself for some reason), you don't have to be an ass about it.
I politely asked for a source, no snark and when the op responded we had a pleasant exchange both ways. Only people i was snarky with were people other than the op who were snarky first.
Yes she did, and suffice it to say it sounds like a conspiracy theory, lol! Go to https://robert-galbraith.com/about/ and twirl down the part that reads, "Why the name Robert Galbraith?" to hear it from the horse's mouth (accurate comparison).
Of course this was all edited into her website AFTER she was exposed, and everybody learned the history of Robert Galbraith Heath. PR spin at it's... craziest.
@freemo@ned@toxomat Wikipedia says it was "...a name she took from Robert F. Kennedy, a personal hero, and Ella Galbraith, a name she invented for herself in childhood."
That's a big thing with her, is she doesn't think she needs to be able to verify anything, because she has fans that will back her no matter what crazy things she says.
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