How to Argue Transphobically That You’re Not Transphobic
Pamela Paul’s most recent NYT op-eds
When Pamela Paul, former editor of The New York Times Book Review, last year began her new gig as an opinion writer for the same newspaper, she immediately dedicated herself to transphobia. Classic nonsense: She says the existence of trans people means no one will be allowed to say “woman” (my breakdown, 12-min read) or “gay” (my breakdown, 15-min read), and people wouldn’t be trans if they had just listened to better children’s songs (my breakdown, 9-min read).
In the last three weeks, she’s penned another four op-eds. You may have heard people complaining about them. Here’s why readers are upset.
Op-ed #1 of 4 — Jan. 26, 2023
“The Long Shadow of ‘American Dirt’” (unpaywalled)
Paul discusses, in retrospect, the January 2020 launch of Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt, published by Flatiron Books in a “seven-figure deal for its author,” which had been selected for Oprah’s Book Club and was eventually “translated into 37 languages.” Controversy immediately surrounded the book, and the book tour was canceled.
Paul says there were “threats of violence against both author and booksellers.” Everyone agrees…
