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Jack Munroe is now a man

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DJLippy · 21/03/2018 15:53

She's trying to recruit J.K.Rowling

Jack Munroe is now a man
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pinkcandy84 · 22/03/2018 18:14

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PositivelyPERF · 22/03/2018 17:49

Who's counting?

You, obviously. 😘

SmufOrTerf · 22/03/2018 17:47

Me too Perf.
Oh well

thebewilderness · 22/03/2018 16:45

I would fire a "representative" who made such a disparaging comment about me because I related to a comment made by a woman who was treated badly by men in a political party that now embraces "men in dresses" as women.

CertainHalfDesertedStreets · 22/03/2018 16:39

Dog pushed your arm/middle aged moment/too stupid to know whether you're transphobic or not. Who's counting?

PositivelyPERF · 22/03/2018 16:38

Fecking dog pushed my arm! As I was saying I didn’t direct it at a particular sea lion poster! 😇p

PositivelyPERF · 22/03/2018 16:37

I got deleted fir saying my sea lion looked so angry it was practically foaming at the mouth! I didn’t direct it at a particular po

thornyhousewife · 22/03/2018 16:24

And the tweet was also about the privilege of voice afforded to transvestite men over women. This is an important point worth making.

I thought higher of JK.

thornyhousewife · 22/03/2018 16:21

So JK is saying liked the tweet by accident?

FFS the tweet was about the ill treatment of women by the labour party. Stand by it.

Transphobia is a nonsense.

CertainHalfDesertedStreets · 22/03/2018 16:10

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BarrackerBarmer · 22/03/2018 16:02

Wow, lots of deletions on this thread

doctorcuntybollocks · 22/03/2018 15:20

They are men in dresses. That is not prejudice.

AskBasil · 22/03/2018 14:53

I understand her cowardice I do.

It's just so depressing that someone with her wealth and power, is leaving it up to women who really don't have very much, to fight this battle alone.

I understand that she wants to distance herself from the hurtful but true "men in dresses" phrase. But she could have included condemnation of the violence that these men inflict on women.

Battleax · 22/03/2018 14:14

JKR, come on, you’re better than this.

NoSquirrels · 22/03/2018 14:13

I think she needed to distance herself from the prejudice expressed by the phrase “men in dresses”. I am disappointed she didn’t say “that phrase was ill thought out and I should’ve stopped to consider it would be offensive but the views on misogyny chimed with my experience..” or something that would have been an apology to trans people but not just a wholesale denial.

Middle-aged clumsy can’t hold her phone is just not a good look for backtracking. And if it had indeed been the case she’d have unliked it & apologises on Twitter with a gif or something funny.

So I don’t really believe it. But she must be under a lot of pressure - from all sides of her business and charity commitments - not to say stuff like that. Hence the publicist-led “gaffe” line.

Still Sad

CapnHaddock · 22/03/2018 14:11

That's what happens when you're threatened with death, book burnings and boycotts. It would be the end of her career.

This is McCarthyism

athingthateveryoneneeds · 22/03/2018 14:09

Might as well have added "blonde moment" in there as well. If we're using insulting stereotypes, go for.broke! Biscuit

BeyondDeadlySiren · 22/03/2018 14:03

Maybe - similar to Matthew Wright last week - the statement came from her "celebrity self" rather than actually from JK? One can only hope...

(I really hope she wouldn't have gone with "middle aged" in her own written apology!)

NoSquirrels · 22/03/2018 14:01

Sad I’m genuinely gutted at that “statement”.

PositivelyPERF · 22/03/2018 13:58

And yet another woman with the power to protect females, throws womankind under the bus. Pathetic hypocrisy from JK. You talked as if you were a feminist, but when the chips were down you don’t actually care about real women, just more worried about what men will think of you. Bad show JK, a really bad show.

BeyondDeadlySiren · 22/03/2018 13:57

Rebecca Salt, who represents Rowling, said:

I’m afraid JK Rowling had a clumsy and middle-aged moment and this is not the first time she has favourited by holding her phone incorrectly.

😬 clumsy and middle-aged... ffs

nauticant · 22/03/2018 11:26

Unless you change the meaning of 'man' or 'dress' surely when heather wears a dress s/he is just that?

Because it lumps together the transsexuals and the autogynephiles. I can see why the transsexuals strongly dislike that.

The root of this problem is the broadening of the trans umbrella so much that it incorporates cross-dressers and other people whose motives might not be so pleasant. We're now stuck in the awkward situation of all kinds of grief being dished out from within this new trans grouping and any attempt to respond being met with "how DARE you label us as being the same!" It's a mess.

athingthateveryoneneeds · 22/03/2018 11:20

Come on, JKR. Women need your voice in this. I don't know much about your political leanings, I don't have Twitter or follow your blogs/websites, but we are HP fans in our home and we'd all be heartbroken if you followed the TRA line here.

Be on the side of women!!