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JK Rowling

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Velella · 13/09/2018 21:05

JK Rowling is being called out on twitter by Owl for liking Janice Turner's fox-in-the-henhouse article.

Many of us have thought for a long while that JKR is on side. I wish she would come out publicly and fully support women.

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FermatsTheorem · 13/09/2018 22:55

arran I once got deleted on an obvious troll thread for saying "as my Edinburgh mother would have said, 'aye, that'll be right'." Wink

Cuddles, milk and farting - he will go far, Bowl.

arranfan · 13/09/2018 22:52

If she responded with "that'll be right, hen"

I don't know how widespread this is but in our neighbourhood tho' "wifey" and variations on it were used for women, "sweetie wives" was more often used to refer to gossiping men rather than women.

Whenever I see somebody trying to be up in JKR's business and telling her how to woman or be a SJW, I always wonder if she's thinking, "Away with your blatherskate you sweetie wife".

JKR types something else, but she's thinking it, I'm sure. :)

Bowlofbabelfish · 13/09/2018 22:52

He’s very into cuddles fermats Grin

And milk
And farting

FermatsTheorem · 13/09/2018 22:45

I want it to be known that I fully expect a spa and mani-pedi at Yakutsk, Bowl. And I am also expecting to be allowed to give Master Ramekin a snuggle.

Bowlofbabelfish · 13/09/2018 22:37

The authoritarian streak is strong in that one gulag

I look forward to being interned alongside my fellow MNers and JK in Yakutsk sports camp and theatre group gulag once these guys take over. We may starve to death but at least the company will be intellectual.

GulagMilkMonitor · 13/09/2018 22:18

mobile.twitter.com/KOKlCHIOUMA/status/1040331075795537921

AngryAttackKittens · 13/09/2018 22:12

If she responded with "that'll be right, hen" I'd spit tea all over my screen (and start following her).

AngryAttackKittens · 13/09/2018 22:10

Sometimes I wonder if TRAs are completely tone deaf or if they pick particularly awful cases to support and enforce dominance precisely because they're so awful. Maybe they see it as the most effective way to shift the Overton window.

Bowlofbabelfish · 13/09/2018 22:06

Fox and Owl? Grin

Are we channelling the cast of the fucking Gruffalo here?

How committed to the Owl thing are they though? Head rotation? Roosting? Pellets? Enquiring minds would like to know.

I often wonder if JK is on here (along with others, I was listening to the eurythmics on the radio today and thinking ‘I bet Annie Lennox is on MN...)

Channel your inner Glaswegian, JK:

“TWAW!”
“Are they, aye?....”

Wink
Didactylos · 13/09/2018 22:02

I keep thinking ox and fowl. Or the name of a tedious little winebar somewhere? Still cant work out which is which.

GulagMilkMonitor · 13/09/2018 22:00

So let me get this straight.
A woman liked an article where a female journalist discussed the issues with locking rapists up with vulnerable women, and that deserves shouting down and “calling out”?

Well that’s really something, isn’t it?

BarrackerBarmer · 13/09/2018 21:56

JK still has the same publicist as in March. I wonder if this time the 'like' will be waved away as a clumsy and middle aged moment again?

Hopefully not.

GenderApostate · 13/09/2018 21:53

Can you imagine what a £1million or so could do for FPFW / Transgendertrend etc?

A legal fighting fund for Women accused of wrongspeak is sorely needed. TELI are obviously very well funded indeed.

Iused2BanOptimist · 13/09/2018 21:51

I was very disappointed JK capitulated last time she was called out for liking something the gulag police didn't approve of. FGS when you have half a billion in the bank and millions of followers you really can afford to just ignore the complaints. They get bored and move onto new feeding grounds after a day or two.

AngryAttackKittens · 13/09/2018 21:44

I'm pretty sure their chances of selling as many books as Rowling are about as good as their chances of convincing most people they're not a straight couple.

ChattyLion · 13/09/2018 21:41

‘They’ (hard to know how many actual authors this covers, due to stated pronoun preferences, but two people, Fox and Owl have been pictured....) are also promoting their own brand new book for transgender teenagers at the moment.

I’m sure that’s completely unrelated though of course.

AngryAttackKittens · 13/09/2018 21:40

Every time I see anything from Fox and Owl I get The Owl and the Pussycat stuck in my head. If only they were that benign.

birdsdestiny · 13/09/2018 21:38

Fuck me. Have people seen what she has liked an hour ago with regards to silencing women and misogynistic agenda. I am useless with regards to posting links but bugger me.

newtlover · 13/09/2018 21:32

wow, ageist as well as misogynist
pesky women, getting older, having opinions and being succesful
I agree that JKR is in a position to not give a fuck, what can they do to her? boycott her books? every family I know already has a full set

BarrackerBarmer · 13/09/2018 21:30

Owl is telling us they are a bird innit? See?
Clever subliminal messaging.

Hmm
Anlaf · 13/09/2018 21:26

Can I post a link to a favorite thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3069688-J-K-Rowling-might-be-a-Terf

Velella · 13/09/2018 21:25

Actually that is (another) excellent point Barracker. Chances are Janice is reading this. Perhaps she can suggest it to JKR.

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BarrackerBarmer · 13/09/2018 21:21

I'd rather she funded us, if she doesn't have the courage to speak out.
The TRAs are funded to the tune of millions, billions globally in all likelihood.

Everything GC feminists have achieved has been funded with fivers from hundreds of women who can ill afford it.

The TRAs are gunning for individual women with malicious court cases, knowing that to fund a defence is prohibitive. The chilling effect is huge. Women are scared, not of telling the truth, but of finding themselves in an interview with west yorkshire police and no means to fund a lawyer.

JK let us down badly last time. She KNOWS they are all a bunch of Dolores Umbridge bullies and she capitulated to them, watching us refuse to.

I hope she has found her ovaries of steel, because I do have faith that she is a person of integrity.
and I hope she DOES something to help. Publicly or silently.

nauticant · 13/09/2018 21:18

It's not going so well for the authoritarian thought-police this time round:

twitter.com/UglaStefania/status/1040253474330603520

Many people who've read the article seem to find enabling a rapist to assault women contained in a women's prison is something worth criticising.