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JK Rowling - Thread 2

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MoleSmokes · 21/12/2019 02:03

Thread 1 started by @MsMcWibble here:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3772685-JK-Rowling
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twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033

Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill
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To start off thread 2 - everyone saying the time was right for this to hit the news stands right after the Election was right!

Maya Forstater's Employment Tribunal case is, by virtue of JK Rowling's support, more popular in The Spectator than Boris Johnson by Boris Johnson, The Tories and The Labour Party!

MOST POPULAR in The Spectator

1. In just a few words, JK Rowling has changed the transgender debate (James Kirkup)

  1. Boris Johnson: Perhaps my campaign was ‘clunking’. But sometimes, clunking is what you need (Boris Johnson)
  2. We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously (Matt Ridley)
  3. Keir Starmer looks and sounds middle class precisely because he’s working class (Isabel Hardman)
  4. Let’s make David Lammy Labour’s next leader (Rod Liddle)
  5. A new leader won’t stop the far left’s domination of Labour (Nick Cohen)

www.spectator.co.uk/

JK Rowling - Thread 2
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SophoclesTheFox · 21/12/2019 07:40

Loving the amount of support Maya’s crowdfunder has.

Slung a bit of festive largesse that way again myself this morning Grin

Hark ye terven witches sing,
Glory to JK Rowling!
Peace on earth and mercy mild
Watch the woke bros going wild...

Dangerfloof · 21/12/2019 07:29

For Twitter this is old news now, yet still the likes keep mounting up.
What can I say?
She did good.
And as yet it's not been deleted (my God she has power)
I live in hope that this will turn the tide.

BernardBlacksWineIceLolly · 21/12/2019 07:15

marking my place. i was too damned depressed by the judgement to post for a bit, but it's good to see plenty of WTF? in response

thanks JK Rowling. brave woman

HandsOffMyRights · 21/12/2019 07:15

Maya and JKR - I'm sending you more support today. Thank you again for taking a stand.

The TRAs are predictible, but the media (with the usual exceptions of The Spectator, The Times, Julie B, JHB) needs to get a grip on reality. This will impact on them, the removal of speech, McCarthyism.

'It is my belief…that the truth is generally preferable to lies,' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

BlackberryViolet · 21/12/2019 07:15

I adore JK Rowling for this. But reading through some of the stuff on Twitter, dear gods.....I am so sick of this bullshit

Had a scroll through Instagram earlier. I knit and the woke designers and yarn dyers have imploded over this. The wokest of them are telling dyers who have Harry Potter inspired yarn and patterns to use this to Do Some Good as there are *fs among us and TWAW. Others are giving the proceeds of their Harry Potter ranges to mermaids. The list of people I won’t buy yarn and patterns from continues to grow. The yarn I already have can go on eBay and the money goes to Maya’s crowdfunder

SophoclesTheFox · 21/12/2019 05:45

Making myself at home on the new thread, because I am nowhere near done sending support to the fabulous Ms Rowling.

Courage calls, JK, courage calls Smile

BoreOfWhabylon · 21/12/2019 03:52

Thanks for the new thread Moles
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

JanesKettle · 21/12/2019 03:36

I loved that quiz.

Ravenclaw, with Dr Jane Clare Jones as head of house....thank you very much, T*RF sorting hat!

I remain very much buoyed by JKR's intervention in the debate.

UrsulaPandress · 21/12/2019 03:26

I’m so happy about this.

Hasn’t improved my sleep though.

Siameasy · 21/12/2019 03:15

Yay JK
Reading twitter but so tired of all the TRA nonsense. It’s the same old rubbish rehashed, memes, videos...just bored of it. It’s all crap and purely for distraction. Keep it simple. Male, female the end.

NotBadConsidering · 21/12/2019 03:15

[whispers to self while standing next to blank wall]

“I need a place where I can’t be misgendered, I need a place where I can’t be misgendered...”

NotBadConsidering · 21/12/2019 03:11

Well done. 173.8k likes so far.

I love the way people are now imaginarily feeling excluded from Hogwarts 🤣🤣

To take this further, why were the boys in a separate room in Gryffindor Tower? Why weren’t Fred, George, Harry, Ron, Neville, Seamus, Dean etc, all sleeping in the same boarding school bedroom as Ginny and Hermione? Do these trans HP fans think that if they went to Hogwarts, and they were sorted by the Sorting Hat, then Professor McGonagall would tolerate males in the same bedroom as females? Of course not! Because McGonagall knows the importance of SEX segregation, particularly with pubescent teenagers.

Maybe these trans wizards could have their own third space in the Room if Requirement. I mean, it’s perfect, the name says it all doesn’t it?

I can’t believe this is where we are at with the level of intellect in this argument 😆😆😆

MoleSmokes · 21/12/2019 02:19

Duh! I forgot to include the link to the article in The Spectator!

I know this has been posted in Thread 1 but it is worth repeating! Smile

"In just a few words, JK Rowling has changed the transgender debate"

blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/12/in-just-a-few-words-jk-rowling-has-changed-the-transgender-debate/

Getting further traction from The Specator Parody Account by "Jarvis Dupont" being mistaken for the real thing by The Advocate, which has castigated Ricky Gervais for responding "sarcastically" to Jarvis on Twitter! Grin

J.K. Rowling is a TERF!
The thought that I will no longer be welcome in a fictional school for wizards has destroyed me
Jarvis Dupont
spectator.us/jk-rowling-terf/

The Advocate (archived)
Golden Globes Host Ricky Gervais Goes on Transphobic Tweetstorm
archive.is/7sDm9

An old article on "Make More Noise" by.@DJLippy - worth a reminder in this context!

Hagworts Sorting Hat Quiz. What type of Terf are you?
makemorenoisemanc.wixsite.com/mysite/post/hagworts-sorting-hat-quiz-what

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