JK - she’s done it now

Just dont google Gruffalo Bill by Jim'll Paint It...

😱🤣

Jane is cisheteronormative.

I bloody KNEW it!

The TA ripping up the book - it’s a parody account- didn’t happen

Just dont google Gruffalo Bill by Jim'll Paint It...

I'm not going to be able to read that book to my daughter now

If a teacher or TA ripped up a child's book to my knowledge, I would make sure they got reported to the Governing Body and Ofsted. And anyone else I can think of. Arsehole.

And the Ginny thing is clearly just youthful experimentation anyway. 83 million Drarry fanfics cannot be wrong.

read Turn by Sara's Girl, thank me later

Can’t we blame Biff and Chip for adolescent gender confusion.

Only if they're women (the AHF kind obvs)

When I first read the books, well before the films, I visualised Hermione as mixed-race, because she was her very curly hair was mentioned. So Emma Watson was a very jarring casting for me. And I also assumed that Sirius and Lupin had a thing for each other (James had Lily, Sirius had Lupin, so Peter felt left out and rejected, hence he turned to the Dark Side). I found it a bit confusing when Lupin and Tonks got together. And I'm so boringly hetero-normative that I decided I must have been wrong, rather than realising that of course Lupin was actually bi.

So, in my opinion JK has the multi-ethnic and LGB stuff covered. After all, if it's not strictly relevant to the story, why mention it? Does she ever tell us where Cho comes from? Or Parvati? Not relevant. Use your imaginations.

Can’t we blame Biff and Chip for adolescent gender confusion.

thanks midcentury, I still don't get it but I think that is due to my not being on twitter and failing to grasp the nuances, and also apparently being too thick to understand JK's tweet, too

Hate group, lol. Aye.

I can't quite understand (or have the language to describe) the comments in response to JK's tweet. All very "she's hurt my feelz". But then I've looked at the profiles of those posting that - and it's anime / k-pop pics. Is this grooming?

When Harry Potter first came out the vicar down the road from me had the vapours in the local press.

You mean to say - gasp - that Harry Potter is gay? Someone had better tell Ginny.

The pluses in this shitty situation are that she must now know for sure that she can't recant and probably is sure she wouldn't want to.

I read this and agreed with you. And then thought how very weird the world has become, when someone would be called upon to recant for saying they don't think a woman should be fired for saying that biological sex is real. Sometimes I think I've slipped into a parallel universe.

And to be fair Eresh I don't think anyone here would get the vapours at being upset.

I think being discombobulated by the whole transology has fixed us for probably anything.

I would be so angry at a teaching assistant that ripped up a book, they are to be cherished and passed on if no longer needed imo.

@SisyphusLangClegRocks

I'm disturbed that you have yet to acknowledge that Noddy is genderqueer.

I would happily kick a teacher's assistant around the block for destroying a book someone, particularly a child in their class, is reading. I don't care if you think it's great literature or not. Reading is such a great thing, a pleasure and a learning experience that nothing should be done that makes the child reader ashamed

Totally agree - many children who tart off reading shite `9not saying that JKR is shite, though it's not my preferred reading) will move on to other authors. And even if they spend their lives reading chicklit or trashy adventures - so what? They learn to use their imaginations (you have to picture the story) and improve their spelling and (hopefully) vocabulary without even realising it.

Reading is BRILLIANT!

Reading is ZEN!

Hooray for JK

Granted that it's not uncommon to be unreasonable attached to and emotionally invested in something you loved as a child, but you have to wonder if all the people demanding an explanation/that she sign over her copyright to anon so they can pretend she didn't write her own books/her head on a plate would feel quite as entitled to demand things from a male creator of favorite childhood things.

It all comes back to the expectation that every woman in the world be mummy in the end. Some people can't look at a woman without seeing an amorphous blob of "can and should provide whatever I happen to need and is a Very Bad Mummy if she refuses to do so".

Thank you for the heads-up on the next Cormoran Strike being finished. I think we should all be retweeting that Tweet - can't wait to read it.
Hilarious that some say they can't now read it because she believes in biological fact.
I love this woman, we have different views on some political points but she always comes from a good, well reasoned place. Doesn't have to put her head above the parapet but does so anyway for the wider good.

I'm off to check The Very Hungry Caterpillar now.

Beware. It's now the Very Hungry Human Centipede.

She didn't "turn on the community". She said something some TRA didn't like. Not the same thing.

When Harry Potter first came out the vicar down the road from me had the vapours in the local press. Good v evil. Think she would be surprised by the slant being banged on about now.

The pluses in this shitty situation are that she must now know for sure that she can't recant and probably is sure she wouldn't want to.

Jk Rowling has weathered many storms from book burnings in the US bible belt to the Scottish independence referendum (I'm still pissed off with her for her £1m advert for the unionist side but the abuse she received was unbelievable). I'm sure she will weather this one too, she is too big and too popular for the TRAs to take down. They can't dox her or try and get her sacked, they can protest her book and signings but won't have any real impact on her life.

Salutes to JK Rowling
And whilst she shouldn't really be given credit for paying her due taxes, the fact that she does in an environment where a great number of wealthy people use all sorts of shenanigans to avoid paying their share makes me admire her all the more.
I'm trying to follow her on twitter but can't seem to log on fsr