Celeb supporters of jkr

I've got a real thing about Aidan Comerford. You know when people say someone makes their skin crawl - its that. He just gives me the heebie jeebies something chronic.

I know exactly what you mean!

He is a funny little man.

'OMG the TERFs were only able to find 200 examples of disgusting physically and sexually violent abuse directed at JK Rowling!'

😂

Also, he reckons that TRAs don't collate abuse directed at them because they would never accuse all GC people to be 'like that'. Which is odd coming from a man who posts a screenshot of that single Magdalen Berns tweet at every possible opportunity!

The important people to support her are newspapers and MPs. Not child actors.

Agree.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3936722-Baroness-Nicholsons-letter-to-SoS-Gavin-Williamson

I like to see people I admire supporting her, but Baroness Nicholson is currently the person making a different where it matters.

Joe McGann
Gia Milinovic

Fanthorpe I know, I smiled.

i got called 'middle class' today by tra's . :) they dont know that im so working class i find middle class a fantastic compliment

shes not losing the argument on twitter! her post got 224,000 likes- on twitter - where the wokeist woke live- thats remarkable.

Michael Nugent (blue tick) from Atheist Ireland has tweeted in support of JK.
Oh and Aiden Comerford is now the organiser of Pride

Oh my god, @WinterIsGone I saw that tweet and the replies.

Imagine saying you’d never heard of Germaine Greer. The idea that she’s middle-class and out of touch with gender politics, they should be ashamed. They accuse people of ignorance and then say that!!

And including Marilyn in that - suggesting that he was ‘unlikely to know any trans people’. Dear god.

I'm not sure I care what Radcliffe and Watson have said. Offering to donate to mermaids was a mistake. And aligning with abusers and not calling them out is not a good look.

Since they have both tweeted, sympathy for JK has increased, as have clicks on her essay. Opposing what she has said in such a vehement way looks extreme and callous.

The important people to support her are newspapers and MPs. Not child actors.

As for the other celebrities, I think it's great that they're going public. It's crucial for the snowball effect.

I wonder if the personal messages she's been getting are support from other high profile people too chicken-shit to stick their necks out like she has?

It is depressing the extent to which turning the tide has to continue to be such a grass roots movement. Celebrities like to think they can change the world but the important stuff is still down to the little people.
Glinner, of whom I have been a massive supporter, has gone a bit bonkers today with his non-binary nonsense. I hope he has real life support behind the scenes.

Ricky Gervais has liked tweets about JKR. Jess Philips and Caitlin Moran tweeted about the disgraceful Sun headline but stayed silent when she was getting abuse earlier in the week.

Meryl Streep stood up and clapped for roman Polanski; we should stop giving a shit about celebrities.

It's about support from politicians, business leaders, medical specialists and the general public.

It's only twitter that JKR is losing the argument.

I didn't think David Tennant did social media?

David Tennant posted a clip of himself reading from HP

Where please?

McDermid, Rankine and McCall-Smith are very disappointing. Rankine and McCall-Smith are/were neighbours of JKR. They will know each other well. Even if they profoundly disagree with what she said they could still as writers, support her right to say it and condemn the vicious online attacks.

On one level it is irrelevant who is, or even tentatively supporting JKR.

The way the main stream media in going all out to show who is against her, their muffled voices make not difference. Although some like YAB have said she wont discuss in public any more. And there are more than a few others. But always its just so traumatic, cant we have a quiet discussion.

Apart from Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph which has quite a big circulation and Janice Turner (it was quite small though wasn't it) in the Times, the papers are an onslaught on JKR being pilloried.

However have just seen that Gina Davidson in the Scotsman (doubly brave in Scotland) has written a real good and positive piece supporting the issues that JKR is writing about. www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/why-abuse-jk-rowling-problem-trans-rights-activists-gina-davidson-2881971

Seriously, please remember less that 20% of the population is on twitter. It is what the papers and tv news are saying that is setting the agenda for most people.

I am thoroughly depressed by the lack of support for her

It's depressing but it's not surprising, is it?

There are plenty of people too scared to speak out for fear of jeopardising their careers and livelihoods and celebrities obviously have the same concerns.

@DidoLamenting I’d be very interested to hear what Val McDermid thinks, since she is a lesbian.

David Tennant posted a clip of himself reading from HP

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I tend to think any celebrity who’s on twitter and hadn’t taken a stand against JKR agrees with her but is too afraid to say. If they disagree, they have no motive to be silent - they’ll definitely be vocal about it so can gather the woke cookies.