JK Rowling responds to pathetic Labour MP

Sorry floral - cross post!

Tom Watson has also tweeted in support of JKR...

twitter.com/tom_watson/status/1277350666390900736

The pure narcissism of the TRA responses on twitter is amazing. JKR came out to defend herself after a vile article was written about her by an MP and they have somehow turned it into her coming to twitter just to harm and abuse them. I see it every day but I'm still gobsmacked. Thank God she is such a strong and principled woman who has risen beyond their grasp.

Tom Watson tweeted support. Momentum (pardon the reference) is building, wims. This feels big.

I was reading the thread of nine and I got to the Dworkin quote I first punched the air and shouted

"ROWLING QUOTED DWORKIN"

and no one at home knew what I was talking about.

Oh my days - just the best thing ever.

By these actions, JK is rising beyond being a author, admittedly of best selling books; she is now a voice that speaks truth to power.

There are very few people who ever do this in their lives. There are very few people who have both the guts and such an unshakeable sense of justice.

I no longer simply admire JK Rowling; I am now in awe.

She is incredible, a role model of the likes that I never thought I would see in my lifetime.

Bloody hell the Labour peer tweet!!! 😮

This has suddenly got very interesting hasn’t it?

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I see that BBC article says Labour will not be commenting further, do they mean about RLB and her allies or about weasel face LRM? If the latter then they are seriously misjudging the mood of women right now.

I do like the fact that the Tweet from JKRs thread that has been singled out to show in the article is her quoting Andrea Dworkin. Maybe, just maybe, there’s a GC editor in the BBC after all...

Neurotrash the bbc article says “Labour said it would be making no further comment about the issue.” If by “the issue” they mean the JK Rowling issue rather than the RLB issue (I think they do) that’s very disappointing. They need to address this or they’re sending a clear message to women that this is not the party for them.

I saw this today. I mean, don't bother if you have anything worthwhile to do, your time is valuable, but the stream of lies and male arrogance here reminded me very much of the TRAs who visit us here, froth on Twitter, and bully women as elected representatives. If you fancy an exercise in picking out the tropes, fallacies and utter entitled bullshit, this one is good practice.

Beards. Why is it always guys with beards? At first I thought it was just a coincidence, but the Twitter threads are wall to wall with beards. Scary.

I'm proud to be one of the 3000 too!

I have a Marvel T-shirt that says 'I love you 3000'. It's got another layer of meaning for me now.

She's brilliant!

And ... I've just noticed the bbc managed to get it squeezed in under RLB.

They didn't have to. The bbc !

Someone is making sure she's heard.

Rebecca Long-Bailey: Ed Miliband says Labour left-wingers are not facing 'purge' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53210764

JKR is fabulous for holding firm on this. I'm so impressed with her. And so ashamed of my own cowardice because I dare not say a thing in real life - public sector worker.
It needs more loud voices like this and less bandwagon jumping by nasty right wing gits.

I'd love to see Keir Starmer be less of a coward than I am. What with him being Leader of the Opposition.

I get the impression that Keir Starmer's wife, Victoria, has quite an influence. She is Jewish, and I remember reading that they were raising their children in the Jewish faith. This may explain the crackdown on anti-semitism.

I think their children (boys and girl) are young - both pre-teens - so I would have thought that they'd be interested in the Stonewall influence in schools and safeguarding of young children through puberty etc.
They're probably all Harry Potter readers!

Wonder if she's a Mumsnet user? Perhaps they could invite her on?!

I’ve never been as attracted to my DH as when he lent over and whispered in my ear

“Ooooh JK Rowling is tweeting about feminism again.”

Seen on FB:

This is encouraging, given he’s a labour peer

mobile.twitter.com/LordPhilofBrum/status/1277309781628379136

Glad to be one of the 3,000 too!

There's a twitter account called Male Comedian Apologises that's definitely worth a look to raise a smile. Seems particularly on the nail today.

twitter.com/Comedian_Sorry

(Sample tweet: My heart goes out to the women I’ve hurt, and while my actions are in no way excusable, I believe an understanding of the full context is important: I wanted to do it and I thought I’d get away with it. Makes the weasely labour misogynist look like another parody account.)

So many comments from men with beards ( my DH has a beard, I’m not beardist) just repeating that she is transphobic or that what she said was discriminatory. And rinse and repeat.

Gia Milinovich has shared her appreciation for King and Rowling