Amanda Abbington you massive disappointment

Pretty stupid to burn her bridges on both sides. I suppose she just panicked.

Yes my issue with it was that she trie to redirect the mob to another woman (who's already getting rape and death threats) to save herself. That's low.

And it'll never be enough for the TRAs. Anyway, they don't want her to actually believe that TWAW, their aim is for her to be so terrified of them that she starts doing their dirty work for them, bringing other women down, so they do have to look like the bad guys and so other women watching are too scared to ever speak.

She's not wrong about twitter anyway.

It's all very strange, why has she been targeted so viciously, is it literally because she is a woman (and a not particularly 'powerful' one at that - in a difficult industry, has already publicly had financial difficulties)?

That Stats Britain Twitter account is just Urgh......

That is a very disingenuous post of Amanda's on Instagram.

I can understand her protecting her career, but not by putting the boot in to JKR when she clearly agrees with her. Now all she has managed to do is piss everyone off.

Just read her Instagram post. What exactly was she expecting? She sold us out and they will never forgive despite the grovelling.

And what is this weird use of 'fucken' instead of writing fucking? Starting to see it a lot on Twitter.

I pretty much agree with others here, that I can understand why Amanda capitulated, but think it was cowardly of her to stick the boot in to JKR while she was at it.

I'm starting to get really sick of this constant fear of being "cancelled" famous people seem to have. If enough of them took the JKR route - adopted a compassionate but concerned stance and refused to deviate from it despite the Twitter hysteria - gender criticism would gain legitimacy as a point of view and the mob would lose their power to bully people into silence.

It can't come fast enough for me. I really do think JK Rowling has done a lot to cement her legacy with this, and history will judge her kindly for it. Other people will be struggling to live down some of their own comments in ten years' time.

It was JKR thing that made me see red. I honestly don’t know why she’s thought that would go down well. Maybe she’s just not thinking straight. Probably a good idea for her to get off Twitter .. it really is the cesspit of the interwebs.

I agree and I think she's realised that and maybe that's why she's deleted her whole account. It was a shitty thing to do.

"Do it to Julia".

Agreed Kit19, she could have gone down the TWAW line, or said she was "educating herself" (horrid phrase IMO) by reading XYZ book etc.

Instead retweeted an account dragging down another woman, TRA enemy number 1, possibly for a quick 'look at me capitulating' win. Nope.

Don't deal with getting a load of shit off Twitter by retweeting an attack on another woman who is also getting a load of shit 😐

On the positive side, she's due to appear in a play which has been postponed because of COVID. It'll hopefully go ahead with the original cast, because one of her co-stars is Frances Barber and I'm sure they'd have lots to chat about

I was sympathetic to her the first two times though Lass

This time though she RT something critical of JKR which is baffling. Surely the best thing if she didn’t want to call down the world of pain she’d experienced before is just to not say anything but she didn’t, she poked the hornets nest & I don’t get why at all.

Man, you guys really aren't very sympathetic. She'd obviously been forced to write those tweets. She felt what everyone does in that circumstance - self-loathing, resentment etc. So she lashed out. It's perfectly understandable. Also, people criticising you for capitulating from behind pseudonyms must be pretty galling, when you are writing under your own name, and your actual life is on the line. I don't know why people are so quick to be so damning of people who are, actually, on our side.

If she's deleted her account, why did she write those things in the first place? Just more aggro, did she think she would have gotten anything else? If so, that's terribly naive. Or maybe she was directed to write it and felt sullied?

I keep reading it as Stasi Britain.

Its

Twitter is vile. It's sole purpose seems to be to encourage fights. I've followed a lot of gc people and it's sad to see the constant in-fighting.

I don't know why she doesn't keep her mouth shut.

I think this is third time this has happened to her and the poor woman is tarred and feathered, Twitter-style, until she has to prostrate herself before the woke altar and promise to 'do better and educate herself'.

It's clear enough that she's GC and doesn't believe a word of the TWAW BS, but the treatment she gets whenever she says anything 'out of line' is pretty much inevitable.

yes i agree WinterIsGone - twice she's dipped her toe in, twice she was monstered for it. to do it a third time RT a tweet hating on JKR, and then post this self pitying moan as if she's surprised

my sympathy has somewhat evaporated....

Who is behind that "Stats Britain" account? It has 97k followers.

It's terrifying stuff. Another perfect example of the deranged, totalitarian, oppressive left.

That still doesn't make sense to me. Her two tweets were 1) getting re-educated and 2) retweeting a tweet criticising JR. She got some supportive trans tweets, some critical GC tweets, and some of her followers sending support and love re her return.

Why tweet criticising JR if you don't want to get involved in all that?