JK Rowling's has written another post

Julie Bindel
@bindelj
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I'm standing with so many. women at the moment I'm going to end up with varicose veins.

What am I saying? ‘Women know your place, it’s not safe to threaten a male ego’ is as old as time. None of this is new.

It’s just so mind numbingly stupid. When somebody is denying another human being the right to vote/work/receive an education/receive medical care/be treated equally by the law, they do not stop to wonder about that person’s internal sense of their own identity.

However this idea that an internal, unknowable sense of self can and must be affirmed by others seems to have spread equally to both human rights organisations and gun toting Trump supporters.

I think she'll be OK. There are people with an inner resilience who are able to protect themselves from such onslaughts. I think she is one of them.

What concerns me though is that JK is not a politician and dealing with backlash in this level would never have been part of her plan. It's taking her away from her true path and I worry could end up consuming her. You have to be hard as nails for this to eat away at you. Whenever she opens her mouth what she says is now twisted. If a little bit of self doubt starts to creep in then that could have a catastrophic effect on her self esteem. What a horrible world we live in where identity politics can set of a social media world war three.

I love that JCJ has posted screenshots that shows the depth of her frustration on this. So much more powerful than a tidy, typed narrative.

You can feel her anger at the stupidity and injustice of it all, can see the eye-rolling-what-the-fuck-even-is-this twisted narrative and can hear her banging the table in rage. Good on her.

Andrew Doyle talking a lot of common sense about this story on the Sky News paper review at 7.45am today - that will have reached a big audience.

janeclarejones.com/ Very cathartic. Recommended.

Thank you. I was looking forwards to reading them and was cross.

from this, I understand that JKR believes your sex at birth is the most important determinant of gender',

How can an organisation that theoretically promotes human rights be so dense on the subject of human rights?

Nobody suffers discrimination because of their internal sense of their own gender. They suffer discrimination because gender is imposed upon them, regardless of who they feel they are.

Before full equal suffrage in the U.K. in 1928 nobody got to vote because they didn’t feel feminine.

No woman can control her fertility by simply opting out of being female.

Going on about sex being non binary is completely irrelevant. Even if it were scientifically coherent, it wouldn’t stop discrimination against ‘big gamete people’.

What’s happened to Jane Claire Jones’ tweets with Kerry Kennedy’s annotated speech? I had them bookmarked for later perusal & they’ve gone.

Oh you’d already stripped her of the award? Did ye, aye? 🤣

The state of these idiots- they only gave her the award to get a bit of her star power and global reach reflected onto themselves.

I see Bill Clinton is a previous recipient of the Ripple of Hope award. Good thing the same standards of behaviour aren’t applied to men accused of actually sexually assaulting women, eh, or you’d definitely have to take his back, too!

Very well played sending that award back.

All the headlines, local and foreign, said she send it back basically having her take control of the narrative just like that!

Very well played. Seeing Kennedy try to spin it back around on Twitter really confirms their publicity stunt backfired wonderfully.

Ha, they wish. They just don't like that JKR has more class in her little finger than the whole lot of them put together.

Even with death threats, rape threats, and porn tweeted at children on her timeline, she's still been more dignified than they'll ever manage to be.

She's too powerful to cancel. And they fucking hate it.

Jinx @ItsLateHumpty

An RFK employee is claiming on twitter that they had already stripped her of the award when she gave it back.

So we're supposed to believe that JKR put out her tweets and statement at the start of June and then Kerry Kennedy writes her statement at the start of August (with no mention of taking back the award) that they were going to strip the award less than a month later. Surely if you were going to strip the award or even were thinking of doing so, you would mention that in your blog earlier in the month. Am I wrong or does that timeline seem weird to anyone else?

The spin has already started - apparently RFKHR stripped her of the award akshally!

And hahahahaha delusion is strong in this one!

twitter.com/sharpkristopher/status/1299399955845705732

Ah thanks OldCrone I hadn’t been on the main FWR boards, and was so outraged at this shite I posted without checking.

Thread about the Radio Times article.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4008131-Article-in-the-Radio-Times-online

There's an archive link on there to the original article.

OMG! Radio Times I hope this is a very expensive ‘mistake’ for them.

twitter.com/WeAreLe30956108/status/1299382319489388544

See screen shot! Just wow. From the (now removed) article:

"In recent months, all manner of problematic elements have been highlighted in Rowling’s back catalogue, including her tendency to equate ugliness and fatness with evil, the anti-semitic stereotypes embodied by the goblins of Gringotts, and the Harry Potter series’ tepid engagement with the issue of chattel slavery. While these are all issues distinctly separate from transgender rights, it has been suggested that perhaps they are emblematic of a lack of interest on Rowling’s part in dismantling systems of oppression.”

From twitter thread twitter.com/RadioTimes/status/1299304476445036546

See also twitter.com/HJoyceGender/status/1299387449471307777

Screen capture of @RadioTimes accusing @jk_rowling of bigotry, anti-Semitism and lukewarm feelings about chattel slavery. All already deleted. Hope she sues

They need pulling up on it pronto, and they deserve to be shamed in the media for what they've done.