"Can I Still Read Harry Potter?" BBC R4 Thursday 12th November 2020

I also feel that the BBC are dragging this out iyswim. Why is this person being given a programme to talk about it again?

instead of reading Harry Potter, how about actually reading JK's essay constructing arguments against her points rather than just condemning her as the devil.

This is the BBC who think it's ok to have Boy George - convicted of falsely imprisoning and attacking someone while on drugs - on the payroll for a prime time family show?

and Stonewall, Pink News etc care more about a wealthy gay man than his victim

I'm pretty sure JKR/her essay is transphobic because she acknowledges that women are a sex class who need their own language in relation to their sex. Even her tweet in response to 'people with cervixes' or whatever is transphobic on the same ground - the argument that woman relates to sex, not to gender. That's it.

What happened to people?

Someone who was born male but identifies as female is hurt that JKR said women deserve their own spaces.

Why the bbc is giving airtime to this person is beyond me. Social media and self publishing has a lot to answer for.

I was told that it was because she wrote that most young people detransistion, that they only do so because of transphobia from people like her.

I never really got into HP, read the first two and started the third but felt it too dark to carry on. My 14 year old has just discovered them though, she doesn't like reading so I have fully embraced it.

Rowling's empathic essay has some hidden transphobia because of dogwhistle something. That's the most info I've gotten from TRAs.

Yeah bbc can fuck right off with this

Ffs are they like 8 years old

Can’t belive they are using license payers money to even contemplate hosting this vacant idiocy

Ffs

Interesting that the BBC think to ask this question when they can still celebrate the athletic achievements of Oscar Pistorius, before he found himself at the centre of some unfortunate legal bother.

JKR supported women and is reviled. BBC celebrates Pistorius, who has KILLED A WOMAN.

BBC can fuck right off.

I have a millennial friend who just says she hasn't actually read it but it was 'unacceptable'.

She has form for reporting people at work for saying things she doesn't agree with so I don't bother to argue with her.

They drove me away with crap like this. Times Radio woman now, none of this navel gazing nonsense.

I've never, ever, seen a straight answer to what EXACTLY JK said that was transphobic. It just isn't there in the content of her essay. Instead people are just told TWAW and to 'educate' themselves.

I find it quite bewildering and unsettling that so much can be made of nothing.

DS has often muttered about Eric Gill being a bad man... I’m not sure he quite knows exactly what he got up to (and I’m not telling him)

This is the BBC who think it's ok to have Boy George - convicted of falsely imprisoning and attacking someone while on drugs - on the payroll for a prime time family show?

Don't know what all the fuss is about.

I mean everybody immediately stopped lauding Roman Polanski and supporting his work when he was convicted of drugging and anally raping a child, right?

Oh...

But who is it aimed at? Many adults have never read Harry Potter and have no intention of doing so. The generation of children who grew up with HP
A. Have already read it
B. Have moved on
C. Haven't yet discovered Radio 4

Adults who perhaps enjoyed reading HP to their children and read the books (like me) have already READ THE BOOKS and have moved on to the Cormoran Strike books

Are they going to talk about how right after her essay HP sales have gone up and all 7 books were in the top 10 best sellers on amazon?

But that wouldn't fit with the narrative that most people disagree with her and have a morality crisis every time they see a HP book...

As an adult if actually say - yes, by the time you get to senior school you’re probably a bit too old for wizards and magic spells...

" Can I Still Read Harry Potter?" How old is this person? Eight?

This is surely a form of defamation. There's an implicit character assassination here.

The abhorrent nature of cancel culture is now on the school curriculum I understand yet the BBC is given a platform to those doing the cancelling with explicit reference to the witch of the moment.

The parallels to the witch trials of history are off the scale.

I'm incensed. They are literally using our licence fee to further the demonisation of a woman who dares to speak in support of women's spaces.

Well, Aja is welcome to disagree with an abuse survivor's opinion that appropriate provision for abused women does not include the presence of males. It's not a great look though. Certainly not one I would advertise on national radio.

So, Precipice Aja is known for protesting against Livejournal when they deleted journals with keywords like rape and pedophilia, is known for shipping two schoolboys and were a Kevin Spacey fan. Does she really want to talk about cancelling another woman?

I really hope JK sues them, this has gone too far.

So many men who have done so many horrendous things and yet you will never see a show talking about can people still watch Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein etc. movies

They're punching at her because she is a woman so they feel like they can.