JKR's essay wins Russell prize

Oh that's great. Bet TRAs are puce in the face.

Some right tosspots on that thread ..

twitter.com/UnpackCourts/status/1341212228549226497?s=20

The irony burns.

A shame he had to repeatedly denounce JK's views. I doubt it will help, anyway, the mob looks very cross.

It's not for the mob. It's for his bosses. He didn't denounce her views, he declined to state an opinion on them- very different.

He can't endorse her views but he publicly held up her article as great writing and described her as brave. He said the same about Suzanne Moore immediately afterwards.

It's absolutely clear what he thinks but by doing it in a long established 'award', making it about the writing and emphasising his neutrality he makes it hard to punish him.

I think he's judged this very carefully.

Just put some flats on, love.

So many men on twitter claiming that JK Rowling's essay has been 'debunked' by twitter as though the court case didn't happen.

I’ve noticed the TRA usual suspects - Katy M- on the cesspool hysterically calling for complaints to the BBC and Ofcom about an anti- trans manifesto or some other rubbish. KM spends an unhealthy amount of time on SM posing and tweeting.

And the witchfinder general OJ is adding to the pile on. It must be utterly galling for him to have read a mention of Suzanne Moore.
2 fine female writers lauded in one article.
It must hurt.

I like that Amol Rajan chap. Funny. A shame he had to repeatedly denounce JK's views. I doubt it will help, anyway, the mob looks very cross.

Nah you won't as the great thing is the more you misuse it the less effect it has and so when real mysogyny takes place the impact will be less thanks to the likes of you...you are harming women.

That^ said without irony is..really something to behold while he is calling JK transphobic though. But of curse, that is different. Somehow. Because, reasons.

This part

twitter.com/andrew_bogg/status/1341041937328029700

JKR has riled up people to ATTACK transpeople?! By saying she supports transpeople but cares about womens rights too. And children.

Her essay caused abuse indeed. The response to her essay was more abuse than I have ever seen directed at one person, and sustained for a year also. But yeah, she definitely caused people (men? As its usually men who attac transpeople and I cannot see abusive men listening to JKR somehow, same as they don't listen to feminists but we are accused of 'making' them do horrid things ) to attack transpeople.

I also see no rape threats or insults based on appearance or anything even remotely like that from the TRAs in reply to this (a good thing, but wish it was like this for women too!). Yes, they are whinging that he put JKR on there and trying to get him to backpedal, but the differences in treatment are, again, very, very stark.

This one made me smile a bit, I have to say.

twitter.com/HimmiBeib/status/1341060364478410753

Whats very noticeable to me, is how little abuse men get for saying things like this. Meanwhile, a woman saying the word woman instead of cervix haver, is literal violence and deserves endless rape and death threats..
I don't WANT men to get abuse for speaking up of course, but watching the difference in treatment is very interesting.

Similar to cervix havers for cervical cancer, yet men for prostate cancer. Woman being some unexplainable thing with no solid definition (a shifting constellation, if you will), where everyone knows what a man is. And so on.

an "apotheosis of pseudo intellectualism"

vs

It is an interesting fact about rhetoric that if you want people to understand something, plain, mono-syllabic words are usually your best bet

Those responding to Rajan seem determined to prove his points about what JKR wrote.

If you wanted you could take advantage of this opportunity to condemn them for giving her this prize. That would be a pretty cool thing to do.

I imagine someone got a thrill writing that but the bigger picture is what people unaware of what's been going on will see:

Watch everything you say, anything you say might be heresy.
But you can't remain silent, silence is violence.
If you make a misstep you must grovel.
But you will never by forgiven*.

• except if you are perceived to be "one of us" then whatever you say, no matter now actually transphobic, can be waved away.

My favourite reply to this so far on Twitter is someone claiming that Rowling's essay was an "apotheosis of pseudo intellectualism".

Anyway, go JK!

I have clicked on way too late, in that at least part of the reaction is probably very much about the fact that he links the actual essay, so people will actually read her words, instead of reading their interpretations of it (which seem to be..nothig but endless bigotry!'

The after reading it, they will get a bit confused about what exactly JKR said that was so hateful and continues to be made out to be so. Which will likely in many cases, lead to reading up a lot (or, educating oneself ) which never tends to go TRAs preferred way. Oh dear.

I've always liked Amol Rajan, didn't know he was such an intellectual. Like him even more now.

"I'm not taking sides on the content, it's about the bravery." Why give it to Rowling then? Give it to a Covid denier instead, they're braver, they got much more hostility than she ever got for talking dangerous nonsense.

This reply has pissed me off a lot though. Its like they are purposely trying to lie their way into a bigger lie that everyone believes. I mean, specifically adding on the ridiculous and untrue 'they got more hostility!!!' stuff is just trolling surely, when the TRA response is so easily found/seen? No right minded perso could claim JKR did ot get abusive replies, by the thousands also! Then the posting dick pics on her childrens drawing threads..it really does seem like some TRA types live in a totally different world to me smetimes, some parallel universe.

[quote WinterIsGone]I notice that one of the other writers named, Ian Leslie, defends JKR in his tweets
twitter.com/mrianleslie/status/1341088040362635266[/quote]
If you wanted you could take advantage of this opportunity to condemn them for giving her this prize. That would be a pretty cool thing to do.

What the fuck?!

Why on earth should he. Why is it always 'ahhh but if you wanted to though you could [do what I want you to instead of what you want]'?! Just seems so weird and presumptious, and arrogant to boot.

So they think it is reansble to hound other people on the list, because said people will not condemn JK because some MRAs want them to?! Bizarre behaviour really.

And they think they're the good guys? Can you imagine JK tweeting something like that about anyone?

As always, the selection process was watertight, in that nominations were submitted by me, to a rigorous and impartial panel of one, also me, wherein I have self-identified as convenor, founder, chair, president, and - in a new designation for 2020, approved by me - CEO.

I'm.following this guy!

Some good articles there that I didn’t know about, as well as the cracker that I already did.

If Amol said he wasn’t endorsing the views once, he said it half a dozen times, but that simply won’t do and he must be sent off for re education and/or cancelling immediately. It’s so silly.

If you were an aware person doing this, you'd know that all of the other nominees would immediately face pressure to denounce JKR, and if you were a decent sort you'd contact them and make sure they were okay with it first.

So it may not be coincidence that the other authors seem to be refusing to denounce her (so far anyway).

Misogyny is a heady drug

I swear they get high on abusing women with impinity

They love it

I'm not about to give PinkNews clicks, but I wonder if they can point to the errors in JKR's ''error strewn'' essay? She was right about the medical scandal. And rapists have IDed their way into women's places, (prison) which is why there is a Judicial Review on that coming up too. Telling that no one is willing to acknowledge that.

I bet they were delighted to have a reason to write yet another 'article' on her though (to add to the other hundreds).

Should read 'being the good guy'