Who did JK Rowling become?

One response says please turn off comments as "terfs" comments are triggering them.

Lol. Translation: Shit, the tide is turning. Turn the comments off quick before more people are peaked by seeing people talking sense.

I've just read the Twitter feed for Molly Fischer, the writer. I wish I hadn't bothered. One response says please turn off comments as "terfs" comments are triggering them. And another Aussie TW says "she's a significant part of the reason I'm now afraid of public restrooms, and this is in Australia where the debate isn't even really that big of an issue."

Oh please.

no transgender people have attacked anyone in a locker room or a bathroom."

Even though these of course never happens, it actually couldn't happen, because of ... hormones, or something ... we also know that it won't be reported on when it doesn't happen, as it will either be reported on as 'female' crime or suppressed altogether (cf Barbie Kardashian).

Here is a fine example of the lack of empathy towards women from TRA's. One woman in the comments section says this:

"But where else can we talk about these things? I had an experience last year in my gym's locker room, where I entered, what appeared to be a naked man with a penis was there, and I was uncomfortable."

The first reply is this:

"I'm sorry, but in this situation you feeling uncomfortable is less important than the trans woman in your locker room not having to face possible assault, rape, or death if she went into the men's locker room. At least 41 transgender people have been murdered this year. no transgender people have attacked anyone in a locker room or a bathroom."

I love how an American thinks the UK is insular. You know that America where a vast number of the population never travel abroad, stereotypically where they are themselves as the leading voice in everything etc etc 🤣

I don't even like HP (I find it boring and naff sorry!) I love JKR

That is the most boring hit piece I have ever read in my entire life.

This plonker is going back decades to dredge up copyright disputes, and whine that Dumbledore is gay and that Rita Skeeter is written as having large hands? JKR is either a fucking saint, or this is the most incompetent muckraking journalist in the history of journalism, or perhaps both of these are true.

It's all borderline amusing, apart from the uncritical reporting of her abusive husband's account of the violence in the relationship, "(I slapped her on the night she left") with no reporting of JK Rowling's side or even a hint that maybe abusive men lie sometimes. It's clearly been put there to minimise JKR's experience of violence. That's disgusting. The woman who wrote this piece is disgusting.

‘The difference reflects, perhaps, the relative insularity and homogeneity of British feminism..."

Other than being really bloody patronising and a tad bit xenophobic, this makes fuck all sense in context. I also think it’s part of an effort to make out that we are all white and posh, as if no working class or black woman has ever had the audacity to think about their sex-based rights.

Have they done a study on this or is this just an assumption made on this basis of no evidence?

You, with a single transwoman in a locker room, or her in a locker room full of men?
Also this part stands out to me. Transwomen would be unsafe in a room full of men is acknowledged, as a number of men are dangerous..many more than dangerous women anyway. Yet, they cannot connect the dots. And they also think transmen, who are obviously biological females, should be the one in the mens and potentially at risk. Males win either way!

The lack of a shit being given to women is so in your face I cannot believe that so many still cannot see it.

A choice between keeping multiple women safe, or a male, the male, males win out everytime for some odd reason. Happens a lot on here too. Expecting women to be human shields as some males are awful people.

Tbh you could use the same shitty logic as in this post to say the opposite also. A single transwoman in a 'locker room' is one victim. 15 Women in the womens, are 15 victims.

Using such an argument is just stupid and offensive.

I am not suggesting all transpeople are criminals, though that should be obvious.

NotYourHandmaid:

The difference reflects, perhaps, the relative insularity and homogeneity of British feminism..."
What?!

The homogeneity is a snide remark to say British feminists are white and middle class I think. Is the insular about the fact that we are on an island (you know the traditional view of us)? Or that we live in an echo chamber.

I'm glad mumsnet got referenced though as, hopefully, there will be people who saw the name and do a bit of googling and come to investigate.

I'm okay at fanfics but I have no desire to write my own original. I understand that many would be writers start off as fanfic writers.

I'm glad we're "mainstream feminists" now to commentators in the US. Because that isn't what I keep being told.

What a horrible, nasty, misogynistic piece of writing.

"that trans women were men seeking to invade women’s spaces,"

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME: no one is arguing 'all trans women are...' anything (except for biologically male, which is the entire reason for 'trans'). I don't think any 'gender critical' feminist (or 'feminist' as I think we used to be known!!) cares whether it's a trans woman or a man coming into spaces and roles set aside for women, it's that WE DO NOT MAKE THE DISTINCTION. It's not 'transphobia', it is 'recognising the threat that males pose'.

On a less shouty note : "The divide here between mainstream British feminists and their American counterparts is striking: American opponents of trans rights tend to be right wing. The difference reflects, perhaps, the relative insularity and homogeneity of British feminism..."
What?!

Any male is safer in the women's locker room than the men's!

Well, only if there's exactly one male in there...

The moment you've got two, each male is now in there with a male who likes hanging out in women's locker rooms.

As Debbie Hayton once quipped, given the offer of a "trans women" prison wing - "I rather take my chances in the men's."

Any male is safer in the women's locker room than the men's!

I read and write fanfic.

Do you ever write fiction based on your own characters? Haven’t you got more chance of becoming an author if you write about your own original characters? Or is what you do more about being obsessed with Harry Potter rather than wanting to write?

The jealousy and malice are palpable. Any guesses the author is working on her own set of grubby YA dystopian fiction?

This exchange made me smile.

Are you in a place now where you can accept that you will always be rich?” she asked.
“No,” said Rowling. “Are you?”
Winfrey said she was (“Kinda. Getting there”).

That was an exchange of equals who both know the score.

The rest of it was painful: snide, belittling and biased.

I am a huge Harry Potter fan. Slightly obsessed you might say. I read and write fanfic. At no point though do I think Harry Potter or anything in the books belong to me. I don't own them. I'm playing around with her characters and her world building. Perhaps it's because I was older when I got into but I have no trouble separating the work from the writer. There are lots of young people (teens and in early 20s) who feel utterly betrayed by JKR. They take it so personally and because they live in an online echo chamber, no one ever challenges their views. Even the most reasonable online communities can't get their head around that JKR is not transphobic. It's a little frightening.

However it's the subsequent threats, rage and utter determination to annihilate any disagreement which tends to focus one on the implications like nothing else.

Yes, expressing a mild concern or empathy for JK is met by unbelievable guilt tripping and hyperbole about the plight of trans people, and slurs on you as "unkind", "privileged", "out of touch" or "selfish".

Wow, they really don't like JKR, do they? The envy, xenophobia and misogyny drips from the page. Was she supposed to roll over when someone tried to cash in on her IP, or steal from her? And change her opinions on the characters she created and feminist politics because her readers don't like them?

And the author couldn't even resist having a dig at her writing ability.

Un-fucking-believable.

Can she really not see how her negative feelings are plastered all over her article. Envy, sexism, all of it.

And yessss to reducing JKR's abuse to a 'slap'. The slap is what her ex admitted to in the tabloids. Is it only when a man invokes it that it pops into reality?

The comments were interesting. I see quite a few of those readers being where we were four or five years ago.

Wanting to find a solution, not wanting to be unfair, but struggling with the absurdity of eg males in female sport. I didn't immediately see rapists in prison mentioned. I wonder if that's not widely known.

The commentators don't seem quite up to speed yet. However it's the subsequent threats, rage and utter determination to annihilate any disagreement which tends to focus one on the implications like nothing else.