Still profiting off JK Rowling i see

The "hatred" is unfathomable to most of us here

We need a campaign to complain about disinformation in main stream media that's fuelling the hatred towards JKR

Bad Faith articles that DON'T link to what JKR actually said and ONLY repeat what critics have said.

For instance, yesterdays Forbes article shows TRA screenshots, TRA quotes and links to TRA content on 'The Cut' "J.K. Rowling Triples Down on Transphobia - The Cut". The North American press seems to be the worst.

Sources also stressed that the TV event, which premieres on New Year’s Day, focuses on the creation of the 2001 film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, rather than the novel on which it is based.

They will be joined by a roll call of Harry Potter’s biggest stars, including Helena Bonham Carter

Oh I must have missed her appearance in the first film... 🙄

The "hatred" is unfathomable to most of us here but it's obvious to others: it is saying that "transwomen are not women".

This concept is genuinely horrifying to some people now because they see it and think it means "...and therefore transwomen should be hated, abused and murdered and locked out of society".

Whereas we see it and think "transwomen need their own protective and supportive spaces in the world, but so do women who need sex-based rights to protect them too, and can't we have a modicum of common sense about stuff like prisons and refuges and sports please?"

Times:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/35c57bd0-47ec-11ec-aa43-5cc5157b09b9?shareToken=5394af155c3e870b797bcda409954314

@NoNotMeNoSiree

What about the rest of what I said? Or do you have no comment on that? Just '' show me what she said?'' No. You've presumably read it too. Cop out and smacks of '' do I deem it bigoted enough? No, well it's not then. '' Exact same shit with some of these comments and parallels with racist behaviour. You're entitled to your opinions. Just like others are entitled to theirs.

Bigoted enough?

I (and everyone else on this thread) have read Rowling's essay. We don't see any bigotry or hate. We are asking those who do see bigotry and hate in what she said to please show us where they see it. If we don't see it and you do then you need to help us out here.

Perhaps if you show us and explain, we'll understand. No one is responding to this requests and I'm genuinely interested!

@NoNotMeNoSiree can you please explain where in the essay Rowling is espousing bigotry or hate towards trans people?

Would have loved to have seen Peeves in the films.
Rik May would have been perfect, shame he and the part got dropped

For what it's worth I love the Harry Potter series and have all the books.
Went to the cinema to see them all when they first came out (first one was 2001 I think?!) would have been in my early twenties.
My kids love them too.
Can still watch and read them and enjoy them but doesn't mean I have to agree with her views as a person.

What about the rest of what I said?
Or do you have no comment on that?
Just '' show me what she said?''
No.
You've presumably read it too.
Cop out and smacks of '' do I deem it bigoted enough? No, well it's not then. ''
Exact same shit with some of these comments and parallels with racist behaviour.
You're entitled to your opinions.
Just like others are entitled to theirs.

What the the bigoted views that JK Rowling has expressed @NoNotMeNoSiree?

Queer coded fiction, with queer coded characters 🤣🤣🤣

Delusional and probably spending far too much time in fanfic world.

Meanwhile, tra's are still pedalling this shit.

MargaritaPie
AFAIK Ms K was invited but chose not to turn up. Was it because the rest of the cast are LGBT-friendly and she doesn't want to be around them because of that?

You really are making yourself look ridiculous. You know absolutely nothing about the background.

Poor Arabella, still waiting on that answer. Still no answer as to what those 'bigoted views' are, even with a direct link to JKR's essay for ease of use.

It's an insight as to how a lie repeated enough times will be taken as truth by those who choose not to examine what they are being told.

Arabella, some Butterbeer might be a good idea to warm you up.

It's the first time I've heard of someone being archived. Quite sinister really.

I don't get all the '' spoiled brats! '' comments.
They're now grown adults, possibly even early thirties? With minds of their own.
They're not kids, but people on here talk about them like they are.
Why should they stand by and not say anything if they hear what they perceive to be bigoted views?
People standing by and saying nothing can make you seem like you agree with them.
Should we all stand silent if someone said something we deemed racist?
No, I think we shouldn't and should be called out.
It's the same type of situation here.
Also, all this '' they'd be nothing without her! '' sits really uncomfortably.
What, they were kids who got an acting role.
Should people never speak out if they disagree, or feel like they are being attacked, or have been abused by them (for clarity for any hard of reading NOT saying JK has done that, just how far are you willing to blindly stand by the '' but they MADE you, how dare you go against them! '' view?!)

I don't know her but a friend does. And she is indeed a thoroughly nice woman.

Incidentally if you haven't heard the Simon Armitage chat with her in his shed, it's really worth a listen.

It was parents' evening at my kids' school today and I was very pleased to see JKR in among the inspirational quotes on the wall outside the geography classroom.

It was "Rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

I think it's excellent to remind children that great success can be found even when life can seem utterly hopeless

Thank you, prudence. Hot choc sounds just the ticket. It's dark now, and cold, and the wind is howling like a banshee.

And still nobody has offered me an answer.

On the bright side, I have eaten the mince pies.

No, I just mean as a lazy person it would suit me very well to get them delivered! Probably no bad thing for what I laughingly call my waistline, though, that I can't.

Hope you`re OK Arabella - its got a bit nippier where I am. Could send you a vat of hot chocolate via owl post if you like. No answers yet it seems.

Pie Eh? You're saying Emma Watson says she's changed race?

I think you're confusing her with Oli London.