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JK Rowling featured in Guardian person of the year

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Blackandwhitehorse · 30/12/2021 18:02

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/30/guardian-readers-nominate-their-person-of-the-year

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Theeyeballsinthesky · 30/12/2021 20:19

Healthcare & frontline workers are literally the first group mentioned in the article

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/30/guardian-readers-nominate-their-person-of-the-year

Stellaris22 · 30/12/2021 20:16

JK has done great things for children dreading.

But honestly, to vote for her over healthcare workers is odd. Healthcare workers have been asked to do do much the last few years and how an author can win over this is wrong.

Pudmyboy · 30/12/2021 20:14

Ooh, "centring women and children" rather than "controversial anti-trans views", at last.
This^

LazyDaisy22 · 30/12/2021 19:59

Great to read this. Well done to both JKR and Michelle

Eightmagpies · 30/12/2021 19:56

👌🏻 well done JKR

IHateCoronavirus · 30/12/2021 19:54

Woohoo! Great job 👏

Waftypants · 30/12/2021 19:51

Well done JKR. What a woman. There are some great people on this list but she is by far my biggest hero.

G1nFizz · 30/12/2021 19:50

That's great! I also voted for JKR but tbf, reading that list, I could quite easily get behind most of the others on there too (I'm ashamed to say there are a few I hadn't heard of). It's a great list of people.

Campfirewood · 30/12/2021 19:46

Fantastic news! Well done all!

Gumbomambo · 30/12/2021 19:44

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4437942-To-think-the-Guardian-is-a-joke-re-JK-Rowling?msgid=113717222

Sorry I can’t ever make it copy properly on my iPad. It was one in AIBU that was about 13 pages long.

Gumbomambo · 30/12/2021 19:37

Please can someone post the link on the thread in chat that got loads of “it wasn’t a nomination” then got derailed with immigration stuff. Haha only joking! good on you JKR and for the first and last time this year well done the guardian.

KittenKong · 30/12/2021 19:30

@2Rebecca

I heard she actually got the most votes so they had to scrap having an actual competition but I can't remember where I read that
They asked people to nominate their ‘people of the year’ and a lot of people seemed to vote for her. The webpage was ‘deactivated’ (their words) without and warning, then there was discussion about if it was any type of competition or gathering copy for an article. Either way - no closing date and a sudden closure of nominations was a bit off.

So people on twitter had a bit of a laugh and declared her the winner, regardless of the guardian, and decided that since the truth seems these days to be ‘relative’ anyway, she was indeed the winner.

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 30/12/2021 19:24

Fabulous.

2Rebecca · 30/12/2021 19:23

I heard she actually got the most votes so they had to scrap having an actual competition but I can't remember where I read that

KittenKong · 30/12/2021 19:21

Interesting selection of people - not who I’d have suspected the guardian types to vote for. None of the ones I would have suspected.

nocoolnamesleft · 30/12/2021 19:20

Brilliant.

BraveBananaBadge · 30/12/2021 19:17

Ooh, "centring women and children" rather than "controversial anti-trans views", at last.

Great to see. Thanks to Michelle from Wiltshire! Let's hope it's staring to sink in.

ChateauMargaux · 30/12/2021 19:05

Well done Michelle! You did a good job!

And great to see that Ranboo made the list because he got a lot of votes on Twitter too!!

Isn’t it great that we have someone we can point to and say... She Speaks For Us!!

ErrolTheDragon · 30/12/2021 18:58

Good - I'm really glad they've come up with a good list inc JKR.

CouldBeHere · 30/12/2021 18:54

This is really heartening to see. The swell of public opinion.

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 30/12/2021 18:53

Hows their twitter looking?

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 30/12/2021 18:52

Great that they included her. They had to acknowledge this, so this seems the most sensible way.

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 30/12/2021 18:51

@TooWicked

Excellent, and congratulations Michelle of Wiltshire for having your reason for nomination published - you summed it up wonderfully!
It covers everything very well
Omicrone · 30/12/2021 18:51

Ha ha, brilliant!