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JKR on Twitter, a thank you.

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MummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking · 08/03/2022 21:24

Today, on International Womens Day, it's been rather depressing seeing all manner of organisations throw in a quick lip service tweet, only to be pulled up by that bot on their sex pay gaps. Then a vagina museum essentially goad women by doing a big thread about celebrating some people that don't have vaginas. A police force pissing off women too, and then removing the tweet with a post telling us all to "be kind". The hashtag that popped up in the middle of the day, telling women what the right kind of feminism is: the intersectional aka everyone kind.

Basically the general shite we've all come to expect because we can't have one flipping day to ourselves.

So, I would like to say, thank fuck for JK Rowling. Who has stormed in from yesterday and continued today at her magnificent, no holds barred and no shits given best. It's made it an IWD to remember.

That is all. Happy IWD Grin

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bonfireheart · 10/03/2022 12:01

Skye being face of IWD, is like Paul O'Grady being asked to be the face of IWD

Whatiswrongwithmyknee · 09/03/2022 23:49

@teawamutu

I feel slightly sorry for Skye, being used as a political football. Slightly.

I'm afraid I don't, not one iota. Skye chose to occupy a woman's space and is a repeat offender.

Any man who considers themselves a woman is part of the problem. Transwoman OK. Woman not OK. Men can never be women and IWD is not for them. To showcase them in this way shows just how much people don't get what discrimination against women actually means.
Tiphaine · 09/03/2022 20:22

@Hasselhoffsheadband

Yes, which police force was it?

It was the Staffordshire Women in Policing account (yep, really). Both offensive tweets have been deleted now.

JKR on Twitter, a thank you.
Tiphaine · 09/03/2022 20:13

@vivariumvivariumsvivaria

I think that eventually a little sprinkling of Magdalen Berns gets into us all.

"Who am I? I'm JK Fucking Rowling"

Love this!

beastlyslumber · 09/03/2022 19:26

I love JKR so much, it makes me cry a little bit! She's such a fucking hero.

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 09/03/2022 18:32

@Janeaustensquill

I love the idea of InternationalJKRowlingDay and vote that we celebrate it on her birthday 31 July.
BRILLIANT!

Yes please.

AFAIK all you have to do is start tweeting a hashtag and say it's a "world day of celebration"? There's not a process.

I'm in.

I'll send her a birthday card too.

You know how Richard Herring spends all IWD batting off "when's International Men's Day"?

Can we also have a hashtag "when's InternationalKatieMontgomeryDay?"

The reply to both questions is, of course, "19th November"

Pretty, pretty, pretty please?

Artichokeleaves · 09/03/2022 16:50

At this point I'm far more interested in a JKR day than I am in an IWvirtusignallingmalecentricdayfullofpicturesofmalesandnooneknowswhatthedayisaboutanywayD.

Although I'd give it five minutes before it is largely all about pictures of men standing shoulder to shoulder making odd hand signals for no apparent reason.

Janeaustensquill · 09/03/2022 16:20

I love the idea of InternationalJKRowlingDay and vote that we celebrate it on her birthday 31 July.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 09/03/2022 15:51

That sounds goady as fuck. I bet some misogynistic men in the force had a good old chuckle about that.

It very much came across that way.

Thewindwhispers · 09/03/2022 15:45

I love Joanne Rowling 😍😍😍

ScreamingMeMe · 09/03/2022 15:10

@Musomama1

My DH works in the police and from everything I hear, these are not the brightest minds.

Plus a lot of showboating on gender woo i.e. declaring pronouns to get promotions. Tweet might be lip service.

The Stonewall Effect.
Musomama1 · 09/03/2022 15:06

My DH works in the police and from everything I hear, these are not the brightest minds.

Plus a lot of showboating on gender woo i.e. declaring pronouns to get promotions. Tweet might be lip service.

ScreamingMeMe · 09/03/2022 13:52

Ding ding ding. They must have known what reaction it would get, and they did it anyway.

They then removed the tweet, tweeted about the fact they had done so, and told us all to be kind

That sounds goady as fuck. I bet some misogynistic men in the force had a good old chuckle about that.

teawamutu · 09/03/2022 13:51

I feel slightly sorry for Skye, being used as a political football. Slightly.

I'm afraid I don't, not one iota. Skye chose to occupy a woman's space and is a repeat offender.

ScreamingMeMe · 09/03/2022 13:51

@Ereshkigalangcleg

And I feel slightly sorry for Skye, being used as a political football. Slightly.

I guess I'm a bit more cynical about how Skye feels about the attention.

I draw the line at feeling sorry for Katy Montgomerie though! Unpleasant, manipulative, fake person imo.
MummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking · 09/03/2022 13:49

@babyjellyfish

Staffordshire Police maybe?

They showcased Skye Morden (trans woman famous for being in their publicity photos wearing a bad wig and pointing a taser at the camera) for IWD and lots of people asked whether all the actual female police officers were unavailable etc.

Ding ding ding. They must have known what reaction it would get, and they did it anyway.

They then removed the tweet, tweeted about the fact they had done so, and told us all to be kind 😒

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Maray1967 · 09/03/2022 13:41

Well said JKR 👍

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 09/03/2022 13:34

I think that eventually a little sprinkling of Magdalen Berns gets into us all.

"Who am I? I'm JK Fucking Rowling"

FloatOn · 09/03/2022 12:58

Thank you so much JKR, stunning tweets yesterday spelling out exactly what every rational person thinks.

The TRA loons losing the plot is a bonus! Keep up the good work, sunlight is spilling through now...

babyjellyfish · 09/03/2022 12:57

Any chance of a link, would love to see that and the comments.

They seem to have taken it down.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 09/03/2022 12:53

And I feel slightly sorry for Skye, being used as a political football. Slightly.

I guess I'm a bit more cynical about how Skye feels about the attention.

Cailin66 · 09/03/2022 12:49

@babyjellyfish

Staffordshire Police maybe?

They showcased Skye Morden (trans woman famous for being in their publicity photos wearing a bad wig and pointing a taser at the camera) for IWD and lots of people asked whether all the actual female police officers were unavailable etc.

Any chance of a link, would love to see that and the comments.
ScreamingMeMe · 09/03/2022 12:48

@babyjellyfish

Staffordshire Police maybe?

They showcased Skye Morden (trans woman famous for being in their publicity photos wearing a bad wig and pointing a taser at the camera) for IWD and lots of people asked whether all the actual female police officers were unavailable etc.

After the backlash last time they posted about Skye, that was really taking the piss. And I feel slightly sorry for Skye, being used as a political football. Slightly.
Ereshkigalangcleg · 09/03/2022 12:42

Yes SP definitely posted a #BeKind tweet re Skye Morden as pp said.

babyjellyfish · 09/03/2022 12:40

Staffordshire Police maybe?

They showcased Skye Morden (trans woman famous for being in their publicity photos wearing a bad wig and pointing a taser at the camera) for IWD and lots of people asked whether all the actual female police officers were unavailable etc.