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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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ShowerOfShite · 09/03/2022 10:16

JKR is an absolute fucking legend.

SilverOtter · 09/03/2022 10:16

JKR is my absolute hero🙌🏼

SnowFoxWinterFox · 09/03/2022 10:14

Bloody love you JK. x

teawamutu · 09/03/2022 10:13

@Ereshkigalangcleg

Completely agree. She's actually awesome. And her timing, after enduring the annual cock-haver-inclusion-fest that IWD has become in recent years, is perfect.

So much this.

Yet another reason I love her: even with her anger and passion shining through, her interventions are timed and calibrated with scalpel-like precision. She makes headlines and she uses the power brilliantly.
Datun · 09/03/2022 10:10

@FunnyTalks

Thinking about the other thread on the slogan "break the bias", I think JKR is a bias barometer.

The bias against women is currently so high that even a woman as demonstrably a good person (& socialist) as JKR can be consigned to the "bigot" heap by people who claim to be progressive /kind /left wing /intelligent and who have probably not even bothered read what she wrote.

This.
Ereshkigalangcleg · 09/03/2022 10:08

Katy Montgomerie telling her to 'grow up you absolute loser'.

The irony.

Datun · 09/03/2022 10:08

As for that person asking her is this the hill she wants to die on? Why on earth wouldn't you??

Watching politicians wang on about women and then being too scared out of their fucking wits to actually define what it means.

The realisation that they actually won't do it is horrifying.

And then some twat asks why you really care that much??

She will be going through, what we've all been through, and be madly, lividly, mind blowingly fuming.

I can't think of a single other woman with the power, reach and articulation that she has, who is speaking up.

She is unique.

And this is her legacy.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 09/03/2022 10:06

Completely agree. She's actually awesome. And her timing, after enduring the annual cock-haver-inclusion-fest that IWD has become in recent years, is perfect.

So much this.

FunnyTalks · 09/03/2022 10:03

Thinking about the other thread on the slogan "break the bias", I think JKR is a bias barometer.

The bias against women is currently so high that even a woman as demonstrably a good person (& socialist) as JKR can be consigned to the "bigot" heap by people who claim to be progressive /kind /left wing /intelligent and who have probably not even bothered read what she wrote.

Gumbomambo · 09/03/2022 10:03

Snaps for Jo ❤️.

SirSamVimesCityWatch · 09/03/2022 09:51

@SpinningTheSeedsOfLove

Mine went through the stage of rejecting my boring old mum feminism in favour of the fun rainbow cool-kids kind, but they began to see through it when they got out into the world a bit more.

My DS was the same. He has been out of university now for a while, and is working. Not only has he done 180 degrees on gender ideology, but has apologised to me for 'falling hook, line and sinker' for the rot promulgated online about JKR.

That is incredibly heartening. Nothing like a bit of real world experience to open your eyes.
SpinningTheSeedsOfLove · 09/03/2022 09:50

Mine went through the stage of rejecting my boring old mum feminism in favour of the fun rainbow cool-kids kind, but they began to see through it when they got out into the world a bit more.

My DS was the same. He has been out of university now for a while, and is working. Not only has he done 180 degrees on gender ideology, but has apologised to me for 'falling hook, line and sinker' for the rot promulgated online about JKR.

ChristmasAtHogwarts · 09/03/2022 09:45

If you’re on here JKR thank you for creating the book series of my childhood, I was the same age as Harry when the books came out. And now you’re fighting for the women who grew up with your characters. Thank you thank you thank you.

Chrysanthemum5 · 09/03/2022 09:43

[quote Linguini]Unfortunately this pile of bilge has shown up on my feed....
Whoever you are Samantha Bergeson, consider yourself dumped.

www.indiewire.com/2022/03/jk-rowling-transphobia-international-womens-day-rant-1234705640/#respond[/quote]
@Linguini that article merry shows how reasonable JKR is - nothing in it shows hatred of trans people. So the author hasn't scored the goals she obviously thinks she has.

And I was furious at the 'identifies as a sexual assault survivor' slur in the article - are we not believing women when they tell us of abuse? Is it ok to imply JKR is lying because her views differ to the author?

Jackjack0962 · 09/03/2022 09:40

@BoodleBug51

I am in awe of her.
Yes me too. #teamJKR ❤️
Sexnotgender · 09/03/2022 09:40

She’s the absolute queen.

Every post she makes is total gold.

WinterTrees · 09/03/2022 09:39

@DaisyTheUnicorn

She is truly awsome. I hope she lurks on Mumsnet and can see the support she has here x Sadly I realised yesterday my daughter is no longer as feminist as she once was :( School culture has a lot to be desired.
Give your daughter time and space to come back, and keep up gentle reminders of why feminism is needed more than ever, and why it should centre actual women.

As you say, it's the prevailing culture in school and it's tough to go against that when you're a teenager and you just want to fit in. Mine went through the stage of rejecting my boring old mum feminism in favour of the fun rainbow cool-kids kind, but they began to see through it when they got out into the world a bit more.

SelfPortraitWithPterodactyl · 09/03/2022 09:35

Yes, she is utterly magnificent. What a woman. THANK YOU, if you're reading this!

Also very funny. Grin

SpinningTheSeedsOfLove · 09/03/2022 09:35

I know it hasn't been JKR's style to sue those who libel her for defamation, but I'm starting to wonder if she's now pondering it.

Given that she's likely give any award(s) to charities like Lumos, it would be a rather interesting way of getting some of the more vicious misogynists to help women and girls for once in their stunted lives.

I admire her for being so calm under pressure.

TinaYouFatLard · 09/03/2022 09:30

I ❤️ JKR

She truly is a beacon of blazing light in the darkness.

teawamutu · 09/03/2022 09:27

@Hasselhoffsheadband

I'm loving the TRA reaction to this as well.

Katy Montgomerie telling her to 'grow up you absolute loser'.

Aidan Comerford still flogging that single tweet of a dead woman as a way to discredit JKR (he rolls it out at least once a week bless 'im) and comparing JK to Jimmy Saville.

Joss Prior quoting literary character descriptions from The Casual Vacancy thinking that it says something personally about JKR.

They've got nothing. The are just grasping at anything. She is pure class, she giveth no fucks now, and they just don't know how to handle it!

Monty: sez.

Comerford: obviously blocked me ages ago, which means I can no longer affix that little YouTube clip of his tasteless song about being a lady to every tweet shitting on MB. Is anyone else doing it?

Joss P: assists the GC cause with every tweet. No further questions.

Linguini · 09/03/2022 09:24

Unfortunately this pile of bilge has shown up on my feed....
Whoever you are Samantha Bergeson, consider yourself dumped.

www.indiewire.com/2022/03/jk-rowling-transphobia-international-womens-day-rant-1234705640/#respond

BoodleBug51 · 09/03/2022 09:22

I am in awe of her.

SirSamVimesCityWatch · 09/03/2022 09:19

Oh I'm sure she's a Mumsnet lurker.

DaisyTheUnicorn · 09/03/2022 09:18

She is truly awsome. I hope she lurks on Mumsnet and can see the support she has here x
Sadly I realised yesterday my daughter is no longer as feminist as she once was :( School culture has a lot to be desired.

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