In my honest opinion JK Rowling is...

So much of this crap is based on alternative facts and alternative realities. And a lot of laziness in actually reading and thinking and forming an opinion instead of importing one from someone else who may or may not have an agenda and be speaking the truth.

I successfully got my DNeice to actually read what she actually said..

That's a huge step. My usually highly discerning son was bitching about JKR but when I asked if he had read what she had written, admitted he hadn't. The vast majority of her haters haven't bothered to read her original message, the very fair, trans-supportive but equally women-supporting opinion piece that sparked all the death and rape threats and de-platforming and rejection by the actors made stars by her work.

I wonder if they prefer not to read what she wrote so they can continue to fuel their own hatred. If they actually read it, they'd see what an astonishingly measured, thoughtful and compassionate piece it is, towards trans people as well as women.

I ❤️JKR.

BUT if I had a criticism… hell yes to this

my god would you please write a bit faster woman I need more Robin!!

I only got into Strike at Christmas. (Thanks to FWR discussions)I’ve read everything twice now.. TWICE. And preordered the new one…

Cmon cmon….

MaryLou don't underestimate what you are doing.

I could never imagine then that JKR would be my adulthood.

This thread isn't 'cringe' it's born from the vitriol of Twitter, it is a phoenix.

A brave and principled woman who is using her earned wealth and her visibility to do good.

A genuinely brave and inspiring woman.

The current space hopper/pogo stick tweets are brilliant - not because they are particularly hilarious in themselves, but they just show how few fucks she gives about what people think of her now.

Like, at the beginning of this, when she first 'came out' as GC, I'm pretty sure most TRAs and woke bros were expecting an almost immediate apology, with promises to 'educate' herself, and that she is 'always learning' and how she is 'so sorry for the hurt that she caused' blah blah blah. That immediate apology didn't materialise, even when the 'criticism' got very heated, even when she started receiving threats of violence. Then, with each new tweet, you could almost hear the scratching of heads from the TRAs and the beards - like, why isn't this woman shutting up? We are telling her she is awful, we are sending her threats, we are telling her that she is not being kind.

They have tried discrediting her, making her guilty by association, have taken her tweets out of context to imply she is 'a danger to children'. They have been scraping the bottom of the barrel and scratching around in the dirt for any tiny morsel of shit that they think might stick.

And now, I think the penny is starting to drop that this woman is not done, she is not going to shut up, and in fact she is going to laugh at those who criticise her and take the piss out of them. That there isn't anything they can throw at her that will stop her defending women and children.

If JKr decided to start a political party, I'd vote for her and it.

She's wonderful!

She is a wonderful, generous and brave woman. If we had a Presidential system and she announced she was standing for election I'd vote for her in a heartbeat.

Perhaps we should encourage her to set up a new political party with her as the leader.....?

I quit the teaching agency I was with ( and a long term teaching post) because I was told to use gender not sex.
I was hauled before the female HT for explaining in class the difference between sex and gender.
With new agency now but I’d take the loss of earnings over the last month again just to prove that I know what a woman is and I will not lie to pupils.
Love you JK and so does my DD who is 8 and knows what a woman is.

She is amazing and I have nothing but respect and admiration for her. I consider myself a trans ally, and nothing she has said has been anti trans, she is just pro women.

She is admirable and brave. She spoke up because she understood that many of us could not, given the social ostracism and perhaps even loss of livelihood that speaking publicly for women today can cause.

She pointed out that the seat at the decision-making table the trans ideology wants is already taken by women's rights, and when she offered the trans ideology an empty seat to pull up, they refused and continue to attack her for not letting them vacate that women's rights chair.

She didn't have to do all this or to then suffer the vitriol aimed at her. She didn't do this for selfish reasons, and she is certainly not benefiting from it financially. But it was the right thing to do, and by taking a stand she has made it easier for others to do so.

@domesticatedzombie 'is it, aye?' gave me a wee laugh as it made me think of Kevin Bridges' 'did ye, aye?' sketch.

Sorry, that gif posted twice!

A fucking marvel.

Wrong about spacehoppers though. They were great!