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In my honest opinion JK Rowling is...

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LittleWhingingWoman · 04/04/2022 21:37

The TRA religion are at it again prompted by one of the Witchfinder lackeys and his now deleted tweets.

Well so are we.

In my honest opinion, JK Rowling is brilliant, wise, beautiful. A protector of children, a Shield-maiden for women. She has shown more bravery and grace than the cowards around her. She never bows to their rape and death threats. She's probably the safest person around children that I can imagine. Especially the vulnerable and confused young people who have been persuaded by social media that they have been born in the wrong body and who have been encouraged to amputate body parts and take unnecessary and dangerous medication.

She's the definition of courage.
She is Lady Lionheart.

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Waitwhat23 · 05/04/2022 14:23

Pogo sticking dinosaur for fun

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 05/04/2022 14:20

She's a legend.

Tiphaine · 05/04/2022 14:19

Out of interest, what did the 'cringiest thread evah' posters expect to see when they read the title and opened the thread?

Waitwhat23 · 05/04/2022 14:18

You want to see cringy? Go check out Ribbony Feartie's Twitter page - it's amazingly fawning, over a man in a sub rate soap who likes to harass women and has had to subside into silence because of his ill thought out comments.

Anyway!

Tiphaine · 05/04/2022 14:14

She's glorious. Her intervention was a game-changer and she irrevocably altered the trajectory of the debate around whether women exist as whole human beings, or are nothing more substantial than fifties stereotypes and a special feeling some men get.

Good storyteller too.

QuirkyTurtle · 05/04/2022 14:07

I love Harry Potter and JK Rowling, they are my childhood.

But this thread is the cringiest thing I've ever read.

nauticant · 05/04/2022 13:58

Imagine if someone had told you this at the Millennium:

In a couple of decades many politicians, political parties, institutions, companies, the universities, charities, the police, the NHS, and the rest, will claim to believe that a man can become a woman simply by stating he is, and will attempt to re-order society to comply with this belief, and one of the few people with any influence who will stand up to resist this will be a middle-aged woman who had become a (dollar) billionaire through writing books for children.

Fact can be stranger than fiction.

Artichokeleaves · 05/04/2022 13:58

She truly is a bloody patronus. Doing much the same job, boggart-wise.

We are down to the nuts and bolts now: women having rights (or even mentioning wanting rights) is incompatible with the TQ+ agenda.

I'll take that as there being something fundamentally wrong with the agenda, since I can see exactly why women refusing to shut up about their rights and hand them over to male people are obviously not evil.

Truthlikeness · 05/04/2022 13:56

Incredibly brave and principled. Courage calls to courage everywhere.

ScreamingMeMe · 05/04/2022 13:51

[quote Waitwhat23]It's turned into pogo stick appreciation now 😆

mobile.twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1511321447075098628[/quote]
Ha! She's awesome.

Waitwhat23 · 05/04/2022 13:49

It's turned into pogo stick appreciation now 😆

mobile.twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1511321447075098628

Waitwhat23 · 05/04/2022 13:45

I was just laughing at that - quite a lot of very baffled Americans wondering what on earth a space hopper is (the American equivalent appears to be Hippity Hop and they sell them in gas stations apparently)

BlancheB · 05/04/2022 13:43

JKR is able to articulate what the rest of us (most of us) haven't been able to say in public. Crazy times!

Thank you for speaking out on behalf of women and girls everywhere CakeBrewSmileit means so much!

nauticant · 05/04/2022 13:37

JKR's latest tweet is fine, very fine:

twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1511317833203990535

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 05/04/2022 13:28

@RufustheFloralmissingreindeer

I reeeaaally want to report the cult posts

I am being soooooooo good

I feel I am maturing as a person…JKRs good influence no doubt

Grin
JoodyBlue · 05/04/2022 12:55

@GoodJanetBadJanet - they might, if you really put yourself on the line for your principles. Perhaps adoration is one of the things you deal with when you actually stand up for something eh? Something has to counterbalance all the sh*t you get.

BordoisAgain · 05/04/2022 12:54

@RufustheFloralmissingreindeer

Seems we are allowed to use the cult word on this thread….weird
Strange what gets deleted, isn't it...
BordoisAgain · 05/04/2022 12:52

@GoodJanetBadJanet

bet your friends have real issues writing your birthday cards, i bet they have to stick with to janet love your friend Grin No, just if they started saying I was a fucking queen, a legend they're in awe of, ovaries of steel, a gem, etc etc I'd be like WTF, you alright, hun?! '' Grin
Lol
RomeoOscarXrayIndigoEcho · 05/04/2022 12:51

How do I love her? Let me count the ways:

I loved her first for what she did to inspire a love of reading in the children of this world.

I loved her also for being the catalyst of so much creativity in others

I loved her second for her inspiring philanthropy

I loved her third for her defence of the concept of sex, her defence of children, her defence of women's rights and her defence of trans people too

I loved her fourth for her bravery in the face of so much hate

JKR = total Shero.

JoodyBlue · 05/04/2022 12:48

@BunnyBerries

Lumos.

Women and girls worldwide were in the dark feeling unable to speak and she bravely stood up and gave them all the word for light. Instantly they knew that they could hold up their own wand and when they stood together, they could not be ignored.

It’s also the name of her charity for children and I can think of no more fitting word.

She also rocks a cape.
Love all your books Jo : )

@BunnyBerries - I love this.
Fimofriend · 05/04/2022 12:32

The TRAs think we are going to bow down to them. They underestimate women. We will never give up.

Torunette · 05/04/2022 12:30

In my honest opinion, JK Rowling is a new Boudicca.

All she needs is a bit of woad and a chariot with swords on the wheels.

latetothefisting · 05/04/2022 11:23

@JoodyBlue

She is the person who made "the choice between what is right and what is easy" and came down on the right side, entirely to her own detriment and for no other reason than standing for truth. She is immense.
Yes this. I also think of the bit in PS where Dumbledore gives Neville house points because it's harder to stand up to your friends than your enemies. It's easy to be "good" when all the "nice" and "kind" people in your echo chamber agree with you, it's really hard when the people you'd usually agree with on lots of other things/side with politically denounce you - that shows real bravery and determination and conviction.
LiesDoNotBecomeUs · 05/04/2022 11:09

JKR - is a woman who makes you proud to be a woman.

bellinisurge · 05/04/2022 11:01

A legend