Blue hair:Tick. Rant against JKR: Tick

She can't know much about JKR if she doesn't know about the death threats "enough to paper my house with". So obviously not taking up much brain space. Or perhaps she has limited brain space?

She seems like a self righteous machine

The fact that I know what Cathy O’Neill thinks about anything is a waste of my brain.

Ironic really that her book seems to be about how outrage is manufactured to shame people and she’s using the outrage manufactured to shame JKR and keep her quiet to sell said book. Without even having bothered to research properly into what JKR actually said, and the response to what she (is accused) of saying 🙄

I thought it was just me, I couldn't engage with her answers at all, blah blah shame blah blah shame, social shame blah blah, very dull.

You have to hand it to her though, she has found another stick to beat people with, which is pretty good going considering how many people beating sticks there are around these days - very hard to find a new one. Then extra kudos to her for utilising that stick herself by getting all shocked about other people using it, writing a book and making money from it…….

( excuse me while I wander off into the woods with a little axe to see if I can find my own money making stick)

All nonsense - she wrote a whole section on JK Rowling but 'didn't know' about the death threats

I couldn't make sense of most of what she said - you know that thing where really smart people make everything simple and clear. Thats not happening here

Ironic isn't it

Thinking it's not a waste of people's brains to read an article or her book with her denigrating JKR, after saying she thinks it's a 'waste of her brain' to even know what JKR thinks, after putting a section about JKR in her own book.

Her research can't have been very rigorous as she claims not to know JKR receives death threats! Unless I misread.

She uses the term “Karen” in that article so for that reason alone, (in the words of Duncan Bannatyne), I’m oot

What a load of old shit. Good on the interviewer though, he didn't let it go!

She completely misses the fact that most shame is internal; we feel ashamed when we know we are doing something wrong. Someone else cannot make me feel ashamed of something that I genuinely think is acceptable. If a jewish or muslim person tried to shame me for eating bacon, I would just laugh. It's their rules, not mine, so I don't feel anything.

Also the way that she says that shame is a tool used to try and make people "behave well" with respect to a social norm, but then also says that this is generally inappropriate to do. Because whenever I challenge social norms it's good, necessary in fact, but when JKR supports the idea that only women should be in the women's changing room, thats bad.

This is all just special pleading to validate her own desire to shame others, while rejecting shame for anything she disagrees with. In short, she loves shame she just hates that she can't make up her own rules and apply it solely to benefit herself.

Imagine being so incoherent that even a Guardian journalist can see it...

I read that article twice, and I still don't really understand what she's talking about.

I saw that too. Interestingly, the interviewer really pushed her on the JKR point and then moved on to cancel culture, so I think he thought it was nonsense.