The Uncancelling of JK Rowling

@hotdiggetydog you seem to have missed the entire reason why a female writer might feel the need to use a male pen name.

Have you heard of a thing called gender stereotypes? Has it occurred to you that they can be particularly damaging to women?

No she doesn't. She took a pen name to write some. I don't know why she chose Robert Galbraith, but does it matter? So did the Brontes. And George Eliot was Mary Ann Evans. Lots of authors change name or just use initials. Get over it.

That's one of the funniest things I've ever read on here, and I re-read the screaming at the Sistine chapel thread the other day.

Bashes trans people but pretends to be a bloke when writing some of her books.

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oh please, are you 12?

Bashes trans people but pretends to be a bloke when writing some of her books.

Pleased to see its been published in NZ after our terrible media coverage recently!

i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/300855208/new-harry-potter-tv-series-signals-the-uncancelling-of-jk-rowling

No I agree, was just pointing out that JKR and KJK have quite different views

Really pleased to see this and to see balanced journalism. The tide is turning, common sense will return. And the attempts of some on this thread to cast JKR as "anti-trans" rather than as a Boudicca calming speaking out for women's rights, is just a bit pathetic really. Women won't wheesh and all that.

I am very very happy to read this. Thanks OP.

Its just such a massive obvious thing to understand - you can't change sex - it's unsurprising that people of every persuasion subscribe to it
It's not something that needs years of education to understand, its a fact about the world you acquire during early childhood. It boggles me that this is being denied, just imagine explaining to anybody since the beginning of time up to less than ten years ago, five even, that important high up people, doctors, politicians, are supposed to believe this

@AdamRyan not everyone has to agree on everything, women are allowed to be difficult. PP has been great for the GC movement and that’s enough - it’s impossible for everyone to share the same views all the time, that’s what “no debate” demanded and it shouldn’t be a requirement ever.

Are you on the right thread, TaylorMia? You seem to be mixing up JK Rowling with Posie Parker.

But 'gay men and trans women have been invited into the women's room by female friends' -- that's really inconsiderate of those 'friends' if so. They can't consent on behalf of the other women in there, to whom these men are strangers.

I enjoyed that too

And I can disagree with lots of feminists about different issues, but we should be able to discuss without resorting to abuse. Because we are adults and that is what adults do.

She's triggered by calling a trans woman a she/trans man a he etc. If you think the concept of being trans is a bad thing, then there's no point in insisting you don't have a problem with it.

Shes not 'triggered'. Please try not to use nonsense words when people simply don't agree with you.

Dylan Mulvaney. King (not Queen) of Tampax and sports bras. Yuk! I'm not buying anything associated with him and ask others not too

Posie Parker wrote one of the very few comments that made me wince and think "that's not OK" back in the day when she was a MN poster and not a campaigner.

I don't think suggesting her and JKR have similar views is true or helpful.

I do think Posie has been great for the GC movement but she definitely has "a side" and I think that's why so many feminists find her difficult.

If its a farce let trans people just drop the whole issue so, we can go back to single sex spaces

It's really heartening to finally see that mainstream media recognises that Rowling is the sensible voice of reason, while groups like Mermaids are 'controversial'.

Mermaid's statement was obviously batshit. I think the public is very much waking up to the fact that the ridiculous talk about suicide carries about as much weight as the talk of boycotts.

“That’s a very online conversation."
What a brilliant put-down! I shall have to remember that one.

She's triggered by calling a trans woman a she/trans man a he etc.

No, she just thinks it's nonsense. She's not "triggered". She doesn't have PTSD.

Actually I just believe that no one changes sex. The words she, woman, female, girl, apply to sex. I don't find it triggering, just ridiculous to pretend otherwise.

I think that’s how the BBC has referred to PP, too.

Maybe some people have actually taken the time to read what she wrote instead of blindly following the loudest crowd of sheep 🤔