JK Rowling called ‘Britain’s nastiest novelist’ in New Statesman

Thanks for being generous in response. I’m often slower on the uptake with sarcasm/irony due to being autistic (and probably a bit due to being stupid).

Nick Hilton and the other haters must be absolutely fuming at the news that the biggest-selling video game of 2023 was Hogwarts Legacy, which sold over 22m copies. It's almost as if trans activists are a tiny, obsessive, utterly lunatic minority, isn't it?

I know that 😆 Sorry, I should have made it more obvious. I thought it was really funny. I love it when she claps back.

Julie B in the Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/16/jk-rowling-nastiest-novelist-row-trans-activists/

https://archive.ph/salq7

Lots on here will be very familiar with the things mentioned in the article, but a few more Telegraph readers might get....a yen to climb a mountain.

Herbal tea anyone ? Very calming for those of a choleric nature.

Any Valerian tea for deep, deep sleep available?

Oops she did! Mind you, would a woman who cares so much about the autonomy and wellbeing of other women really be prepared to destroy another woman’s creativity and hard work in order to plunge a sharp instrument into the ear and brain of her detractor? I think not.

Miss Marple however, has a lovely English garden, containing according to season, daffodils, tulips, hellebores, yew, laburnum, foxgloves, aconitum, arum lilies ……… Herbal tea anyone ? Very calming for those of a choleric nature.

Utterly! Let's hope she keeps it up.

Exactly, although there has been a serial killer in history very similar to Buffalo Bill, his proclivities are just played up almost cartoonishly. Tbh I don’t doubt there was a little bit of JK who wanted to stand up to those who have been bullying her after two really quite objectively reasonable tweets and an essay including some very vulnerable disclosures about her history as a victim of DA and chose the way her killer would evade detection/lure victims would pretend to be vulnerable would be to disguise as a woman rather than use a crutch and I think fake cast or equivalent as another serial killer (the one who was supposed to be handsome and would lure girls into his car on the basis that he needed help) In real history did. However I don’t think it’s malice towards trans people. Whereas at least in the film there’s a definite sense that part of why buffalo bill is odd and dangerous is his cross dressing - tbh it’s most of it as he literally wants to wear a woman suit.

Apparently Nestofwalnuts it is on us to find evidence of that poster's assertions, they shouldn't be asked to do that kind of work. Make of that what you will.

Par for the course with Gender Ideologues though, make a claim and then when asked for evidence to back up that claim - tumbleweed.

Thomas Harris is the writer whose character the er people who don’t like Rowling get compared to rather frequently. Particularly those with dogs.

no one ever goes on twitter and says “ahoy there, you remind me of the man in the lady coat from that detective book”. No it’s all “all right bill, put the lotion on its body or precious gets it”.

so yes it seems very unfair that JK gets the tellings off.

Oh my god.

Did you not get the joke?

Evidence?

LOL. Oh he really does have his finger on the pulse, doesn't he? Bloody hell. How could anyone with an ounce of common sense miss the power of that story?

Surely nearly every other account on Twitter is smaller than JKR's

But I would expect quality

And noodle soft.

Whip round for a pack of little blue pills, anyone?

It’s an example of her responding with wry (and very British) humour and showing her haters that they aren’t getting her down. She probably hasn’t even bought a load of champagne, or if she has it’s a pittance compared to what she gives to charity and she’s allowed to anyway. It’s not like she joked that people had started cancelling even more of her work so she was going to squash a puppy.

I liked this exchange from a few weeks ago.

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Prawn would do well to remember that many of us have been on the internet for a long time and we have learned, often the hard way, that anybody can say anything about anything, but sadly it's not always true or correct. If you want to be taken seriously when you make serious accusations, you need to provide evidence, not just make wild allegations. This especially applies when you're making these allegations to people who are very well placed to check what you are saying, e.g. the millions of people who follow J. K. Rowling on X/Twitter, as I do. I checked her account last night. She is writing at the moment and she never tweets very much when she's writing.

I wonder if Prawn has problems recognising humour.

it is demonstrative of a woman who knows how to have fun. And how to stay on the right side of winding up idiots.

Is this an example of JKR being childish and bragging about money?

Well, there was that great response to the guy who asked her how she could so evil and so unfunny at the same time. That was magnificently, wonderfully childish. And there was the time she put down the person asking how she dealt with her increasing irrelevance and pending legacylessness and she did mention her royalty cheques. That's a matter of record. No bullying as far as I know, and I'm not sure what dogpiling is, but perhaps it has something to do with pets and carpets. She does I believe have dogs?

Isn’t it weird how JKR gets so much hate for (from what I understand) a male murderer using a female disguise in a lighthearted novel and Thomas Harris hasn’t caught any criticism (does anyone know the correct spelling of flak/flack? I was going to write it but wasn’t sure) over Buffalo Bill?! Who was actually modelled on a number of real people?

Just got to the tweet where she turned down a young man, Josh, demanding 'suck my dick, bitch'.

'Going to have to pass Josh. Last time I sucked something that tiny it got stuck between my front teeth. #irritating', she replied.

Is that the bullying, PrawnLiberationFront? Refusing to suck a strangers penis? Josh definitely wanted to be noticed by her btw, he sent his sexual demand in the form of an eye-catching sparkly, rainbow GIF.

Seen no money brags or arguments with teenagers so far...

He must be incredibly under-endowed.