Tell me again how JKR is the baddie?

The truth its that being "the baddie" has made JKR much more famous and rich than if the TRAs had shut the fuck up.

Can you expand on the mechanics of that statement@SerendipityJane

The truth its that being "the baddie" has made JKR much more famous and rich than if the TRAs had shut the fuck up. And that's the bit they really can't stomach.

Imagine being so fucking stupid that you empower your supposed "enemy". Because TRAs haven't (once again demonstrating that imagination is a function of intelligence).

Also JKRs work has become as embedded with childhood as Alice in Wonderland. Which must really sting, What culture defining literature have TRAs ever come out with ?

Mate, she wouldn’t notice whether you called her a baddie or not.

And the football manager you mentioned - was that not the same man who’d been trying to harass her long before she commented about him?

Yes.

I hadn't even noticed that she was away/hadn't posted. Yet somehow the TRAs who accuse HER of being obsessed are watching her every move and notice when she hasn't posted on Twitter and are gleefully making up horrible reasons why she hasn't posted. Such hypocrisy!

When she doesn’t reply for a couple of weeks because she’s on holiday it’s because she’s running scared but then when she does post she’s obsessed. She can’t win so there’s no point her even attempting to play the game. She’ll post as she wants - and this IS a case that needs highlighting. Putting men in women’s sports is putting women at direct harm.

And the football manager you mentioned - was that not the same man who’d been trying to harass her long before she commented about him?

JKR is a baddie because she couldn’t be cowed. TRAs have done pretty well at getting any dissenter to back away with their tails between their legs and issue a grovelling apology for holding any opinion that asserts biological sex is real and matters.

Enter JKR. She didn’t back down, instead she eloquently and carefully explained why she felt the way she did. But too late for the TRAs, she didn’t apologise and worst still, they couldn’t take everything from her as punishment for her saying no.

Nobody on this thread is particularly surprised by this. We all know that a woman having an opinion men don’t like is far, far worse than actual crimes men commit (you only need to look at the situations when TW do murder or rape and they’ll be posters telling women they are pure evil for not obeying the pronouns of said TW).

But JKR is public enemy number one because the more they tried to rip her to shreds, the more steadfast she’s become. And there’s nothing more enraging to these men than women they can’t force to submit to their will.

The unhinged reaction to JK Rowling is what opened my eyes to the madness of gender ideology. Nothing she's done deserves the hare and death threats she got. I didn't think too much about trans people before this other than feeling the few trans people seemed to subscribe to stereotypes more than other people.

When I saw the reaction JKR was getting I looked into it more and found this board and now see how awful the whole thing is

And i think she’s probably obsessed with womens rights 🤔

Not long ago she was obsessed with a trans football manager (who had done nothing wrong except exist), now she's obsessed with Imane Khelif

you’re obsessed with JKR mate, pot, kettle and all that

Where is DADjoke when the call arises?

She's the baddie because she tells the truth. And TRAs don't want the truth out there.

If vocal and powerful people hadn't started pushing back and holding the movement to account imagine what the Olympics would have looked like. It would have been the be kind Olympics with lots of brave trans women clutching their medals. Brave lia Thomas being heralded as the female answer to Michael Phelps

Khelif is taking action because of harassment on SM. JKR receives abuse and death threats and Khelif's supporters (and TRAs) are OK with that, obviously. You couldn't make it up.

she does seem rather obsessed with people who are either trans or don't meet her criteria of what a woman should be.

I know right! She just spent TWO WHOLE WEEKS obsessively ignoring them! And enjoying herself whilst doing it! What a bigot! What a transphobe. I heard twelve trans women died because of the lack of attention* And it's all JK's fault!

*This statement is a lie JKR has actually harmed zero transwomen.

I don't agree with you. I don't think that being determined is the same as being obsessed. Her position is very clear, and has been transparently outlined in the essay she wrote four years ago about why she was doing this. It's still there on her website and you can read it for yourself, which you should do if you really want to understand her. And especially if you genuinely want to play a more productive role in the discussions on this site.

or don't meet her criteria of what a woman should be.

Men, you mean?

JKR is the baddie because she lives in people’s heads rent-free and reminds them, just by existing, that the majority of people world over do not believe, comply with or accept their delusions…

JKR is the baddie because she is a woman who has opinions. And is successful.

I vehemently disagree with the feelings in those tweets. JKR is a fucking saint. But it says 'wish he was hearing' I think he's entitled to feel that way no matter how delusional we think he is. The tone is there but he doesn't actually threaten to kill her. I really don't like policing anyone's speech, I don't think that's something good at all. So I think we should allow people to speak that way even if we personally and all the good people we know wouldn't speak that way no matter how much we dislike a person.

It seems very clever to accuse her of deleting tweets? Because of this big thing where no one can find where she was transphobic, I think there is prize money unclaimed? Now an uninformed person will think the actual offensive tweets have been deleted but the tone of JKR twitterX is clearly woman's right (and therefore anti transgender rights) so it must be true shes transphobic evil witch who needs to be burnt

How do you figure that she is "rather obsessed with people who are either trans or don't meet her criteria of what a woman should be"? From what I have seen, I think it could possibly be reasonable to say that she is "rather obsessed with" the rights and needs of women, and that this sometimes leads to her making comments that may seem non-pandering unsympathetic from non-women-centered perspectives. I say tough; how many times do we normalize men and handmaidens being obsessively male-centered?

No idea re the nameless "football manager", but Imane Khelif is absolutely a legitimate (and huge) subject of discussion right now. If Rowling has been pointing out the negative impact to women of allowing men to participate in the specific sporting events that are reserved for women (BECAUSE women needed and fought for and gained the right to women-only events), then hell yeah it makes perfect sense that she tweets that. And the fact that tabloids retweet it isn't a negative (from a feminist perspective, mind - because this is a feminist board).

I would usually say "not my prob, go ahead" other than she could be putting trans women and other women at risk of harm with her tweets. Which are in response to situations which actually are, not "could be", putting women at risk of harm, such as males participating in specific sporting events which were previously reserved for women BECAUSE of the physical advantages given by male puberty, and because of the risk of harm to women participants.

btw where is her chum Bindel? Or is there a game going on where people go quiet from twitter so everyone guesses where they are? She's busy on the Ouija contacting feminists from the 1930s and 1940s, asking for advice about Sippenhaft.

Has anyone right minded ever said that is OK?

I wouldn't give her the satisfaction of calling her a "baddie", but she does seem rather obsessed with people who are either trans or don't meet her criteria of what a woman should be.

Not long ago she was obsessed with a trans football manager (who had done nothing wrong except exist), now she's obsessed with Imane Khelif.

a billionaire with 14M followers on twitter and almost everything she tweets is repeated by the tabloids, and this is what she chooses to use it for?

I would usually say "not my prob, go ahead" other than she could be putting trans women and other women at risk of harm with her tweets.

btw where is her chum Bindel? Or is there a game going on where people go quiet from twitter so everyone guesses where they are?

And also what Omlettes said!

A very rich and therefore quite powerful woman who won't bow down to aggressive males and their allies.
Really the worst kind of woman.
Even worse than the 'witches' of the 1600s, or the 'dungaree-wearing lesbians' of the 80s or the hysterical suffragettes (who in some cases were also wealthy enough to be tricky to deal with).
It's OK to have rich powerful men (and there is clear evidence is there not that much of this TR activism is bankrolled by rich men), not quite so OK when it's rich powerful women.
(by the way OP, I know u know this - I'm just so cross I needed a rant! It's all so clearly part of a classic male, corporatist, capitalist playbook. )