Harry Potter actors sign trans pledge after Supreme Court ruling

Apologies if I misread you, @Gettingbysomehow .

I think people are getting mixed up on this & that @Gettingbysomehow is actually talking about the TRAs - people who campaign for men in dresses.

This makes no sense. Why join a franchise when you disagree so fundamentally with its creator who has a large influence over each and every entry into the saga? They are essentially working for JKR and they do this. I know she isn't going to fire them, but I wouldn't blame her if she did.

Sheez, people get let go over ill-advised TikTok's. I would argue that this is a degree worse.

So go and campaign for those things, why are you wasting time here if it's so trivial?

Yes agreed, we’re always accused of being transfixed (pun intended) on this issue when there are other things to be focussing on but no one ever says the same to TRAs who want to land-grab women’s rights

So many people love to tell women what to do with their time.

It's extraordinary.

Fortunately some women don't give a fuck and can do what they like

Bloody hell why are people so obsessed with trans rights. I can think of hundreds of more important rights to campaign for rather than men who pretend to be women.
The homeless the housing crisis, the degeneration of the NHS, rascism.
But no men in dresses are more important apparently.

All her responses are spot-on. I mean, I know transactivists generally leave a massively open goal, but the way she handles it, with witty articulation, and really pricking their balloon by not giving a fuck, is brilliant.

I loved it when they said they were burning her books, and she said, well I've still got all the royalties and offered to lend them her lighter.

They are so used to trying to shame women into guilt, and relying on their socialisation, that when she revels in success, money, nicotine and booze, they implode.

She malfunctions her arse off 😁

Ironically, she’s TWAW.

If she had simply identified as a boy, back in Pakistan, she would have been grand; the Taliban would have let her go on her merry way.

Great response.

Re Paapa Essiedu

J.K. Rowling
I don’t have the power to sack an actor from the series and I wouldn’t exercise it if I did. I don’t believe in taking away people’s jobs or livelihoods because they hold legally protected beliefs that differ from mine.

Exactly why she keeps winning.

I've wondered this too. My guess, and that's all it is, is that while I respect and am grateful to him, she might not like the way he sometimes expresses himself. He's also taken a firm stance on the Israel/Gaza war and maybe that's not something she wants to bring into everything else.

But who knows. She can acknowledge and ignore whoever she wants.

I'm curious too.

Yes, but Rowling has confirmed it wasn’t some kind of stunt!cigar, she is a[n occasional cigar] smoker.

I really hope she gives up said habit; but she’s a grown woman who is cognisant of the risks involved so it’s slightly less than none of my business 🤷‍♀️

It’s a reference to 80s adventure series The A-Team.

JK Rowling tweeted it with the comment ‘I love it when a plan comes together’ - that was main character Hannibal Smith’s catchphrase & he always said it while smoking a cigar.

I know. I cried my eyes out when she died! My fondness for her is why I watched the terrible Channel 4 thing. (I think it was supposed to be a comedy, but, much like Mae Martin's terrible comedian character, it wasn't very funny.)

(As a random aside, JK, please stop smoking cigars, it’s really bad for you : unless it was ironic?)

You think people should be fired for signing a petition you personally agree with? That seems like a slippery slope.

I think I already said this but she makes me cringe so much, so much that it's worth saying twice.

The other rone who annoys me is Hayley Atwell, I remember her swanning about somewhere in the Middle East promoting, I think, Mission: Impossible and of course waited until she was safely back in the UK before posting all over social media about gay pride. Very few of these people have got the courage of their convictions on many issues and so them signing a letter in this vein is meaningless as far as I'm concerned.

Charlotte Richie was fab in Call the Midwife. Damn. Another name to add to my huge growing list of people I've lost all respect for.

I'd be more impressed if they'd all signed or set up something to help all men feel safe in the men's toilets.
Anything else, I think, is just idiots spouting off and not helping anyone.

I know people who donated to trans charities to "offset" the fact that they bought Hogwarts Legacy.

Twats.

I can’t remember where I saw it first but some TRAs said him signing it was like carbon offsetting 🤣

Because they have as much right to an opinion as anyone else.

OK, so we know what some people who Do Pretending think on the matter

have people who Do Operations published a letter? or people who Do Building Houses? and if not why not? I demand to letters from all professions! or maybe what actors think about politics is of very little interest and they should probably stick to talking about Doing Pretending.