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As JK Rowling turns 60, John Boyne on why he stands behind the fearless author

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miri1985 · 27/07/2025 15:16

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books-arts/book-news/john-boyne-on-jk-rowling-as-a-writer-im-in-awe-of-her-achievements-as-a-reader-i-love-her-work-and-as-a-fellow-terf-i-stand-four-square-behind-her/a857888465.html

https://archive.ph/7FufV

John Boyne on JK Rowling: ‘As a writer, I’m in awe of her achievements. As a reader, I love her work. And as a fellow Terf, I stand four-square behind her’

In response to some negative remarks made by Stephen Fry in June, the writer JK Rowling stated: “It is a great mistake to assume that everyone who claims to have been a friend of mine was ever considered a friend by me.”

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books-arts/book-news/john-boyne-on-jk-rowling-as-a-writer-im-in-awe-of-her-achievements-as-a-reader-i-love-her-work-and-as-a-fellow-terf-i-stand-four-square-behind-her/a857888465.html

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DeanElderberry · 27/07/2025 15:52

Encouraging that the Indo was prepared to print that. Even six months ago they wouldn't have.

SeanMean · 27/07/2025 15:49

@MissScarletInTheBallroom
How do you do that?

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 27/07/2025 15:37

Treaclewell · 27/07/2025 15:35

I'd like to read it, but paywalled.

Click on the archive link.

Treaclewell · 27/07/2025 15:35

I'd like to read it, but paywalled.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 27/07/2025 15:26

For these perfectly rational beliefs, she has been pilloried by three distinct types of person: the middle-aged men who’ve been rejected by women all their lives and have now abandoned the real world in favour of taking out their frustrations on social media; there’s the young people, so indoctrinated by social media, that they fail to recognise actual misogyny and homophobia when they see it. And there are the grown women who are astonishingly complicit in their own erasure.

These, perhaps, are the worst group, but it must be remembered that for every Commander Waterford, there’s a Serena Joy standing behind him, ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her.

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