This thread is specifically for people who think JK Rowling is awful so..

She’s a divisive social media provocateur, and whether it’s an issue I largely agree with - like hers - or people like Andrew Tate or Katie Hopkins, anyone who is terminally online hunting down things to be offended by and posting provocative statements or photos, I find a bit pathetic.

Good points 👍

It really does seem like that sometimes 'illtempered'.

The double standards are startling once you see them.

He chose for the TRAs to take his wife and family away from him?

I don't think so.

I think that raises a deeper problem and strategic issue, which is that it seems obvious to us when misogyny is happening. So, surely, Something Will Be Done.

Not so. What happens is:

Women don't fight back: nothing to see here, all is well, or

Women fight back: burn the witches.

GI is such egregious woman-hating bollocks 🙁

ETA someone mentioned the TRAs uploading porn to her thread for children's pictures. Things like this do not get reported on the BBC. So it's always the women who look aggressive.

You had problem with her not doing any work in the area of child poverty, and when posters told you that she has been doing exactly that and more, you are leaving the thread.

Why don’t you say you don’t like her speaking for women rather than spreading misinformation?

That was his choice, he surely didn’t do it in order to garner affirmation from her?

Have you heard of Lumos?
https://www.jkrowling.com/lumos-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-year/

She helped to stop our justice system putting rapists in women's prisons. The fact you consider that a miniscule issue says a lot more about you than it does about JK Rowling

I agree. She's a woman who won't be quiet and some people just hate that.

Maybe have a look at her website to see what she does
www.jkrowling.com

I largely agree with this. I think she’s smart, brave and I’m incredibly grateful for how she has used her voice to fight for women’s rights. But am becoming uncomfortable with some of her more recent tweets / blogs eg the review of Sturgeon’s book which was personal and vicious.

Usually she uses her articulateness for well reasoned arguments that show good sense, but I feel it’s lately being used as a weapon to mock individuals or indeed whole groups, rather than problematic ideas of some within that group.

@ThatCyanSheep "miniscule" are you for real!
She is an extraordinary woman, a philanthropist who has genuinely made a difference, but more- she's a woman who speaks up and won't be shut up. I like that. 👍

I admire JKR but I do agree with this post

I wonder how many of these people address all these important issues with their elected representatives? Of which JKR is not one. But I suppose it’s just easier to blame everything on a woman who stands up for herself and other women isn’t it?

i agree. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the best way to deal with the detractors, is to take the piss out of them. And she does it so well.

I see where you going with this post OP. As you can see though, there is so much misinformation posted about JKR that posters who support her will rightly feel the need to respond to it.
I think the fact that no one has managed the collect that million pounds on offer if they can prove her transphobia, tells the full story. Not saying that people can’t dislike her though but I’ve yet to see an actual reason for it.

Then some of these same abusive men tried to claim that she “ignored child abuse” because of their own dick pics on a thread read by children! Breathtaking DARVO.

I think standing up for 50% of the population is a pretty good way to spend your time and money. Especially when as thanks for her efforts she is threatened with rape, burning and hanging.

( she supports a lot of children's charities and health care charities too, but that is often ignored)

She's basically stopping the UK at least from buckling to gender fictions through her inconvenient truth bombs and women should be grateful to her. I am. I absolutely don't want to detract from all the incredible women who are fighting this, but her reach is pretty powerful.

We're lucky she gets so involved.

Off putting to whom? Men pretending to be women? You might want to take a look at the amount of people who agree with her, versus the amount of people who agree with those prominent male activists who mistakenly believe they can get the better of her, the ratios are simply astonishing.

Those people who feel they cannot be honest about this subject in public take heart from her stance on this issue, they are grateful that someone of her intelligence and integrity can use her voice for them. Her detractors simply don’t like her fact based, well researched, reasoning on this subject, but mostly they don’t like the fact that she’s a woman, she’s rich, she’s self made and is so much cleverer than them.

Ah we’ve had the ‘but there are other problems!’ line already. Women just can’t care about more than one issue at the same time eh! Fuck setting up charities and rape crisis centres and flying women out of Afghanistan when folk aren’t getting their bins picked up. Care about more important things 🙄.

You may not like her communication style (most people do), but you can hardly think it's counter productive?
She has done a terrific job of raising awareness to these issues.

She earned the wealth through her talent. What are you doing towards child poverty?

I remember.

Men sent dick pics directly to her ickabog threads.

But apparently, she should do nothing about it.