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

Okay. You don’t need to be, because I hold my beliefs and you hold yours. For what it’s worth, I don’t know where I sit on the entire trans thing but I think I lean more towards the views held on this board. I just find it sad when anyone with great wealth becomes like this.

Ahhh. So yes. She should just turn the other cheek so to speak.

She should allow male people who constantly abuse her on social media to continue to do that, because that is the bar of standard of behaviour you feel she, personally, she aspire to. Just ignore the abuse, and it will go away? Right?

Except she did ignore the abuse, it didn’t go away.

Or is it that she should just ignore the abuse regardless because she should just absorb all of it? Is this the expectation for all abused people then? Or just her?

I admire her charity work but dislike her social media presence because I think people with huge reach and influence who engage in petty smackdowns of people they disagree with is not a good look. Does she ever post about anything else?

Exactly. Just because somebody doesn't agree with you there is no need to act superior. J K Rowling is very divisive. She has managed to fall out with the main actors the Harry Potter films. I've got got friends whose views I don't agree with and they don't agree with mine.

I think that her getting a bit salty or triumphalist does play into TRAs' hands. But, fuck it, I enjoy it. Let others be Patient Griselda.

She doesn’t owe him anything, she gets to choose who she interacts with whether she agrees with them or not.

I will bite. I dont like her because she comes across as she thinks her opinions are worth more because she is rich and a successful author. Compare her tosomebody like Val Mcdermid who comes over as a really down to earth and nice person. . That hasn't got an inflated ego because of success.

Fighting for the rights of half of all the people on the planet tends to make people a bit obsessive, as does wanting to protect children from a nonsensical, harmful ideology.

I don’t know if you know much about the history of women’s rights, but they are always under threat, and some of us would rather fight to hold onto them, than blithely hand them over to men pretending to be women.

I never said she was embarrassing. Other people have labelled me as that.

I saw a really good post on here a few weeks ago about how there are much, much more pressing issues facing us. Our NHS being stripped, children living in poverty, the cost of living crisis. Things like trans people, the “boat people” etc are used by politicians as a diversion tactic to hide that they’re not doing anything to address the actual issues.

I don't think she is awful at all. I think she is clever, witty and can be very subtle. I love her books, she has used her money to rescue an area of natural beauty and environmental importance near me. I just dont have to agree with every thing she does. She probably wouldn't like me putting milk in with the tea bag before adding the water. You dont have to hate someone to dislike something that they do.

This thread seemed to be started in good faith and the op merely asked for reasons why people don’t like her. It’s disappointing that some responses are mocking posters who don’t know of JKRs philanthropy. Yes, some posters will hate JKR because she supports women’s rights but others had reasons that can be refuted with measured facts.

I think that her getting a bit salty or triumphalist does play into TRAs' hands. But, fuck it, I enjoy it. Let others be Patient Griselda.

I'm not Graham, but you know that.

I take it that you don't agree she's deliberately ignoring him for some unknown reason?

It's starting to come across as cruel and intentional at this stage.

She could just block them. She has huge power on social media and I don't think she uses it well. She increasingly comes across as an obsessive crank. That's my opinion, feel free to disagree.

You couldn't be more wrong about Val McDermid. I have rarely met a more arrogant person convinced of her own Rightness In All Things.

She could just block them. She has huge power on social media and I don't think she uses it well. She increasingly comes across as an obsessive crank. That's my opinion, feel free to disagree.

I will bite. I dont like her because she comes across as she thinks her opinions are worth more because she is rich and a successful author. Compare her tosomebody like Val Mcdermid who comes over as a really down to earth and nice person. . That hasn't got an inflated ego because of success.

She’s not your Mum, Graham.

So, she should just ignore the people who target her with abuse and only take the high road in your opinion?

Should all women just respond to abuse in this way? Or just her?