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

I love the picture of her with a cigar and whiskey (?) and it gave me a laugh.

The Hallmarked Man comes out in a couple of weeks, can't wait! 😁

The cigar post was a reference to the A- team! Which to be fair younger people might not get. However, it was a response to the Supreme Court ruling. are you saying you wish woman did not mean adult human female in the law? What word are we going to give this group of people then?

Yes: she spends ALL her time on social
media & absolutely none at all writing the 4 weighty tomes of the Strike series she’s published since 2020, setting up the charity Beira’s place, having oversight of the Hogwarts game development & the forthcoming Netflix series, being a wife & mother & occasionally hanging out on her massive yacht.

You’re entitled to your own opinion, of course.

But not to your own facts.

When the facts contradict your opinions, you show us all what your opinions are worth.

Here’s bra man again, this time continuing to attack the Polari prize. They wanted it gone and now it has gone they’re still bullying them. You cannot ever appease these people, that’s why you should simply ignore them and refuse to bow to their threats.

Me neither, I don’t talk about bras, I don’t watch Love Island and I don’t call my friends ‘the girls’. Maybe I am a man after all.

£200m?

What £200m??

But it's not just on Twitter, is it? She is constantly defamed and denigrated all over social media, not to mention the real-life death threats and the extraordinary and unashamed hatred posted on placards at 'trans rights' rallies. People who have never read a word of her well-reasoned and thoughtful essay on transgender stuff are consumed with hatred for her. Never has someone been so vilified for publicly expressing the view that people should be free to live their best lives but shouldn't encroach on the rights of women.
At least on Twitter there are many who aren't afraid to express their love and support for her and maybe that's why she stays there, bringing strength and joy to so many of us who've endured the same vilification for the same reason - just on a smaller scale. What seems obsessive, petty, or spiteful to you, comes across as incredible tenacity and humour to many of us.
At the end of the day, she's only human, yet unlike those who've chosen to take offence at her refusal to be cowed by relentless bullying, she has never once publicly wished harm on her detractors.
Long may she continue inspiring those of us who need her example to keep fighting.

increasingly obsessive, petty and/or spiteful

Can you give some examples of this?

I broadly agree with JKR on trans issues, admire her incredible rags to riches story, and love Harry Potter wholeheartedly.

However, I think she has allowed "Twitter" to poison her significantly. That place tends to do that to people, and I think public figures would do best to avoid it. I can understand why she would be angry about the abuse she's received, but her posting has become increasingly obsessive, petty and/or spiteful, and it's just really not a good look. I find it quite embarrassing, to be honest. The gloating cigar photo was cringeworthy and (ironically?) lived down to her enemies' portrait of her. I wish she would get off Twitter ASAP, and stick to publishing well-reasoned and thoughtful essays via her website, as she started out on this issue. I think she really needs to take a step back at this point.

With the greatest respect to the OP - despite proclamations of acting in good faith etc., I for one am not buying it.

To start a thread asserting that if one does not agree with a flawed premise, they should not bother posting, is entirely cynical.

Leopards & spots comes to mind.

She's a rich and powerful woman who gives zero fucks, and people don't like that because women 'aren't supposed' to be rich, powerful and independent.

That is basically it, as far as I can see.

The communication of that purpose was poor, and also misplaced. This forum is not where you would expect to find a gathering of Rowling 'phobes' is it?

To be honest I think your thread starter was a bit 'mangled' and maybe unintentionally provocative and it also came across as being uncertain of its purpose. It semed to alienate most who post on this forum. It was as if you were uncertain of your audience. The people who might take major issue with JK Rowling are not the natural demographic of this forum, and those that are the natural demographic you requested that they didn't post.

How do you know how much time she spends on social media? I go on Twitter once a day for about five minutes, the rest of my day is spent doing a wide variety of things. What makes you think she sits all day staring at social media?

Well I never. It’s the same for all of them.
But we all know the MN advanced search is rubbish.

You are kidding, aren’t you? You think women’s rights is a minority, fringe issue??

Rowling has set up Beira’s Place to support women who have been sexually assaulted. She has funded a centre for multiple sclerosis research. She has funded women to escape from Afghanistan. She funded Lumos 20 years ago, and Volant.

Read more here: https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/feature/article/jk-rowling-interview-2025-philanthropy-wk6hhcfc0

Sodding hell. Fashion, makeup, Love Island and coming out for a coffee "with the girls". (I could make some obvious personal comments about several of those stereotypes and how they do or don't apply to Willoughby, but I am trying to rise above that)

I fail on fashion, make-up and Love Island for a start. And I never ever go for coffee "with the girls", I go for coffee with my friends. Two of them this morning, as it happens. But we aren't "the girls", ffs.

I don't think you can look at JKR's amazing red carpet outfits and not realise she has "fashion" locked down; she looks superb. I have no idea her feelings about makeup or exploitative reality TV, nor do care. I'd have given my eye teeth to win the meal out with her because she seems a bloody good laugh.

But none of that makes her "typical" of the British woman. She isn't, she is exemplary, not the norm.

As for what she has in common with British women... I think being both British and a woman helps, and Willoughby stumbles on that second hurdle.

In the object of fairness I should point out it coffee with the girls rather than cocktails.

But seeing as I don't do that either, I still fail the woman test 😭.

@PestoHoliday hope this works

Aiden Comerford AT aidenctweets
On Mumsnet, the social media forum where "gender critical" women discuss things, there are over 2500 threads of public discussions about bras

Oh dear.

He thinks this is an argument.

How many threads on domestic abuse, mortgages and awful MILs?

This will always be one of my favourites.

James blunt is also epic at it. Hope he published a book of his troll responses one day.