JKR asking similar questions to what I have been asking for years on here.

I would say you can make your own mind up sbout specific blokes. I think there’s a particular class of Tim that gets off on having women kowtow to him and having them publicly reprimanded if they fail to do so.

I don’t think it’s implied, and you seem to have missed this:

“That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?”

Can you give some actual examples of punching down? Please don't include snippy but funny replies to someone who was slagging her off first.

I think if you could manage a ratio of, oooo let's say 1 to 10 of JKR punching down to the selection of choice comments on https://terfisaslur.com/j-k-rowling/, or maybe 1 to 1000 vs money she's given away over the years, that would be a fair target to see juat how unreasonable she really is.

Then try the same ratio of snark to saint for some prominent and feted TRAs.

After all, you wouldn't hold her to a higher moral standard than other people would you?

What do you actually mean though by sneering or spiteful comments to vulnerable people? You mentioned one about asexual awareness day. Do you think asexuals are a vulnerable group? I don’t, and I think asexual awareness day is both silly and malign. How should I express that opinion without being accused of “punching down”?

Otherwise, I’ve seen JKR been rude on twitter to individuals who are rude and abusive to her and other women, and who seem to fall into the category that she’s describe as cross dressing heterosexuals with a fetish. Are they also a vulnerable group in your mind?

Both genuine questions, not attacks

Blimey.... I haven't seen Police Academy past number 2!

I'm quite happy to blame her for Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, which I only recommend to those who think Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach was robbed at the Oscars.

But I agree with pretty much everything she says above.

This is the problem with TRA, they force everyone to say a script, and anyone can be criticised for not sticking to it.

The script has moved on from TWAW, its now ensuring that prominent women are seen as having inappropriate views. If JKR was mentioned and he didn't take the opportunity to say he didnt agree with her, he'd get grief on twitter.

I suppose thats a lot of words for purity spirals.

"Her sneering, spiteful punching down comments against certain groups in society is not."

If I were someone who was keen to censure JK Rowling for her responses to male people who abuse her, I would consider how censuring her for her responses supported her abusers.

No female person should be expected to just absorb and ignore the abuse of male people. To expect this is continuing the abuse of the victim.

Edit: to add a relevant quote.

That's an interesting perspective, and not one I wholly agree with.

Is a cult leader responsible for the behaviour of their cult members? Is an influencer responsible for the behaviour of their followers?

I'd suggest that most of us can agree that human beings, collectively, really aren't very bright and often simply and blindly mimic those who influence them.

If you are a die-hard fan of a person of influence then it's a fair bet whatever that person says or does is likely to influence your own opinions and, perhaps, lend legitimacy to your behaviour.
Now, I'd politely suggest that if a person who has influence over you - as JKR has over many - makes comments that are pejorative then the chances of you mirroring those in your own life are high.

For the avoidance of confusion by some of in this thread, I will say again - and for the last time - that JKR's support for women and women's right is extremely commendable. Her sneering, spiteful punching down comments against certain groups in society is not.

Edit: Emboldened the salient point as it seems some people are astoundingly adept at missing the point when it doesn't align with their opinion 🙄

ooh.. well. If we are blaming her for shit she has 'imagined to be done', those sequels should be definitely included.

Ooooo bit of scandal someone from the film wanted to be in the tv series. Then turned on JKR after he wasn't involved. Who is it do we think?

Chris Columbus? Someone else?

J.K. Rowling

One of them tried very hard to enlist my help in getting a major part in it. Only after he didn’t get it did he decide it was time to put the boot in.

I do love you trying to preempt anyone disagreeing with you or having a reasonable debate, by labelling us as cult members, it’s rather a juvenile way to behave, if you don’t mind me saying, actually even if you do mind me saying.

’it's the nasty and, perhaps tellingly, spiteful, opinionated behaviour she often exhibits that creates such disapproval of - and opposition to - her.’ Opinions such as ‘people can’t change sex?’ I think you mean facts.

A woman having opinions that you don’t agree with automatically makes her nasty and spiteful, if I had a pound for every time a bloke has said that to me over the years 😂 if you want to take a look at who’s in a cult you might like to look in the mirror. It’s called the cult of misogyny.

I mean he's still not been forgiven for that scene in Home Alone 2 when Trump helps out Macaulay Culkin.

He practically got Trump elected.

She should have thought about how sad her comments made the cross dressing fetishists feel.

Now, when they are wearing womens clothes in public for fetishistic reasons, everyone will be looking and judging. Before this tweet, everyone loved the cross dressing fetishists.

I think it was a fairly brief bit where he just mentioned that he was "sad" about the whole thing and "disagreed" with her, without going into any detail.

It's possible he was saying the bare minimum necessary to avoid getting cancelled in Hollywood. I mean he's still not been forgiven for that scene in Home Alone 2 when Trump helps out Macaulay Culkin.

JKR is not responsible for the behaviour of ANY of the people who follow her.

My word, the irony of a poster suggesting that women can (and perhaps even do!) argue for men in women's prisons and rape crisis centres, whilst calling feminists 'useful idiots' for arguing against such things!

This happens with her a lot more than her die-hard fans would care to acknowledge

I hadn't realised she'd written the Die Hard films

I havent read/listened to the Chris Columbus interview, was there context to his 'love the art not the artist' comment?

I see that Incel School still haven't taught their students to use the quote button.

Having had Brian explain at tedious length why a male murderer of children merits the use of female pronouns, I look forward to him further pwning JKR by explaining why rape survivors don't deserve single sex peer counselling.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not deliberately missing the point here.

On that basis, if you re-read my post and think about it you will (hopefully!) see that I have no issue with - indeed, actively support - her work for us, our right to single-sex spaces, etc. My issue is that she repeatedly and demonstrably sneers at certain groups in our society. It's ugly, unnecessary, and unwelcome.

The problem is not her own, clearly embittered, opinion about certain groups of people; it's that her very public spite is absorbed my the less enlightened among her followers and that, in turn, becomes what I can only imagine is frighteningly aggressive ideological opposition to the rights of said groups.
Again, that kind of behaviour is ugly, unnecessary, and unwelcome.

I read it that as she's not mentioned trans people, she's referring specifically to the cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists.

I don't personally know if JKR thinks this description covers all trans people, I would guess not. She's obviously describing some trans people at least.

Blah blah blah

I know right? Why can't she take the moral high ground like the TRA Neo-Sexists do?

https://terfisaslur.com/j-k-rowling/

Oh. Awks.