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J.K Rowling's Position

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middler · 05/10/2025 21:20

I am not a regular on these boards but I am aware of the controversy over J K Rowling's position as I have encountered so many young people who have become very hostile with me if I do not show that I do not go along with them in their views that she is the equivalent of a racist in her attitude towards racists. I try and stay neutral and not declare my views but that is not enough for them. They want tos ee you express the same vitriol that they have so they can be assured you are on the same side. I find it so anti democratic frankly.

Privately I was relieved with the British ruling that means trans women who may well still have a penis and all the bad actors who could then take full advantage of a law that allowed transwomen into women only spaces, are not allowed to access those women spaces. I appreciate that most transwomen just want to go about leading their daily lives identifying as women and using women spaces is part of that and they have no ill intent. But many do not have bottom surgery and so yes they still have a penis as do the men who can just wake up one day and say they identify as a woman and start using those women only spaces and not have good intent? What am I missing? Why don't the younger generation see this and get that it is a huge risk to women? Do they think that there will be no bad actors? I just do not get it. The law is not to punish transwomen. It's to protect women.

I am not without sympathy for transwomen who genuinely feel uncomfortable going into male spaces. I appreciate that they identify as female but I just feel it's a conflict of rights and that you cannot sacrifice the right of women to feel safe in a women only space so that the smaller % of transwomen do not feel uncomfortable. Safety trumps comfort.

I personally would not react to a transwoman being in a female toilet but then I am aware how do I know it is a genuine transwoman and not a bad actor so I appreciate other women not being comfortable.
Maybe we need additional gender neutral toilets in this day and age.

But when this topic comes up with many younger people I can tell that the fact that I do not join in with the hatred for JK Rowling, that it puts me in the pro JK Rowling camp and I do agree with her support of ensuring that law got passed.

I am not so sure about the comments she made about kids not being trans as I think some kids as teens do seem to think they are in the wrong gender, maybe not in the large numbers that we are seeing today but clearly some people do feel they were born in the wrong gender and as a society I think we do have to support them without sacrificing the rights of an other group.

Rowling has never expressed hate for transpeople as far as I am aware. I do think she can be provocative in how she expressed her views and that is her choice but I just do not understand how the younger generation claim she is the equivalent of a racist but with trans rights? The language they use about her is so strong and I really try to avoid conversations about her because it has become so divisive- it is hard to find a millennial who does not agree with Emma Watson's viewpoint.

I am not 100% up to date with all Rowling has said but what has she said that is so bad that the younger generation have such deep hatred for her? I am just trying to understand it better and be ready to respond to the vitriol I get from younger colleagues when it comes up as it does seem to.

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MrsOvertonsWindow · 09/10/2025 08:04

I see Howie is using this thread to share his remarkable range of anti semitic, homophobic, anti safeguarding and misogynistic views. Quite the performance this morning

As @FortheloveofPetethePlumber has pointed out:

"..it's pointless trying to use objective reason with someone living in an alternative reality where all unwanted facts and evidence are invisible, and it's pointless trying to convince a misogynist to permit women any rights.."

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 08:03

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:57

Sorry, this doesn’t make sense. What gender stereotype do I maintain?

Have we moved on from you stumbling around posting links you haven’t read that you didn’t realise don’t say JKR is antisemitic like you thought it did?

You just like everyone else would distinguish women from men by gendered stereotypes in practice because you would rarely know for sure another's 'biological' sex status.

And don't waste my time telling me you can 'tell' because you can't.

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:57

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:55

Says the person who maintains gender stereotype & doesn't know it…

It's not only that you can't comprehend basic social categorisations but that you can't even recognise your own culpability in them. Gender critical ideology argumentation is like watching a blind man drive a car…'but but men in dressessssss'

Sorry, this doesn’t make sense. What gender stereotype do I maintain?

Have we moved on from you stumbling around posting links you haven’t read that you didn’t realise don’t say JKR is antisemitic like you thought it did?

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:55

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:48

Says the person who thinks humans can change sex 🤣🤣🤣

Says the person who maintains gender stereotype & doesn't know it…

It's not only that you can't comprehend basic social categorisations but that you can't even recognise your own culpability in them. Gender critical ideology argumentation is like watching a blind man drive a car…'but but men in dressessssss'

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:55

There’s another book I’d wager you haven’t read and don’t know where it’s from.

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:50

eatfigs · 09/10/2025 07:46

So when are you going to address your own antisemitism?

Yeah & how do square that? Identifying jewish tropes is 'antisemitism' now?

2+2 = 5..

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:48

Says the person who thinks humans can change sex 🤣🤣🤣

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:47

BundleBoogie · 09/10/2025 07:45

YOU are the only one drawing parallels between goblins and Jewish people.

I think you are projecting. If your ‘argument’ is reduced to purely dog whistles you have no argument. Maybe go chat with the dogs, see what they think.

Uh huh, a hooked nosed 'goblin' who controls alll the money….

Denial of reality is text book cultism.

eatfigs · 09/10/2025 07:46

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:38

Um, pictures speak louder than words.

Of course they didn't directly accuse her. Madam 'freedom of speech' is lawyer trigger happy.

All her accusers took a lesson out of her own dog whistling playbook & let the trope speak for itself.

So when are you going to address your own antisemitism?

BundleBoogie · 09/10/2025 07:45

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:38

Um, pictures speak louder than words.

Of course they didn't directly accuse her. Madam 'freedom of speech' is lawyer trigger happy.

All her accusers took a lesson out of her own dog whistling playbook & let the trope speak for itself.

YOU are the only one drawing parallels between goblins and Jewish people.

I think you are projecting. If your ‘argument’ is reduced to purely dog whistles you have no argument. Maybe go chat with the dogs, see what they think.

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:43

“Slipping”. Based on false accusations from 2022 and earlier? This is your brand new information? You amaze us all. How do you stay so on top of rapidly changing current events?

Fake Surprised Season 8 GIF by Friends
Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:42

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:40

Are you quite well? You don’t seem to be able to piece together your argument properly. It’s descended (started from?) to place of “it’s the way she said it” which is quite immature. Can you do better? Maybe have a lie down and a think and come back to us.

Oh dear, someone's having trouble accepting the queen's mask slipping…😂

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:40

Are you quite well? You don’t seem to be able to piece together your argument properly. It’s descended (started from?) to place of “it’s the way she said it” which is quite immature. Can you do better? Maybe have a lie down and a think and come back to us.

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:38

eatfigs · 09/10/2025 07:34

Note that the article carefully avoids quoting any of JK Rowling's words, instead relying on insinuation that the HP goblins must be an "anti-Semitic caricature" without even attempting to argue or demonstrate it.

Despite that, the author eventually concludes that JKR isn't actually antisemitic. So if that in particular was the point you were making by linking this article, then we can agree.

Um, pictures speak louder than words.

Of course they didn't directly accuse her. Madam 'freedom of speech' is lawyer trigger happy.

All her accusers took a lesson out of her own dog whistling playbook & let the trope speak for itself.

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:36

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:33

Can you point to what part of using well worn anti semitic tropes of big nosed greedy controlling jewish bankers isn't anti semitic?

Can you point to the part that says JKR is anti-Semitic? It might be after the part where the author says he doesn’t see evidence she is anti-Semitic. Maybe point it out for all of us.

eatfigs · 09/10/2025 07:34

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:26

Please do point to any contradictions, you have the floor!

Note that the article carefully avoids quoting any of JK Rowling's words, instead relying on insinuation that the HP goblins must be an "anti-Semitic caricature" without even attempting to argue or demonstrate it.

Despite that, the author eventually concludes that JKR isn't actually antisemitic. So if that in particular was the point you were making by linking this article, then we can agree.

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:33

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:30

Can you point to the part of the article you linked to someone on Medium that says JKR is anti-Semitic?

You don’t seem very sharp. Are you ok?

Can you point to what part of using well worn anti semitic tropes of big nosed greedy controlling jewish bankers isn't anti semitic?

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:30

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:26

Please do point to any contradictions, you have the floor!

Can you point to the part of the article you linked to someone on Medium that says JKR is anti-Semitic?

You don’t seem very sharp. Are you ok?

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:26

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:24

Did you read the article you linked? I don’t think you did. Why don’t you click on it and read it.

Please do point to any contradictions, you have the floor!

NotBadConsidering · 09/10/2025 07:24

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:20

Shooting the messenger?

Deny, deny, denial….

Did you read the article you linked? I don’t think you did. Why don’t you click on it and read it.

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 07:20

Shooting the messenger?

Deny, deny, denial….

eatfigs · 09/10/2025 07:16

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 00:44

Ahhh, the sound of cognitive dissonance when your hero's mask slips….

https://medium.com/the-radical-center/is-j-k-rowling-anti-semitic-f9f21fb04707

Do you outsource all your views to poorly-argued blog posts? Put some effort in to your arguments, please.

Helleofabore · 09/10/2025 04:23

“It's no more a threat to warn someone that if they run across a busy road they might get run over than it is to notice that violently oppressing people will end up in violent push back. Facts aren't threats. Normal people find them useful as a way to mitigate predictive damage.”

I see. So women saying ‘no!’ to a group of male people who demand to be treated as something they are not, have been warned of the consequences of their actions. Drivers can be reasonably be said to accidentally harm someone crossing the road unpredictably, do you feel that male people cannot be responsibly expected to not respond to hearing that they shouldn’t access female single sex provisions with threats and violence?

Thank you for the analogy, it is again very illustrative.

So too are these:

“ You find the same sort of derangement from extremists every time police warn women to take care that a serial rapist is in their jurisdiction. 'How dare you!'

I suppose warning children to take care not to get in a strangers car is some sort of attack on their freedom too?

I mean, do you even recognise the hypocrisy of warning 'mean words beget mean actions' & following up with 'how dare you warn me not to use mean words because they will end in mean actions'. “

Thank you for warning women that if we exclude male people from doing what they want to, we should expect threats and violence in return. It is the inevitable end point.

Thank you for warning us that we should not expect male people who feel oppressed by legitimate exclusion to act appropriately.

You have done such great work in enlightening me today that, indeed, I should accept the consequences of my own actions of acting so irresponsibly by putting a male person in the position where they could not reasonably be expected to act with respect.

And of course, using the statements you have made today and yesterday, I see now that women must have provoked those responses by male people in the links provided, if not directly than indirectly. I can see that any women being abused, assaulted, threatened must have provoked it. If they didn’t personally provoke it, they belong to a category of people who did provoke it so therefore the reaction is inevitable.

Thank you for enlightening me.

Helleofabore · 09/10/2025 03:43

“Yeah, as you've repeatedly been told its called 'not sneering at trans people as dangerous mentally ill sexual predators who don't have a right to self determination'.”

Thanks for confirming what you, personally, call women saying , ‘we need our single sex provisions to remain single sex’.

Howseitgoin · 09/10/2025 03:33

Helleofabore · 09/10/2025 03:02

And still you are leveraging the atrocities of the situation between Israel and Palestine.

Just like you told us that if women didn’t allow male people into our groups, then male people wouldn’t know how to treat women with respect.

Your point of mentioning it is vile.

Your point can be simulated as below:

Women, you saying no to these male people will lead to their retaliation! Just saying!

Oh… no! I am not saying you would deserve it…. Just that this is where your denial of their access to your provisions will lead to them acting this way!

No Howseitgoin, you cannot explain away your leveraging of the situation between Israel and Palestine. You have done it, and we can see you have done it. You use of it was another act of misogyny and intimidation, amongst other things.

“But that's not all they are saying. Dehumanising & demonising rhetoric”.

oh! You mean women saying ‘we need our single sex provisions to remain single sex’ is dehumanising and demonising? Is that because women saying that are rejecting that any male should be treated as if they are female, which they cannot possibly be?

So, tell us, is there anyway that women can say, ‘we need our single sex provisions to remain single sex’ without it dehumanising and demonising those male people who a say they are female?

Perhaps it is just saying ‘we need our single sex provisions to remain single sex ‘ will always be dehumanising and demonising? Is that it?

We can think it, but we must never articulate it. Is that what you are saying? Just as was admitted in the Allison Bailey trial and in the NHS Fife trial.

Please suggest how women and girls can say ‘we need our single sex provisions to remain single sex and exclude all male people’ without it being considered dehumanising and demonising.

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"And still you are leveraging the atrocities of the situation between Israel and Palestine.
Just like you told us that if women didn’t allow male people into our groups, then male people wouldn’t know how to treat women with respect.
Your point of mentioning it is vile.
Women, you saying no to these male people will lead to their retaliation! Just saying! Oh… no! I am not saying you would deserve it…. Just that this is where your denial of their access to your provisions will lead to them acting this way!"

Look for threats everywhere & you'll surely find them. Pathologically viewing the world only thru the lens of intimidation is textbook tunnel vision. IE Being unable to comprehend patterns that produce predictable outcomes with out associating it to some internalised fixation of being 'manipulated'. It's no more a threat to warn someone that if they run across a busy road they might get run over than it is to notice that violently oppressing people will end up in violent push back. Facts aren't threats. Normal people find them useful as a way to mitigate predictive damage.

You find the same sort of derangement from extremists every time police warn women to take care that a serial rapist is in their jurisdiction. 'How dare you!'

I suppose warning children to take care not to get in a strangers car is some sort of attack on their freedom too?

I mean, do you even recognise the hypocrisy of warning 'mean words beget mean actions' & following up with 'how dare you warn me not to use mean words because they will end in mean actions'.

"So, tell us, is there anyway that women can say, ‘we need our single sex provisions to remain single sex’ without it dehumanising and demonising those male people who a say they are female?"

Yeah, as you've repeatedly been told its called 'not sneering at trans people as dangerous mentally ill sexual predators who don't have a right to self determination'.