“Heated Rivalry” author Rachel Reid on J. K. Rowling - “the bar is pretty high in how evil you have to be,” “ I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes”

Revelation after revelation about Epstein and his circle of rich powerful male buddies, systematically exploiting young women and doing as they pleased, but it's Rowling who's labelled "evil" for highlighting women's rights and child safeguarding.

Great, they real unhinged write amongst us.

It's even more nonsensical than that, because we can all see what most trans-identifying men actually look like, and there's very little to make anyone jealous there.

I suspect there is some very personal investment in this topic
by this poster. A similar range of arguments and the same link was used on a previous thread about JK Rowling not so long ago. I think it is heavy investment that we are seeing here.

“The premise of the thread is why JKR is considered evil. I'm simply explaining why. That you 'forget' this is indicative of your own bias not mine.”

This is another remarkable accusation. I haven’t forgotten the topic of this thread.

However, your posts are coming across as being incoherent as are your accusations towards other posters.

I actually read her words and have looked at her twitter timeline. You really seem more preoccupied by behaving as if you are some kind of righteous person who reads only the right content and nothing else than actually posting anything like factual evidence and coherently structured defences of your arguments that she is ‘evil’.

My experience with many militant GC adherents ...

I wonder how much 'experience' that adds up to and whether any of it is in real life or just as a keyboard warrior for the Omnicause.

Just by the by, but have we a definition of evil in the context of JKR?
I like to do post modernism properly 😉

They will often claim their hostility is because these are the product of sexual stereotypes imposed by the patriarchy but I suspect its more of an insecurity complex

I missed this classic piece of old school misogny.

It's on a par with 'feminists don't like page 3 because they are jealous'.

I have no problem with men presenting in a 'feminine' way i.e dresses, make up, long glossy hair etc. If that's their experience of themselves, that's fine. But if they tell me that is what a woman is or should be, then I would have a problem with it. Someone who is NOT something telling someone who IS that thing who or how they should be is definitely not alright.

Yes. Thats the one. Blooming women talking about problems in Iran while the men are off trafficking women and girls like heroes. Just pure evil.

Oh. Hang on. I didn’t check that the BBC article used any disclaimers so as not to portray anyone mentioned in the article as being representative of an entire population. Shame on me.

This Noam Chomsky?

Noam Chomsky advised Epstein about 'horrible' media coverage, files show https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9ykjlyv50o

I mean… Manufacturing consent seems rather an interesting phrase to use for someone demonising JK Rowling when Chomsky was defending Epstein. Almost like hypocrisy and blind tribalism.

Wasn’t Noam Chomsky one of Epstein’s best buddies? I’d assume his opinions on consent are murky at best.

Yes - also that JKR is weaponising women's rights just like the far right do.

Weaponising women's rights by setting up VAWG support facilities, supporting women in Iran and Afghanistan, pouring money which she herself has earnt into projects that support women, funding legal cases that support women. Etc.

Exactly like the far right do...

I thought it was Justine who was put in charge to sort out the Middle East.

I think that someone thought it sounded really good in their head. I believe ‘Manufacturing consent’ is a book written by Noam Chomsky about media being a propaganda machine. Which sounds like ‘informing the masses is a bad idea’ and ‘people are stupid and cannot make judgements on facts, even if those facts come from biased sources’ in many ways.

I've never heard of this writer, nor the TV series. I've also missed evil Bond villain JK Rowling having a direct line to Starmer and being a global player in Middle Eastern politics. Anything else I need to brush up on?

Indeed it is and getting harder all the time.

But it’s such a job to know who is ‘far right’, when left wing and right wing misogyny are so similar.

I expect that the answer will be that the women can protest all they want and risk being executed, that is their choice.

Any woman discussing that issue outside of Iran is ripe for the demonising and can only be considered a tool of western imperialism and fascism and white supremacy and must be far right.

Yep.

That is what is effectively being said.

She isn’t doing what some righteous people want, so they are calling her evil and wanting her to STFU.

So, just to be clear, @Aisha176 thinks that women in Iran shouldn't protest their treatment because a) the men are too powerful and b) it's bad for the economy. Is that it?

I'd also be very very wary of reposting anything from Gaza. The situation is incredibly complex and both sides are actively trying to fight a global propaganda war. I'd just about trust a BBC fact-checker, and they don't need JKR to amplify their voices.

Re Iran. An accurate and succinct precis of the viewpoint of Aisha and their cohort runs thus:

The Iranian theocratic regime is hostile to Israel, therefore a paragon of virtue in the eyes of adherents to the Omnicause, and so anyone who criticises the Iranian regime is an evil fascist.