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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

On The Sad Passing of Dolly Parton

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GreenFinchAndLinnetbirds · 28/08/2026 15:59

J.K. Rowling mourned Dolly Parton, then deadnamed a trans woman under the same post. Dolly’s fans did not hold back.
Rowling has spent years using her platform to harass and invalidate transgender people.

Dolly Parton spent decades making LGBTQ people feel loved.

After Dolly died, Rowling began praising her online, calling her Imagination Library “the best contribution to child literacy ever made by a celebrity.” She said they crossed paths once backstage at a talk show in the 90s, and she was “tongue-tied and starstruck.”

The replies quickly filled with the Dolly she left out.

In 2005, Dolly wrote and recorded “Travelin’ Thru” for Transamerica, a film centered on a transgender woman.
When North Carolina passed its anti-trans bathroom law, Dolly said she hoped everybody got the chance “to be who and what they are.”

When Tennessee was targeting trans people in 2023, Dolly said trans people could not help being trans any more than she could help being Dolly Parton.
“I know and love them all, and I do not judge.”

Rowling was still in the replies.

She answered British trans activist Dame Katy Denise by deadnaming her and saying she had seen her birth certificate.

When another user said she and Dolly had nothing in common, Rowling replied that “neither of us want Jolene to take our man.”

Dolly once put it this way: “We are all God’s children and how we are is who we are.”

There is a further article of the right-thinking world's reaction to Rowling's... characteristic behaviour here: https://www.out.com/celebs/jk-rowling-dolly-parton?mrfcid=202608266a8c32408240c960826a25ab

J.K. Rowling torched for tone-deaf tribute to Dolly Parton: 'A new low'

The transphobic Harry Potter author was slammed for her social media soliloquy by fans of the iconic ally.

https://www.out.com/celebs/jk-rowling-dolly-parton?mrfcid=202608266a8c32408240c960826a25ab

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Summerlovingtheraspberries · Yesterday 14:20

Dominoodles · 28/08/2026 16:15

Cool. Are you also shaming the people responding to her telling her she should have died instead, or staying that Dolly was a 'trumper' and so nothing of value was lost?

Or is all your ire saved for someone you've already decided you don't like, even when she posted a kind and very heartfelt tribute to a wonderful woman?

Is making the death of a lovely person about your own politics and the fact that you hate someone else really more important than honoring the actual death of a genuinely kind and generous woman?

And yet you call us cult members.

True.

lifeinthelastlane · Yesterday 14:17

I'm not unstanding this at all. Other than the tribute JKR posted, what did she do to annoy anyone on twitter about Dolly? (Other than existing)

BoreOfWhabylon · Yesterday 14:14

Oh dear, OP.
Do you really think that Dolly Parton, of all people, would not know very well that no one can change sex?
She'd also, I feel sure, be able to spot a crossdressing man at 100 paces. And she would never countenance drugging and mutilating children.

Away back to your seedy incel bedroom. Creep.

PrancingPanda · Yesterday 14:05

Not getting the 'chair poverty' thing

But I do have some spare chairs, which I'd swap Dr Dame Katy for an autographed pic 'cos she's an absolute icon and is also stunning and brave.
Go Dr Dame K-D

😡at so called intelligent people (Cambridge academic et al) calling JKR 'transphobic'
Change the bloody record

PriOn1 · Yesterday 13:42

FlirtsWithRhinos · Yesterday 11:40

Gonna disagree I'm afraid. There's plenty of funny memes and in jokes in TRA-land as well. The hardcore "make everything I don't agree with illegal" bunch not so much, their humour tends to just be bullying and abuse, but the mass #BeKindAndDontThinkAboutTheInherentInconsistenciesAndSexism lot are just people who've lost their way a bit on this issue.

Can you show us some please? I’ve only ever seen bitterness from transactivists, attempting humour and failing, but of course those are the ones I’m shown from sex realists. It would be nice to know there’s a lighter side.

ArabellaScott · Yesterday 13:02

testmatchspecial · Yesterday 10:57

When JKR puts down the Lambrini and starts a charity to end chair poverty with Dame Katy, then I’ll believe she’s not a transphobe. Over to you Joanne.

Chair Aid.

Seat the wo-orld
Let them know its sit-down time..

NotBadConsidering · Yesterday 12:55

If idiots can’t tell that Dame Katy is a parody account, what does that tell you about the ridiculousness of actual trans Twitter accounts?

INeedAPensieve · Yesterday 12:48

BunnyBunbunbun · Yesterday 06:51

Dolly refused to say anything about Trump, even when a journalist pressured her to do so. She would simply not get involved in slanging matches or politics.

You could see she wasn't comfortable with lily tomlin and Jane Fonda at that awards ceremony declaring their political allegiances beside her. I thought she made the right choice to not involve herself and keep integrity.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · Yesterday 12:21

Waitwhat23 · Yesterday 12:16

I want to know why biscotti and not (say) a Rich Tea biscuit? And the inconsistency of the alliteration of 'dry biscotti bitch' is bothering me. They couldn't think of a word beginning with b to start it off?

Well yes

boring, barren or bland would at least alliterate

Waitwhat23 · Yesterday 12:16

BernardBlacksMolluscs · Yesterday 12:03

Yes yes, but where do you stand on the biscotti question?

(and can you explain the insult ‘dry biscotti bitch’ to me? That’s still niggling at me)

I want to know why biscotti and not (say) a Rich Tea biscuit? And the inconsistency of the alliteration of 'dry biscotti bitch' is bothering me. They couldn't think of a word beginning with b to start it off?

BernardBlacksMolluscs · Yesterday 12:03

HangryPlumBear · Yesterday 10:04

Hear, hear OP. JKR is a bitter, spiteful troll; it's gratifying to see so many people - celebrities and non - calling her out on her contemptible behaviour.

Yes yes, but where do you stand on the biscotti question?

(and can you explain the insult ‘dry biscotti bitch’ to me? That’s still niggling at me)

womendeserveequalhumanrights · Yesterday 11:57

I feel as if JKRs exchanges with Dame Katy could be usefully now used as an intelligence test.......

AimsAndObjectives · Yesterday 11:46

FlirtsWithRhinos · Yesterday 11:40

Gonna disagree I'm afraid. There's plenty of funny memes and in jokes in TRA-land as well. The hardcore "make everything I don't agree with illegal" bunch not so much, their humour tends to just be bullying and abuse, but the mass #BeKindAndDontThinkAboutTheInherentInconsistenciesAndSexism lot are just people who've lost their way a bit on this issue.

Yes, I'm happy to accept that the periphery has a SOH but the core doesn't. It was the same when I was in the Labour party. Some great people in the wider movement, but the core of my local party, who were really authoritarian socialists, were monotonous, blinkered, misogynistic and totally devoid of humour. I could not get out fast enough.

FlirtsWithRhinos · Yesterday 11:40

AimsAndObjectives · Yesterday 11:24

Absolutely true. The RSOH have no sense of humour. It is the easiest way to spot an authoritarian of any stripe.

Gonna disagree I'm afraid. There's plenty of funny memes and in jokes in TRA-land as well. The hardcore "make everything I don't agree with illegal" bunch not so much, their humour tends to just be bullying and abuse, but the mass #BeKindAndDontThinkAboutTheInherentInconsistenciesAndSexism lot are just people who've lost their way a bit on this issue.

Alltheprettyseahorses · Yesterday 11:33

I knew Dolly Parton as much as the OP, ie not at all, but I get the impression from what she did and said that what she really wouldn't have wanted would be attacks on women. Dolly Parton seemed very women-first from the stories being told about her, in her career she cared most about lifting up women (the boring, old-fashioned kind). She wasn't a blank canvas on which to project whatever fad the RSOH cosplayers are into, she was genuine and had her own principles and integrity.

AimsAndObjectives · Yesterday 11:24

GailBlancheViola · Yesterday 10:29

Doubtful, none of these RSOH types have a sense of humour like every authoritarian there has ever been.

Basic intelligence seems in short supply too.

Absolutely true. The RSOH have no sense of humour. It is the easiest way to spot an authoritarian of any stripe.

lcakethereforeIam · Yesterday 11:15

HangryPlumBear · Yesterday 10:04

Hear, hear OP. JKR is a bitter, spiteful troll; it's gratifying to see so many people - celebrities and non - calling her out on her contemptible behaviour.

So if we're not celebrities we're non-people! Wow!

6ate9 · Yesterday 11:07

Boiledbeetle · Yesterday 11:03

I presume the OP hasn't reappeared because he is busy rounding up chairs to donate to Dr Dame Katy Denise's wonderful scheme to end chair poverty.

When bigots... spout their usual 'what rights do Trans people not have' I point them to the millions of womxn who are living in chair poverty, literally sat on the floor, cold, afraid..."

Boiledbeetle · Yesterday 11:03

I presume the OP hasn't reappeared because he is busy rounding up chairs to donate to Dr Dame Katy Denise's wonderful scheme to end chair poverty.

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testmatchspecial · Yesterday 10:57

When JKR puts down the Lambrini and starts a charity to end chair poverty with Dame Katy, then I’ll believe she’s not a transphobe. Over to you Joanne.

GailBlancheViola · Yesterday 10:29

Helleofabore · Yesterday 04:13

We have seen this before though. An OP so desperate to prove a point about JK Rowling’s transphobia they bring up Dame Katy.

In fact, I am sure that someone did something similar a while ago. A new user name who plopped some cut and pasted piece of satire and run. Maybe the intention is to make sure we all read if for a laugh.

Doubtful, none of these RSOH types have a sense of humour like every authoritarian there has ever been.

Basic intelligence seems in short supply too.

MrsOvertonsWindow · Yesterday 10:26

HangryPlumBear · Yesterday 10:04

Hear, hear OP. JKR is a bitter, spiteful troll; it's gratifying to see so many people - celebrities and non - calling her out on her contemptible behaviour.

Have you wondered if there's something lacking in your life that you need to sign up to Mumsnet to post such vitriol?

#sadtimes

Shedmistress · Yesterday 10:22

This is absolutely fucking hilarious, thanks OP.

But it is making me wonder if Dame Keith is really a Dame at all...

MarieDeGournay · Yesterday 10:17

It really is pathetic to hate JKR so much that you will hijack her expression of sadness on the death of a legend to attack her.
Really pathetic, and so disrespectful to Dolly Parton RIP.

Dolly hasn't even been buried yet, and already you are appropriating her as a weapon for your irrational hatred.

Seriously - do you not realise how shabby you and others look, using the death of a musical and philanthropic legend to score petty points in some bizarre campaign of made-up nonsense you've cooked up against a famous writer and philanthropist?

Have you no shame?

AimsAndObjectives · Yesterday 10:11

HangryPlumBear · Yesterday 10:04

Hear, hear OP. JKR is a bitter, spiteful troll; it's gratifying to see so many people - celebrities and non - calling her out on her contemptible behaviour.

Well at least we all agree that she should never have deadnamed poor Dame Katy 😘

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