I finally said something in public at work

This is the Sex and Gender board, you might have more luck with this topic over on the relationships board, or something...

GNU Sir TP

Not that there’s anything weird about Binky, he’s a lovely horse.

I was going to say that!! .

But what has he got to do with JK Rowling?

He is when someone is defending him and claiming he is innocent. He's a wife beater. The High Court ruled on that.

That's really heartening OP, and that several people agreed with you.

I love my colleagues but sadly suspect I would still be in the minority ...

Brilliant, well done OP! Thank you.

It has occurred to me that it's a bit like the old cartoon of the young couple having a party with people from work at it, in which the man is saying to the woman "No, honey, don't bring the baby down. Everyone here either has one or hasn't."

It would be grand to say to the TRA "Oh do give it a rest. Everyone here either agrees with you or doesn't."

I was verbally attacked for not agreeing loudly enough with someone who was having a two-minute hate about her, earlier this year.... Some fanatical prannets are still having a public go at her every time they see an opportunity to do so, and very boring it was too.

I’m no fan of Johnny Depp, trust me, but he is of zero relevance here

The High Court found him to be a serial domestic abuser of his then wife Amber. There is no excuse for that and no-one should be defending a wife beater.

She was named after DEATH'S horse? No wonder she's a bit weird

I don't think JKR had any control over casting.

Well done OP.

Oh and Johnny Depp was not found guilty of anything, he and Amber were clearly a highly toxic couple

Courage calls to courage.

I think the 'hip' ship sailed long ago, tbh

JKR hate is dreary and boring even for the most rabid incels. Who is still gnashing their teeth over it in 2026?

Wokeandwoofing nails it:

https://x.com/wokeandwoofing/status/2099600706151813261

🚨Breaking News:

An actor who played 'Third Quidditch fan from the back' in a Harry Potter film, has spoken out against JK Rowling. Beardy McWomanhater, has been quoted as saying 'If attacking Rowling makes me seem hip and relevant, I'd be mad not to do it'

All of this is completely misrepresented or simply of no relevance.

You know that TPA, why keep gaslighting?

Yeah yeah. We get it. You think she’s the devil incarnate. What she’s done is sooooooo much worse than all the death threats, rape threats, violence, piss protests and nastiness women have had to endure from the TRA. I mean, how dare she!!! She didn’t realise if you want to win hearts and minds, threats, breaking windows and throwing piss everywhere is the way to go.

So if you’re criticising her for not being trans but writing about who trans people are, you’ll be just as critical of TIM who write about what women are right, seeing as they are not women?

If you bought them through ravelry you can download and then save/ print the pdfs from your library or from the pattern page click the ‘in my library’ link in the top right corner and it’ll offer you a download (when you access the pattern to knit or crochet it, that’s the pdf and you can save it to all your devices or computers as many times as you want).

Edit: oh just realised you’re probably talking about the photos! I expect you can save them from the upload photo page on the project? Edit 2: yes, just did it 👍

She calls trans women fetishists, and spreads harmful myths about trans children (notably, about how many have had surgery - apparently ignorant of the fact that the vast majority of 'gender affirming' surgeries are done on cis boys).

She's never apologised to Lin yu-ting for calling her a man who likes hitting women.

She ridiculed asexual people as 'not fancying a shag' and not actually existing. Despite the long history of asexual women being attacked for 'corrective rape' (apologies for the horrible term).

There are so many examples of her being shitty to minorities.

The protests at fully-clothed trans women having jobs. Taking selfies. Wearing clothes. Being online.

The doxxing of trans women and the ridiculing of their appearance.

Calling trans men autistic, mentally ill survivors (Jesus Christ how can you not see how ignorant that is).

Taking the piss out of trans women's appearance. Posting a Metro article in which a nb person wrote about their experience of being a new parent and taking the piss out of them.

She is neither trans, a parent of someone trans not a doctor, yet she writes constantly about who trans people are, how they should behave and why she thinks they exist. It's so weird.

That's no queen.

Rowling had one big opportunity to stick up for women - by not hiring Johnny Depp - and she blew it.

She defended the casting of a domestic abuser, gave him authority over women on the set of a film, helped him out financially and - when asked to reconsider by DV activists - refused to back down. She did this after he was judged a domestic abuser.

Defender of women, my arse.

There there.