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Thoughts on this academic paper about JKR?

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tuneafish · 20/09/2026 14:21

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2026.2660544

TRA talking points on JKR laundered into a research article. There's so much bullshit in there I don't even know where to start.

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MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 25/09/2026 19:33

EscCtrl · 25/09/2026 17:15

I'm terribly sorry for mistaking you for a Trump and Musk supporter. I didn't get that you were saying what other people would say. I was educated by nuns, so I saw your metaphor of an Unholy Trinity of JKR, Trump and Musk as three parts of the same thing, which is why the idea jarred in my mind.

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That's ok, things get lost in translation.
Ask most TRAs who they hate the most, and those three will come up most of the time.
Hence my slightly clunky allegory.

EscCtrl · 25/09/2026 17:15

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 25/09/2026 15:07

I'm paraphrasing what the naysayers would shout, not what I believe.

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I'm terribly sorry for mistaking you for a Trump and Musk supporter. I didn't get that you were saying what other people would say. I was educated by nuns, so I saw your metaphor of an Unholy Trinity of JKR, Trump and Musk as three parts of the same thing, which is why the idea jarred in my mind.

ArabellaScott · 25/09/2026 17:15

https://archive.org/details/pleasuresoftangl0000morr_e5f4/page/20/mode/2up

There are plenty of his books on Internet Archive.

They are sometimes unintentionally funny. Often patronising and pompous, sometimes racist, and absolutely always utterly and totally self absorbed.

CrystalSingerFan · 25/09/2026 16:31

ArabellaScott · 25/09/2026 15:20

The (very) little I've read of his work is fucking awful purple prose.

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Oh dear. Disappointing.

How does he compare with the (in)famous Victorian novelist Bulwer-Lytton, inspiration behind this marvellous competition? (It was a dark and stormy night.)

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070205082050/www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2006.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20070205082050/www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2006.htm

Loads more where this came from.

2006 Results

https://web.archive.org/web/20070205082050/http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2006.htm

ArabellaScott · 25/09/2026 15:22

CrystalSingerFan · 25/09/2026 13:13

Oooh, that's a bit harsh

  • The Mabinogion
  • Eistedffods
  • Bob Dylan Thomas
  • Gwyneth Jones
  • Bryn Terfel
  • Geraint Evans
  • Alfred Russel Wallace
  • etc.
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Y Gododdin!

ArabellaScott · 25/09/2026 15:20

CrystalSingerFan · 25/09/2026 13:31

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Good point! I've always meant to read Morris's book on Venice. Will make more of an effort. Can anyone comment?

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The (very) little I've read of his work is fucking awful purple prose.

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 25/09/2026 15:07

EscCtrl · 25/09/2026 14:09

I agree with JKR. It is jarring that you place her alongside those two nasty men, Trump and Musk.

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I'm paraphrasing what the naysayers would shout, not what I believe.

EscCtrl · 25/09/2026 14:09

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 21/09/2026 15:08

You've put your finger on a very relevant point.
In a secular/atheist age, we still need our gods and devils.
JKR makes a very convenient devil. Alongside Trump and Musk, she completes the Unholy Trinity.
And the mass hysteria over her and trans activism generally, the rapid horizontal radicalisation of those lacking critical thinking skills is a society-wide version of The Crucible.

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I agree with JKR. It is jarring that you place her alongside those two nasty men, Trump and Musk.

CrystalSingerFan · 25/09/2026 13:31

MrPrettyDamnCosmic · 25/09/2026 13:17

& especially for FWR...

Jan Morris

He was after all an excellent journalist & travel writer even if he was a frightful man/woman.

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Good point! I've always meant to read Morris's book on Venice. Will make more of an effort. Can anyone comment?

Blueuggboots · 25/09/2026 13:19

My partner…sorry for typo

Blueuggboots · 25/09/2026 13:19

How did this even get through ethics?
u partner wasn’t allowed to write a masters dissertation on genuinely serious issues about the nhs due to ethics yet this absolute shit show was allowed??? Good god. What has the world come to?

MrPrettyDamnCosmic · 25/09/2026 13:17

CrystalSingerFan · 25/09/2026 13:13

Oooh, that's a bit harsh

  • The Mabinogion
  • Eistedffods
  • Bob Dylan Thomas
  • Gwyneth Jones
  • Bryn Terfel
  • Geraint Evans
  • Alfred Russel Wallace
  • etc.
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& especially for FWR...

Jan Morris

He was after all an excellent journalist & travel writer even if he was a frightful man/woman.

AlwaysExtraHot · 25/09/2026 13:16

I didn't say it! I was just told it as a bit of a joke by a friend. Don't know who it's attributed to.

CrystalSingerFan · 25/09/2026 13:13

AlwaysExtraHot · 25/09/2026 08:03

I always thought that was about Wales.

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Oooh, that's a bit harsh

  • The Mabinogion
  • Eistedffods
  • Bob Dylan Thomas
  • Gwyneth Jones
  • Bryn Terfel
  • Geraint Evans
  • Alfred Russel Wallace
  • etc.
AlwaysExtraHot · 25/09/2026 08:03

CrystalSingerFan · 24/09/2026 17:24

Apologies if it's been quoted before, but here's an old joke that I genuinely thought was from Clive James. But apparently not.

"What is the difference between Australia and a pot of yoghurt?
"If you leave a pot of yoghurt alone long enough, it will develop a culture."

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I always thought that was about Wales.

CrystalSingerFan · 24/09/2026 17:24

MyDpsanarse · 20/09/2026 17:18

What's truly worrying about this is the way they're trying to present it as a serious academic paper. If this is the cream of the Australian intelligentsia then they're in trouble

Apologies if it's been quoted before, but here's an old joke that I genuinely thought was from Clive James. But apparently not.

"What is the difference between Australia and a pot of yoghurt?
"If you leave a pot of yoghurt alone long enough, it will develop a culture."

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 24/09/2026 17:00

Ractify · 24/09/2026 16:55

Why on earth would you wait, when I do believe there is £1 million just waiting for anyone who can provide actual evidence of JKR stating anything “transphobic”.

Astonishingly, no one has been able to claim the money…. Must be due to TRA “Truthphobia”, don’t you think?

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Even when JKR dies, she'll live on in their heads.
Hey, if Ed Sheeran is currently torturing the Omnicausers, can you imagine how embedded Rowling is as a brain worm in the skulls of TRAs?
To know she was instrumental in stopping the tidal surge is in itself torture.

Ractify · 24/09/2026 16:55

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 23/09/2026 15:44

Wait til she dies. Journalists and academics in this country will be free to explore all her repellent comments about trans, nb and asexual people without fear of legal silencing.

It's still underreported how she sent legal threats to journalists who dared question her hiring a high-profile domestic abuser.

Books will be written about her weird comments during Indyref, graceless refusal to apologise for hiring Depp and ceaseless attacks on minorities.

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Why on earth would you wait, when I do believe there is £1 million just waiting for anyone who can provide actual evidence of JKR stating anything “transphobic”.

Astonishingly, no one has been able to claim the money…. Must be due to TRA “Truthphobia”, don’t you think?

Seriestwo · 24/09/2026 16:28

“Outed” - but you can’t hide your sex, everyone knows. For a start, they usually tell you in the first 30 seconds of meeting them. And if they don’t mention it (rare) my eyeballs, nose, ears and emplyment tribunal help me figure it out.

TheKeatingFive · 24/09/2026 08:26

Just to be completely clear about what JKR has done here, going to summarise …

Refused to play pretend that men who like to wear dresses are actually women

Campaigned for Scotland to stay in the union

Had a tangential association with Johnny Depp in that he was cast in a film based on her franchise, but was then recast.

That’s it …

Jesus Christ @TransParentlyAnnoyeddo you hear yourself? You sound unhinged.

AsTreesWalking · 24/09/2026 08:06

Honestly, the only possible reaction is incredulous laughter.
Dabralor nailed it with 'Pretentious EPQ'.

ArabellaScott · 24/09/2026 07:52

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 23/09/2026 15:44

Wait til she dies. Journalists and academics in this country will be free to explore all her repellent comments about trans, nb and asexual people without fear of legal silencing.

It's still underreported how she sent legal threats to journalists who dared question her hiring a high-profile domestic abuser.

Books will be written about her weird comments during Indyref, graceless refusal to apologise for hiring Depp and ceaseless attacks on minorities.

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Holy fuck. You don't even grasp how awful that comment is, do you?

Manyanamanyana · 24/09/2026 04:44

tuneafish · 20/09/2026 14:21

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2026.2660544

TRA talking points on JKR laundered into a research article. There's so much bullshit in there I don't even know where to start.

Huh. I wrote a nice email to the author who provides an email address, inviting her to Mumsnet to find out why JK has so much support on here. Wonder if she will visit?

roseyposey · 23/09/2026 23:30

The title alone 🤭

LeftieRightsHoarder · 23/09/2026 23:28

MyThreeWords · 20/09/2026 17:38

I'm just starting, finally, to learn that 'academic' doesn't mean the same as it did a generation or so ago when I was a post-grad. The enshitification of undergraduate education that today's young people seem to feel forced to purchase at extremely poor value has produced a complete devaluing of the whole university sector at every level.

It's so hard for someone who was lucky enough to receive an adequate university education to really accept what the sector has become.

I agree with all my heart. Young people have been tricked into taking on huge debts while wasting several years for a piece of paper and some mediocre teaching, often in pointless subjects. Then comes a stream of trivial and badly researched papers, to continue the downward trend.

The one thing that raises my spirits a bit is discovering that word that sums it all up: enshitification. Thank you for adding that to my vocabulary!