JKR "An Update to My Essay of June 2020"

Exactly.

Brilliantly put, Datun - someone should put this on a billboard or something. It deserves wider publicity.

Damn myself for having to say this, but Lacksie’s arguments are at least better thought out than whatever this incoherent frothing passes for.

I find it utterly terrifying that there were so few women (and men) able to stand up like this - and eternally grateful that she did.

The cancel culture around this issue is something that should worry everyone, regardless of where they sit in the debate.

JKR is one of very, very few people who are uncancellable but it has still cost her greatly.

I'm heartened to see how the comments have changed on every news item about this from the first essay. I don't think it reflects a huge change in opinion for most if the public but the fact they are no longer afraid to say it.

That said, without JKR and other campaigners, this juggernaut against women's rights was gaining such momentum and being swept through without any critical thinking so that it would have been almost impossible to turn around.

Me too. I've never read any of her books - the grown-up ones are not my kinda thing, and the HP ones are children's books and I'm not a child - I know, I know, that's a controversial and unpopular view but there you go😏

So when CoolforKats claimed JKR 'compares herself to Churchill'
I thought WTF?? and hoped somebody would explain what seemed like the most unlikely thing ever.

It was CoolforKats who provided the 'proof' with the full quote from JKR.
I can't believe CoolforKats genuinely does not get the joke - the formula 'if X then I am Y' is a known humorous device.

It's hard to explain humour to people who appear not to have a sense of humour, but here goes:

If Michael Carrick is a Premier-league-standard manager, then I'm a monkey's uncle!
does not mean that the speaker is directly comparing themselves to a monkey.

And when Dorothy Parker wrote:

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.

she was not actually 'directly comparing herself' to the Queen of Romania, CoolforKats. That's the whole flipping point!

'if...then.. I am Winston Churchill' is the same formula, not a claim to be, or a direct comparison to, Winston Churchill.

Not everybody has a sense of humour - take CoolforKats, for instance - no, please take CoolforKats..

🤣 Pity the beaches

Excellent user name❤️

I see Kat has continued to beclown themself over night. Marvellous.

And has no concept of how risk assessment works. No one ever said 'well I've personally never fallen off a roof garden, so we dont need a railing 16 floors up', have they....

Could we dial down the Churchill/A Team references, please and thank you? Am trying to drink coffee and it's all perilously close to my laptop.

Reading the frothing and thinking - how in the world did you manage to get that message from the text??

It's like some form of RSD, where you say 'its necessary to clean your teeth twice daily' and what is heard by the recipient is something like 'your breath stinks, I have always hated you and I reject you entirely'.

Which is very sad for the person experiencing it, but not real or rational in any way.

Talking of IW, he's currently in my algorithm because the other day I looked up his post offering to show his "cervix" on tv to show someone on here who'd never seen it! Funny how death threats are only "real" if they are sent to anyone who is trans. So even though people have been convicted for repeatedly threatening to kill JKR they obviously didn't mean it.

We have the wit and eloquence of JKR; they have "social associations", AI word salading and a complete lack of humour. It's not really fair.

He's always good value, is Willyboy. 🤭

😂😂😂

Par for the course for IW.
In making a ridiculous comparison between JKR and this fictional soap character, he belittles all women who have suffered coercive control in real life.
No concern for actual women then, IW?
Shocked face

Think I saw them play Glastonbury in '89🤔

Top post. Many thanks.

😂

There was a group called The Association [whether valid or social, I can't say] their big hit in 1967 was a song with the unlikely title of Windy
with the lines
Who's bending down to give me a rainbow
Everyone knows it's Windy

I'm not making that up, honest😃

ohmigosh the weird connections are too much!

I didn't realise Churchill was on the A-team. Live & learn eh?

Oh yes!

Amazing how what seems so cool in one decade is totally cringe in another😁

It is self evident.
If you work in an office, you don't have to change into a uniform at work. And office jobs are generally more prestigious and on average better paid than jobs that require a uniform.

What a surprise to see that you say 'all trans people' and actually mean 'all male trans people'. Nobody is classing transmen as a threat. Women who say they identify as men do not suddenly acquire a male pattern of offending, so are still welcome in female spaces, where they benefit from the same safeguarding measures as other women and girls, if they're actually being enforced. There have been some worrying cases of women in that group committing violent acts after taking testosterone, so it's something that deserves further research, but the number of women (using the normal definition) being convicted of sexual offences is still a tiny fraction of the number of men, whether they identify as such or not.