JKR "An Update to My Essay of June 2020"

Oh c'mon, The Weird Connections were brilliant, I saw them in Southampton in 2011. The release of their difficult third album was a pivotal moment for Indie but I do concede that at 14 hours and 3 seconds it was considered slightly too long by the critics.

Yet the private sector is sorting things out.
Funny, that.

They know when a fad is on the way out. They have to be attuned to this sort of thing to survive in a difficult economic climate.

Yes it's clear from the dwindling corporate support for 'Pride' parades and celebrations etc.
A lot of companies have really cut back, in no small part due to the number of very unsavoury characters involved in many groups, such as Stephen Ireland in Surrey. Who would want to be associated with him? Perfect excuse to cut funding.

Sadly, many publicly funded organisations, such as the police and local councils are still on the TQ bandwagon. Until we see office holders held personally responsible (such as those who pushed the TRA line in the NHS), I can't see it disappearing any time soon. Too many people have made a lot of money/gained social capital on the back of it.

I'm very relieved to see JKR keeping up the pressure, especially on the FINO's (feminists in name only).

It's about the ability to choose, and the question is not whether trans women are a threat, but whether men are a threat.

We know, from policies implemented by institutions like universities, that in practice the only policies that anyone is prepared to implement are single sex, where there is an expectation that people will use the correct facility and can be challenged for not doing so, unisex single user facilities, or mixed sex facilities that anyone can use.

You cannot segregate anything by gender because it is a completely subjective concept, which is why 'trans inclusive' facilities don't attempt to do this.

Indeed. They're both mighty deflecty tho.

(the band names just keep writing themselves 😁)

I don't think they are. Lacksie is just what happens when someone sticks 50p in the Random Butlerism Generator machine.

Dawkins having none of it 😄

https://x.com/RichardDawkins/status/2113191993853522210?s=20

"JK Rowling. What a hero she is. She even bends over backwards to be kind to those poor deluded freaks who seem honestly to believe they really are women. But she rightly goes after those in positions of influence who “behaved as though women’s rights were out-dated and even meaningless. They created a climate of fear and intimidation whereby a single misplaced pronoun could see a woman disciplined.”"

I agree. There is no solid foundation to either Lacksie's theory or Butler's ideas because they are not a body of work built on first principles and scientific method.

yet more "death, rape threats" but still refused to not spend all day on twitter

If she was upset by the "death and rape threats" and felt like they were in any way a problem and not just a rhetorical tool to use against the civil rights of others, she would log the fuck off twitter already. Or at the very least, stop picking fights there!

Why aren't our threats working.

Interesting that you've narrowed it down to Lacksie having one theory, I'm nowhere near getting that yet!

I didn’t realise that Mr T was a wartime leader. Every day is a school day, right?

"poor deluded freaks" - cripes!

Does he get rape threats for comments like that? Serious question. If not, why not?

Some of them are so close to getting it. So, so close.

"There's a known effect where if you only interact with people who agree with you on everything then you slowly go mad. (Yes-man effect)
It's also one of the major forms of AI psychosis."

Come off the fence Dawks 😂

They’re so close!

LOL

well done JKR - so well written, so non-emotive in choice of language, yet clearly a passion for looking after the oppressed and seeing that right is done...

and am loving the TRA responses on here where each post just proves even more that they have no clue what they are talking about!

And today's winner of the Internet Irony prize is...

I've always liked the quote about seeing so far because we stand on the shoulders of giants, but for some time now I've been wondering where the giants have gone.
Are they a long way away or actually quite close but very, very small.
Maybe they just identify as giants like I identify as incredibly witty & a great dancer after a few drinks.

I think this is direct response to the BBC commission. I doubt she would speak to them because there is no evidence to trust the production output, so this is to re-emphasize what her position is still in 2026, right up to date.

The production team will indeed have to show some of the extreme responses surely?

If you're making a documentary about someone alive, do you have a duty to ask them if they'd like to be on it? I genuinely don't know. Of course if I were her, I'd say no chance, and let them know my lawyers would be scrutinising it.

I doubt very much they'll detail any of the death threats, rape wishes , or photos outside her house. They'll just say 'some people were very upset and in their distress may have made some inappropriate comments', or some such guff.

I'm sure I read pot noodle wanted to be involved. Ahahaha.

Ah it never seemed cool at all.