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StealthTroublemaker · 21/10/2026 22:35

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:31

You must of missed that there was a fair amount of humorous commentary of Rowling a billionaire smoking a cigar on a super yacht quoting Churchill's

"I love it when a plan comes together".

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1912644919103004807?s=20

JKR was certainly onto something about elites.

Ummm that’s not Churchill. It’s John “Hannibal” smith 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

GreyskySexRealistsky · 21/10/2026 22:35

Iamnotalemming · 21/10/2026 22:33

LOL wasn't that a A-team reference?

Ha ha ha!!! Yes!!!

MrsOvertonsWindow · 21/10/2026 22:35

Sometimes when you read the seething sneering, it's easy to focus on the saddos hating on her.
But this is a time of massive change with even the trans captured civil service, the NHS and at last schools, finally recognising the law and that women and children have rights to be safe and away from men determined on violating boundaries.
JKR has given so many women the confidence to speak out and know that we're no longer alone.

"When sleeping women wake, mountains move."

HenriettaSwanLeavitt2 · 21/10/2026 22:36

Thing is, she does rally us 😘

Soontobe60 · 21/10/2026 22:36

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:31

You must of missed that there was a fair amount of humorous commentary of Rowling a billionaire smoking a cigar on a super yacht quoting Churchill's

"I love it when a plan comes together".

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1912644919103004807?s=20

JKR was certainly onto something about elites.

If you’re going to come on here to try to persuade us women-who-wrongthink to see things from your point of view, at least proof-read your posts. It’s ‘must HAVE missed’, not ‘of’.
You’re welcome.

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:37

MarieDeGournay · 21/10/2026 22:24

OK, I accept that you read it; but your response didn't engage with what it actually said, you just expressed your low opinion of JKR.

Your low opinion of JKR and a rational argument against the points she makes could co-exist, you know.
You went for the easy option, the low-opinion-of-JKR option.
Fair enough, that's your choice, but it doesn't so much miss the point, as ignore the point completely.

It would be interesting to read a rebuttal of the things JKR wrote for a change, rather than predictable negative statements about the woman herself.

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I engaged with it more than anyone else here when I made the point that indeed JKR was right that experience influences perceptions hence the support of trans people from women who don't consider them as a threat..

It's you who can't engage with the fact that JKR discredits her own argument with this position.

Manyanamanyana · 21/10/2026 22:37

serialgrannie · 21/10/2026 17:43

As a an elderly feminist I have watched with horror at what has happened to hard-won women's rights in this country over the last 20 years as a result of the rise of gender ideology. That political leaders of all persuasions have been complicit has been astonishing. J K Rowling has been a shining beacon of reason, compassion, understanding and intellectual honesty in all this and has been vilified as a result. Her essay today is wonderful. Can I suggest that everyone sends a copy of this essay to their local councillors/MP, council leaders, union leaders and anyone else they can think of and ask for a response. It would be interesting to hear the opinions of Zac Polanski, Lisa Nandy, David Tennant, among others.

I was thinking this, am in Australia, but it is so relevant here, even given the fact that our Sex Discrimination Act does not differentiate between women and men with gender confusion. Will send to my MP and a bunch of other pollies, on both sides (the right side of history and the wrong side) x

murasaki · 21/10/2026 22:38

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:37

I engaged with it more than anyone else here when I made the point that indeed JKR was right that experience influences perceptions hence the support of trans people from women who don't consider them as a threat..

It's you who can't engage with the fact that JKR discredits her own argument with this position.

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Amd you missed her point that those women don't often find themselves in a state of partial undress with these men. Through job privilege.

pontefractals · 21/10/2026 22:38

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I think you've either misunderstood the post, or replied to the wrong one.

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:39

HenriettaSwanLeavitt2 · 21/10/2026 22:36

Thing is, she does rally us 😘

But not anyone else hence her rage.

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:40

murasaki · 21/10/2026 22:38

Amd you missed her point that those women don't often find themselves in a state of partial undress with these men. Through job privilege.

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JKR is assuming that & provides no evidence to back up her claim.

StealthTroublemaker · 21/10/2026 22:41

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:39

But not anyone else hence her rage.

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Well I suppose as she’s not issuing rape threats, death threats, beating people up or pouring piss everywhere she’s not as angry as the men in dresses now they’re banned from female spaces. Now there’s some examples of rage.

LizzieSiddal · 21/10/2026 22:41

I remember reading her first essay on this subject and bursting into tears, she summed up what so many women felt and we really did need her to publish it.
Thank you so much JK Flowers

murasaki · 21/10/2026 22:41

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:40

JKR is assuming that & provides no evidence to back up her claim.

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Oh did I dream all those NHS related cases recently?

Soontobe60 · 21/10/2026 22:42

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:37

I engaged with it more than anyone else here when I made the point that indeed JKR was right that experience influences perceptions hence the support of trans people from women who don't consider them as a threat..

It's you who can't engage with the fact that JKR discredits her own argument with this position.

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Of course there will be many men who identify as women who are not a direct threat to women, but there is absolutely no way of knowing which men who identify as women are the threatening ones and which are not. Just as it is with other men. That’s why we have the laws that we have - it’s to protect the privacy, dignity and safety of all females. Safeguarding 101 in action.
Why do you have a problem with this?

StealthTroublemaker · 21/10/2026 22:43

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:40

JKR is assuming that & provides no evidence to back up her claim.

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She actually provides more evidence than those who claim men can ever be women so…….

murasaki · 21/10/2026 22:43

It is amusing being lectured by someone who confuses Churchill and the A Team 😂

MrsOvertonsWindow · 21/10/2026 22:43

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:39

But not anyone else hence her rage.

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Oh mate. You need to get out more.
The general public are completely on her side - having watched in horror as children were targeted & men and women bullied, intimidated and silenced.

The gig is up for queer theorists / trans extremists. Time to move on and recognise that others have rights.

Go well.

HenriettaSwanLeavitt2 · 21/10/2026 22:44

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:39

But not anyone else hence her rage.

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The support for women's sex-based rights is held by a majority or significant plurality in every category of persons polled in UK polling data. And guess what? It rises every time polling is done.
#sadtimes

Soontobe60 · 21/10/2026 22:44

murasaki · 21/10/2026 22:43

It is amusing being lectured by someone who confuses Churchill and the A Team 😂

🤣🤣🤣

mr t 80s GIF
StealthTroublemaker · 21/10/2026 22:44

murasaki · 21/10/2026 22:43

It is amusing being lectured by someone who confuses Churchill and the A Team 😂

BA is not amused 🤣🤣🤣. He’s “pitying the fool”

Mr T 80S GIF
CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:46

StealthTroublemaker · 21/10/2026 22:43

She actually provides more evidence than those who claim men can ever be women so…….

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That only elites support trans women?

She has done nothing of the sort.

StealthTroublemaker · 21/10/2026 22:46

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:46

That only elites support trans women?

She has done nothing of the sort.

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She identifies as providing that evidence.

GarlicEverything · 21/10/2026 22:47

CoolforKats · 21/10/2026 22:46

That only elites support trans women?

She has done nothing of the sort.

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Go on, then, provide evidence that men can be women.

Myalternate · 21/10/2026 22:47

I don’t read ‘rage’ in her words 🙂

But of course those that feel ‘unsafe’ at the mere mention of JKR or Harry Potter are probably all suffering from the effects of the vapours right now.