To think JK Rowling is a fabulous human being

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I just came across her book, 'Very Good Lives' which is all about overcoming adversity. I think it's so important that successful women talk about the times they've failed and how success is about pushing past that. I'm reading it just at a time I need to hear that message. I can definitely recommend buying a copy if you are in need of a boost or have some pennies to spend on something nourishing.

I was also looking into her charity, Lumos, and I had no idea just how much she was trying to help disadvantaged children. I love that she's putting her money and position to good use.

The term 'national treasure' generally makes me want to poke my own eyeballs out with a rusty kitchen utensil but AIBU to say she is an utter treasure and we are lucky to have her. She makes the world a better place.

That's all!

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

40 years of adult life have shown me that I was very wrong about some of the things I was so certain about in my teens. Some of the young people shouting the odds on Twitter today may feel very differently as their life experience starts to build up, especially the females who go on to have children.

It's so depressing. I feel beaten down by it tonight.

@LemonadeAndDaisyChains

A few yesterday. Teenagers mainly

What's their age got to do with anything, and how would you know their age anyway?
Teenagers and young adults are allowed an opinion too, you sound incredibly patronising and I say this as a middle aged old something something.

They put it in their bio.

HTH.

An amusing thing about all of this was Owen Jones flouncing and blocking the word “Hogwarts” on his Twitter.

Apparently, he’d had enough of, um, fantastical realities.

In all seriousness, it is very relevant to the discussion that teenagers are in some cases driving this. There is a stratospheric rise in teenage girls being referred to gender clinics and identify out of femaleness. It is disingenuous to pretend I don't think they are allowed an opinion - much like the rest of this 'debate'.

They put it in their bio

HTH

OK, fair enough, but they're allowed an opinion too, you come across as mocking them for being young and not knowing any better.
Failing to see why being more tolerant of others is a bad thing.
I've definitely become more tolerant and liberal as I've got older and read up on stuff, I'm glad we're able to be who we want to be now instead of being told gay is wrong, or trans isn't a thing or whatever.

I know her joiner he had to sign a confidential document and cant talk about anything to do with her her house or anything else

@Gre8scott

I know her joiner he had to sign a confidential document and cant talk about anything to do with her her house or anything else

And your point is?

Their point is probably that women aren't allowed boundaries Thisismytimetoshine

There are many sexes that do not fall into the binary category of man and woman

Nope. Sex is defined by gamete production females (women if we’re talking about humans) produce large immobile ones (eggs), males (men) produce small mobile ones (sperm).

If you want more sexes you need to tell us about the other gamets....

JKR is amazing. She worked hard, pays her taxes, shares her good fortune & time to help those less fortunate. Several of her books have the rights given over to charity so the money that keeps rolling in goes straight to them.

She also understands that sex is real - nearly everyone does but not many people are brave enough to say it any more. JKR however is a brave woman.

I think the relevance of having an opinion about sex and gender as a teenager in This thread refers to the fact many of us have felt this disphoria in our teens. I did and I know quite a few of my friends did. And we grew up and all of us grew out of it. It is important that they have an opinion. How much weight those opinions have vs others is a matter you have to decide for yourself.

you come across as mocking them for being young and not knowing any better.

Jeez this is just yet more of the hyperbole and over reaction that is rife through the whole thing.

I was answering a question and answered accurately. It is very context-specific given the huge rise in teen girls identifying as male. I have teens, I was a teen, I don't mock them.

I'm glad we're able to be who we want to be now instead of being told gay is wrong, or trans isn't a thing or whatever.

Me too. But I'm very not happy about being told woman is what anyone wants it to be and that language to describe our bodies is deemed phobic.

There are many sexes that do not fall into the binary category of man and woman
Well, every day's a school day. Please do tell us what they are??

Everyone is entitled to security and privacy, Gret8scott

There are many sexes that do not fall into the binary category of man and woman

Do you know what a sex is?

Oh shit, it probably just means "personality type" or "clothes favoured" now, doesn't it.

Can anyone tell me if other mammals have lots of sexes, or is it just humans?

Any idea when that evolved?

At all?

They never expand on the nonsense, do they? I ask again;
What are the many sexes that exist outside the binary category of man and woman?

They never expand on the nonsense, do they? I ask again;
What are the many sexes that exist outside the binary category of man and woman?

Did you miss where I said we might actually get an answer if you didn't ask so sneerily and like you don't really want an answer at all, just a chance to mock?
You've just done it again.
I want to know just as much as you.

The problem Lemonade is that we already know there can't be a sensible answer to there being lots of sexes, as it isn't true. Since we didn't come down in the last shower we already know that.

@LemonadeAndDaisyChains

*They never expand on the nonsense, do they? I ask again; What are the many sexes that exist outside the binary category of man and woman?*

Did you miss where I said we might actually get an answer if you didn't ask so sneerily and like you don't really want an answer at all, just a chance to mock?
You've just done it again.
I want to know just as much as you.

So maybe you should ask nicely and they might answer you? Do let me know if it works, won't you?

Mammals are sexually dimorphic. That's it.

Humans have a load of cultural baggage floating around, which varies across time and space, that a lot of people call 'gender' (or more specifically, 'gender roles' or 'gendered processes' etc).

Interestingly, how some human groups perceive biology and sex, and describe their meanings, can be highly subjective and gendered.

But humans remain sexually dimorphic.

When did 'woman' become an identity as opposed to another word for adult human female anyway?

It hasn't - for the vast majority of people, it remains the single word in English meaning 'adult human female'.

And YANBU, OP.

Something that has struck me today looking at twitter - many many women under the age of 25 arguing that a persons sex isn’t an issue and that women aren’t oppressed because of their biology - think about how their opinions have been formed, mostly from research and conversations on the internet- they are being spoon fed utter claptrap by men’s rights activists, and all the while their boundaries are being pushed back and they can’t even see it.
I am angry at these young women because I’m so frustrated at how wilfully ignorant they are being, but by god I’m also terrified for them, it’s like lambs to the slaughter.