To think JK Rowling is a fabulous human being

[TheAdventuresoftheWishingChair]

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!

Gah, messed up my post at 10: 45.

I meant to say this

individuals attributed with PMDS syndrome

People with PMDS syndrome are males.

Moving goalposts Herecomestreble1
You said:
"There are many sexes that do not fall into the binary category of man and woman."

Now, you're saying:
"Some examples of sexes that don't conform to normative categorisation"
Weasel words. No one said 'normative categorization' except you.

People with MRHK are women - this congenital malformation affects the female reproductive system
Literally the first info for PMDS is:
Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome (PMDS) is a disorder of sexual development that affects males. Males with PMDS have normal male reproductive organs and normal male external genitalia.

A man who suffers a penis injury, or has a vasectomy, is still a man. A woman who has a disorder of sexual development is still a woman. A person born with 11 toes doesn't mean that humans have 'digit numbers on a spectrum'

Again, for the hard of thinking, not all women menstruate, but all who menstruate are women (or girls who will - all being well - grow into women)

JK Rowling is not 'anti-trans' and the claim that she is 'using her huge platform of followers to promote ideas which endanger the lives and wellbeing of trans people' is defamatory.

It's also utter bollocks, I'd be very interested in an example of how stating that it's women who menstruate endangers someones life.

Consider what it means to be a writer who tries to create a story about how race isn’t important, but where every bit of power and strength that saves the hero is the direct result of his bloodline

Consider what it means to live in a society where groups try to create a narrative about how sex isn't important, but where the vast majority of power possessed in that society is the direct result of a person's sex.

We'll try this again

Individuals attributed with MRHK syndrome

MRHK syndrome is something which only effects females. So not a third sex.

individuals attributed with PMDS syndrome

People with PMDS syndrome are males.

individuals who are intersex.

Intersex people are still either male or female.

@Herecomestreble1

There are many sexes that do not fall into the binary category of man and woman. I literally cannot understand why so many people struggle to grasp that. This blatent attempt to passive aggressively show your support for JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement is sad and disappointing.

What are the other sexes?

I always loved her books, they gave my very dyslexic son a passion for the written word. He couldn’t read them, I read them to him. I didn’t analyse them for any content, just so thankful that something had finally sparked a love of books.

Now I am just so thankful that she stands up for the rights of women and girls.

A genuine question, as I’m not on Twitter much, has anyone ever seen such a pile on and multitude of threats of violence to any man on social media? I have the distinct impression that all those posts are from people that instinctively know that JKR is a woman and feel entitled to bully her in a way they wouldn’t to a man.

but where every bit of power and strength that saves the hero is the direct result of his bloodline

Have you read the books?

What are the other sexes?

Apparantly they are specific medical conditions which only affect either men or women. I'll let you work that one out.

The people seeing a magical creature represented as a hook-nosed banker and then linking them to Jewish people should maybe take a look at their own biases before coming for anyone else.

I think what’s incredible about this nonsense is that JKR’s factual, measured comments are causing all this furore, but actual transphobia and it’s root cause (male violence) is met by a fucking tumbleweed.

It's quite a central point that bloodline is irrelevant and the only significant power he has comes from love.

She isn't anti-trans. She just thinks that women should be able to call themselves female, if they are female, and that being female affects your life. That doesn't harm trans people or take their rights away.

I love lots of these responses. Thank you.

I am slightly puzzled to get so many of them when you should all be busy washing up/caring for your children/cooking supper or cleaning your bathrooms but clearly lots of you just really really love JK.

Just get back to work soon, won't you? Can't have society collapsing.

Jesus zscaler this interpretation is just far fetched. JKR is not antisemitic.

I suggest you read these
eurojewcong.org/news/communities-news/united-kingdom/j-k-rowling-slams-british-author-for-calling-jewish-outrage-at-corbyn-synthetic-2/ “How dare you tell a Jew that their outrage is ‘patently synthetic’? How dare you demand that they lay bare their pain and fear on demand, for your personal evaluation? What other minority would you speak to this way?”

www.jta.org/2018/09/21/culture/j-k-rowlings-new-novel-villain-israel-hating-anti-semite

So the 'evidence' given for there being more than two sexes actually proves the opposite of what the poster said it proves?

@merrymouse

but where every bit of power and strength that saves the hero is the direct result of his bloodline

Have you read the books?

It doesn't seem like it. The overarching theme is that love is what saves and protects him.

@TheAdventuresoftheWishingChair

I love lots of these responses. Thank you.

I am slightly puzzled to get so many of them when you should all be busy washing up/caring for your children/cooking supper or cleaning your bathrooms but clearly lots of you just really really love JK.

Just get back to work soon, won't you? Can't have society collapsing.

Why would I do all that? What else are house elves for?

Yanbu. She stands up for women and pays her taxes.

She is beyond awesome, love her

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Well we’ve already had a hamfisted attempt to use intersex as a Gotcha!, so I’d say we won’t be waiting long

Her books gave my DC many hours of happiness. Her talent has inspired two of them to write stories of their own. Her generosity means that other children's lives may be improved immeasurably.

YANBU

[quote Coffeecak3]@zscaler. That’s why they’re called fiction.
And Amber Heard attacked Johnny Depp but don’t let the truth stand in the way of your bias.[/quote]
This, so much. Leave the poor man alone and stop dragging his name in to try and prove a point

why it’s so hard to hear negative things about the people we idolise

I don't fucking 'idolise' JK Rowling. I've never read any of her books, or looked at her website. I just happen to have looked at her tweets, and I think that she's exposed very publicly a nasty underbelly of misogyny on Twitter.

Women should be able to discuss their lives without being threatened with violence - and JK Rowling has also illuminated how bloody difficult this is becoming.

@DickKerrLadies

So the 'evidence' given for there being more than two sexes actually proves the opposite of what the poster said it proves?

Pretty much.

I actually sometimes wonder if they just hear a bunch of fancy words and phrases and then repeat them without even putting them into Google to find out what they mean. Because if you put MRKH syndrome into Google this is literally the first thing that comes up; MRKH syndrome is a condition where young women are born either without a vagina and uterus or with an underdeveloped vagina and uterus. It is the most common type of vaginal agenesis and Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome is a disorder that occurs in females and mainly affects the reproductive system.. Please note the use of the words female and women...