To ask you to help with a complaint about the sickening front page of tomorrow’s Sun

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My first AIBU

Please don’t give the sun any clicks - I’ll attempt to post a photo of tomorrow’s horrific front page.

to anyone this tiggers. It’s truly awful.

“I slapped JK And I’m not sorry.Sun confronts her 1st husband”

Any advice on the best way to frame a complaint to IPSO? I think it would come under several categories, harassment, privacy, victims of sexual assault.

This is a new low.
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Fucking hell that is disgusting.

www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/12/jk-rowling-mps-condemn-sun-front-page-as-enabling-domestic-abusers

No, I'm with the reporting- not supporting

They've given him rope...he's done the rest.

OP, do you understand the difference between "Reporting" and "Supporting"? Have you read it?

They are saying that JKR suffered at the hands of a man, and and using his words to prove it. I think the MRA's are going to be a bit pissed off actually.

My first marriage was similar but it took me longer to escape.

I don’t object to that front page at all. I’m certainly not “triggered”. They’re supporting JKR’s story by allowing the violent little creep to mouth off in a self-incriminating way. Fine by me. He’s said it all previously anyway.

Unpleasant reading for JK Rowling

A bit more than unpleasant reading. It could completely traumatise her, it's disgusting.

It was on the DM last night

The comments mainly slapping is domestic abuse

@ArriettyJones

My first marriage was similar but it took me longer to escape.

I don’t object to that front page at all. I’m certainly not “triggered”. They’re supporting JKR’s story by allowing the violent little creep to mouth off in a self-incriminating way. Fine by me. He’s said it all previously anyway.

I am sorry you had that experience, but just because that front page hasn't triggered you, that doesn't mean other survivors of domestic abuse won't be. This survivor has found it really upsetting.

As for people saying this is a clumsy attempt at supporting JKR, well the Sun could have just published an editorial saying it supports her.

They've obviously sat on this story and their contact with him for some time. This hasn't been pulled out of thin air in the last 48hrs.
Shit stirrers.

The Sun tries to reflect what it thinks is the view of the readership. In this case they are saying the ex husband is a violent loser who's trying to cash in. They support JK's views on sex and gender and despise the views of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Eddie Redmayne. That is coming up loud and clear in the comments section of the other MN bete noire The Daily Mail.

I think perhaps the OP's fear is that someone buys this, sits down in the canteen or on the site or wherever, has a look at the headline and thinks "yeah maybe she deserved it"

I don't think the 'Weatherspoons male Sun-readers' (previously described) would want to beat up JK for (being wilfully misunderstood as) not having respect for transgender women. I would imagine said Sun readers are particularly unlikely to have respect for transgender women.

I can't quite find what it is JK said that set all this off. Was it something along the lines that she was a genetic female and the experiences of her life as that were something that a transgender woman, originally genetically male, couldn't have in the same way?

Yes, that would have set the cat among the pigeons.

And created quite a twitter.

As for 'reporting / supporting'. It was not a story that needed to be run.. she reported it herself, the papers have just put their own spin on it. A supportive article might have been something about how many women suffer from domestic violence every year in the UK, quantifying the long term impact on their lives and the emotional impact from which few ever truly recover and the very small percentage of men who are prosecuted for it.

And yes obviously the Sun are stirrers - that's the definition of being a tabloid. But here they've at least put paid to the hate saying that JK has made up being hit by her husband.

@ChateauMargaux

As for 'reporting / supporting'. It was not a story that needed to be run.. she reported it herself, the papers have just put their own spin on it. A supportive article might have been something about how many women suffer from domestic violence every year in the UK, quantifying the long term impact on their lives and the emotional impact from which few ever truly recover and the very small percentage of men who are prosecuted for it.

Yes, this exactly.

Hasn't the scrote just highlighted the type of lowlife he is by his own words?

I am sorry you had that experience, but just because that front page hasn't triggered you, that doesn't mean other survivors of domestic abuse won't be. This survivor has found it really upsetting.

Don’t you think it’s quite useful that someone has published the worm’s own words?

Obviously it’s a red top with a red top’s motivations but I’m glad the world is being shown what DV perpetrators are like and I’m glad JKR’s position is being supported.

@peachypeche

And yes obviously the Sun are stirrers - that's the definition of being a tabloid. But here they've at least put paid to the hate saying that JK has made up being hit by her husband.

Yes, exactly this.

At the moment people want to harm JK so a headline like this will prompt them-fuel for the fire

"The Sun could have written an editorial saying they supported her."
Wouldn't have had the same impact would it?
It's an interesting move. I hope JKR can weather it being brought back up, but she is getting far worse. The toss-up seems to be, is it enabling and excusing domestic abuse, or is it showing it up as true and shit.

It’s reporting and calling someone out on their behaviour. Obviously the vast majority will read it and be disgusted with her ex, so I really think you’re getting worked up over something that is something that should be exposed, surely?

@Snowdown24

At the moment people want to harm JK so a headline like this will prompt them-fuel for the fire

How? He has literally confirmed her account and shown himself to be an abusive arsehole.

How can that harm JKR? It helps her.

i dont see how her marriage was relevant though, probably taken out of context.

Women's past relations, sexual and marital are always questioned when they dare to mention them. Usually it's denial, then you deserved it. There will be those who go with the latter. It's certainly a way of identifying the shits.

It's a dog whistle to the TRAs.

How? He has literally confirmed her account and shown himself to be an abusive arsehole. How can that harm JKR? It helps her.

Of course it can harm her! "I only slapped her once" is the slogan of many an abuser.