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Lady author sacked for supporting JKR

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OhMyGiddyGoodness · 05/07/2020 13:17

Saw this in the newspaper and then searched and found this thread in the feminist board...

But I feel like you lovelies want to read it too.

Lady author's employer was sent a load of emails to get her sacked. Could we not do the same to get her reinstated? We mummies are the book buyers after all.

If nothing else the unfair dismissal is vile.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3955475-Yet-another-woman-a-writer-sacked-after-TRA-campaign

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Lockheart · 05/07/2020 13:22

"Lovelies", "lady author", "mummies"? Hmm

The author does have a name you know.

LockdownLump · 05/07/2020 13:23

"Lovelies", "lady author", "mummies"?

I thought exactly the same. Very oddly worded.

Lockheart · 05/07/2020 13:25

At least it's not just me @LockdownLump.

It's unnecessarily infantile (and not very feminist at that, especially failing to give the author her actual name).

Monkeynuts18 · 05/07/2020 13:28

@Lockheart Agreed. I hate it when people refer to ‘lady...’ - ‘lady author’, ‘lady doctor’.

She’s just an author. Or a doctor.

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OhMyGiddyGoodness · 05/07/2020 13:30

I apologise, I was referring to fellow aibu readers as lovelies and mummies. I didn't mean to cause offence.

The lady author is Gillian Philip.

Peace!

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JustAnotherPoster00 · 05/07/2020 13:31

Its almost as if its a male journo looking for froth for an article on Monday, have you got a deadline sweety? Did you want all us lovelies to help you out?

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OhMyGiddyGoodness · 05/07/2020 13:33

Uhhh honestly I didn't mean offence! I'm not a journalist I've been a member since April 2018 .

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Sexnotgender · 05/07/2020 13:34

It’s absolutely disgraceful. I’ve ordered one of her books to support her.

DrPatient · 05/07/2020 18:04

@Sexnotgender You know that when you buy her books, the money goes to the publishing company who fired her, right?

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 05/07/2020 18:13

@DrPatient GrinGrin

I am a lady, typing on my lady's tablet with my lady's finger, so I feel uniquely qualified to comment on this issue. As a lady. However, my hubbie hubs and my little bubs are both Not Ladies, and I really don't feel able to freely give my (lady's) view until they are out of the house, along with their miasma of masculine hormones - it's sending my delicate lady's brain into quite a tizzy!

Clevererthanyou · 05/07/2020 18:16

I’m sorry about the unnecessary arseholery op. It seems you can’t say anything without offending someone. I say that as a feminist.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 05/07/2020 18:17

It sounded like a sketch from Little Britain🙈

SchrodingersImmigrant · 05/07/2020 18:18

On a serious note, it's shocking, shouldn't happen.

namechange12a · 05/07/2020 18:22

Lady author is pretty patronising and 'we mummies' wtaf?

I think the Stalinesque stamping on free speech is 'vile' if nothing else.

Off to the gulag mummies and lady authors! Off to the gulag for wrong thought!

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 05/07/2020 18:23

I’m sorry about the unnecessary arseholery op. It seems you can’t say anything without offending someone. I say that as a feminist.

As a lady, I don't have an arsehole.

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OhMyGiddyGoodness · 05/07/2020 19:42

I don't personally consider the term lady to be offensive, nor the word mummy.
But it seems a lot of people do.
Some people think it's more important to comment on the language I have used than the subject matter itself.
I regret starting the thread and that's how people end up staying silent.

Please feel free to report the thread to MN since I'm being accused of being a journalist anyway, then they can remove it and remove my headache while they're at it. 🤷‍♀️

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knittingaddict · 05/07/2020 20:01

"Lady", "mummies" and "lovelies" makes lots of women cringe, me included. It's twee and infantilising and your message is instantly lost in the wincing your readers are suffering after reading those words.

knittingaddict · 05/07/2020 20:05

Also, don't "daddies" buy books?

Bloodybridget · 05/07/2020 20:06

I read about this in the i newspaper today and was appalled. The new orthodoxy re trans issues is really crap.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 05/07/2020 20:08

Lady isn't offensive.

Lady author is... It's just... Demeaning? Is that the right word?

PumbaasCucumbas · 05/07/2020 20:10

There’s a campaign to push one of her bookA up the kindle charts...to find on amazon search for ‘Bad Faith’ by ‘Philips’ It has good reviews.

knittingaddict · 05/07/2020 20:18

Lady isn't offensive.

It's not offensive as such, but it is old fashioned and a bit patronising.

Would you call a man a gentleman in your usual conversation or just man?

SchrodingersImmigrant · 05/07/2020 20:22

@knittingaddict

Lady isn't offensive.

It's not offensive as such, but it is old fashioned and a bit patronising.

Would you call a man a gentleman in your usual conversation or just man?

Actually sometimes I do😳 I used to waitress in a posh place for a long time and it's still with me sometimes 😂
onalongsabbatical · 05/07/2020 20:27

Thanks OP. Nipped off and bought one of her books to support.

lifestooshort123 · 05/07/2020 20:29

FHS. Give the OP a break - let's move on from her choice of words and comment on the content of her post instead?
I have no issue with Rowling expressing her opinions so am surprised at the fall out.

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