To think JKRowling should be in the House of Lords

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She is probably the best selling living author writing in English

She has given a great deal of money to charity

She has conquered the disadvantages of being an unemployed single mother by her own efforts

She is a great role model for women and girls

Hear hear!

YABU but only because HoL is aiming too low. I’d rather she was PM, awesome woman.

Definitely. She's an amazing role model

Yes, but also I wouldn't wish it on her.

She's not actually a great writer.

Good point Crackof

🙄the adulation of this woman on here is bizarre. But apparently mumsnet, like JKR, has become a grotesque single issue echo chamber.

Aah, the policing of who women may or may not admire from @Hiphopopotamonster, there’s a surprise.

It's a bit more complicated than that. At the level of diction and individual sentence crafting, often not. Odd decisions. Infelicities.
But also I fire up Audible to start another Robin book and I've finished it in two days and I don't really know how it happened. So yes, she really is.

YABVU indeed

I do actually but not for any of the reasons you give (well maybe tangentially for the last).

She's a great story teller which is maybe more important.

No, she's a good storyteller. (but not a very original one)

the adulation of this woman on here is bizarre. But apparently mumsnet, like JKR, has become a grotesque single issue echo chamber.

meh. It's not actually true.
the OP refers to the book sales - they are huge and are good for the UKs GDP. For that alone she should write and write and write.

The rest? nobody has managed to show with any convincing evidence that she is as awful as they say she is so I'll stick with listening to what she has to say, among others, as a range of opinions is always good.

What is the single issue though?

No, she's a good storyteller. (but not a very original one)

who is? There is a long long long tradition in storytelling of putting your own spin on things, or retelling stories. LOTR and the Ring of Gyges springs to mind - nobody is accusing Tolkien (that often) of being a shit writer because of it.

It's all very judgy of what people read, IMO. If the publishers know it will sell, they will continue to publish her work. They know what they are doing.

Jkr is an awesome role model.
I think hol would be much enriched by her voice.

I do want to say This though.
There are hundreds of great women in politics who are being suppressed, beaten down and finding it hard to be heard because it is patriarchy on steroids. The fact that jkr can be such a queen and speak out clearly and loudly despite a constant hate campaign, barrage of death and rape threats is because her talent yields her enough cash to be largely untouchable.

What I'd really like is for the barriers to great female politicians to be burnt to the ground so that we can hear them, see them without the protection of wealth. Lets keep on working towards that. Lets keep on dpeaking up and supporting our sisters.

She might not want to be in the House of Lords, or have the time to commit to being a working peer. She might have been offered a peerage and declined it.

Nope - even if she supports my views, she's a hack with a god complex who has literally used her wealth to tastelessly taunt people she disagrees with in arguments. She's hijacked issues when other authors (S. Rushdue) have been horribly physically attacked and made the whole thing about her.
She has lied about being doxxed for sympathy when the address in question was already public. We should take a very dim view of hearing her claim to speak for all women.

I won't support someone just because they tickle my fancy regarding my favourite hot-button topic.

I think she lives her life by the values she promotes in her books. Of course she is not perfect. But who is, and it only seems to be women who are held to the perfection yardstick anyway. Integrity is a rare thing, rarest of all in politicians. She would be magnificent in the HoL.

No, I disagree. She should be Queen.

You should vote Labour then because the Tories would never have her in there given her

... politics outside of the obvious issue. However as far as I can tell that single issue is preventing many women for voting for a party who cares about poverty, working class, free health care etc.

@Hiphopopotamonster yeah, I agree. It's become a weird kind of cult on here.

And that's why single issue voters are easily manipulated into voting against their own best interests.

@Hiphopopotamonster · Today 11:06
🙄the adulation of this woman on here is bizarre. But apparently mumsnet, like JKR, has become a grotesque single issue echo chamber.

Yes ! Never hear anything about the woman except on here and it is boring.