JK - she’s done it now

[Butchyrestingface]

My daughter was very surprised that the tiger who came for tea took until page 9 before mentioning he likes cock.

You SOD, donquixotedelamancha

I've just spat a mouthful of very delicious artisanal distillery gin all over my laptop reading this.

Also. Rowling doesn't "preach" anything. She writes novels. You either like them or you don't.

Sophocles according to Glinner it was just in response to a made-up/photo-shopped tweet.

If that's the case she has had a huge huge pile-on, for on face value denying the provenance of a tweet - but I think she's been very clever with what she's done :-)

Just to be clear, MorganKitten, what did JR do to 'turn against the community'? Which 'views' of hers do you disagree with?

Because, y'know, you haven't actually said what you disagree with.

Can someone please take a photo of page 9?! Reminds me, I am out of gin...!

Anyone read The Famous Five as a kid? Wonder what the TRAs take on George would be? Transman no doubt cos George refused to do the washing up with Anne

Oh blue I read all of those. I've still got a lot of the stories on cassette and a friend borrows for long-distance journeys (her car has a tape player!). Fanny and Willy and Dick always at the rescue!

despite neglecting to include a single LGBT character in HP

Eh? Since we didn't see any sex scenes either way, not quite sure how you work that out.

The very hungry Caterpillar was clearly gay. The nibbling his way out of the cocoon and being a butterfly was a metaphor.

This is Dick.
This is Jane.
Jane likes Dick.
Jane is cisheteronormative.

I would happily kick a teacher's assistant around the block for destroying a book someone, particularly a child in their class, is reading. I don't care if you think it's great literature or not. Reading is such a great thing, a pleasure and a learning experience that nothing should be done that makes the child reader ashamed. If it was a dreadful racist track then perhaps a conversation would be in order and providing a balanced view but I would suggest the TA should be disciplined and perhaps even fired for their actions.

She’s bloody brilliant

SmudgeButt That tweet was supposed to be sarcasm - reading his follow-up tweets makes that clear.
It's a good example of Poe's Law, when the extremists get so silly that you can't tell the real from the parody.

Salutes to JK Rowling
And whilst she shouldn't really be given credit for paying her due taxes, the fact that she does in an environment where a great number of wealthy people use all sorts of shenanigans to avoid paying their share makes me admire her all the more.
I'm trying to follow her on twitter but can't seem to log on fsr

Jk Rowling has weathered many storms from book burnings in the US bible belt to the Scottish independence referendum (I'm still pissed off with her for her £1m advert for the unionist side but the abuse she received was unbelievable). I'm sure she will weather this one too, she is too big and too popular for the TRAs to take down. They can't dox her or try and get her sacked, they can protest her book and signings but won't have any real impact on her life.

The pluses in this shitty situation are that she must now know for sure that she can't recant and probably is sure she wouldn't want to.

When Harry Potter first came out the vicar down the road from me had the vapours in the local press. Good v evil. Think she would be surprised by the slant being banged on about now.

She didn't "turn on the community". She said something some TRA didn't like. Not the same thing.

I'm off to check The Very Hungry Caterpillar now.

Beware. It's now the Very Hungry Human Centipede.

Thank you for the heads-up on the next Cormoran Strike being finished. I think we should all be retweeting that Tweet - can't wait to read it.
Hilarious that some say they can't now read it because she believes in biological fact.
I love this woman, we have different views on some political points but she always comes from a good, well reasoned place. Doesn't have to put her head above the parapet but does so anyway for the wider good.

Granted that it's not uncommon to be unreasonable attached to and emotionally invested in something you loved as a child, but you have to wonder if all the people demanding an explanation/that she sign over her copyright to anon so they can pretend she didn't write her own books/her head on a plate would feel quite as entitled to demand things from a male creator of favorite childhood things.

It all comes back to the expectation that every woman in the world be mummy in the end. Some people can't look at a woman without seeing an amorphous blob of "can and should provide whatever I happen to need and is a Very Bad Mummy if she refuses to do so".

Hooray for JK

I would happily kick a teacher's assistant around the block for destroying a book someone, particularly a child in their class, is reading. I don't care if you think it's great literature or not. Reading is such a great thing, a pleasure and a learning experience that nothing should be done that makes the child reader ashamed

Totally agree - many children who tart off reading shite `9not saying that JKR is shite, though it's not my preferred reading) will move on to other authors. And even if they spend their lives reading chicklit or trashy adventures - so what? They learn to use their imaginations (you have to picture the story) and improve their spelling and (hopefully) vocabulary without even realising it.

Reading is BRILLIANT!

Reading is ZEN!

@SisyphusLangClegRocks

I'm disturbed that you have yet to acknowledge that Noddy is genderqueer.

I would be so angry at a teaching assistant that ripped up a book, they are to be cherished and passed on if no longer needed imo.