JK - she’s done it now

[Butchyrestingface]

And to be fair Eresh I don't think anyone here would get the vapours at being upset.

I think being discombobulated by the whole transology has fixed us for probably anything.

When Harry Potter first came out the vicar down the road from me had the vapours in the local press.

You mean to say - gasp - that Harry Potter is gay? Someone had better tell Ginny.

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.

I read this and agreed with you. And then thought how very weird the world has become, when someone would be called upon to recant for saying they don't think a woman should be fired for saying that biological sex is real. Sometimes I think I've slipped into a parallel universe.

I can't quite understand (or have the language to describe) the comments in response to JK's tweet. All very "she's hurt my feelz". But then I've looked at the profiles of those posting that - and it's anime / k-pop pics. Is this grooming?

thanks midcentury, I still don't get it but I think that is due to my not being on twitter and failing to grasp the nuances, and also apparently being too thick to understand JK's tweet, too

Hate group, lol. Aye.

Can’t we blame Biff and Chip for adolescent gender confusion.

When I first read the books, well before the films, I visualised Hermione as mixed-race, because she was her very curly hair was mentioned. So Emma Watson was a very jarring casting for me. And I also assumed that Sirius and Lupin had a thing for each other (James had Lily, Sirius had Lupin, so Peter felt left out and rejected, hence he turned to the Dark Side). I found it a bit confusing when Lupin and Tonks got together. And I'm so boringly hetero-normative that I decided I must have been wrong, rather than realising that of course Lupin was actually bi.

So, in my opinion JK has the multi-ethnic and LGB stuff covered. After all, if it's not strictly relevant to the story, why mention it? Does she ever tell us where Cho comes from? Or Parvati? Not relevant. Use your imaginations.

Can’t we blame Biff and Chip for adolescent gender confusion.

Only if they're women (the AHF kind obvs)

And the Ginny thing is clearly just youthful experimentation anyway. 83 million Drarry fanfics cannot be wrong.

read Turn by Sara's Girl, thank me later

If a teacher or TA ripped up a child's book to my knowledge, I would make sure they got reported to the Governing Body and Ofsted. And anyone else I can think of. Arsehole.

Just dont google Gruffalo Bill by Jim'll Paint It...

I'm not going to be able to read that book to my daughter now

The TA ripping up the book - it’s a parody account- didn’t happen

Jane is cisheteronormative.

I bloody KNEW it!

Just dont google Gruffalo Bill by Jim'll Paint It...

😱🤣

The TA seems to be based in New York State. Public school will mean something different, and presumably more woke than Eton.

Jane is cisheteronormative.

Don't even start me on the Famous Five go to Billycock Hill.

I think public school there means state school

Can’t we blame Biff and Chip for adolescent gender confusion.

🤣

The first book DD ever chose in reception to bring home for me to read was 'The Life Cycle of the Snail'

biological reality without being cisheteronormative.

(And I hasten to add she subsequently chose most of this delightful series so has no confusion betwixt molluscs and mammals)

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

I'm petty sure Big Ears was making a living in gay porn. I'm not sure why there wasn't a story about that, "Noddy Visits the Film Studio."

That TA is lying.

I work in a school; I don't care where the school is, TA's are not allowed to destroy school property, nor commit violent acts of book destruction in front of students :)

Someone's indulging in a little fantasy.

THE TA IS A PARODY ACCOUNT

How do you know. There seems to be a Linked In profile of someone from the same place and with the same name.

Are you pissed

Actually laughed at that 😂😂

Sorry for my caps shouting - if you carry on reading down the thread the “TA” says more and more outrageous things, including that they made a student eat a book. It’s trolling. It’s CRAZY that we are in this situation that it’s so hard to tell (I had to check)