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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Just when you think you couldn’t love JK Rowling more...

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Deltoids1 · 06/06/2020 22:57

She posts this.

Just when you think you couldn’t love JK Rowling more...
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teawamutu · 07/06/2020 10:14

Very much so, Datun.

littlbrowndog · 07/06/2020 10:16

Just saw on twitter. The angry men

Now called the lesser bearded blue tick

Sums them up really 💪💪💪😂

HeyDuggeesCakeBadge · 07/06/2020 10:17

Thank you JK - I'm getting braver and tentatively stepping out as GC, this will definitely help!

MrsKCastle · 07/06/2020 10:17

Yes, Datun. People often talk about being 'ratioed' on Twitter: if the comments far outnumber the likes, people strongly disagree! Despite the huge number of TRAs and virtue signallers, JKR's likes still outnumber replies. Because most people can see that she is simply stating fact.

NeurotrashWarrior · 07/06/2020 10:18

Fionne

Just when you think you couldn’t love JK Rowling more...
Just when you think you couldn’t love JK Rowling more...
littlbrowndog · 07/06/2020 10:19

Jo works in a charity with the baroness.

And yeah her and her mates on the piss with fionne and his mates. That is so going to be a great night

TalkingtoLangClegintheDark · 07/06/2020 10:19

@IheartJK

I'm so emotional. I got doxxed two years ago to my employer for sharing the dictionary definition of woman on twitter. My life was made hell, screenshots on Facebook and my child's school Facebook page. Spun into devastating depression, stepped away from everything and just lately getting my life back.
So sorry to hear, that sounds hellish. It’s a very vivid example of how this movement is abuse of women in action. Not progressive or just at all.

Glad things are getting back on track for you. Flowers

MummBraTheEverLeaking · 07/06/2020 10:19

Twitter is a bit depressing this morning, its turned into a fucking witch hunt. I know JK will give precisely zero fucks which is great, but all these people falling over themselves to pile on and say these vile things...eurgh.

Makes me sad to think about what kind of world she'll be in when DD is older, and whether she'll end up captured like so many of them and think her own mother a nasty bigot for thinking her rights as a female are important.

littlbrowndog · 07/06/2020 10:20

Sarah Champion got ratioed to the utmost on twitter for posting the people menstruatoring.

Was a lovely sight

UglyGlassVase · 07/06/2020 10:21

How does twitter work in terms of showing retweets?

I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist but she looks like she is being ratio'd when you look at her whole time line (32k replies to 19k retweets) when you click on the tweet itself the 19k retweets turns into 68k.

Is the 19k the retweets with comments?

MummBraTheEverLeaking · 07/06/2020 10:21

Now called the lesser bearded blue tick

Grin that's cheered me up

WendyHoused · 07/06/2020 10:23

She’s bloody marvellous.

ListsWonderfulLists · 07/06/2020 10:23

Thank you JK. I'm another one who would risk my livelihood were I to speak out and that makes me feel so ashamed. Thank you for speaking up for those of us who can't - yet.

OvaHere · 07/06/2020 10:24

This is great. So glad she is pushing back and she's obviously been doing her homework on this for sometime.

Thank you JKR.

merrymouse · 07/06/2020 10:24

I wonder whether @jk_rowling has given even a moment's thought to the trans boys or young men, many of them acutely vulnerable, whose gender identity she denies, who she belittles,

This is such a privileged standpoint.

She hasn't belittled anyone's identity. I think all she has done is assert that sex based rights are important and that sex based rights can't exist if you can't recognise sex. Throughout history and in many parts of the world today, woman have not been able to escaped sex based restrictions simply by claiming a different identity.

It's ridiculous to pretend that menstruation could happen to anyone, when we know that women's rights are restricted because they menstruate.

As far as I know JK Rowling describes herself as a practising Christian, yet millions of people of other faiths and no faith are able to read her books without feeling attacked.

Datun · 07/06/2020 10:27

I wonder whether @jk_rowling has given even a moment's thought to the trans boys or young men, many of them acutely vulnerable, whose gender identity she denies, who she belittles,

Bandwagon jumping, sexist rubbish.

Young women trying to escape objectification or the male gaze who say they are trans is exactly the sort of person that J. K. Rowling will be thinking of.

There are many men who would like nothing more than to firmly cement women's fear and distress into an 'identity'.

Oxyiz · 07/06/2020 10:31

I've donated now. Only a small amount but I'll keep them in mind for when we have a better income.

merrymouse · 07/06/2020 10:32

would ask you to engage with what it means to be born a girl and identify as a boy and have an author you admire deny that part of your identity

Again, how privileged do you need to be to feel that you have a right to have your beliefs about (in this case about gender identity) not just tolerated, but affirmed?

Helmetbymidnight · 07/06/2020 10:32

Also Jolyon Maugham is a sexist, sanctimonious dick.

I know we all know that, but I feel better for saying it.

Its important to say it.

WrathFaeKlopp · 07/06/2020 10:33

NotBadConsidering
I spend rather too much time watching the vandalism edits of Wikipedia pages, particularly the attacks on decent, professional people.
It is a constant battle to keep Wiki pages truthful.

The edit vandalism has caused Wikipedia to rot from the inside.

TalkingtoLangClegintheDark · 07/06/2020 10:34

@Datun

Well said DancelikeEmmaGoldman

But then, I’ve always thought that the trans rights movement offered men a platform for expressing their hatred of women

And she is really exposing the misogyny. Like baroness Nicholson, civil, factual, rational tweets are being met with insane fury.

Realising that women with some actual power aren't having it, is generating some spectacular and impotent rage.

The narcissistic rage is something to behold!! Quite jaw-dropping.

JKR isn’t on our side and we can’t MAKE her be on our side so why should she even be allowed to SPEAK and how can she be so HOWWIBLE to us it’s not FAIR and no one is allowed to tweet about anything that isn’t BLM anyway [except all the people I say can tweet about anything they want, including me] and VILE MISOGYNISTIC RANT and her books meant so much to me this will literally kill me but and she can’t write for toffee anyway you’re a big fat LOSER JKR and I don’t care about you at all yah boo sucks
I don’t care so much I’m going to KEEP ON TWEETING IN CAPITALS and I’m going to scream and scream and scream until I’m sick and THEN YOU’LL BE SORRY

But WHY CAN’T WE MAKE HER DO WHAT WE WANT??? Don’t we actually control the universe and reality??? I DON’T UNDERSTAAAAANNNNNDDD

crumpet · 07/06/2020 10:35

Interesting to see that those who say she shouldn’t be distracting from BLM have no issue with that fact Pride mo th hasn’t been postponed

crumpet · 07/06/2020 10:35

*month

NeurotrashWarrior · 07/06/2020 10:36

Lol talking.

mummmy2017 · 07/06/2020 10:36

JKR is saying what woman feel.
Why should our identity be removed, I am shocked at what Scotland snuck into a bill.
My DD actually thought boys had periods....