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

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She posts this.

@MotherForkinShirtBalls I agree, SG is a big disappointment. For a woman as clever and hardworking as her, someone who has made a successful career through serious illness and a debilitating medical condition, as well as being a mother, to capitulate to those utter nonentities is depressing. I wonder if she'll regret it.

Twitter is getting scarily FAR left, so much threatening language directed at JKR for this. It would be awful to know people that horrible in real life.

i dont think its far left, its extremely polarised and divisive- it works for soundbites and slogans- no room for nuance, consideration or understanding. young people are beginning to think this is the way to conduct debate.

Helmet twitter has been removing interactions with the original JKR tweet last year. There are dedicated people who now like it everyday or retweet as the interaction doesn’t stick . This one will be the same I am sure.

well theres 187k likes now- and a lot of people watching...

@MoltenLasagne

Can't see a single comment on The Times article that is critical of JKR. Once you get out of the woke central of twitter most people understand reality.

Twitter is the digital equivalent of the 2 Minute Hate.

who is SG?

Oh for fucks sake I spend the weekend off the internet and this happens! In the words of JR's friend - FUCKING YES!

Wow. I think we suspected that Jo was staying quiet in order to gather the facts but I wasn't expecting this.

We talk about being 'radicalised by MN' but in reality, we were all 'radicalised' by the TRAs and their behaviour. MN is just where we were allowed to talk about it.

Once again, it's not what JR has said that will be the news story here - it will be the reaction to what she's said. Or at least, that's where my focus will be when I'm discussing this much higher-profile-than-normal story with people. It's much easier to talk about these things in RL when it's been put into the public eye for me.

Thanks TRAs! Literally.

Helmetbymidnight, I'm replying to Motherforkin's post, full name is there.

My comment to the Times article on this had a like within a minute or so, lower moderation levels these days?
JKR is mega! I think we could totally be pals daydreams

Wow.

Yes.

Yes.

YES!

As someone told that grew up with a brother and is told I now have to say I have a sister by my family which erases my childhood and makes it harder to connect to others and relate to others because of this required politically correct mental gymnastics.

Fucking yes.

As someone sagely commented under the Times article-

The overreaction tells you that she's right, they know she's right but they don't want/can't admit it.

And as I have been humming this morning-

'The wheels on the bus are coming off, coming off, coming off. The wheels on the bus are coming off. It's about bloody time.'

@littlbrowndog

No you bad terf

We're beyond redemption

After a weekend of horror at my friends reactions to this and their outrage on SM (towards JK) I came into work this morning and after some small talk said to my favourite colleague "so what did you make of all the JK stuff?" and she put her head in her hands and said "what is the world coming to that a woman can't speak freely on factual things?! "
FUCKING YES!

Previous thread about the bloody awful Bloody Good Period.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3447687-Period-poverty-bleeders?pg=1

@Botsy

My comment to the Times article on this had a like within a minute or so, lower moderation levels these days? JKR is mega! I think we could totally be pals daydreams

Yes, and all of my comments have gone through right away -- in the mast they have been withheld for review.

They asked her to educate herself, so she did. And now they're pissed off that she didn't educate herself in the approved way.

YY to twitter being the 2 minute hate.

There are publications with 'people who are pregnant'..

The overreaction tells you that she's right, they know she's right but they don't want/can't admit it
This^

Previous thread about the bloody awful Bloody Good Period.

For people who are concerned about period poverty, but for whom linking period poverty to all other kinds of structural oppression of women is a step too far.

Dr Jessica Taylor has a very calm and straightforward thread on this today, I would love to @roisiningle or jenniferoconnell (Irish posters) but I'm afraid she tweeted in favour of sineadgleeson who has since made her account private..

Ah thanks Pachy, I don't know her.

Flootered, that's good!

Everyone knows now don't they. I mean the whole debate can't have escaped people anymore, (can it?!)
So I like to assume people's silence is because they support GC views but are too nervous to say.
I must say though the silence from the writing community, the writing community on Twitter, is over-whelming.

Great response to one of the haters here:

The irony is that JK Rowling really does think very hard about the charities and causes she supports.

One of the reasons Lumos was set up was because orphanages had become part of the charity/tourism industry. She could have easily thrown some money at an orphanage in a picturesque part of the world, got some publicity shots and moved on, but she didn't.