Jonathan Ross - well done

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www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/jonathan-ross-fiercely-defends-jk-22153984

Here he is again - sticking up for the side of rationality!!

The BTL comments are heartening too.

Good for him. We need more men and women with a public platform to support JK, rather than calling her a 'twat' and telling her to 'get in the bin' like, say, Caroline Hirons

I don't really do twitter but I've taken a look at some of the tweets attacking JKR and honestly - I'm aghast! Fine, disagree with her comments (I don't!) but the language used, the abuse ... how can they take the moral high ground?

Caroline Hirons 🙄 there’s far too much worship of her.

💛 JKR

'Caroline Hirons 🙄 there’s far too much worship of her."

Couldn't agree more. I was so disgusted with her Twitter thread. She has four children (which she never shuts up about) and is peri menopausal (which she never shuts up about) but is prepared to pretend that female biology isn't a thing, just for woke cookies? Shes ridiculous

Did you see David Baddiel retweeted one of Jonathan's (super reasonable agreeing-to-disagree) replies? I thought he might be on our side... Come on over, David!

Caroline Hirons 🙄 there’s far too much worship of her.

Her skin care information is nonpareil. I don’t follow her for the politics, I follow her for the skincare analysis.

Her advice might work for others but it’s not exactly worked for her if she’s having Botox. Her under eye areas very damaged/aged.

Newby Hands is very good, and hasn’t hidden her Botox to my knowledge. She was advocating sunblock every day in 1999, or NoySkincare on insta.

I have never trusted a word Caroline Hirons has written.

I got pushed this in my 'morning news briefing' and the spin they're putting on JKR's perfectly reasonable and measured tweets is crazy - calling her 'anti-transgender' - when all she's saying is sex is real, acting like they're baffled at what she's got a problem with

Her Twitter post appeared to be responding to a liine that described the "menstrual health and hygiene needs of girls, women and all people who menstruate - ie. making it sound like she was being awful, picking the longer line from within the article, when it was clearly the headline of the article: Creating a More Equal Post-Covid-19 World for People Who Menstruate

Absolute fuckers the lot of them with their faux wide-eyed, determination to stamp down the woman asserting her rights.

Anyway I got distracted - I came on to say thank you Jonathan Ross Sir.

And while I haven't read all 800-odd responses, it's very instructive to see the difference in tone - e.g. 'I'm sorry, Jonathan but you're categorically wrong' - compared to the batshittery directed at JKR.

I remember when he interviewed her, he is obviously a huge fan.

McDuffy

He retweeted this too:

*Dr. Jessica Taylor
@DrJessTaylor
There is nothing woke or progressive about tweeting a woman who holds a different opinion to you and calling her a bitch, telling her to kill herself, sending her memes of guns being pointed at her, rape threats & so on.

You can’t use misogyny and violence to back up ‘feminism’*

Agreed though I thought he would be on our side - if DB has drunk the koolaid - I’ll be gutted.

The "Independent" provides an opportunity to compare coverage of a woman and a man speaking on trans issues.

Look at the difference between Jonathan Ross:
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jonathan-ross-graham-linehan-transphobia-lgbt-twitter-backlash-a9408776.html

At least that article quoted Ross's words... providing some sort of appearance of "balance" (compared to the numerous tweets attacking him and Linehan)

Now look at how the "Independent" has really gone for it with JK Rowling. Not content to report people calling her transphobic; they reported someone calling her a hypocrite about Black Lives Matters:

to subtly show she disagreed with Rowling’s views. [...] Leung used the hashtag: “#AsiansForBlackLives.”

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jonathan-ross-daughter-honey-jk-rowling-transphobic-tweets-harry-potter-a9554126.html

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/jk-rowling-trans-katie-leung-cho-chang-harry-potter-tweets-racist-a9553271.html

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/jk-rowling-transphobic-twitter-harry-potter-trans-women-lgbt-pride-month-a9554986.html

The sexist double standard is as clear as day. Do they think we can't see this?

The Indy is one step along from the guardian. A load of twaddle. And Jonathan really needs to have a wee words with his daughter about calling women sexist slurs - since she obviously doesn’t understand.

The Independent is not really a newspaper, not simply as it only exits online but because it does precious little news gathering itself. It just buys in reports from press agencies and offers views on them mainly by lower grade journalists who just hack out identikit woke views

He posted this not long ago.

His daughters are quite foolish.

Are they trans then? I’d not why we they more qualified to decide?

Wonder how he knew they were daughters & if he ever worried about them getting pregnant as teens

They're not alone, are they? How many early 20s women are prepared to stand up for women's sex-based rights? I imagine they're under a lot of pressure to keep their dad "on message".

Of course he knows it's not transphobic. His daughters appear to be intersectional 'feminists' who centre men and call women bitches for not sharing their lofty views.

The amount of traction this issue has is totally out of proportion to the number of people involved. I cannot understand how this happened. iWhere did the influencing of Governments and legislation etc come from? But women will be most affected by the patriarchy so possibly there's the answer.

Time has come to be blunt and shut it down pronto.

Thank you J Ross and JK. Women's voices need to be heard.

I would just like to note the contrast between his daughter calling JK Rowling a "bitch" in the newspapers and JK Rowling saying "biological sex is real." And how one of those is apparently hateful prejudice and one of them is not even controversial.

Amazing how much lower the bar is for transphobia than for misogyny - or is it just that misogyny doesn't even matter to people?

On a slight tangent, I've been watching Ricky Gervais' After Life series 2 on Netflix. Has anyone seen the episode (think it's the second to last one) where he (local newspaper journalist) is sent to interview the dad who identifies as a 9 year old girl? Very funny. And outrageous. And quite touching/sad when he chats to the man's daughter.

Warning: if you haven't seen this series, there is a therapist character in it who gets progressively more horrifically misogynistic each episode (Gervais clearly wants us to despise him) - but you might find it a bit hard to watch.