JKR takes on the victim blamers over the pornography tweeted at children

[OvaHere]

I'm glad she's said this. It's despicable that TRA's subjected children to this in the first instance but even more so that they double down to blame the woman they targeted.

twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1416680018416181248

[TheSlayer]

Ohhh thanks for the tip off!

[Rhannion]

Thank you for the heads up on that radio programme

[BoreOfWhabylon]

@serendipitea

For the many fans of JKR, not only for her position on women but for being a smart, fun and intelligent woman, she will be on Radio 4 this evening at 7pm to talk about "magic and illusion, switching genres, creativity , sheds, sherry and coffee shops" with Simon Armitage, the poet laureate.

I just made a thread about this, didn't see that you'd already posted about it.

[BoreOfWhabylon]

@BernardBlackMissesLangCleg

that's a good piece from Brendan O'Neil. I suspect he' a man on a journey. I find him much less objectionable than I did 2 years ago.

It takes him until the final third of the article, but he does note that the treatment of J K Rowling is largely driven by misogyny.

I may be misremembering, but wasn't it B O'N who was thoroughly obnoxious to Posie Parker a couple of years ago? Ridiculing her for talking about social contagion? If so, he should apologise.

[BoreOfWhabylon]

Oh, I think it was James O'Brien! Sorry Brendan, as you were folks.

[TheSlayer]

Oh she's so honest about her journey. So apt to think that she had notes about her horrible experience with her ex husband, notes on Harry Potter and life admin from when she lived in poverty side by side in a little notebook she scribbled in when her baby was sleeping.

[Rhannion]

That’s was a lovely listen. JK and Simon were interesting and warm.

[Igneococcus]

Alex Massie in the Times today about death threats:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8547d582-ecbf-11eb-a9f0-ebe3f77d4a7e?shareToken=f64b5e8f965fddd747c4d63ffcdc03a3

[Congressdingo]

[quote Igneococcus]Alex Massie in the Times today about death threats:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8547d582-ecbf-11eb-a9f0-ebe3f77d4a7e?shareToken=f64b5e8f965fddd747c4d63ffcdc03a3[/quote]
The comments are brilliant too. More of the blessed sunlight.

[EmbarrassingAdmissions]

archive of this in case the share token lapses: archive.is/BiEth

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

Thanks for the tip off about the radio programme! Just listened on catch up. I assumed initially it would be done by Zoom but she really was there with him, in his shed, sipping some of the 75 bottles of sherry he gets as part of his Poet Laureate stipend. There was a real warmth about that interview, I felt. I assume they know each other already.

[HirplesWithHaggis]

[quote EmbarrassingAdmissions]archive of this in case the share token lapses: archive.is/BiEth[/quote]
I don't usually like Alex Massie, but he's bang on with that. Thanks for the link.