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

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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

I’m glad I don’t use Twitter. It sounds grim. Why would you run a promotion aimed at kids on a site that has porn on it. The whole thing is disgusting.

What social media platform has ‘no porn’ ? Genuinely, can you tell us what Joanne Rowling SHOULD have used to try to provide some entertainment for locked down kids?

And do you think that those posting porn and horrific threats were righteous in their tactics then? Do you support the attacks on Joanne Rowling or indeed any person disagreeing with the current rhetoric?

@Teaandjam

I’m glad I don’t use Twitter. It sounds grim. Why would you run a promotion aimed at kids on a site that has porn on it. The whole thing is disgusting.

Why would you choose to characterise what she did as 'running a promotion on a site that has porn on it', as though Twitter itself was solely a porn site? What, like Facebook, then? Or any other social media place. And the only reason there was porn connected with her promotion was the actions of disgusting people. Blame them, not her.

It’s the people that pos5 porn that you should be disgusted at

@Novelusername

I think a lot of these people are children, or at least very young. In kids, I think it's forgivable, they just don't understand the full extent of what's going on and want to fit in with whatever's fashionable. Their brains haven't fully developed until their mid-twenties (no offence to all the wonderful young people who aren't like this, but it's a fact). The older ones have only misogyny and narcissism to blame.

I agree, for some of them it's just a game to get attention. they say outlandish things and then just wait for the responses. Or add to a pile-on and feel big and clever.

Imagine your whole claim to fame being 'I harassed JKRowling'?
I'm actually embarrassed for them.

I often wonder if these people will look back in shame at some of their online antics in years to come. I certainly cringe at some of the stupid sh!t I did as a teenager, but theirs in online forever in all it's glory.

@RaindropsOnRosie

She should have her devices taken off her so she doesn't keep posting on Twitter.

That's what your mum says to you isn't it?

I’m confused. I though she did say that last year when she was arguing on Twitter? Or was it a fake tweet? I don’t use social media so I miss all this drama.

Surprisingly well informed about what happens on Twitter for someone who doesn't use social media, aren't you? I know various people who wouldn't have a clue what this was about.

"I don't use social media so miss all the drama but know the minutiae of JK Rowling's tweets last year"

I’m glad I don’t use Twitter. It sounds grim. Why would you run a promotion aimed at kids on a site that has porn on it. The whole thing is disgusting

Can you be more specific? What's disgusting? Twitter? The porn on there? Kids promotion? Those posting the porn?

I mean if it was only fans then you would have a point, but Twitter is a cesspit if that's all you look at, like Facebook they use an algorithm that send you more of what you look at. So you see porn, because that's what you look for. Who's fault is that? JKR doesn't make you.

@Ereshkigalangcleg

"I don't use social media so miss all the drama but know the minutiae of JK Rowling's tweets last year"

Yes, I was struck by the faux naivety too.

I don't use social media

Is MN not social media?

I don't use social media = It doesn't count when I do it.

So on the one hand he's saying this:

"Perplexed by that tweet. You said the Ickabog was for seven to nine year olds. The lower age limit for twitter is 13."

So he knows that children aged 13 are allowed onto the site and many will be following JKR.

But when it's pointed out that for younger children, their parents will be tweeting their artwork he says this:

"But it raises the question why Jo is talking about needing to protect children"

I'm sure he already knows this but Jo is talking about needing to protect children because:

1. 13 year olds ARE children.

1. Younger children still might have some access to the site, regardless of whether or not they should and responsible adults know this.

1. By reporting the perverts responsible but refusing to otherwise engage with them, she's protecting everyone else from having to see the images (including the people in the images should they need to be protected) in the best way possible, regardless of how old they may be because it's not just children who don't want to see it (and that's exactly while the vile fuckers posting it are doing it, because they know that and do does he).

snoopy

Very good points

So he thinks its ok to show a 13 year old porn…are there not laws about that?

By ‘run a promotion’, it sounds like you think she was advertising her book to increase sales.

She wasn’t. She released it online free, in instalments, to entertain children.

She opened a competition to illustrate it (which is why parents were sharing children’s artwork on Twitter), and included some of the children’s drawings in the final published editions.

She is donating the royalties from the published book to charity.

She is an all round good egg (not the finest writer in the world, occasional crass moments, but overall a great storyteller) and does fantastic stuff for children.

Seems a better use of Twitter (and of life) than carping at people online.

Just the absolute front of men attempting to sexually intimidate a woman on her Twitter page where she was posting about her free book for children, then blaming the woman for ignoring their sexual intimidation and turning it into some sort of moral failing on her part. Fucking hell, can nobody see what's going on here?! How do they even dare to attempt this take on events?!

If the ''right side of history'' means having to defend this shit and victim blame children, I've never been so fucking pleased to be over here on the ''wrong side''.

Yup.

blaming the woman for ignoring their sexual intimidation and turning it into some sort of moral failing on her part

Who was the politician last week who suggested that if a small girl noticed a dick in the Ladies, it was her fault for staring? It's much the same vibe.

I’ll just say this again (in case she ever sees)

I ❤️❤️❤️❤️ JKR

@OhDear2200

I’ll just say this again (in case she ever sees)

I ❤️❤️❤️❤️ JKR

I'll join you in that.

I ❤️❤️❤️❤️ JKR too.

I think when people start talking about pipe bombs in mailboxes… I think we know that all those ‘look who you’re aligned with’ arguments will simply die away, yes???

twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1417031300498829315?s=21

Everyone saying she ‘supported porn being posted’… you are ok with this tweet right?

Big avert in times Scotland today

How fabulous. How wonderful of The Times to print that. No one can take that down!

Is it just in the Times Scotland? I'm an online subscriber but I'll buy a paper copy to see that in print.

I dunno fanny. There is another thread running. Which I didn5 notice to to unspeasonable hot Scottish weather frazzling my brain

In the mail now

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9802029/JK-Rowling-calls-troll-tweeted-death-threat-her.html

Thanks littlbrowndog
I'll take a look when I head out to the shops.