JK Rowling featured in Guardian person of the year

[Blackandwhitehorse]

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/30/guardian-readers-nominate-their-person-of-the-year

@2Rebecca

I heard she actually got the most votes so they had to scrap having an actual competition but I can't remember where I read that

They asked people to nominate their ‘people of the year’ and a lot of people seemed to vote for her. The webpage was ‘deactivated’ (their words) without and warning, then there was discussion about if it was any type of competition or gathering copy for an article. Either way - no closing date and a sudden closure of nominations was a bit off.

So people on twitter had a bit of a laugh and declared her the winner, regardless of the guardian, and decided that since the truth seems these days to be ‘relative’ anyway, she was indeed the winner.

Please can someone post the link on the thread in chat that got loads of “it wasn’t a nomination” then got derailed with immigration stuff. Haha only joking! good on you JKR and for the first and last time this year well done the guardian.

This one? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4428283-Guardian-asks-for-your-Person-of-the-Year-2021

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4437942-To-think-the-Guardian-is-a-joke-re-JK-Rowling?msgid=113717222

Sorry I can’t ever make it copy properly on my iPad. It was one in AIBU that was about 13 pages long.

Fantastic news! Well done all!

That's great! I also voted for JKR but tbf, reading that list, I could quite easily get behind most of the others on there too (I'm ashamed to say there are a few I hadn't heard of). It's a great list of people.

Well done JKR. What a woman. There are some great people on this list but she is by far my biggest hero.

Woohoo! Great job 👏

👌🏻 well done JKR

Great to read this. Well done to both JKR and Michelle

Ooh, "centring women and children" rather than "controversial anti-trans views", at last.
This^

JK has done great things for children dreading.

But honestly, to vote for her over healthcare workers is odd. Healthcare workers have been asked to do do much the last few years and how an author can win over this is wrong.

Healthcare & frontline workers are literally the first group mentioned in the article

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/30/guardian-readers-nominate-their-person-of-the-year

@Stellaris22

JK has done great things for children dreading.

But honestly, to vote for her over healthcare workers is odd. Healthcare workers have been asked to do do much the last few years and how an author can win over this is wrong.

1. It's not a "winner" competition. It's a discussion piece in which certain people have been highlighted for a range of reasons. She didnt win because there usnt a first place

1. The article asked for "person of the year" nominations. Not "group of people" or "industry". Naming Jane the nurse down the street or Brian the hospital porter isnt going to actually see them named.

1. Other organisations and people have put forward excellent campaigns to recognise and acknowledge those who have been on (and suffered) the front line of covid. Not everything has to be related to covid.

Beautiful!

Healthcare workers have been asked to do do much the last few years and how an author can win over this is wrong.

She's done more for women and children over the year than any individual nurse and that's why she deserves to win.

@Stellaris22

JK has done great things for children dreading.

But honestly, to vote for her over healthcare workers is odd. Healthcare workers have been asked to do do much the last few years and how an author can win over this is wrong.

Healthcare worker here and v happy with JKRs place on this!

Stellaris22 Did you even read the article or just come here to winge?
Healthcare and frontline workers are the first ones mentioned.

Fantastic, and the article is well handled

She and Kathleen Stock also appear on the Italian newspaper IL Corriere Della Sera list of women if the year 2021

I'm a HCP. I was one of the many people to nominate JKR.

Slight snag. It appears Rowling was doing too well....

www.dailywire.com/news/british-newspaper-cancels-person-of-the-year-poll-after-j-k-rowling-runs-away-with-top-spot?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

Regardless of whether she got more votes or not I think we can agree that the binary concepts of winning and not winning do not properly encompass the relationship which a person has with winning or not winning. This is definitive proof that there no longer is any winning or not winning in any scientific or mathematical sense. If JK feels like a winner then she is. If we, are JK fans, feel like she is a winner, then she is and it is bigoted of anyone to suggest otherwise.

Basically, I think she won. Moral victory at the very least (in terms of what she stands for, not in relation to the other nominees).

Slight snag.... It appears Rowling was doing too well...

www.dailywire.com/news/british-newspaper-cancels-person-of-the-year-poll-after-j-k-rowling-runs-away-with-top-spot?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

Healthcare worker here and v happy with JKRs place on this!

Me too! The NHS is far from an equitable employer and every day we see the impact of misogyny and sexism. We need people who stand up to that as if we accept the current dogma NHS staff, and our patients, pay the price.