JKR on Twitter, a thank you.

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Today, on International Womens Day, it's been rather depressing seeing all manner of organisations throw in a quick lip service tweet, only to be pulled up by that bot on their sex pay gaps. Then a vagina museum essentially goad women by doing a big thread about celebrating some people that don't have vaginas. A police force pissing off women too, and then removing the tweet with a post telling us all to "be kind". The hashtag that popped up in the middle of the day, telling women what the right kind of feminism is: the intersectional aka everyone kind.

Basically the general shite we've all come to expect because we can't have one flipping day to ourselves.

So, I would like to say, thank fuck for JK Rowling. Who has stormed in from yesterday and continued today at her magnificent, no holds barred and no shits given best. It's made it an IWD to remember.

That is all. Happy IWD

Mine went through the stage of rejecting my boring old mum feminism in favour of the fun rainbow cool-kids kind, but they began to see through it when they got out into the world a bit more.

My DS was the same. He has been out of university now for a while, and is working. Not only has he done 180 degrees on gender ideology, but has apologised to me for 'falling hook, line and sinker' for the rot promulgated online about JKR.

@SpinningTheSeedsOfLove

Mine went through the stage of rejecting my boring old mum feminism in favour of the fun rainbow cool-kids kind, but they began to see through it when they got out into the world a bit more.

My DS was the same. He has been out of university now for a while, and is working. Not only has he done 180 degrees on gender ideology, but has apologised to me for 'falling hook, line and sinker' for the rot promulgated online about JKR.

That is incredibly heartening. Nothing like a bit of real world experience to open your eyes.

Snaps for Jo ❤️.

Thinking about the other thread on the slogan "break the bias", I think JKR is a bias barometer.

The bias against women is currently so high that even a woman as demonstrably a good person (& socialist) as JKR can be consigned to the "bigot" heap by people who claim to be progressive /kind /left wing /intelligent and who have probably not even bothered read what she wrote.

Completely agree. She's actually awesome. And her timing, after enduring the annual cock-haver-inclusion-fest that IWD has become in recent years, is perfect.

So much this.

As for that person asking her is this the hill she wants to die on? Why on earth wouldn't you??

Watching politicians wang on about women and then being too scared out of their fucking wits to actually define what it means.

The realisation that they actually won't do it is horrifying.

And then some twat asks why you really care that much??

She will be going through, what we've all been through, and be madly, lividly, mind blowingly fuming.

I can't think of a single other woman with the power, reach and articulation that she has, who is speaking up.

She is unique.

And this is her legacy.

Katy Montgomerie telling her to 'grow up you absolute loser'.

The irony.

@FunnyTalks

Thinking about the other thread on the slogan "break the bias", I think JKR is a bias barometer.

The bias against women is currently so high that even a woman as demonstrably a good person (& socialist) as JKR can be consigned to the "bigot" heap by people who claim to be progressive /kind /left wing /intelligent and who have probably not even bothered read what she wrote.

This.

@Ereshkigalangcleg

Completely agree. She's actually awesome. And her timing, after enduring the annual cock-haver-inclusion-fest that IWD has become in recent years, is perfect.

So much this.

Yet another reason I love her: even with her anger and passion shining through, her interventions are timed and calibrated with scalpel-like precision. She makes headlines and she uses the power brilliantly.

Bloody love you JK. x

JKR is my absolute hero🙌🏼

JKR is an absolute fucking legend.

Strange, I'm sure she received a lot of praise actually. 🤔

@Ereshkigalangcleg

Katy Montgomerie telling her to 'grow up you absolute loser'.

The irony.

My DH works with Monty.

Monty is as quiet as a mouse in the office. Fucking keyboard warrior/coward. I cannot WAIT for a works do that includes spouses so I can meet and greet the Monts.

I logged on to Twitter last night before bed to just really browse the shit show. Was absolutely stoked to see JKR's posts and the force of her rage.

Thank you Jo

She was on fire yesterday. I love her.

@Squishmael what Monty has a proper job?!? I assumed their TRA role was their source of income.

She’s just brilliant. You can feel their ire rising and eventually they can’t contain it and it spews out in misogynistic rage.

I’ll be in her neck of the woods soon, I have this secret fantasy that I’m sat in a quiet coffee shop enjoying a coffee and she comes in and says hi and we chat all about puberty blockers.

[quote Rainbowshit]@Squishmael what Monty has a proper job?!? I assumed their TRA role was their source of income. [/quote]
Are Monty's employers aware of the deranged bullshit and accusations Monty spews on a regular basis?

Not a lawyer so don't know if they're technically actionable, but I know my employers would have me out the door stat if I posted the half of it.

Katy Montgomerie telling her to 'grow up you absolute loser'.

Monty is projecting a real Mean Girls vibe there. I'm fully expecting Monty's next tweet to be 'You can't sit with us, loser!'.

@littlbrowndog

Omg she’s fucking ripping it tonight. That’s a Scottish woman who’s had enough

Brilliant

And, just because I know that people are pretend-cringing at this, I'm going to add a great, big YASSSSSS QUEEEEEEN!

'identifies as a sexual assault survivor'

WTAF. That author cannot have put that JKR identifies as a sexual assault survivor, surely? That would show lack of humanity and empathy on an epic scale.

@Hasselhoffsheadband

I'm loving the TRA reaction to this as well.

Katy Montgomerie telling her to 'grow up you absolute loser'.

Aidan Comerford still flogging that single tweet of a dead woman as a way to discredit JKR (he rolls it out at least once a week bless 'im) and comparing JK to Jimmy Saville.

Joss Prior quoting literary character descriptions from The Casual Vacancy thinking that it says something personally about JKR.

They've got nothing. The are just grasping at anything. She is pure class, she giveth no fucks now, and they just don't know how to handle it!

And you see similar behaviour from ger detractors on here.

Ha, what a shower of idiots.

What 'job' does Monty do? I can't see anything when I google her except a significant amount of self-promotion.

As for that person asking her is this the hill she wants to die on? Why on earth wouldn't you??

The sunlight it throws on things is unreal. The amount of supposedly intelligent people resorting to whataboutery - 'why aren't you supporting the real problems women have' - fail to see that they all stem from come back to exactly this hill in the first place.