JK Rowling on Keir Starmer

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In the Daily Mail

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10605735/JK-Rowling-slams-Keir-Starmer-Labour-leader-says-trans-women-women.html

'This hill we're all supposed to be dying on is mighty crowded, isn't it? And we all seem very lively, too...'

Love her!

"THE THING IS, IT HELPS WHEN PEOPLE STAND UP TO THEM. IT GIVES EVERYONE HOPE." Neville Longbottom, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows.

JK is a woman who understands a great deal about the value of bravery.

Said no TRA ever

I love her. She's an amazing human being. I've just resigned my Labour Party membership. I can't bear it any more.

JKR for PM!

Times Scotland:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/11293cda-a22d-11ec-a401-6c0b998e6c9b?shareToken=ffe8e672936436e410979a95dc39188b

She is Amazing.

And wtf is Keir Starmer on about saying Women are Adult Human Females AND transwomen arecwome and that's the law

????!!!! Labour drive me nuts on this issue.

@DialSquare

Isn't Caspar Salmon the one who told LOJ to find himself a broody Lesbian?

Yep, that's him. He's a revolting misogynist.

[quote Igneococcus]Times Scotland:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/11293cda-a22d-11ec-a401-6c0b998e6c9b?shareToken=ffe8e672936436e410979a95dc39188b[/quote]

Thanks for the sharetoken, pleased to see the mention of the regressive stereotypes inherent in gender ideology getting a mention.

JKR is an absolute star and thousands and thousands of women will be on that hill too.

And Starmer , Dodds et all are fools

@spacehardware

Oh they got the anti semitism accusations in recently. Remember the goblins thing? 🙄

Strange how this supposed anti-semitism and racism was only spotted after she spoke out about women's rights.

Hoorah for JK. I am so pleased she feels able to speak up saying everything I would like to say if I were as eloquent and not worried about losing my job.

Yep, that's him. He's a revolting misogynist.

That creep! Hilarious that JKR handed him his arse

Queen J! 💚

@HollowTalk

What's she's doing is standing in front of women who are more vulnerable so that the arrows hit her. She's absolutely amazing and I love her.

❤️

@Redshoeblueshoe

Labour losing women is trending on Twitter

😢

I see comments have been turned off (again) on that times article.

Today's leading article, comments open but premoderated, I have one pending which I doubt will be allowed:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a49ac38a-a22d-11ec-a1de-983f3d5a1668?shareToken=088392cb01004895f6deb5dd2179baf4

I wish I could be half as brave as she is.

[quote Igneococcus]Today's leading article, comments open but premoderated, I have one pending which I doubt will be allowed:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a49ac38a-a22d-11ec-a1de-983f3d5a1668?shareToken=088392cb01004895f6deb5dd2179baf4[/quote]
Thanks, I've put a comment on. Will see if it gets through.

Sorry this is a bit off topic.

It was World Book Day recently- our school had a loose theme of Harry Potter for the dress code. We had the usual superhero outfits (in a deprived area parents will send their kid in what they have, not what they go and buy for the day) but the school was full of Harrys and Hermionies and Hogwarts staff . There was far more Potter outfits than anything else. So not many parents boycotting her work there. Also the borough is doing a reading thing where a Potter book is sent from school to school and the kids add drawings before passing it on.

Why choose such a “controversial” and “hated” “bigot”? Because IRL JK Rowling is loved and respected by so many. People agree with her or don’t care. They like the books/films/humanitarian work.

Twitter might hate her and it may be voguish to slate her but it’s a different situation in reality.

One of our pta parents is a complete Potter head "of course she doesn't agree with her vile statements and will no longer buy new books and merchandise" apparently which is weird because as a family they are usually intelligent and well read plus the amount of Harry Potter merchandise she buys its mostly legit and not etsy at all you can tell she is a hypocrite who hasn't read a dam word of her essay she is just getting her lbtq+ credentials in she is very careful infront of me (my dd is very obviously lesbian and very much centre's the "T") which I find hilarious because I'm gender critical 🤣 my daughter and I do not discuss the subject at all!

And I won't be voting for starmer its ridiculous now but boris is literally killing people with his gas rises his attack on the poor and disabled im not sure how I'm going to live through next winter I'm currently on carers allowance to look after my son I may end up trying to go back to work (which ironically costs me more) because after school care has heating and food

@BiggerBoat1

She's awful and needs to shut up. Plenty of people on here lapping up her bullshit though I see!

You don’t believe in the right to give opinions? Or you don’t want people to be allowed have opinions you disagree with?

@HollowTalk

What's she's doing is standing in front of women who are more vulnerable so that the arrows hit her. She's absolutely amazing and I love her.

Love this, Hollow!

The only problem with that DM article as I see it is that headline which would read, to a critic, as if she's just kicking off at any mention of trans anything. If I didn't like her I'd just see that headline, have my biases confirmed and not bother reading any more, which doesn't help.

Her arguments have and always been pro-women, not anti-trans. This is a hugely important distinction and I just wish the media would recognise it as such.