The Uncancelling of JK Rowling

[NutellaEllaElla]

Gosh it is heartening to see even more evidence that the tide has turned. She's stuck to her guns and been too reasonable to be cancelled by the misogynists.

Times article here

Exactly. Either we are soooo different and need to be kept in line or we are exactly the same so need to kept in line.
Heads I win, tails you lose.

Yes, and just dick around with language till it does the job you (the patriarchal you) want it to.

We are a sexually dimorphic species. Human rights should apply equally to all humans. Policies to achieve, maintain and protect human rights should take account of differences and similarities, and work from them towards equal rights, not twist them to deny female humans their rights.

Things like the right to freedom of assembly and association has gone down the toilet for human females, because human males have been given priority because they said some magical words that don't even make scientific sense. Which means that women's right to freedom of belief has also been deprioritised, again at the expense of the magical words of men and male-dominated institutions who are lying about science. In the western world. In countries like UK.

Tbh, I think it’s more that 21st century patriarchy has managed to weaponise both the differences and similarities between the sexes against female humans.

The patriarchal narrative has subverted earlier feminist de-emphasising of the biological and using it against women. The concept of gender has been entirely turned inside out in the process and positioned as the only thing that actually matters.

It’s incredibly depressing.

Policy makers are supposed to start with human rights as the objective, and work back through biological differences and find ways to adapt and adjust policies to achieve those rights for all, not look at differences and similarities and use them as a means to deny rights to women.

Education and periods, for example. Right to: education. Means of achieving: sanitary protection and toilet availability for girls in schools. Wrong thing to do: making toilets unisex and removing additional rights to privacy & dignity.

But the UN has gone mad and yes, it's bloody depressing - and dangerous.

I’m probably preaching to the choir, but Caroline Criado-Perez book (and newsletter) Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is brilliant on the sex differences and gender differences (thinking about gender roles not bio stuff) between men and women. Brilliant but infuriating.

Seeing the cancellation of women in Iran it's firing up the boilers of certain factions in the Western world.

Probably because they have to take so much s#it from men that they need a longer duodenum to hold it all. 😬😉

Your last sentence made me laugh so much 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh that's excellent news.

In a few months we can start saying she's been cancelled all over again!

What does that mean?

Laughing tonight at Bud Lite and their horrendous woke mistake that has cost them £10 billion.

Waiting to see what Nike ✔️ financial results will show

Indeed.

And surely if that girl had miraculously become a boy, s/he shouldn't have remained in the school anyway - and certainly shouldn't be showering with the girls after PE.

But why should she have to call a man "she"? Or a woman, "he"? Or a - whatever - binary, non-binary, who knows - "they"?

KJK is more than happy for people to live as they wish - she just doesn't think that she should have to live as they wish. And nor do I.

We use pronouns about other people when they aren't there. Makes no difference to them - they can't hear it. And if they do and they don't like it - well, I'm sorry they find it upsetting, but I don't like living with cognitive dissonance.

This comment is pathetic.

But true

No, dear. It's just plain old unadulterated pathetic.

JKR has never "bashed" trans people, so no, it's not "true". Just more juvenile mudslinging.

Receipts for the 'bashing' please?

Bashes trans people but pretends to be a bloke when writing some of her books.

Equating being trans with "pretending to be a bloke". You're a true trans ally, aren't you... gross.

Well im glad this one is back in prison

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12068021/Transgender-woman-24-raped-friend-weeks-released-prison-jailed-9-years.html

No, dawg. Just pointing out your lies.
And it must be said yet again; it is not kindness to lie to people and make them believe things that are completely false. Not kind at all.

Such a nonsensical comment. Nobody is even vaguely angry, we're just pointing out your outright lies 🤷🏻‍♀️

'Pervert Lexi-Rose Crawford'.

Love it.

It's all they have. No argument to make, no claims to be backed up, just tedious dishonesty.