JKRowling. Prepared to go to prison for women's rights.

Soubriquet · 18/10/2023 20:35

She is definitely a hero of our time

Dougalskeeper · 18/10/2023 20:35

For real women's rights, me too

iamenougheveryday · 18/10/2023 20:40

Everyday I love her more and more! A real hero!

NitroNine · 18/10/2023 20:48

Share token didn’t work for me @Cismyfatarse (but totally agree re JKR)

UnalterableSpaceCadet · 18/10/2023 20:50

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/32d91356-6d9b-11ee-b5d7-5487922f056f?shareToken=f1594da48d0791b9d9a9e2a6cd8965c2

Try it without the full stop at the end.

JK Rowling: I’ll happily go to prison for women’s rights

JK Rowling has said she would be prepared to go to prison to stand up for women’s rights.The writer of the Harry Potter books, as well as the Cormoran Strike cr

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/32d91356-6d9b-11ee-b5d7-5487922f056f?shareToken=f1594da48d0791b9d9a9e2a6cd8965c2

RhymesWithTangerine · 18/10/2023 20:52

I saw this. Fantastic.

She could live so loftily. But she’s got into the mud and I love her for it.

WomenShouldStillWinWomensSports · 18/10/2023 20:55

She really is the epitome of a strong successful woman who stands up for what she believes in and knows is right.
Good on her!
I mean this is someone astute enough to come up with the allegorical political regime that produced Umbridge (which is now playing out in real life).
"I WILL NOT TELL LIES" indeed.

RealityFan · 18/10/2023 20:59

I guarantee she wouldn't sit still. She'd be teaching her fellow inmates how to read and write, especially how to write a story. And a bloody good one at that.

Feministwoman · 18/10/2023 21:09

I'm up to do this. I will not tell lies.

Rightsraptor · 18/10/2023 21:25

What does 'hatred of a victim's gender identity' even mean?

If I see a bloke in a mini skirt up around his arse, as I did yesterday, I think he looks ridiculous and convinces nobody. If I were to ask him some pertinent questions, which I wouldn't because I regard men wearing women's clothes in public as waving more red flags than a May Day parade in Moscow, and he said 'my gender identity is a woman/female, so I wear these clothes' - could my questions be construed as 'hateful'? I don't think so, but Scots law might disagree.

But if I then tell him I think he looks ridiculous and he's clearly a man, I can't see how that is hatred of his 'gender identity' because if it were I'd have to hate women or females, and I don't. I hate seeing the parodies of womanhood these men affect, but that's not the same thing.

Insanity upon insanity.

Froodwithatowel · 18/10/2023 21:39

If the government of the day want to criminalise reality then yes, I'll be one of the very expensive drains they place on the tax payer trying to enforce it. Because I won't live in a country like that.

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Cismyfatarse · 18/10/2023 22:03

When I get banged up for standing up for reality, I really, really want to share a cell with JKR.

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margotmargeaux · 18/10/2023 22:07

What an incredible woman - I have so much respect and admiration for her

OneMorePlant · 18/10/2023 22:24

She is wonderful. Humanity is so blessed to have her.

KohlaParasaurus · 18/10/2023 22:24

The publicity would be phenomenal. And I totally believe JKR would dare to put such a ridiculous law to the test if it was passed, it would be completely in line with the bold and principled stand she has consistently taken.

agent765 · 18/10/2023 22:28

Admiration and respect but most of all she gives me hope.

AlphaTransWoman · 18/10/2023 22:34

To be fair, she would be sent to a nice lady prison because she is a woman. Two years in Wormwood Scrubs would be an entirely different prospect. 😱

Tallisker · 18/10/2023 22:45

TransWoman see, I don't think it would be. I'm sure she'd be fine in Wormwood Scrubs. But then you don't understand women, do you?

paperflowers55 · 18/10/2023 22:51

if this is what it has come to I will ensure to always refer to someone by their first name and avoid genders. problem solved. for all I know, I could misgender someone by absolute mistake

AlphaTransWoman · 18/10/2023 22:57

I dearly wish the English language did not have gendered pronouns. This whole damn problem would immediately disappear.

Wiccan · 18/10/2023 22:59

AlphaTransWoman · 18/10/2023 22:34

To be fair, she would be sent to a nice lady prison because she is a woman. Two years in Wormwood Scrubs would be an entirely different prospect. 😱

Firstly womens prisons are not "nice " and JKR wouldn't be put in wormwood because ...... Oh yeah , she's a WOMAN !

Tallisker · 18/10/2023 23:02

Oops!

JanesLittleGirl · 18/10/2023 23:03

AlphaTransWoman · 18/10/2023 22:57

I dearly wish the English language did not have gendered pronouns. This whole damn problem would immediately disappear.

Nah. They would just open a second front.

spookehtooth · 18/10/2023 23:13

Rightsraptor · 18/10/2023 21:25

What does 'hatred of a victim's gender identity' even mean?

If I see a bloke in a mini skirt up around his arse, as I did yesterday, I think he looks ridiculous and convinces nobody. If I were to ask him some pertinent questions, which I wouldn't because I regard men wearing women's clothes in public as waving more red flags than a May Day parade in Moscow, and he said 'my gender identity is a woman/female, so I wear these clothes' - could my questions be construed as 'hateful'? I don't think so, but Scots law might disagree.

But if I then tell him I think he looks ridiculous and he's clearly a man, I can't see how that is hatred of his 'gender identity' because if it were I'd have to hate women or females, and I don't. I hate seeing the parodies of womanhood these men affect, but that's not the same thing.

Insanity upon insanity.

You think its okay to approach a stranger in the street walking around and minding their own business, in spaces everyone agrees they have the lawful right to be, for the specific purposes of getting into some kind of argument?

I think you have some issues of your own. Nobody deserves their day to disrupted like that, for any reason whatsoever. You're no different to a man cat calling, wolf whistling or giving a woman any of the unwanted attention they get going about their day, minding their own business.

ArabellaScott · 18/10/2023 23:14

spookehtooth · 18/10/2023 23:13

You think its okay to approach a stranger in the street walking around and minding their own business, in spaces everyone agrees they have the lawful right to be, for the specific purposes of getting into some kind of argument?

I think you have some issues of your own. Nobody deserves their day to disrupted like that, for any reason whatsoever. You're no different to a man cat calling, wolf whistling or giving a woman any of the unwanted attention they get going about their day, minding their own business.

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Try rereading, maybe a little more slowly.

'If I were to ask him some pertinent questions, which I wouldn't'