JKR vs IW

[ZeldaFighter]

Are we going to talk about this? I think JKR was feeling a bit grumpy today 😀

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/jk-rowling-india-willoughby-twitter-gender-b2507309.html

I am a bit worried that "naice" people will think JKR is being horrid.

😂😂 Quite.

💯

I bet his checks notes birthing parent is proud of the former inhabitant of her uterus today.

Intrigued at the bloke on my Twitter feed commending Willoughby's "gracious" response. He must be following a different account of Willoughby's from the one I know about.

Michael Foran has put together a good thread on why Windy doesn’t have a leg to stand on.

And why JKR, on the other hand, may well have a case for criminal harassment.

https://x.com/michaelpforan/status/1765824427978108999?s=46&t=fMjCB4vFfh_N6mYE72mhHw

TRAs seem to be able to get away with anything.

Man who calls unintimidated woman putrid cunt, does so on the basis that he bonded with another man who hates her and boasts about violating other women's boundaries. Sounds about right.

Honestly, she mildly took the piss out of him, along with everyone else.

And we all know what happens to women who laugh at men.

He's absolutely been rapped on the knuckles. Rage like that doesn't dissipate overnight.

I wonder if her own lawyer fired off an email.

Because long gone are the days of J. K. Rowling wearing gloves.

I wonder if her own lawyer fired off an email.

Apparently not.

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1766037435350131087

Good work JK..

And what a beautiful example of offering your enemy a golden bridge.

A beautiful example and a wise and generous move.

He knew that he was on very thin ice, sh@t himself and backed down. JKR accepted his apology. (As she does for with everyone who doesn't double-down.). She's very much "live and let live". Now, if he leaves her and other gender critical people alone, she will leave him alone. She's made her point,

If and when, one day, anything ever gets to court, it will be seen that she is very reasonable, and not going looking for trouble, unlike some other individuals who push the envelope over and over again.

JKR is not contentious - but she isn't a coward either. She knows when to stand up, and when to (graciously) back down.

And what happens with someone like Bunce? It is ok to call him a man on his male days, but not on his female days? What if someone reads an old post which calls him a man on a day when he is identifying as a woman , are they then party to misgendering.

It is so much easier, and more accurate, to stick to unchanging identities like male and female.

I wish I had a time machine to go forward a few more years when this craziness will all be a distant memory and we can laugh at the folly, like tulip madness.

I wonder if it's writing for children that gives her this sublime ability to rise above it all.

Perhaps it's the empathy that helps her to write, not the other way round.

A slightly more sincere apology from Caolan. Hopefully that is all over now.

I’m really, really sorry. My comments to you were completely horrible honestly I had a breakdown last night. I really respect you and appreciate this so much

https://twitter.com/CaolanRob/status/1766043466180493617

The problem is that you get all the other 2bit MRAs popping up to have a go as they want there 5 minutes of fame too.

Careful now. We don’t know that Caolan’s birthing parent uses “she” pronouns. May lead to a deletion.

Well that seems sincere. I think he needs some credit, he took the initiative and scooped the bigger news sources (I doubt they're particularly gutted though). I hope he's put his old style homophobia behind him. The new style? Well lots of actually gay people fail to recognise it, perhaps can't blame him for that.

I think JKR is canny enough to recognise if a game is worth the candle. Drawing a line under this is the wisest and kindest thing to do. Golden bridges and all that.

A fulsome apology - good for him for holding himself to account and doing the right thing (although I suspect he’s had a sleepless night worrying about the might of the legal team JKR could unleash on him if she so chose!)

That's showing a bit of humility and grace and I can respect that. It's not easy to own your own bad behaviour, fair play to the lad.

Under no circumstances will the police second-guess the perception of a complainant or subject him to questioning or normal evidential requirements. The standard police MO is to visit the accused and ask her under threat of arrest to attend an interview to explain herself. The Malicious Communications Act will be cited. It’s then passed to the CPS who tell them there’s no criminal case - and the police then record it as a non-crime hate incident.

It’s a pointless rigmarole that only serves to intimidate and silence women, and boost statistics for trans activism. Nobody can afford to take the police to court for human rights violation because of the eyewatering costs of losing. Which is where their doorstepping JKR could be interesting, because she can afford to pursue them - and the police will know it.

Had a breakdown means broke down, presumably.

Bloody hell. Now I feel sorry for him.

But, I'm remembering his previous comments about putting a barbed wire fence in the channel to stop migrants, and how gay people are all deviant.

And who even has the term putrid cunt in their lexicon?

But as apologies go, it's pretty abject.

Gah!

Hopefully that's the end of it. Before I expire of vacillation.

I heard 2 clear "hims" as did a majority of the people on social media. The additional context of Kaolin's spiteful character and quite shameful past, make it likely that he is indeed someone careless and stupid enough to make such mistakes.

"But, I'm remembering his previous comments about putting a barbed wire fence in the channel to stop migrants, and how gay people are all deviant."
I think those are the work of the one and only IW?

As for Caolan's apology, character will out. His is deeply rotten.

I don't know this Caolan chap at all, and he sounds like a nasty piece of work, and what he called JKR was disgusting, but he knows how to apologise properly, none of your 'I'm sorry if..'. Fair dues to him.
And then a generous, unambiguous acceptance from JKR - I don't know about you, and you may call me a soppy Pollyanna-ish eejit, but I feel a little emotional that such exchanges are still possible. Would a 💖 emoji be ridiculously OTT?