JKR exposing Scottish hate crime laws for what they are

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https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1774747068944265615?s=61&t=NHDSDk1MaF98_GOtcuLi0Q

The emotional support plushies must get triggered every time JKR tweets!

I don't need tweezers in the car, I fashion a device from the jack, a locking wheel nut key and a gallon of screen wash to deal with any of the bastards that make themselves known when I'm on the road.

Approaches quietly from the left with tweezers in hand!

I've carried tweezers in my handbag for over a decade, mostly to deal with splinters.

The last time I went to move some hair from my face whilst driving I looked in the rear view mirror just as I went to move aside the hair to discover a very large spider climbing down my face as I drove along a motorway at 70 miles an hour!

makes me think of AB FAB and th waxing incident

JK has been in Mail all day, rising from 6th story, to 3rd, to headline news:
Rishi Sunak backs JK Rowling's right to free speech https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13260875/Rishi-Sunak-backs-JK-Rowlings-free-speech-Scotlands-hate-crime-laws-biology-dared-police-arrest-misgendering.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

DH caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye just has he stood to attention at the start of a two minute silence at a remembrance event. It was a spider descending from the peak of his cap and he couldn't move until the drill Sargent called at ease at which point it was a goodly way through spinning a web between his cap, nose and ear.
I could not have calmly stood there unmoving, one of many reasons I would never join the military!

I think that's intentional because there's a whole Pride collection of them, which oddly doesn't feature lesbian nor gay rabbits, only trans, non-binary, bi, and pan ones.

The irony is that the idea that some people would want or need an emotional support soft toy after reading JKR's tweets is a) hilarious and b) not painting people who believe in gender identity in a particularly flattering light. So rather an own goal on American McGee's part, really.

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1774920685095174620?s=19

"You were asking for it. Stop complaining, you’re not hurt. It’s your mouth that’s the problem.

Men like this watch women threatened with death, rape and mutilation for the crime of defending their rights and the only problem they can see is that we’re still speaking out."

Two minutes!!!!! I'd have gone insane!

Have our Special Monitors reported the whole of FWR to Scots Cops yet?

Is there any significance to this Rajan chap, or is he just a randomly selected example of the misogynist mansplainer who's playing perfectly to type?

I found a cheek hair last week in exactly the same way. Why did no one tell me? Did they think it was a stray eyelash that lived on my face and that I never washed my face?

I taught the socks to type. They’re like a little typing pool of their own.

No time to follow all of today's developments, but heartfelt best wishes to those posters who disclosed traumatic personal experiences today, as well as thanks to JKR, in the hope she's reading, for her courage and wit.

He seems to have said the things she wanted one of them to say

I think it was kindly meant. I, on the other hand, am pea green with envy...Skeggy!

Cake had it right. There was an outbreak of levity on the thread. Proof, if it is needed, that sometimes things don’t land how they sounded in your head. 🤷‍♀️ < peace offering

I think he’s just the archetypal random man who felt he had sufficient expertise and wisdom to tell a woman (one could afford a far better lawyer than him) what to do, despite such “advice” being entirely unsolicited, and then got snippy when she dared ignore his “expertise”.

We all know the type.

And the saying. “God grant me the confidence of a mediocre man…”

That was my feeling - people must have noticed. I'm pretty sure it was visible from the ISS. While I can understand a random stranger not telling me my nearest and dearest could have drawn my attention to it.

Mediocre lawyer tries to get lawyerself noticed and seizes his opportunity.
Plus ca change.

If he thinks there's no such thing as bad publicity, he couldn't be more wrong...
Poor gobshite.

Can you teach them to jump into washing baskets and, more importantly, stay with their partner? Only then will I be impressed with your training.

That random man really does think he's "all it", doesn't he? I feel quite embarrassed for him 🙈

@BettyFilous

A lawyer telling someone that they should listen to them instead of their own solicitors (esp when her solicitors know far more about the client and her situation, desires, etc), just proves what a shit lawyer he is. And to do it, in part, bc he'll have a wide audience to see what a bad lawyer he is. The arrogance and lack of self-awareness never cease to amaze me.