Metro unhinged over JKR

[WandsOut]

metro.co.uk/2024/05/17/jk-rowlings-latest-trans-tweets-exposed-something-truly-sinister-20852991/?ITO=msn

Missed this a few days ago but wow. Just wow.

I'd suggest researching the author of that article, if you aren't aware of their background and obvious bias. Also known as Owl. Ugla/Owl seems to have a bit of an obsession about JKR.

👆Agree.
Obsession is putting it mildly.
https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/books/owl-and-fox-fisher-j-k-rowling-interview-a4481236.html

They threw a strop 🤣

The comments suggest that readers agree with JKR

I think they (maybe it was Fox) also masterminded Germaine Greer’s cancellation. Dangerous misogynist couple.

The comments are great!! Sorry, Ugla (not sorry)

My favourite bit it where she edits the world famous author's grammar!!

Hahaha

Oh god, is this half of the Fox/Owl straight but oh so queer partnership? Spouts absolute vitriol about JKR at the slightest opportunity.

The comments are entirely pro-JKR

Context:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13409027/JK-Rowling-trans-row-transgender-football-manager-bloke.html

The irony of Ugla being non-binary they/them but surname literally meaning Jon’s daughter.

As is traditional in Iceland children are named first name then X (Father’s name) followed by the suffix dottír or sson depending on whether they are a son or daughter…so male or female.

They've changed their suffix though.
(Sorry if you already know that @Faffertea, just pointing it out to those who may not realise Jon did not actually father a daughter)

Yes I agree that is also a nonsense @Peskysquirrel

Elon should have a word.

The Ulga articles are the most heavily moderated articles on the site. The Metro (which is part of the Daily Mail group) employ some very woke moderators and can basically censor you for anything.

Putting a comment stating what lobbying groups the writer works for will see your comments deleted. There are too many articles like "I'm just a poor trans member of the public just trying to get on with life quietly" that don't state that the writer is actually a member of a vocal trans lobbying group.

Prominent trans identified activists are totally consumed by their identity and trying to protect or defend it. This is why the frequently reported claims that their "existence is being denied" must make everything seem like a life and death struggle for them.When your identity is totally dependent for its existence on its reception and acceptance by everyone, that is not a mentally healthy place to be.

A stable and strong identity forms the core from which a personality radiates outward. A stable, healthy identity does not need to continually re-affirm itself in such obsessive ways and is not that dependent on continual affirmation.

Pandering to such obsessions simply nurtures and encourages fragility.

Agreed re some great comments on the article.
So good to see so many people now getting it.
Particularly appreciate this one:

If gender is socially constructed there is no reason to claim that a body modification achieves essentiality in that very department. If your agenda is making existing gender boundaries irrelevant you shouldn't insist on creating new ones. My two cents.

Owl. Fox.

Is this a word association game?

Hmm what's the next word in my head.

Oh yes.

Grift.

Do Metro pay per word or is this self publicity?

Can't see that this link was shared yet but this was the person who wrote an article claiming that trans people actually change sex.

metro.co.uk/2021/05/05/trans-people-change-their-sex-believing-otherwise-is-discriminatory-14518761/

Particularly when the author of that heap of bile doesn’t know how to use a reflexive pronoun.

The irony.

Also illiterate:

"As she has spoken more and more, myself and others have doubted her sincerity in claiming to ‘respect’ people,"

X post

i can't find the comments - any chance of a pointer?

Right, right at the very bottom @Brefugee. You'll find them after the ads etc, just as you are about to give up!

They're hard to find! There is a link at the top of the article, under author name and date, looks like a speech bubble; sixth from left, WhatsApp link being first.

The comments are brill.