JKR & the Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht

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So The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht book is out tomorrow (I have pre-ordered) and The Times today includes an extract from JK's chapter in which she lays out with searing honesty why she decided to speak out about the issue, and how the subsequent online monstering felt.

I don't know how to paste a paywall free link but this is the actual one: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jk-rowling-stand-up-women-trans-book-r6jlglpvq

I raised a wry smile at this part:

"People who’d worked with me rushed to distance themselves from me or to add their public condemnation of my blasphemous views (though I should add that many former and current colleagues have been staunchly supportive). In truth, the condemnation of certain individuals was far less surprising to me than the fact that some of them then emailed me, or sent messages through third parties, to check that we were still friends."

Can't help but wonder if it's Radcliff or Watson she's referring to here!

Who else has the book on pre-order and what are we looking forward to most about it?

I really hope so!

For some reason it's not available through the books app on iPad which is annoying.

I've sent the link to my dd who refuses to discuss gender politics with me - as yet I've had no response 😬

Pre-ordered to read on my summer holiday.

22 quid in Waterstones.

Rhona Hotchkiss says:

For three or four days, it seemed I was the only voice the media wanted to hear. Nicola Sturgeon’s normally composed manner seemed to desert her. Thousands of Scottish women screamed “we warned you.” Her stance about the impact of her gender recognition reforms failed in the face of this most rigorous of tests: reality.

Wanting to know who it was isn't half as childish as actually doing that. Did they engage a single brain cell? (Rhetorical question - of course they didn't. )

Wonderful, have ordered. What I love about reading anything written by JKR, whether it’s fiction or an essay, is that even though she engages with social media, she’s somehow still living in book time. Like the way she quotes something relevant from Colette, the weaving of modern and timeless themes in the Strike series, it’s all just so well grounded in a bigger perspective on the world. Snaps me out of doom scrolling and puts me back in the world I lived in as a teenager where all the little questions are part of bigger questions.

I can't find it on Audible?

I ordered it on the app

Not released until 6th June though

As I said on another thread, you will find some mentions of Mumsnet in the book...

Dis_critic coined the 'women won't wheesht' phrase. I then used it as a sub heading on both volumes of Under The Duvet of Darkness The new book by Lucy and Susan is the women who wouldn't wheesht!

Thank you @Boiledbeetle I realised too late to edit that the title I used was incorrect

I just wanted to make sure no one accidentally bought the wrong book!

I mean obviously the UTDOD are fantastic and everyone should buy them as the profit goes to For Women Scotland (and we wrote them!) but the only overlap between UTDOD and the new the women who wouldn't wheesht is that Elaine Miller appears in both.

If someone was expecting a fantastic book written by lots of women who've done really important things in the last few years and especially JKR I'm not sure some sweary poems would quite cut the mustard 😁

Hehe I am ever so sorry 😂

Got it on preorder. Thanks ladies

Full list of contributors:
https://x.com/LucyHunterB/status/1795793533552464135

Also FiLiA is managing the online launch - they all went, but they have increased capacity!
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/filia1/1264631

Ooo Sally Wainwright!

I wanna be in their gang. I've ordered the book

And 'bought' a ticket to the launch event 😊

Look at that!

I have it on pre-order. Can’t wait to read it.

I don't think I've ever wanted to read a book as much as i want to read this one! I keep checking Amazon and my order hasn't even clicked into dispatched yet!

I’ve just received an email to say my copy is on its way!

Archive of the Telegraph article.
https://archive.ph/XLgcH