‘JK Rowling wants me fired. I just want to help rape survivors’

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Sandy Brindley, chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland, says the online vitriol and public attacks she has faced mean she’s likely to stand down within a year. She spoke to The Times on Sunday

"Last Friday, Sandy Brindley, the chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland, was collecting her daughter from primary school when a journalist rang to ask if she would comment on JK Rowling’s demand for her resignation. By the time the reporter hung up, Brindley was in tears.
“I’m never upset in front of my daughter. She said, ‘What’s wrong?’” Brindley recalls. “I said, ‘Someone’s calling for my resignation’. She asked: ‘Who?’ I told her: ‘JK Rowling.’”
Brindley’s little girl looked up at her and said: “That’s one of my favourite authors, Mummy.”
By now Brindley’s eyes are twinkling as she recounts the incident. “What I didn’t then say was: ‘Well, it’s me or her!” she says, dissolving into laughter.
It’s a moment of levity at a serious, defining moment in her life. After years on the wrong end of online campaigns hashtagged #BrindleyMustGo and as the subject of criticism from very prominent online warriors, Brindley, 50, has had enough. She says that she does not expect to be in her post by this time next
year."

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J k Rowling is a troublemaker. Always spouting forth and upsetting folk. Can't stand her, She thinks because she's rich what she says matters more than anybody else's . It doesn't.

Well, she'll be devastated to hear that, I'm sure.

Lols 🤣

She’ll be devastated I’m sure.

What does she say that bothers you so much?

“I recognise that trans women are women, but I also recognise that there are circumstances where biology matters. I believe with good faith and nuance, we can navigate that without causing harm to anyone.
“Even if we recognise trans women are women, that doesn’t mean that we don’t recognise that trans women’s needs and the needs of women who are born women at times may not necessarily be the same in terms of the service they require.
“This is just about recognising different women have different needs.”

ffs! and whose needs was it her job to look after
the sheer arrogance of it

It's. not what she says it's everyone has to listen. To her because she is J K Rowling. Soo it must be important. Gets on my nerves. If she wants a voice she should go into politics. But on second thoughts perhaps not. She would be even more pompous and irritating. I know she is the darling of MN.

How does everyone have to listen? Is it compulsory?

You sound really bitter.

She’s not forcing anyone to listen. weird it’s not what she says that bothers you so much that she’s successful.

but you do you .

I have re written that third paragraph so that it makes sense.

Once we remember that transwomen are men we understand that transwomen’s needs and the needs of women are not the same in the service they require.

There, I think that sorts it.

I think it's great that JKR is using her power and money to amplify and support an entire class of people, female rape victims, whose voices have been ignored by the people whose jobs were to put rape victims first. She has the insight to know that, in the eyes of people who belive that money talks, what she says does matter more than what ordinary people say, and she's using that to get changes that benefit ordinary women.

She's a survivor of DV herself, so it's not like she's talking over survivors of male violence because she is one. She's showing solidarity.

If it wasn't for that pesky JKR woman platforming letters from rape survivors and financially supporting a dedicated service for female victims of sexual violence. GNASH GNASH.

You do realise that your browser has a back button and you don't have to read JKR's TwiX feed, right?

It’s along the lines of my daughter fear of very small inconsequential spiders which do no harm.

Like this Viv….

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1813652238348570767

“I think I'm JK Rowling. Who the fuck are you?”

Chefs kiss 😙

Don’t be mad at the internet lols

yeah, how dare she set up a 'rival' service giving women what they need instead of what themen say they should have

Tbh any CEO who pulls the 'I will resign in due course... card isn't worth keeping on anyway (once the directorships are negotiated, but while the organisation drifts and seagulls squabble over the wreck).

If you're going, go.

JK Rowling ate my gerbil.

"lookit how JK forced me to burden my (primary school-underr11 then)daughter."
yes jk has very much yelled from rooftops,(her)opinions and could be her "fame" = quick route to tannoy announcement. is she wrong?(i never saw her declare her finances?wouldnt swy me any)
IMAGINE! this is not childrens fiction/fantasy.
Id get all way off fence and add -rape crisis scotland is just one of the MULTITUDE OF ABSOLUTE SHITE,corrupt,essential "services"currently failing to provide anything close to reasonable assistance to our most vulnerable.
ITS NOT FUCKIN NEWS.
SNP sht all over the hope of independance n what little they salvaged for the "nation" /own parliment has been horrific to live through. Incompetnt is never good,decietful,criminal,negligent,and nothing knew at all NO ACOUNTaBILITY.
shouldnt really require jk to point out the ridiculous.
nobodys picking on Brindley.
her empathy,sympathy and supposed good intentions are way too little way too late....
"well..me or her"dissolve into laughter
Ha the fuck ha hen. aye.
that article made me throw up in my mouth.she so unhinged i wouldni have her run a race never mind ny sorta "service"s

I wouldn't trust Brindley to run a tap, never mind a race nor a Rape Crisis service.

She was in tears?

Has she stopped to think how the victims she was letting down were feeling?

She makes me feel sick.

Ha ha ha ha ha! 👏

You don't like her because she's rich and says stuff you don't like.

Not because she's a troublemaker.

Troublemakers aren't known for being correct and telling the truth.

Scooobie Do is that you?

JKROWLING is so rich...

...she has the 'power of Christ to compel you' to listen.

That's how rich and all powerful she is.

I also think she likes biscuits. But I could be wrong.

Not just biscuits, Tunnocks tea cakes.