Harry Potter actors sign trans pledge after Supreme Court ruling

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Don't think this has been shared yet:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/18343aa9-51c9-4d0f-89fc-aa66611ba402?shareToken=7ba79478be33c05853cc4037106b875d

The show was god-awful, by the way. Mae Whoever played one of the most unlikeable characters I've ever watched. It was a complete mystery how she managed to entice Charlotte Richie's apparently normal character to be with her. A neurotic, self-obsessed head case on cocaine, with no self confidence and no skill in her chosen field of, er, stand up comedian 🤨

I stopped watching halfway through. I couldn't take any more.

In my head I see her saying it while in her Derry Girls schoolgirl character. Appropriate!

“We all think a little less of you now Clare”

JKR is not going to care. She believes in freedom of Speech.

If you appear in a show which going to make JKR multi millions every year and where she gets paid every time it streams and which will drive people back to the books, previous films, theme parks and merchandise clearly whatever you say you actually respect JKR and want her influence and power to expand.

If Warner pulls this off Harry Potter fever will be back on a new level. Even if it is just a moderate success it will have a huge impact on JKRs finances.

It will be interesting to see Paapa Essiedu field questions about it over its 10 year life span.

”So, Paapa, your belief that women shouldn't have single sex spaces puts you in conflict with the creator of what will be your payroll for the next ten years. Can you explain why you believe men should be allowed into women’s spaces?”

Ten years’ later…

”So, Paapa, ten years ago you were convinced men should be allowed into women’s spaces because without it their ‘safety was threatened’, and you thought this was the ‘right side of history’. Now that women have been allowed single sex spaces for the last ten years and the men who persuaded you to support them have been absolutely fine, do you still think you are on the right side of history?”

OK, so we know what some people who Do Pretending think on the matter

have people who Do Operations published a letter? or people who Do Building Houses? and if not why not? I demand to letters from all professions! or maybe what actors think about politics is of very little interest and they should probably stick to talking about Doing Pretending.

Because they have as much right to an opinion as anyone else.

I can’t remember where I saw it first but some TRAs said him signing it was like carbon offsetting 🤣

I know people who donated to trans charities to "offset" the fact that they bought Hogwarts Legacy.

Twats.

I'd be more impressed if they'd all signed or set up something to help all men feel safe in the men's toilets.
Anything else, I think, is just idiots spouting off and not helping anyone.

Charlotte Richie was fab in Call the Midwife. Damn. Another name to add to my huge growing list of people I've lost all respect for.

I think I already said this but she makes me cringe so much, so much that it's worth saying twice.

The other rone who annoys me is Hayley Atwell, I remember her swanning about somewhere in the Middle East promoting, I think, Mission: Impossible and of course waited until she was safely back in the UK before posting all over social media about gay pride. Very few of these people have got the courage of their convictions on many issues and so them signing a letter in this vein is meaningless as far as I'm concerned.

You think people should be fired for signing a petition you personally agree with? That seems like a slippery slope.

(As a random aside, JK, please stop smoking cigars, it’s really bad for you : unless it was ironic?)

I know. I cried my eyes out when she died! My fondness for her is why I watched the terrible Channel 4 thing. (I think it was supposed to be a comedy, but, much like Mae Martin's terrible comedian character, it wasn't very funny.)

It’s a reference to 80s adventure series The A-Team.

JK Rowling tweeted it with the comment ‘I love it when a plan comes together’ - that was main character Hannibal Smith’s catchphrase & he always said it while smoking a cigar.

Yes, but Rowling has confirmed it wasn’t some kind of stunt!cigar, she is a[n occasional cigar] smoker.

I really hope she gives up said habit; but she’s a grown woman who is cognisant of the risks involved so it’s slightly less than none of my business 🤷‍♀️

I'm curious too.

I've wondered this too. My guess, and that's all it is, is that while I respect and am grateful to him, she might not like the way he sometimes expresses himself. He's also taken a firm stance on the Israel/Gaza war and maybe that's not something she wants to bring into everything else.

But who knows. She can acknowledge and ignore whoever she wants.

Re Paapa Essiedu

J.K. Rowling
I don’t have the power to sack an actor from the series and I wouldn’t exercise it if I did. I don’t believe in taking away people’s jobs or livelihoods because they hold legally protected beliefs that differ from mine.

Exactly why she keeps winning.

Great response.

Ironically, she’s TWAW.

If she had simply identified as a boy, back in Pakistan, she would have been grand; the Taliban would have let her go on her merry way.

All her responses are spot-on. I mean, I know transactivists generally leave a massively open goal, but the way she handles it, with witty articulation, and really pricking their balloon by not giving a fuck, is brilliant.

I loved it when they said they were burning her books, and she said, well I've still got all the royalties and offered to lend them her lighter.

They are so used to trying to shame women into guilt, and relying on their socialisation, that when she revels in success, money, nicotine and booze, they implode.

She malfunctions her arse off 😁

Bloody hell why are people so obsessed with trans rights. I can think of hundreds of more important rights to campaign for rather than men who pretend to be women.
The homeless the housing crisis, the degeneration of the NHS, rascism.
But no men in dresses are more important apparently.

So many people love to tell women what to do with their time.

It's extraordinary.

Fortunately some women don't give a fuck and can do what they like