This thread is specifically for people who think JK Rowling is awful so..

[CurlewKate]

If you don't think she is please don’t post. Please can you tell me specifically what she has said or done that is so bad. I promise that I will listen and not argue. If you could include links that would be great. If your inclination is to assume that I’m posting in bad faith and any reasonably well informed person must be stupid or bigoted not to know, then please just let the thread die.

Wearelumos.org

How many billionaires do you know of that setup and fund charities such as this? So many children in poverty, JK helps and you still think it is not enough

The reason I asked that question is that I am fully aware of all the philanthropy, and I know what is said about her. What I want is some actual quotations, of her actual words which will explain the dislike people have for her. So far nobody has quoted anything. Obviously I can’t stop anyone posting anything they want to! So far, I think the only quotation is her saying “Merry Terfmas” which is a bit juvenile, but surely not enough to provoke death threats?

Doing it in an offputting communicative style is counter-productive.

The issue is OP trying to understand the content of her views, not the state of her ego.

He gave up everything he had to protect women, a little goodwill from JKR is only fair.

See, this is the thing though. I look at it with the view that she, like everyone, should not have to accept abuse. I think that the same standards of behaviour should be applied to her as to anyone who is only a private citizen.

I don’t consider that her being an author should obligate her to act as if she is a vessel for absorbing abuse.

How did she fall out with them? What happened?

She often posts about women in Iran and Afghanistan, and she personally helped some women escape Afghanistan when the Taliban took over again.

She ignored the abuse so they started posting porn on threads on x that were meant for children to show their drawings (parents uploading them of course as children can't have x accounts)

She helped to stop our justice system putting rapists in women's prisons. The fact you consider that a miniscule issue says a lot more about you than it does about JK Rowling

I remember.

Men sent dick pics directly to her ickabog threads.

But apparently, she should do nothing about it.

She earned the wealth through her talent. What are you doing towards child poverty?

You may not like her communication style (most people do), but you can hardly think it's counter productive?
She has done a terrific job of raising awareness to these issues.

Ah we’ve had the ‘but there are other problems!’ line already. Women just can’t care about more than one issue at the same time eh! Fuck setting up charities and rape crisis centres and flying women out of Afghanistan when folk aren’t getting their bins picked up. Care about more important things 🙄.

Off putting to whom? Men pretending to be women? You might want to take a look at the amount of people who agree with her, versus the amount of people who agree with those prominent male activists who mistakenly believe they can get the better of her, the ratios are simply astonishing.

Those people who feel they cannot be honest about this subject in public take heart from her stance on this issue, they are grateful that someone of her intelligence and integrity can use her voice for them. Her detractors simply don’t like her fact based, well researched, reasoning on this subject, but mostly they don’t like the fact that she’s a woman, she’s rich, she’s self made and is so much cleverer than them.

She's basically stopping the UK at least from buckling to gender fictions through her inconvenient truth bombs and women should be grateful to her. I am. I absolutely don't want to detract from all the incredible women who are fighting this, but her reach is pretty powerful.

We're lucky she gets so involved.

I think standing up for 50% of the population is a pretty good way to spend your time and money. Especially when as thanks for her efforts she is threatened with rape, burning and hanging.

( she supports a lot of children's charities and health care charities too, but that is often ignored)

Then some of these same abusive men tried to claim that she “ignored child abuse” because of their own dick pics on a thread read by children! Breathtaking DARVO.

i agree. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the best way to deal with the detractors, is to take the piss out of them. And she does it so well.

I see where you going with this post OP. As you can see though, there is so much misinformation posted about JKR that posters who support her will rightly feel the need to respond to it.
I think the fact that no one has managed the collect that million pounds on offer if they can prove her transphobia, tells the full story. Not saying that people can’t dislike her though but I’ve yet to see an actual reason for it.

I wonder how many of these people address all these important issues with their elected representatives? Of which JKR is not one. But I suppose it’s just easier to blame everything on a woman who stands up for herself and other women isn’t it?

@Viviennemary- do you have a quote from her you’d be prepared to share on here? Fine if you don’t of course!

I admire JKR but I do agree with this post

@ThatCyanSheep "miniscule" are you for real!
She is an extraordinary woman, a philanthropist who has genuinely made a difference, but more- she's a woman who speaks up and won't be shut up. I like that. 👍

I largely agree with this. I think she’s smart, brave and I’m incredibly grateful for how she has used her voice to fight for women’s rights. But am becoming uncomfortable with some of her more recent tweets / blogs eg the review of Sturgeon’s book which was personal and vicious.

Usually she uses her articulateness for well reasoned arguments that show good sense, but I feel it’s lately being used as a weapon to mock individuals or indeed whole groups, rather than problematic ideas of some within that group.

Maybe have a look at her website to see what she does
www.jkrowling.com