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.

I agree. She's a woman who won't be quiet and some people just hate that.

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

Have you heard of Lumos?
https://www.jkrowling.com/lumos-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-year/

That was his choice, he surely didn’t do it in order to garner affirmation from her?

You had problem with her not doing any work in the area of child poverty, and when posters told you that she has been doing exactly that and more, you are leaving the thread.

Why don’t you say you don’t like her speaking for women rather than spreading misinformation?

I think that raises a deeper problem and strategic issue, which is that it seems obvious to us when misogyny is happening. So, surely, Something Will Be Done.

Not so. What happens is:

Women don't fight back: nothing to see here, all is well, or

Women fight back: burn the witches.

GI is such egregious woman-hating bollocks 🙁

ETA someone mentioned the TRAs uploading porn to her thread for children's pictures. Things like this do not get reported on the BBC. So it's always the women who look aggressive.

He chose for the TRAs to take his wife and family away from him?

I don't think so.

It really does seem like that sometimes 'illtempered'.

The double standards are startling once you see them.

Good points 👍

She’s a divisive social media provocateur, and whether it’s an issue I largely agree with - like hers - or people like Andrew Tate or Katie Hopkins, anyone who is terminally online hunting down things to be offended by and posting provocative statements or photos, I find a bit pathetic.

Is it ALL trans people though? Or trans women aka men? Boundary pushing men who go into spaces and take sporting places where they have no right to be?

Please show me something where she’s posted about trans men - females?

I was originally pointed to a YouTube video by two transwomen talking about her essay when I asked the Q in the OP. It was utter tripe.

Recently, however, the argument I have been given is the one I have quoted. That this is all a 'distraction from bigger issues'. So, JKR isn't actually trying to help women and girls, she is pulling the strings in a Machiavellian way to obfuscate the real threats from the public. Conspiracy theory ahoy!

From this, we know that women and girls having single-sex spaces, intimate care (if requested), prisons, rape crisis centres, etc, is such a teeny-tiny thing that it doesn't matter.

My only 'complaint' is that she lets her wit run away with her sometimes, which may not always be wise - but she is sharp and funny. Maybe by doing that, she attracts unpleasant attention which would otherwise be directed at HJ, MF and other prominent campaigners.

I don't think JKR is perfect, but she is unusual in how much she gives away, and she acts as a shield (for example in her reaction to the hate crime law).

🖤 JK FOREVER 🖤

Oops, sorry, ThatCyanSheep, I don't know why I called you 'Cat' in my post! too late to edit...

Why 'should' she?
Why does he 'deserve' respect?
Because he is a man?!

I’m always interested when people tone police JKR.

The tone of her opponents is truly vile- gratuitously abusive and often Violent. When she posts a sharp take down of someone else, check out their posts too.

Then, balance up the need for tone policing.

If you find that hard, ask yourself why you are holding her to a significantly higher standard than them.

I believe the language she uses is deliberately divisive a inflammatory. She deliberately tries to hurt people, and I find that horrible. You can support a cause, have strong beliefs, without making out others are ignorant, or mentally ill. When I asked her, straight out, if she supported all women what ever their POV on the trans issue, she said no, she only supports the women who agree with her. Which is her right, but she says it so nastily.

I think it is her use of such cruel language that gets peoples backs up and upsets them. And her support for Kelly Jay Keane who is truly an awful horrible person - she has said she will flatten women who don't agree with her.

I respect everyone's right to support causes and hold opinions. I don't support peoples right to be cruel and nasty to any group of people who exist legally.

i find it hard to find fault with the things that you list. To my mind they are ways JKR has enriched lives , many of them women’s lives but also the lives of children and people with chronic and debilitating illness. I don’t understand the problem you are finding with this.

Two points of information .

Beira’s place does not admit any biological men , which of course includes Trans Identifying Men, as it is a safe place for female victims of male violence.

People cannot change sex. If you don’t believe me may I refer you to Professor Lord Robert Winston, Emeritus Professor at Imperial College, who knows more about the immutability of sex than possibly any other human being on the planet and who says it is impossible. I think you are confusing the social concept of “gender” with the biological reality of sex.

115 posts and not one thread of evidence of her "anti-trans".

Plenty of evidence of the amazing charity work she funds.

I completely understand the OPs reason for thread. And reading the replies just confirms how uninformed TRAs.

But if we have to post a negative comment, I would say I really don't like her baiting India. I wish she would just grey rock him.

Every time she posts about him he gets more publicity. Let him just disappear into obscurity. Pleeeeeeese.

I also find this completely wild. The problem is always her response, not what she is responding to. Which is usually vile.

Graham Linehan is no hero. He is a disgusting, awful man who is one of the few I reserve outright disgust and hatred for. He does not support women. Being so vehemently against trans people does not equal support for women.

@Cutleryclaire Have you read the other reviews of Nicola's book? I've yet to see one that has anything good to say about it.

She could be using her platform for good, instead she uses it to target marginalised and vulnerable groups and attack them repeatedly. Not just transgender people, cis-women who appear too "manly", asexuals and anyone who doesn't agree with her stance.

There's also a lot of racist stereotypes in the Harry Potter books, and they're not at all well-written. All the ideas are stolen and they are full of plot holes. There are no openly gay characters but she's tried to curry favour with the gay community by randomly going back and naming characters as gay, despite no evidence of them being gay when she wrote it. It all comes across as calculated and fake.

If you don't believe that trans people are really the gender they say they are, you're probably able to overlook all that.

The irony of posing as a man in order to write books about how people shouldn't present as the opposite gender will never stop being ridiculous.

I won't be arguing further about it on this thread or anywhere else- you asked and I answered.

I hold her to a high standard precisely because she has such reach, influence and visibility on social media.