“Heated Rivalry” author Rachel Reid on J. K. Rowling - “the bar is pretty high in how evil you have to be,” “ I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes”

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Well, this is disappointing.

”[Reid] has a keen desire not to disappoint her fans, especially when they’re sending her photos of freshly inked tattoos of her words on their skin. ‘I know of another author that a lot of people got tattoos of but then wanted them gone. Like, J. K. Rowling,’ she says. ‘The bar is pretty high for how evil you have to be, but I don’t want to let a single person down.’ I ask if she’s a TERF. ‘No, I’m extremely the opposite of everything she believes,’ she replies.”

Well, too late, she let me down. “Extremely the opposite of everything she believes,” huh? I guess Rachel Reid thinks teenage girls should be forced to undress after PE in front of naked male classmates who gawp as their dicks get hard. Or that female inmates should be locked in cells with male inmates serving time for serial rape.

I don’t expect Reid to agree with Rowling on trans issues. It’s the monstering of Rowling that I take issue with - the “evil,” and the framing of Rowling as so extreme that Reid feels the need to be extremely the opposite of everything she believes.

Edit: title should read “on how evil you have to be”

Rowling can be saintly or crabby as any other middle aged woman. Why would that make male people female, or not?

I don't much agree with CS Lewis but he was spot on with "Believe this, not because it is true, but for some other reason."

Actually, I am fine with JK Rowling having flaws. We all do.

The issue is whether the reasons exist or whether they are deliberate misinterpretations based on the need to demonise her like other women are being demonised on this thread.

It’s not just in the English language that there are separate words for adult male and adult female people.

It is something that exists in all languages because it is such a central core part of being a human being.

We are just mammals, the two sexes are part of our fundamental existence.

You can play about with language games all you like, it doesn’t alter reality.

That's your belief.

But it's not true. Poll after poll show the overwhelming majority of women support female only single sex spaces. We, as left wing feminists, are the majority. You, as a male and man, have no idea about what women think, and have no right speaking for women.

We speak on behalf of left wing feminists. You, speak on behalf of conservative Mens Rights Movement supporters who want to remove sex-based rights from women and girls.

The typical male gaslighting and DARVO. The one with the Ideology is Sex Denialists like yourself. That you think you can speak about or even on behalf of women, as a man, is a joke. But proof of your stubborn, truculent, pushy, forthright male entitlement.

That's not reality, that's your belief and fantasy.

Social constructs are man-made and misogynistic. They hold no place in society in 2026. That they all serve men, and not women, should be the hint.

Yet it is the sex denialists who are saying UK law does not apply to them and they will invade spaces they legally not allowed in. Quite like the sovereign nutters.

I do wonder when the fuckwittery about ‘women are social constructs’ will disappear. That it has come so far is absurd.

As if we stripped away all the human social constructs female humans who have past puberty wouldn’t still exist and be recognisable. The only ‘social construct’ about women is when male people try to destabilise the category to force themselves to be included. Or male people wish to exploit us. Too often it is both.

ChatGPT word salad.

You are incorrect.

Edit: why do these trans activists all sound IDENTICAL? Like as if they put a thesis through AI or something. They don't sound human at all. They have the same disconnected and arrogant phraseology. One would think (and you have just joined all with 6 posts on trans issues, nothing else) you all share the same account as you are all absolutely identical in the way you speak.

There does seem to be something about JK Rowling that really make male posters feel the need to come onto threads and tell us how evil she is. Her name is like catnip to some male people.

It really is bizarre that the person who calls us realists then defends their position by claiming ours is faith based.

I'm not sure he's read the nomenclature memo properly.

It's the fact she's untouchable. Unreachable. And rich, by her own hand. And doesn't give a fuck.

It makes them crazy

I agree, no logic.

That poster uses "realist" as a slur, a sneer. Since when was being realistic about things a bad thing? Such an incoherent argument.

We've had a few "Bees" on FWR, all sounding the same. I'm not convinced this poster has just joined.

I do think there's a "style guide" they all adhere to.

I love " heated rivalry" when one person is a world famous super successful author and the other person is who?

Ha, good point @Ariana12

Ha, I initially thought that related to the debate too. Had to look the other author up to realise that's the name of her series. Possibly a deliberate play for clicks on part of the journalist.
And to whoever pointed out the audience is mostly female, yeah, we know, it was pointed out early in the thread. It's women who write and read slash fanfiction, rarely a realistic representation of actual gay men.

Whatever you say.

The old 'women don't know their own minds' trope.

The thing is that so many of the posts really are just that misogynistic, but the male people posting those sentiments really don't see that misogyny.

Or they have falsely believed that because they believe that they are female people that they can't be misogynistic, and yet... it is all there for everyone to see.