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THINGS JK ROWLING HAS SHAMEFULLY REFUSED TO COMMENT ON

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RoyalCorgi · 05/10/2026 12:38

There's been a spate of threads recently about things JK Rowling has shamefully failed to comment on. Wouldn't it be easier to put them all in a single thread?

I'll start.

JK Rowling has shamefully failed to comment on the Manchester City fraud scandal.

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TheKindnessProject · 06/10/2026 19:56

The absent builder decided to use the spare key to let himself into the house yesterday without telling us he was coming. I could have been in the bath. I wasn't, but I could have been. Not a dicky bird from that woman.

Shedmistress · 06/10/2026 19:57

EmpressaurusKitty · 06/10/2026 19:55

While we’re talking about Tunnocks, scroll down to the bottom of this & look at the wedding cake photo.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6x2zkjgvlz7o

Talking about Tunnocks?

Sinister.

JudgeJ · 06/10/2026 20:25

TheKindnessProject · 06/10/2026 19:56

The absent builder decided to use the spare key to let himself into the house yesterday without telling us he was coming. I could have been in the bath. I wasn't, but I could have been. Not a dicky bird from that woman.

My kitchen is not overlooked at all and I am sometimes lax, even lacking, in the clothing department. However the other week I was surprised to see the gardener at work, the side gate does respond to a good shake, need to elevate it. Luckily, I was on no way deshabille, can't do accents, but JKR hasn't been round, or sent a minion, to fix the gate nor to ask ask if I'm OK! Bottom lip trembling for when/if the cameras arrive.

Canadanian · 06/10/2026 20:25

MoistVonL · 06/10/2026 18:59

Can you honestly not imagine a world where cis women disagree with you?

Don't be daft, @Canadanian - really know anyone voluntarily calling themselves a cis woman isn't going to agree with us.

Inserting that space in the middle of 'transwoman' to pretend that Woman is the noun and Trans is the adjective also tells us you hold a belief system that gender identity is significant.

We tend to assume that rational women posting on the sex and gender ghetto section of FWR have enough concern for women's rights to not include males. But there are a smattering of gender believers around, and that's all well and good.

I'm getting on and my protesting days are over due to arthritis, but I and many of the posters on this board have a history of activism, Reclaim The Night walks, standing outside Marie Stopes clinics (when closed) to counter protest the anti abortion nutters, volunteering at collections for shelters and on helplines.

Like Ms Rowling, many of us here have years of defending women's rights behind us. This misogyny wrapped in a progress flag is just the latest attempt to keep women down.

We're fighting for your rights too. I sincerely hope you never have cause to need it, but if you do, we'll be there.

Feminism is for all women, even the ones we disagree with. And not for males.

Thank you for a serious response, and for your activism. I hope you know, too, that many trans inclusive and intersectional feminists also have decades of activism and many Reclaim the Night walks behind them. I think there’s sometimes an assumption here that older & wiser feminists are gender critical and younger feminists are not; that may be a general trend, but there are lots of older trans inclusive feminists.

Unfortunately I do have experience of both domestic violence and sexual assault (and neither of the perpetrators were trans women, or felt they had to dress up as woman and sneak about to do that), and actually I’m proud that it hasn’t made me unable to show solidarity with trans women. For me, those men would have won if they’d made me crueller or less inclusive. You may well disagree, but that’s my experience.

I agree that feminism is for all women; for me that includes trans women.

Boiledbeetle · 06/10/2026 20:27

EmpressaurusKitty · 06/10/2026 19:55

While we’re talking about Tunnocks, scroll down to the bottom of this & look at the wedding cake photo.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6x2zkjgvlz7o

I've seen this article before on a different thread. I've commented on this article before on a different thread AND I GOT deleted!!!

I think MNHQ were having a bad day!

So I'll just say

Epic cake!

ETA just realised, it must have been JKR who reported me!!!!!

Canadanian · 06/10/2026 20:28

ArabellaScott · 06/10/2026 18:47

'twee' - bit rude.

Can you list what we should be posting and what we should be saying pls and how much time we should be spending thanks

Although I disagree with her on many things, the creator of Professor Umbridge would absolutely understand that people find unkindness wrapped up in twee-ness with cute little kittens unnerving!

DeanElderberry · 06/10/2026 20:29

I don't see how anyone could question that feminism is for all women. For me that includes transmen.

EmpressaurusKitty · 06/10/2026 20:33

I get the reference but Kitty would just like to check you’re not referring to her as a cute little kitten.

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Canadanian · 06/10/2026 20:36

EmpressaurusKitty · 06/10/2026 20:33

I get the reference but Kitty would just like to check you’re not referring to her as a cute little kitten.

No, Kitty looks quite stern and majestic! And very beautiful.

EmpressaurusKitty · 06/10/2026 20:37

Canadanian · 06/10/2026 20:36

No, Kitty looks quite stern and majestic! And very beautiful.

We can agree on that at least!

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 06/10/2026 20:45

I have a massive pile of ironing.

Has she offered to do it for me? No she has not. The cow.

solerolover · 06/10/2026 20:49

KittyWilkinson · 06/10/2026 19:31

Is it possible to just have a Bulgarian squat without the split? Asking for an arthritic friend.

It can be subbed for another exercise that works the same muscles in a unilateral way, such as a low box step up. Holding onto something for support, such as the back of a chair can really help. I like the variation with adjustable aerobic steps like those pictured below, because you can add more height as you get stronger.

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MyrtleLion · 06/10/2026 20:49

I need to write the next chapter of the Gosie Chronicles or the good women on the Bluestocking thread will fret about three gerbils stranded in a Swedish brightly-lit car park late at night.

Has JKR drafted my chapter? Has she offered me some writing pointers? Has she suggested a way out of their predicament so I can write it?

Of course not. She simply does not care.

Catiette · 06/10/2026 20:49

Canadanian · 06/10/2026 20:25

Thank you for a serious response, and for your activism. I hope you know, too, that many trans inclusive and intersectional feminists also have decades of activism and many Reclaim the Night walks behind them. I think there’s sometimes an assumption here that older & wiser feminists are gender critical and younger feminists are not; that may be a general trend, but there are lots of older trans inclusive feminists.

Unfortunately I do have experience of both domestic violence and sexual assault (and neither of the perpetrators were trans women, or felt they had to dress up as woman and sneak about to do that), and actually I’m proud that it hasn’t made me unable to show solidarity with trans women. For me, those men would have won if they’d made me crueller or less inclusive. You may well disagree, but that’s my experience.

I agree that feminism is for all women; for me that includes trans women.

I'm sorry for your experiences, Canadian.

I wonder, from the above, what you understand by intersectional and inclusive? Both have been oversimplified in recent years. Above, you appear to think that centering females in feminism opposes intersectionality and inclusion: that they're mutually exclusive? This seems like an odd take which misunderstands both words.

Intersectionality, as I see it, isn't so much an act or identity as a critical lens through which to understand how different axes of oppression interact. And you have no way of knowing PPs' understanding of, views on and - yes - their active support for women also impacted by race or disability, or for transmen and non-binary females etc. You certainly have no reason to assume they exclude these (I don't know of any GC feminist who does). You don't even know for sure that PPs don't advocate for transwomen in other contexts outside what they term feminism. All you know is that they exclude transwomen from their understanding of feminism. This is surely valid - unless you're a believer in thought crime! To say this proves that they're, by definition, not "inclusive", is pretty unconvincing and, to be honest, does an huge injustice to all those other vectors - race, disability etc. - by centering trans males alone as somehow synonymous with inclusion.

Which leads me to the misunderstanding of "inclusion". It disturbs me that so many people nowadays don't/won't acknowledge that inclusion requires, almost by definition, exclusion. There is no holistic, all-encompassing anything except, well, "humanity". Not even in Star Trek! To use the word so simplistically is dangerously idealistic and practically speaking, illogical. We're grouped and categorised in a myriad of ways, for an infinity of reasons. And we exclude in order to include. This is the case in positive discrimination (whatever you think of that), putting a disruptive student in time-out, removing three seats in the cinema to create one disabled space etc. In many cases, exclusion is what enables inclusion. GC feminism includes women suffering from trauma who are physiologically unable to engage with unknown males - surely you must recognise that their response to their past experiences is as valid as yours?! It excludes males to enable this. It's at least as inclusive as your own feminism in this sense - more so, if we assess it on numbers alone (stats and survey indicate).

This bizarrely unthinking equation of transwomen with "inclusiveness" pretty much epitomises the very centering of (I'd say also mostly white, middle class) males over and above other demographics that feminism has always sought - continues to try to - counter.

It's such a maddening, offensive buzzword.

It's lazy as anything.

Catiette · 06/10/2026 20:52

And now I missed the cute cat pics as I wrote all that!

(I'm a fan, you may have guessed).

Oops, sorry, just read the post.

Not cute.

Majestic? Threatening? Quietly plotting murder?

EmpressaurusKitty · 06/10/2026 20:54

solerolover · 06/10/2026 20:49

It can be subbed for another exercise that works the same muscles in a unilateral way, such as a low box step up. Holding onto something for support, such as the back of a chair can really help. I like the variation with adjustable aerobic steps like those pictured below, because you can add more height as you get stronger.

And start holding heavier dumbbells.

PriOn1 · 06/10/2026 20:55

Canadanian · 06/10/2026 20:25

Thank you for a serious response, and for your activism. I hope you know, too, that many trans inclusive and intersectional feminists also have decades of activism and many Reclaim the Night walks behind them. I think there’s sometimes an assumption here that older & wiser feminists are gender critical and younger feminists are not; that may be a general trend, but there are lots of older trans inclusive feminists.

Unfortunately I do have experience of both domestic violence and sexual assault (and neither of the perpetrators were trans women, or felt they had to dress up as woman and sneak about to do that), and actually I’m proud that it hasn’t made me unable to show solidarity with trans women. For me, those men would have won if they’d made me crueller or less inclusive. You may well disagree, but that’s my experience.

I agree that feminism is for all women; for me that includes trans women.

When does a man become a «trans woman» in your eyes?

Is he one when he is born?
Is he one the moment he thinks, «I’m a woman now»?
Is it when he puts on lipstick?
Can you define the moment please?

And is it the same moment when he moves from using men’s spaces to women’s?

As for the thread, the dog and I are currently in a caravan and it’s really quite chilly. Has Rowling bothered to comment? She has not.

KittyWilkinson · 06/10/2026 21:10

solerolover · 06/10/2026 20:49

It can be subbed for another exercise that works the same muscles in a unilateral way, such as a low box step up. Holding onto something for support, such as the back of a chair can really help. I like the variation with adjustable aerobic steps like those pictured below, because you can add more height as you get stronger.

Seriously, this is tremendously helpful thanks. Useful for me for sure and will add to my list from the Falls team.
Also, I'm caring for someone who has had knee surgery recently ( along with other life limiting conditions). We have lots of exercises from the NHS physios but no step exercises. So this strikes me as a good idea if the patient holds on either side to something solid until they can do without crutches? Their upper body strength is fairly good.

JKR wouldn't have done this, too busy not tweeting. ( Me staying on topic.)

Catiette · 06/10/2026 21:14

PriOn1 · 06/10/2026 20:55

When does a man become a «trans woman» in your eyes?

Is he one when he is born?
Is he one the moment he thinks, «I’m a woman now»?
Is it when he puts on lipstick?
Can you define the moment please?

And is it the same moment when he moves from using men’s spaces to women’s?

As for the thread, the dog and I are currently in a caravan and it’s really quite chilly. Has Rowling bothered to comment? She has not.

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It's when he says so. It only ever can be. Which makes this centering of transwomen in the concept of inclusion all the more striking.

All those other demographics, distinguished by the material, or research (mental health), or fact? Nah, mate. You can include any number of them, OK, but that doesn't mean you're inclusive - not properly.

Because the meaning of inclusive - the actual kind - is, well, pretty exclusive. It's all about the subjective, interior reality of one key group (as the physical reality of all those others just... fades quietly into the background).

It's enough to make you a little bit cynical.

Or to put a look on your face like Kitty, above.

ArabellaScott · 06/10/2026 21:18

Canadanian · 06/10/2026 20:28

Although I disagree with her on many things, the creator of Professor Umbridge would absolutely understand that people find unkindness wrapped up in twee-ness with cute little kittens unnerving!

so far, you are the only one making 'unkind' posts on here. Accusing us of all sorts of shit, based on fuckall.

PriOn1 · 06/10/2026 21:20

Catiette · 06/10/2026 21:14

It's when he says so. It only ever can be. Which makes this centering of transwomen in the concept of inclusion all the more striking.

All those other demographics, distinguished by the material, or research (mental health), or fact? Nah, mate. You can include any number of them, OK, but that doesn't mean you're inclusive - not properly.

Because the meaning of inclusive - the actual kind - is, well, pretty exclusive. It's all about the subjective, interior reality of one key group (as the physical reality of all those others just... fades quietly into the background).

It's enough to make you a little bit cynical.

Or to put a look on your face like Kitty, above.

Exactly. It has to be when he thinks so. I was just contemplating how cynical it makes me feel when someone claims they believe men are women. I simply don’t believe it, which poses the question, why are they saying it. I understand young, naive people claiming it, because they think it’s not really important and they will lose friends if they don’t. Older women who know men both abuse and lie… well that’s beyond me.

ArabellaScott · 06/10/2026 21:20

Unfortunately I do have experience of both domestic violence and sexual assault (and neither of the perpetrators were trans women, or felt they had to dress up as woman and sneak about to do that), and actually I’m proud that it hasn’t made me unable to show solidarity with trans women.

My sincere sympathies for these experience. I'm very sorry you've gone through them.

My own experiences of abuse at the hands of men includes a man who used his dress, wig, and make up as a risible excuse for entering the ladies' toilets, where he masturbated in front of me. So, you may understand why I am less inclined to show 'solidarity' with trans identifying men.

AIiswatchingyou · 06/10/2026 21:31

Isn't this a Derailleur? Perhaps we should pop it on threads that are being sent that way.

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BackToLurk · 06/10/2026 21:35

Canadanian · 06/10/2026 20:25

Thank you for a serious response, and for your activism. I hope you know, too, that many trans inclusive and intersectional feminists also have decades of activism and many Reclaim the Night walks behind them. I think there’s sometimes an assumption here that older & wiser feminists are gender critical and younger feminists are not; that may be a general trend, but there are lots of older trans inclusive feminists.

Unfortunately I do have experience of both domestic violence and sexual assault (and neither of the perpetrators were trans women, or felt they had to dress up as woman and sneak about to do that), and actually I’m proud that it hasn’t made me unable to show solidarity with trans women. For me, those men would have won if they’d made me crueller or less inclusive. You may well disagree, but that’s my experience.

I agree that feminism is for all women; for me that includes trans women.

As others are, I’m sorry to hear about your experiences. They are experiences that too many share.

I don’t think whether the people who attacked you were transwomen or dressed up as women is relevant. No one will have been attacked by every type of man: Black, white, young, old, straight, gay, bisexual, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu etc, etc. Depending on where a person is in the world or their individual circumstances they may rarely encounter some types of men. That doesn’t give the more ‘unusual’ men a free pass to enter women’s spaces or see them included in feminism.

And that really is what it’s about. GC feminists see transwomen as men and treat them accordingly, no better or worse than any other men. The idea that it is about hating transpeople is a mischaracterisation.

I find it almost impossible to understand how some women see some men as women. There is no logic to it for me.

Catiette · 06/10/2026 21:48

AIiswatchingyou · 06/10/2026 21:31

Isn't this a Derailleur? Perhaps we should pop it on threads that are being sent that way.

We'd have won the World Cup but for her. People blame Tuchel, sure, but who was whispering into the earpiece as he made all those decisions, hm?

I think we all know the answer to that.

Scotland's been a bad influence on that woman.