JK Rowling TERFing her legacy into the bin

[dissolute ocelot]

lol eddie redmayne cancelled

He was already cancelled for playing a trans person while not being trans (The Danish Girl)[nb]Possibly a bit unfair as he spends most of the film pre-transition but whatever[/nb], and working with Depp on Fantastic Beasts won't help. He's basically fucked whatever he does (I assume he's contracted for every fucking Fantastic Beasts film they want to make before everyone dies of boredom, so he's got to work with Rowling for ever and ever.)

[Bernice]

Blue ticks really are our most persecuted class. Why, just because one spouts off uninformed bullshit to millions of followers for attention should one get told to fuck off? I know why the caged bird tweets #istandwithjk #bekindonline

[frajer]

Blue ticks really are our most persecuted class. Why, just because one spouts off uninformed bullshit to millions of followers for attention should one get told to fuck off? I know why the caged bird tweets #istandwithjk #bekindonline

Laurence Fox's first Reclaim speech.

[Blue Jam]

lol eddie redmayne cancelled

Shame. He's the best thing in Jupiter Ascending.

[king_tubby]

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1311007179684671495

[Captain Z]

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1311007179684671495

Ha ha ha ha lal

[idunnosomename]

lmao

[Ferris]

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1311007179684671495

That's made my day

[GoblinAhFuckScary]

Fabulous to see some actually respected and talented figures doing this

https://twitter.com/GuardianBooks/status/1311261771995312128

[dissolute ocelot]

So is Guardian Books the progressive TRA wing of the Guardian media group?

[Sebastian Cobb]

It's quite interesting how some of these hacks will move seamlessly into more reactionary rags if their usual paymasters won't print their bile. I know the Guardian is pretty shit at this but I can only assume the reason Suzanne Moore is howling about it in The Spectator is because she wasn't allowed to go as far as she wanted in the Graun. So much for being a bulwark to the right wing press eh.

[pcsjwgm]

Dear Twits, I have added my name to the signatories of the letter in solidarity with JKRowling

Proud to be in the distinguished company of Ian McEwan, Andrew Davies, Frances Welch, Lionel Shriver, Ben Miller, Tom Stoppard, Frances Barber, Griff Rhys-Jones and Matthew d'Ancona

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/cleese-is-in

The distinguished company of Matthew d'Ancona?

[Ferris]

Well these letters are inherently disingenuous by design.

"50 people think this, here's their names"

Right well thousands of people think the earth is flat and millions will vote for trump in a months time - listing their names and occupations out one by one doesn't make their viewpoint any more valid or interesting. It's supposed to make you think "ooh well that's a lot of names, maybe there's something to this" but by comparison to any population of anywhere, it's negligible. I could get more signatories to fix the gents at the office I worked in (prior to covid).

Basically a PR exercise for cunts, who want to make sure you know either a) they're ignorant twats who don't know what they're "signing", or b) they're cunts.

[Tweedy]

Well these letters are inherently disingenuous by design.

Basically a PR exercise for cunts, who want to make sure you know either a) they're ignorant twats who don't know what they're "signing", or b) they're cunts.

Literally four posts prior to this, someone linked to a letter signed by 'respected and talented' pro-trans people. Presumably this is also 'inherently disingenuous' and populated by 'ignorant twats'.

State of this fucking forum.

[Bernice]

I assume Ferris voiced his full throated support for that other letter, which is why his hypocrisy has piqued you so.

[jobotic]

The distinguished company of a perma-pissed Frances Barber taking a moment off screaming "racist" at Jeremy Corbyn.

[Buelligan]

And Lionel Schriver, the cunt's cunt.

[GoblinAhFuckScary]

Literally four posts prior to this, someone linked to a letter signed by 'respected and talented' pro-trans people. Presumably this is also 'inherently disingenuous' and populated by 'ignorant twats'.

State of this fucking forum.

Struggling to interpret this intention of this post.

[Buelligan]

Literally four posts prior to this, someone linked to a letter signed by 'respected and talented' pro-trans people. Presumably this is also 'inherently disingenuous' and populated by 'ignorant twats'.

State of this fucking forum.

Yes, it's almost as if the various members of the forum may have discrete, individual, ideas about things.  Imagine that!

[QDRPHNC]

Literally four posts prior to this, someone linked to a letter signed by 'respected and talented' pro-trans people. Presumably this is also 'inherently disingenuous' and populated by 'ignorant twats'.

State of this fucking forum.

lol. Christ, the lack of self-awareness.

[Ferris]

Literally four posts prior to this, someone linked to a letter signed by 'respected and talented' pro-trans people. Presumably this is also 'inherently disingenuous' and populated by 'ignorant twats'.

State of this fucking forum.

Well that's been done as a counter argument - they're making the same point I am: "just because these 50 twats signed a letter doesn't mean they know their arse from their elbow - look, here's one 200 of us have signed that directly contradicts it"

The kicker being that the signatories on the second letter are 4x more numerous, and presumably have half a clue about what they are supporting and why. They wouldn't have gone around writing such a letter off their own bat, it's a direct response.

Not sure exactly why that makes you angry but such is life.

[jobotic]

And Lionel Schriver, the cunt's cunt.

Blimey, you're not joking

https://www.vox.com/2016/8/2/12163144/lionel-shriver-mandibles-dystopia-review

[Jerzy Bondov]

A woman called LIONEL is transphobic? I've heard it all now.

[Buelligan]

I tell you.  From wikipedia -

At age 15, she changed her name from Margaret Ann to Lionel because she did not like the name she had been given, and as a tomboy felt a conventionally male name more appropriate.

_{Cunt Shriver, earlier}

[Thomas]

The letter is basically condemning the phenomenon of the trending topic, isn't it? #RIPJKRowling?

Do they know how Twitter works? Or that not everybody tweeting on a hashtag is being entirely serious, or that the terming of the hashtag itself might be exaggerative? Or that the trending of a topic generates conversation (including criticism of the topic) that will further perpetuate the hashtag, whether or not the participants agree with it? Or that a provocative hashtag might be used to carry a serious message? Or that anybody can sign up under any name and spout anything, purely to troll and shitpost?

I presume some of them do, but the qualified arbiters of taste love a disingenuous culture war.

[BlodwynPig]

I tell you.  From wikipedia -


_{Cunt Shriver, earlier}

Former tomboy according to her/his wikipedia.

[Buelligan]

Did you read the bit I quoted piggers?

[pigamus]

She's got an app on her phone that goes "Oh, Lionel" like Judi Dench whenever she does a controversy

[BlodwynPig]

Did you read the bit I quoted piggers?

No, because none of this interests me. Solidarity against Rowling, however. Detestable waxwork.

[Urinal Cake]

Has the Onion done a thing about an open letter against open letters?