JK Rowling TERFing her legacy into the bin

[idunnosomename]

the ickabog is an anagram of a big ol cock

[Barry Admin]

Yeah I think that's a fair assessment, Thomas:

[Cuellar]

Certainly hard to square that with the slapdash grammar and punctuation of the dust jacket.

[Barry Admin]

There was a bit of discussion in the book forum about the last one which sounds like it was written by Richard Littlejohn:
Maybe all this 'research' she's been doing has been fodder for the new Strike book, where he gets cancelled for duffing up a transwoman in a bathroom

There's a (very boringly long-winded and dull) Vice article about the transphobia in "Silkworm":

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/pkeynz/jk-rowlings-transphobia-wasnt-hard-to-find-she-wrote-a-book-about-it

[Thomas]

Certainly hard to square that with the slapdash grammar and punctuation of the dust jacket.

I mean, if the boy's real, fair play to him on his advanced command of communication, his frankly incredible painting skills, and the little pricing joke on the back cover.

Just seems a shame to spend such childhood genius on endless pages of TERF stats and lines of argument straight from Twitter.

[Jerzy Bondov]

There's a (very boringly long-winded and dull) Vice article about the transphobia in "Silkworm":

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/pkeynz/jk-rowlings-transphobia-wasnt-hard-to-find-she-wrote-a-book-about-it

Ah, so she already did the transphobic one. I'm sorry JK, I didn't realise you'd been at this for so long.

[JaDanketies]

I mean, if the boy's real, fair play to him on his advanced command of communication, his frankly incredible painting skills, and the little pricing joke on the back cover.

Just seems a shame to spend such childhood genius on endless pages of TERF stats and lines of argument straight from Twitter.

This is the result of home schooling over the COVID lockdown. "Two-day project - illustrated letter to JK Rowling, detailing all the things I've read to you about off my phone.'

[Jerzy Bondov]

And the TERFs go on about children being indoctrinated!

[idunnosomename]

[dissolute ocelot]

Very. "I've ignored fake tweets attributed to me and RTed widely. I've ignored porn tweeted at children on a thread about their art. I've ignored death and rape threats. I'm not going to ignore this."

If I were to advise a children's author on things to ignore, of those three, I'd definitely choose "someone with less than a couple thousand followers on Twitter slightly misreading a nonetheless careless tweet that you Liked." Ignore that one, Joanne! We can discuss whether sending porn to children or issuing death and rape threats is the priority to address, but regardless, the most important one of the three definitely isn't the person not doing either of those things.

Where's the newspaper to run the story "JK Rowling stands by as porn is tweeted to children"?

[idunnosomename]

probably because it wasn't tweeted at children, it was just shitposting on her garbage tweets

[bushwick]

have been checking her socialblade live twitter graph, it's nuts. Just lost 1000 followers in just over 10 minutes. I just did the maths - if she continues to lose followers at that rate (and gains no more in that time), she would have no followers left in 100 days.

[bushwick]

it's quite relaxing to watch, there's the odd tiny TERFspike every now and again then it just continues to plummet downwards.

[Barry Admin]

Oh good, she's getting lots of bad press. Slap it right up her.

[MojoJojo]

There's a (very boringly long-winded and dull) Vice article about the transphobia in "Silkworm":

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/pkeynz/jk-rowlings-transphobia-wasnt-hard-to-find-she-wrote-a-book-about-it

It's a while since I read it and I might have missed it at the time (I'd forgotten there was already a trans character in one) but I think that article is a really a thin soup, especially on the transphobia. It spends more time on how the trans character is "mocked" for their literary ambitions than anything transphobic.

[George Oscar Bluth II]

have been checking her socialblade live twitter graph, it's nuts. Just lost 1000 followers in just over 10 minutes. I just did the maths - if she continues to lose followers at that rate (and gains no more in that time), she would have no followers left in 100 days.

Of course this won't happen, because she'll have millions of dormant/little used accounts following her. The reason Glinner stayed on 600k for so long, or whatever it was. A huge percentage of those were inactive accounts.

I'm still confused about all this. Any half decent PR advisor, of which she presumably has a bazillion all attached to her publishers or Warner Brothers or whatever, would say "run a million miles from this stuff, it's not worth it".

But when you're a billionaire you don't have to take no for an answer.

[Dewt]

What else would she do? This is probably the thing that is most important to her. Money fucks you up.

[Barry Admin]

But when you're a billionaire you don't have to take no for an answer.

Yes, that's it. Plus she gets constantly love-bombed by Glinner and the rest of the terfs, and they all talk incessantly about how cowardly it is not to take a position on this issue. She thinks she's actually helping women.

[pigamus]

Tell you what I did think was fascinating - the original Sun headline on all this. It was something like, "JK Rowling says she was abused". Which totally baffled me when I saw it in the shop, because - well that wasn't the story, was it?

[George Oscar Bluth II]

It kind of was if you're not into the online trans "debate", which is impenetrable to outsiders. Where would you even begin explaining this shit.

But my guess is that if you did the average Sun reader would probably be more open minded than JK or Glinner.

[phantom_power]

Yes, that's it. Plus she gets constantly love-bombed by Glinner and the rest of the terfs, and they all talk incessantly about how cowardly it is not to take a position on this issue. She thinks she's actually helping women.

It really is a cult

[BritishHobo]

wait is that real. what the fuck

also is there any picture of her where she's not pulling the dreamworks face

Yeah I literally dropped it in the bin because it was a massive self-indulgent brick full of sneery Daily Mail tidbits like that. Little digs like Strike and a soldier mate chuckling about how left-wingers hate their country. As Blue Jam said, it's especially baffling given how fucking FURIOUS The Casual Vacancy was about middle-class complacency in Britain.

[sambwel]

[Paulie Walnuts]

O'Brien - cancelled

[Dr Rock]

Lindsay Ellis weighs in

https://youtu.be/NViZYL-U8s0

[dissolute ocelot]

I'm still confused about all this. Any half decent PR advisor, of which she presumably has a bazillion all attached to her publishers or Warner Brothers or whatever, would say "run a million miles from this stuff, it's not worth it".

It's still much less controversial than weighing in against Scottish independence or some of the other things she's done. There's a lot more active supporters of secessionist movements than TRAs.

[idunnosomename]

Fucking write a book about wizards and it gives you the right to rattle off whatever bollocks you reckon. Piss off joanne

[NoSleep]

What? I suspect you're thinking of the 1950s, and even then more women went out to work than you'd think.

Especially after the deployment of women in crucial civilian roles during World War Two.

[Cuellar]

Not long before Rowling was published, women authors were unheard of

Now, your generation gets to take us further than my generation ever could because we aren't living your lives

But at least acknowledge that we laid the groundwork for you to take us on the next step

*looks to camera like from The Office*

[Buelligan]

Even if they were correct and Rowling was some sort of feminist groundbreaker, why would that give her the right to harm others?