Interesting few days for her - praising Stephen King for standing up for her re: her experience of assault and then deleting her tweet and unfollowing him when he tweeted 'trans women are women', retweeting a tweet expressing dismay at a Canadian bill being passed which outlawed conversion therapy (her pen name Robert Galbraith under which she wrote a book with transphobia aspects happens to be the name of a well-known proponent of conversion therapy) and it emerging that she follows a white supremacist author whose other fans include Viktor Orbán.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Going really well him being off Twitter apparently.
Maybe people will actually start realizing that her views (as expressed in person and in her books) are actually quite conservative by nature and that the tumblr crowd was always going to be disappointed in her at some point.
She deleted her tweet praising Stephen King right after he tweeted "Trans women are women", his position would hopefully extend a little beyond the tumblr crowd (though I' not very confident it does).
I'm sorry, she did WHAT?
i waa giving her the benefit of the doubt thinking she was interested in a real debate till she did this. That was pretty juvenile
I think this is a cool thing these fecking nerds have done, in distancing themselves from her statements on gender stuff:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...elves-from-jk-rowling-over-transgender-rights
It doesn't always work out this way but the unruly winds of social media can sometimes blow in a goodly direction. And sometimes soc-media is the only thing that can reach these previously untouchable, abusive billionaires.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...elves-from-jk-rowling-over-transgender-rights
It doesn't always work out this way but the unruly winds of social media can sometimes blow in a goodly direction. And sometimes soc-media is the only thing that can reach these previously untouchable, abusive billionaires.
How is she being taught? The fans are too entrenched into her books to give them up all together which would actually hit her if the popularity of HP goes down impact the millions in royalty she is earning. I have seen folks who run HP podcasts say that they condemn here but it does not mean people should stop enjoying or discussion her books. I mentioned in the first post itself that a large portion of HP fan base is the one most outraged by this and the same makes her some what 'un-cancellable.
Alright, so I have learned 5 new words today: Agender, Bigender, Demigender, Genderfluid and Transfeminine/masculine. I think in 2 hours I will completely have forgotten what these words actually mean. I think it's hard to keep up with if you are not really part of that world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender
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Just posting this here because I found parts of it funny.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/09/02/its-time-to-derail-the-pride-train/
" The LGBT community is now the LGBTQQIP2SAA movement. It’s getting ridiculous."
" So now there are flags available for those who identify as pangender, aporagender, agender, bigender, trigender, genderqueer, genderfluid, demigender, demigirl, demiboy, neutrois, polyamorous, non-binary, asexual, omnisexual, polysexual, abrosexual, androsexual, gynosexual, skoliosexual, aromantic, gender questioning, gender non-conforming, and many more. Surely it would be far easier to create one giant flag for narcissists and be done with it. "
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/09/02/its-time-to-derail-the-pride-train/
" The LGBT community is now the LGBTQQIP2SAA movement. It’s getting ridiculous."
" So now there are flags available for those who identify as pangender, aporagender, agender, bigender, trigender, genderqueer, genderfluid, demigender, demigirl, demiboy, neutrois, polyamorous, non-binary, asexual, omnisexual, polysexual, abrosexual, androsexual, gynosexual, skoliosexual, aromantic, gender questioning, gender non-conforming, and many more. Surely it would be far easier to create one giant flag for narcissists and be done with it. "
This guy is so funny he could be a generic Internet teenager. He didn't even use the tried and true alphabet soup slam dunk, so he can get even funnier.
Even if you agree with this guy wholeheartedly, how can you find this funny? It's the "two tomatoes crossed the road" of anti-LGBT+ jokes.
The author should probably get themselves a narcissist flag by the look of those quotes.
Andrew Doyle is best ignored.
I don't agree with the guy wholeheartedly, I think it's more the ever expanding lexicon of genders I find puzzling and funny.
Had to google him. So it’s the same bloke behind Jonathan Pie and Titiana McGrath. I did not know that. He’s not very funny at all. Still, though, the beeb might have a job for him.
See, that makes it even weirder to me. Surely you've seen this exact article and these exact jokes done millions of times before?
I havn't actually followed this stuff very much. It's probably much more a topic of conversation in the UK and the US than it is here. So I'm behind the times.
See, the problem with right wing humor to me is not that it's offensive. It's just never funny.
So funny. Did he do the one about identifying as an attack helicopter or a penguin? That gets me every time.
I'm not huge on Frankie Boyle, but his twist on this wasn't too bad. Ricky Gervais, being the extremely unfunny and unoriginal waste of space that he is, did a joke that went something along the lines of "if people can identify as a different gender I can identify as a toaster", which Boyle responded that he shouldn't identify as a stand up comedian.
I love Frankie Boyle taking the piss out of people. The evil laugh he does, is a classic. Does he still do shows?
He does, but I don't really keep up so I don't know how often. I believe he's changing things up a bit style wise as well.
Gervais is a shame, I do love the Office but he really is insufferable.
Blimey, that Andrew Doyle column is hot garbage. It's a take that was tepid and unoriginal 10 years ago. In 2020, it's just old-man-yells-at-cloud.
Very original.
Not at all, yet it's one of the funniest "identify as" jokes ever made. That is not meant as a compliment to Boyle.
I've seen the odd tweet referring to queer activists as 'the alphabet mafia' which is just an objectively cool name and I'm disappointed there hasn't been a committed effort to make it our own.
I might be making this up, but I feel like I've heard that.
Anyway, I hear from reputable
We're doing our best. Obviously banning heterosexuality was always going to be hard to sell to the masses but you have to take things one step at a time.
I am a genderqueer pansexual, in formal terms. I generally just use 'queer' to describe myself and the community at large.
The acronym had already grown to the point he's now aghast about it having grown to more than a decade ago, yet he pats himself on the back about predicting it 6-7 years ago.
It should also be pointed out that LGBT, LGBT+, LGBQT, LGBQT+ and the other 4-5 letter versions of the acronym are still the norm, but you can't be outraged about that.
Then there's the mischaracterizations of arguments, his clear view that, of all the people covered by the full acronym, only gay people's needs and wants matter, and his repeated claims that gay folks have achieved equality (he does one time specify "before the law", which is guess is true). It's a terrible piece of writing by a thoroughly unfunny individual. But he's very clearly a transphobe, so I guess it has a place in this thread, even if it isn't related to Rowling.
LGBTQIA is the norm these days in the community. That's intersex and asexual at the end there, for anyone confused.
Asexuals being a pretty obvious addition, given it already included everyone else who isn't purely heterosexual and intersex people being included, from my understanding, because many intersex people were vocal about the fact that intersex rights are best fought for as one with sexuality and gender minority rights. Intersex people are often LGBT, so it makes a lot of sense.
What is it with these Wokemarxtopians and their torrents of taxonomical terror. I haven't been this outraged since Gell-Mann further subdivided the atom into quarks. If they're not inventing new Dulux colour swatches they're digging up the latest missing link. Why can't everything be just one thing; one indivisible, static singularity from which nothing grows or changes. Won't someone release us from this hellishly Heraclitean higgledy-piggledy. Mum, I finished painting the windows.
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Alphabet mafia is great. Needs to go on a shirt
Apparently she just released a book where the killer is a crossdresser who hates women (which is what she sort of thinks trans women are)? Seems on brand.
Wow! Incredibly subtle messaging
Short article about itThe idea of a cross-dressing killer isn't exactly new though (Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, etc.).
Also, what is the point of using a pseudonym, when everyone knows who you are anyway?
transphobia really seems to drive people a bit mad.
"her voice as rough and loud as a docker's"
Isn't she supposed to be a great writer or something?
Not as bad as Ben Shapiro, I guess, who wrote the line "she heard him sigh audibly".
Isn't she supposed to be a great writer or something?
Not as bad as Ben Shapiro, I guess, who wrote the line "she heard him sigh audibly".
That's one thing she's never been accused of."her voice as rough and loud as a docker's"
Isn't she supposed to be a great writer or something?
Not as bad as Ben Shapiro, I guess, who wrote the line "she heard him sigh audibly".