When she’s not busy attacking the trans community online, Harry Potter author JK Rowling somehow finds time to write more novels under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Her latest, The Ink Black Heart, is yet another addition to her crime fiction series about private investigator Cormoran Strike, and the plot particulars are pretty rich coming from Rowling. Here, we’ll let you read the opening of the synopsis for yourselves:
When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott [Strike’s colleague] doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, ‘The Ink Black Heart,’ Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity.
Well, they do say write what you know!
Apparently, Edie’s cartoon is a beloved children’s fantasy series that, despite its success, has brought the celebrity creator under fire for claims of plagiarism, racism, transphobia, ableism—you name it. Hm, sound familiar?
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In the years since the unprecedented success of the Harry Potter series, Rowling herself has received backlash for her unapologetic hate speech and anti-transgender “activism.”
She’s criticized gender-neutral rhetoric, argued against the inclusion of transgender women in women’s restrooms, and endured accusations of reinforcing transgender stereotypes after including a cross-dressing killer in her previous Cormoran Stike novel, Troubled Blood. The list goes on.
It’s no spoiler to mention that, early in the new novel, this Edie Ledwell winds up dead, kicking The Ink Black Heart‘s primary mystery into motion and showing us, once again, that Rowling is always going to find a way to make herself the victim.
Somewhat hilariously, Rowling has claimed that any similarities between her and the fictional Edie are just a coincidence. On a recent episode of The Graham Norton Radio Show, the author stated: “I should make it really clear after some of the things that have happened the last year that this [novel] is not depicting [my experience.]” Sure, JanK.
“I had written the book before certain things happened to me online,” she added. “I said to my husband, ‘I think everyone is going to see this as a response to what happened to me,’ but it genuinely wasn’t. The first draft of the book was finished at the point certain things happened.”
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Regardless, the similarities between Rowling and her character have been all anyone can talk about.
Reviews of The Ink Black Heart in major U.K. publications like The Telegraph and The Times have both remarked on the author’s obvious intent (for what it’s worth, they also weren’t enamored with the novel).
And, over on Twitter, folks are having a field day with the realization that Rowling has basically written herself into her book. Here are just a few of our favorite reactions:
This is so embarrassing lol https://t.co/d3MAVxNDhG
— doctor count amanda von hootman ????? (@hoot_little) August 29, 2022
I Am Not Mad: A Novel https://t.co/Q2Vnd1l4o3
— Adrian (@blagojevism) August 29, 2022
JK Rowling released a new book today about a YouTube animator that gets stabbed to death for making racist and transphobic animations and it is 600 pages longer than Dune
— kenzie (@pk_kenzie) August 30, 2022
SPOILERS: the protagonist whines endlessly about being cancelled while their intellectual property continues to generate millions in revenue for them through steady rotation on multiple TV, cable and streaming networks. https://t.co/n1Eyi76l4Q
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) August 29, 2022
i like how jk rowling is like “this isn’t about my haters, this book was written before this stuff happened.” lady, your shit’s been happening for the last 900 years
— man it’s a hot zone, (@Mobute) August 30, 2022
There's "one must separate the art from the artist" and then there's JK Rowling pic.twitter.com/Jte2rpae44
— Magdi Semrau (@magi_jay) August 30, 2022
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 29, 2022
What a grift she has going. https://t.co/B9dBx099sr
— Richard Estes (@oshima9) August 30, 2022
an entire novel consisting of dont put in the newspaper that i got mad https://t.co/lNYHy41aNQ pic.twitter.com/Ns2Zyz3Trf
— femboy never broke again (@tedcruzcontrol) August 29, 2022
JK Rowling is like the bizarro stephen king, in that King wrote under a pseudonym to prove that his writing was good enough that the books would still sell without the King brand. Rowling tried the same and flopped so badly they had to immediately leak her real name
— Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (@bitterkarella) August 29, 2022
As per usual, ClickHole was ahead of the curve with this one:
The Saga Continues! JK Rowling Has Announced That In The Harry Potter Universe, She Is A Universally Beloved Potions Shop Owner Who No One Considers A Bigot https://t.co/bGWdbqlPZu
— ClickHole (@ClickHole) August 3, 2022
johncp56
I love the harry potter movies and actors, but WTF is she doing already a billionaire enjoy your money, and shutTFU
CatholicXXX
JK is racist? I can handle the transphobia, but racism crosses the line.
lou lou de la falaise
Graham had her on his radio show?
Cam
She spends a RICIULOUS amount of time and effort thinking about, writing about, and being enraged about anything to do with trans people.
I really wouldn’t be surprised to find out that she has trans feelings and hates herself for them so lashes out at anybody living their lives.
Either that or she’s just another boring, old fashioned hateful bigot.
Tallskin
No, you muppet she doesn’t spend a RIDICULOUS amount of time and effort thinking about, writing about, and being enraged about anything to do with trans people- she is concerned about straight blokes with a sexual kink (AGPs) encroaching on real women’s spaces
Do your research!
monty clift
“Do your research”
QAnon isn’t research, dear.
bachy
Could someone clarify? Is the quote below what made JK Rowling an enemy of transgenders and their allies?
On June 6, 2020, Rowling retweeted an op-ed piece that discussed “people who menstruate,” apparently taking issue with the fact that the story did not use the word women. “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” she wrote.
“If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth,” she tweeted. “The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women—i.e., to male violence—‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences—is a nonsense.”
She continued, “I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it’s hateful to say so.” – JK Rowling
Diplomat
“if sex isn’t real” etc. I’ve never understood this take. Who is saying sex isn’t real?
monty clift
She spends all her time on Twitter reading TERF threads, liking every tweet by any right wing homophobe, misogynist or anti-trans bigot who agrees with her views. She has developed a Victim/Martyr complex spurred on by her “gender critical” sycophants.
monty clift
@Diplomat, No one ever said sex wasn’t real, gender critical/TERFs spread this lie to make trans people seem unhinged and crazy.
Tallskin
monty clift
stop prevaricating, the question posed is: What did JKR say that is transphobic?|”
Putting aside that EVERYTHING is transphobic, including reality and biology, just answer the question
monty clift
@Tallskin, She actively supports bigots and admitted predators like Matt Walsh who label LGBT people p*dos and groomers. Of course, she’s a two-faced coward who won’t flat out say what she really thinks, so let’s stop pretending this is just about “agp straight men in dresses.”
She’s a bad faith actor, anyone can see that from a mile away, you Dill.
bachy
The above comment – her actual words – is apparently what launched the virulent campaign against her. And yet, it doesn’t seem all that “hateful” to me. She has a somewhat different opinion on the subject of womanhood – but isn’t that allowed? Especially from someone who is… a woman?
I guess I’m just not understanding this enormous backlash against a formerly beloved author (note: I’m not a fan of her books). Frankly, it feels to me like scapegoating: as though she is the “approved target” for the tsunami of rage, pain and confusion around the subject. And everyone has decided they’re just gonna hang all their sh|t on her.
I don’t think it’s right and I can’t subscribe to any of it.
monty clift
@bachy, If that’s all you got from what she’s been doing in the last few years then you haven’t been paying much attention.
bachy
@monty: what I do see is a woman trying to defend herself against the mountain of guano being dumped on her. It’s clearly disproportionate to her “crime.”
inbama
@bachy
Actually, it all began when Rowling defended Maya Forstater, a woman who was fired because she had tweeted that “biological sex” was immutable (which it is). Rowling’s tweet was:
“Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?”
From then on, she’s been constantly hounded on twitter and sent death threats.
monty clift
@ibama, Maya was fired for harassing people at the work place. “Hounded on twitter” lol, don’t make me laugh, Rowling can’t even handle the smallest morsel of criticism. If she was actually sent death threats she would have reported them instead of playing victim on twitter all day.
LumpyPillows
I love how @bachy quotes exactly what JK said and then @monty mansplains what he wants what she said to mean. The people with the fixation are you nutters who can’t stand a successful woman with an opinion you don’t like. You can disagree with JK, but she is neither mean-spirit or transphobic.
bachy
Thank you, Lumpy. Your point about “disagreement” is one I failed to make.
I get that perceptions of “womanhood” may differ; no doubt what makes a woman is different for each woman! Fine. Disagree! Disagreement is healthy and makes for a more dimensionalized understanding of any subject.
But the way this has been handled has reframed a brilliant author – who was clearly an (albeit imperfect) ally – into Trans Public Enemy #1. WTF??
The entire scenario (ironically) illustrates exactly why women are frightened of men, regardless of their gender-preference.
Bosch
@Bachy
“If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased.”
She is echoing anti-trans propaganda here. No one thinks sex isn’t real. In fact, this point is exactly why we now use the term “transgender” instead of “transsexual”.
LumpyPillows
Bosch, that’s more mansplaining. How about you quote the woman’s actual words.
monty clift
@LumpyPillows, Playing the woman card? Lol How cute. There are plenty of successful women that aren’t bigots. Playing victim doesn’t suit you.
LumpyPillows
monty, you’re pretty toxic besides being a mansplainer. Always so smug and argumentative. Yeah, perhaps you should listen to women.
S.anderson
Yeah @Monty, my impression of you is that you like to tell others what you feel they ought to think and say, with nary a word of explanation.
Fahd
I’m disappointed that Graham Norton had her on his show. He always seems to have a chair available for notable homophobes, especially American ones; now her. And it’s not like he challenges them either. Funny guy, but why does he let himself be used in this way?
If there isn’t already, there will no doubt be a biography of Rowling that explains the background of why she’s such a hateful bigot.
Tallskin
Oh dear, silly LBGTQ++
answer
1) why is she homophobic?
2) How is she transphobic?
monty clift
He’s a shill. Don’t expect much from him
Bosch
Omg jk, read the room.
LumpyPillows
The echo chamber room you live in or the one the rest of the world lives in?
Bosch
Oooo bitchy! I’m in an echo chamber now because I believe celebrities should be polite and responsible?
Regardless of what you believe about trans people, lumpyjizz, Rowling is not reading the room.
If people on twitter are sensitive to transphobia, and you retweet anti-trans rhetoric on twitter, is that indicative of “reading the room”?
LumpyPillows
Like you were just polite? Hypocrisy to go with irrationality.
Bosch
I’m not a celebrity, Lumpy.
LumpyPillows
Nice dodge. Be a better person.
DannyParks
Wow. Yet another J K Rowling-bash from Queerty. Must be a slow news day…
I would have thought lesbians being removed from a Pride march by police in Wales over the weekend was a worthwhile story for QUEERty to report on. But no, they’ll just keep milking the Rowling stories because their writers are lazy
monty clift
They were removed for trying to hijack the event and cause trouble. There were plenty of lesbians at Pride that weren’t removed, you little sh*t-stirrer.
DannyParks
@monty Have you nothing better to do than argue everyone who comments with an opinion different to yours? Your name is against nearly everyone’s comment here with an angry response. Seriously, chill out and deflate that massive head of yours. Maybe learn to respect that everyone gets an opinion, not just you.
Also my point still stands. Lesbians being removed from a Pride march for whatever reason is definitely a story that QUEERty should probably have acknowledged
monty clift
@DannyParks, I can comment as much as I please, don’t you like it when people challenge your b.s? I did the research and that’s how I know you’re full of it.
DannyParks
Pretty sure your responses haven’t challenged my “BS”. But I’m done entertaining your narcissism. Come back to me when you have a rational & logical point to argue.
monty clift
And where exactly is your logical and rational point? Whining and complaining because Queerty won’t report articles that promote your agenda driven opinions? Lol
S.anderson
@monty You would appear to know a lot about “agenda driven opinions”. The fact that you snort at the fact that Queerty ignored an account of Lesbians being expelled from an LGBTQ Pride march says a lot about your priorities. Your lack of empathy is a visible symptom. Lesbians are women, you know.
inbama
Actually, the lesbians were removed for carrying a banner that said “Lesbians don’t like penises.”
That’s how crazy LGBTQ+ has become – that we are telling lesbians they have to suck dick or be called bigots.
If that’s not homophobic, I don’t know what is.
monty clift
@S.anderson, Again, there were PLENTY of lesbians at Pride, and who also didn’t want the terf bigots there either. Their agenda was to “Get the L Out”, nobody wanted them there, and they were out. Good riddance.
LumpyPillows
Yeah, monty is predictable…
S.anderson
@monty IF you know so much about it, why don’t you write an article for us, sweetie?
Bosch
@S.anderson @inbama
Do you happen to be referring to a group of lesbians who were holding an anti-trans protest?
I read German. You are both misrepresenting this incident. This was a clash between a small group of anti-trans activists and a small group of trans activists. It has NOTHING to do with banning lesbians from pride marches. Don’t project American conspiracy onto Western Europe.
inbama
@Bosch
What happened in Germany was another incident where lesbians were physically assaulted by transwomen.
The strangest thing to me is if these “women with penises” want us to believe they are actually women, why don’t they ACT like women.
Instead. they insist that lesbians felate their ladydicks.
And pathetic gay men like you and Monty Clift betray our lesbians sisters and encourage this homophobic and rapey behavior.
S.anderson
No, @Bosch, we know all lesbians weren’t expelled from this LGBTQ parade, and we didn’t say they were. You’re trying to seize our narrative and misrepresent us for those who are too lazy (or loyal to your cause) to see what we really said in previous comments. If Queerty was anything but a tabloid it would have reported on this parade, even in its famously slanted way.
But it’s true that gays, lesbians and bisexuals are feeling less and less welcome at “LGBTQ” pride events since their lived reality clashes with the narrative of trans revisionists. If a woman has a dick, so be it. If other women don’t like dicks, then that’s their prerogative. It’s not “hurtful” for them to carry a banner saying how they feel, no, it’s HERETICAL to the other’s agenda. But that’s no basis for driving lesbians out of their own parade. Nobody has a monopoly on speaking about dicks.
Bosch
“But it’s true that gays, lesbians and bisexuals are feeling less and less welcome at “LGBTQ” pride events”
That’s not what it looked like in my country this summer.
Maybe you should think about who benefits from the in-fighting in our community.
Bosch
@s Anderson
“But that’s no basis for driving lesbians out of their own parade.”
Lesbians weren’t driven out, honey. There are more than 8 lesbians in Cardiff. Anti-trans activists were asked to leave for blocking the parade. The rest of the partygoers, INCLUDING all the lesbians, drowned them out with cheers of solidarity. That’s the WHOLE story, not your cherry-picled version.
You’re defending anti-trans activism at a pride parade. Think about that for a while.
DannyParks
Also, do some research. They were not hijacking the march, they were part of it. And because they had signs that said “lesbians don’t like penis’ ” (because apparently that needed to be explained) A group of trans “women” in the same march took offence.
S.anderson
I just love it when people who write narratives for a living go at each other. On one hand, we have someone who is very intelligent, highly visible to the public, thinks and lives by their own belief system, has tremendous experience at communicating ideas and images, and unquestionably possesses the ability to persuade others to their line of thinking. On the other hand, we have someone who possesses a much smaller group of followers, who have an alternative agenda which is threatened by ideas, visions and narratives which don’t give them a respectful little curtsey. It’s also dangerous for them to have their reasoning analyzed because it doesn’t hold up as well as the opponent’s. Analysis is itself even defined as some kind of offense. Therefore, FUD must be generated which misrepresents one party’s position in order to galvanize the group against The Great Opponent. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing for them, as lack of an Enemy to rally against could lead to the followers drifting away or even evolving their thinking.
This article does little but rehash the author’s previous grievances with Rowling. By the author’s own description, all Rowling has done is write yet another novel that doesn’t serve the agenda of a small, outspoken group who is trying to rip some of Rowling’s power away from her.
GlobeTrotter
Why is JK Rowling transphobic? The question has been asked many times and to date I’ve yet to hear a rational answer. She’s supposedly “transphobic” because she speaks out about transwomen competing in women’s sports – what’s transphobic about that? It’s clear to any rational individual that men who underwent puberty are vastly superior physically to women – how is it fair to allow biological men to compete against biological women? So for pointing this out, the virtuous mob has declared JK Rowling a transphobe. This is not rational and this is not a position I can support.
Women have fought for centuries for equality with men, for just a seat at the table, for just their own space, to just not be DOMINATED by men – and in this regard, women have made considerable progress during the 20th century. This is all being erased, however, by the gender identity movement, which has seen men move uninvitedly into women’s spaces, taking over women’s roles and relegating women once again to the back of the bus.
Women have fought very hard to have women’s sports, to have it equally funded, to have it equally recognized, to have it equally marketed, only to have biological men now move in, and under the guise of gender equality, win all the prizes and scholarships that were supposed to be reserved for women. In a moment of supreme irony, transwoman swimmer Lia Thomas was nominated by the University of Pennsylvania for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year award. So hundreds of women fought for decades with their blood, sweat and tears to achieve equal footing and recognition for women’s sports, only to have the crowning achievement handed over to a biological man…this would be funny if it weren’t so sad!
We see the same thing happening in other women’s spaces: transwomen are competing and winning in female beauty contests (e.g. Kataluna Enriquez), winning Woman of the Year (Dr. Rachel Levine, U.S. assistant secretary for health), not even female prisons are safe from males as was so comically demonstrated recently at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey, where transwoman inmate Demi Minor impregnated not one, but TWO female inmates.
As women are quick to point out, transwomen feel safer in women’s spaces because there’s less of a threat from someone who’s physically stronger. But that’s exactly why women don’t want transwomen in women’s spaces to being with! There’s not much controversy about transmen fighting to get into men’s spaces, are there?? Precisely, because men do not feel threatened by the presence of physically weaker transmen, as opposed to women who DO feel threatened by the presence of physically stronger transwomen.
And as for those who insist that transwomen are women, this is a scientific and biological error that will end up bringing much harm to society. A female (woman) has been commonly understood to be a person with XX chromosomes, and for whom ovaries, womb, vagina and so on are a statistical norm, even if some females are born without some of these or end up losing one or more later in life. Intersex individuals don’t seriously threaten this category, since most categories have statistical outliers. Maintaining the concept of “female” is crucial to an understanding of a particular kind of lived physical experience, already threatened or under-investigated in medical and academic specialties. The concept of “female” is also important for understanding the particular challenges its members face. These include an increased vulnerability to rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, domestic violence, certain cancers, anorexia and self-harm, etc. . If self-declared trans women are included in “female” statistics, then our understanding of the “female” experience will be all but meaningless. Males identifying as “female” doesn’t automatically make them susceptible to any of the above harms.
In any case, I believe this is the reason why JK Rowling has taken such a passionate stance against males self-identifying as females and then being allowed to occupy female spaces, for which she has drawn the ire of the virtuous mob for heresy against doctrine and for which she is being crucified on the alter of gender ideology.
S.anderson
Well spoken! I think nowdays that athletes could be grouped, not by sex/gender, but simply by something more like “weight class.” I see no problem with public bathrooms being unisex because, well, it seems like one must be taught to feel uncomfortable with that. I was, too, but lost all of my fears after co-op living and also encountering both sexes in bar bathrooms. Most people use unisex bathrooms every day, don’t they? At home. I agree with you that it’s problematic to blur the lines between male/man and female/woman, as is the goal of some. I don’t think people should be expected or compelled to act a certain way because of their anatomy. Let a male be a woman if that is their wish. Let a female be a man if that is their wish. One thing I don’t see talked about enough is how I also don’t think people should be expected or compelled to adopt the various gender identities, aka “traditional sex roles/norms” aka “stereotypes” which for some reason is not an idea objectionable to transgender people. On a fundamental level, it seems like the transgender movement urges people to use these constructs as a metric to determine their gender. Gay men and Lesbians poured their lives and souls into demonstrating that the traditional sex roles should be challenged. Homophobes used these traditions to justify the slurs and stereotypes hurled at them. That you can’t be a man if you’re gay; you just want to be a woman. That you can’t be a woman if you’re lesbian; you just want to be a man. And steal men’s power. Now we have a movement that has essentially co-opted the LGBT movement, which says that these stereotypes are not to be questioned, that you’re a woman if you like dick and a man if you like vag. I’m baffled as to why THIS got turned around. Unless there’s something quite different about homosexuals and transpeople. I don’t object to us being lumped together because homophobes see us as the same, and we suffer the same malice. But it does look like we have different end goals, so perhaps we should split up politically. And I focus a very suspicious eye on anyone who says “we’re about inclusion and diversity” but their actions are about wiping out anyone who doesn’t use their language, and embrace their revisions to the history books. I think they forget that there are still many gays and lesbians who were alive, who were THERE, and would like to have a little chat about all these “corrections”.
humble charlie
great response. these nervous nellies attempting to censor well-meaning people are like listening to chalk scrape against a blackboard (am i aging myself?). why do you think we got all this push-back that eventually resulted in the overturning of roe v wade? it’s because of these clowns pushing a mrs. grundy agenda that backfired on them.
LumpyPillows
They live in a weird world where facts don’t matter and they can’t see how the repercussions are related. They live right next to the right-wing science deniers. They are two peas in a pod. The looney left and the fascist right have us in a vice. Sad.
dbmcvey
She’ll be fine. She’d be fine if she never wrote another word. In fact, she’d be better off if she never wrote another word.
Bosch
No people, she’s perceived as transphobic because she shares texts from anti-trans manifestos which are full of straw-man arguments: trans people want to erase sex, transwomen just want to rape women, transwomen are dominating sports…
It would be different if those things were true, but they’re only formulated to foment hatred against trans people.
Do you remember what it was like when us gays were the social pariah? How can you in good conscience defend the same behaviour when it relates to other groups?
Bosch
@Globe
“And as for those who insist that transwomen are women, this is a scientific and biological error that will end up bringing much harm to society.”
One side uses “woman” as a biological descriptor, one side uses “woman” as a social descriptor. Both are correct, and that is why this argument is doomed to continue on forever.
The left knows vaginas are a female sex organ.
The right knows that womanhood is defined largely by behaviour and psychology.
But you all need something to fight about, don’t you? Your identities are largely based in disagreeing with the “other”.
LumpyPillows
Bosch, you read the same thing I do and reach a very different conclusion. I think that’s part of the problem. Everyone is filtering with bias.
I choose to treat trans women as women. I am in no situations with them that are dependent on the real differences between women and trans women. For me, a trans woman is effectively a woman. However she really isn’t, when it comes to areas where the differences are meaningful; like healthcare, reproduction and sports.
So, when you say transwomen are women, I trigger on what I perceive as a denial that there are meaningful differences. You probably trigger on me saying transwomen are not women as being disrespectful, when I do not mean it to be. And there we sit.
LumpyPillows
@JTex not that the people with blinders on will try to understand the point. Thanks for actually reading.
Bosch
@lumpy
I’m not so concerned with who thinks transwomen are or aren’t women.
I’m concerned about celebrities fanning the flames of polarisation within our community, and then acting like their nose is bleeding.
Bosch
@lumpy
“So, when you say transwomen are women, I trigger on what I perceive as a denial that there are meaningful differences”
I’m not sure I’ve said that transwoman are women. My position in this argument had always been trat transwomen tend to have physically female brains and physically male reproductive systems.
I’d say that’s also quite a meaningful difference, no? You and I have already had the discussion that a two-gender system has no meaningful descriptors for trans individuals, yet under this article you’re treating me as a woke teenage twitter activist. And all because I told JK to read the room.
You enjoy the fight.
Bosch
@Globe
“Why is JK Rowling transphobic?”
She literally and explicitly lists the ways in which she fears trans people, transwomen in particular.
Do you have a different definition of “phobia”?
LumpyPillows
Keep digging bosch. At some point you will possibly see how you are just argumentative and not really helping. Sometimes I see a glimmer of reason in you, but you resist it.
Winsocki
BIg Deal…if you have a problem do not read her books or go to Potter movies. She can belive what she wants and write what she wants. Unless censorship is your thing, we have to bear with it. You don’t see me going to a Southern Baptist Convention or watch FOX news. Gay and Trans get over yourselves your are becoming as tiresome as Trump and Maga Morons.
S.anderson
@Winsocki: Censorship (suppression) kind of IS their thing though.
Bosch
@mr Anderson, the villain of the matrix
Aren’t you confusing complaining with censorship?
Putting “suppression” in parenthesis as if that’s a synonym.
Are you our new troll?
S.anderson
@Bosch: Your inability to understand my points does not undermine my points. Have a nice day.
IvanPH
I’ll buy her book.
Bosch
Remember “Moonwalker”, the movie in which Michael Jackson, for no good reason, is saving a bunch of little children from villains?
Same energy.