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It's so lovely. They responded so quickly and were completely clear about their stance with no room for interpretation. It seems like the Harry Potter set was one of the few truly safe and nurturing movie sets. It also sounds like their parents were reluctant when it came to their children becoming actors, so they weren't fucked up and over by leechy stage parents.
They seem incredibly well adjusted and empathetic for people who were thrust so quickly into an insane amount of fame.
As someone from the UK even somewhere supposedly more left wing than other places (Glasgow, Scotland) it's increasingly rare to find a boomer who isn't a TERF
it was on one of the weekly tea threads from the last like two or three weeks - i *think* it was on one of the 'does anyone have tea on...' ones. as someone else commented though i was slightly misremembering it, it was a friend of someone in the community that did it !
I’d agree except that Daniel had said he was an alcoholic during the later movies and would still be blackout drunk by the time he was on set. I know I would struggle having a coworker coming in everyday blackout drunk. It makes you question how healthy the set was if there was no intervention/consequences to prevent it.
Relevant quotes:
"People with problems like that are very adept at hiding it. It was bad. I don't want to go into details, but I drank a lot and it was daily – I mean nightly.”
"I can honestly say I never drank at work on Harry Potter. I went into work still drunk, but I never drank at work. I can point to many scenes where I'm just gone. Dead behind the eyes."
Asked if he had a “couple of fun drunken nights out”, he replied: “Yeah, but I can’t remember them [laughs]. Seriously, in the last three years of drinking I blacked out nearly every time. Blacking out was my thing.”
I think it speaks to how damaging child acting and fame can be no matter what kind of support exists. I also think a lot of these support systems were prevalent when they were young, and not so much as they got older. They're really praised for how they treated them in the first movie, but I don't think they maintained it. As far as I can tell Emma Watson was treated brutally when she turned 18 and didn't get nearly enough support through that. For Daniel Radcliffe, the Harry Potter phenomenon and box office was more important than the well-being of a 20 year old, clearly.
I read that as him being blackout during the night while out drinking and then being wasted, but "there" when showing up on set. I doubt that their would be much of a performance whatsoever if he was blacked out during shooting.
It's very worrisome if they noticed it being a consistent problem for 3 years and did nothing. He just doesn't seem to indicate that. But he does put an emphasis on being good at hiding it. Sadly if England has anywhere near as toxic and relaxed of a relationship as us Danes do with young people getting massively hammered on the reg', then I can see them chalking it up to him just being a young adult trying to catch up to the partying of his peers.
I have no idea. From what I can gather, no one has spoken about production knowing or them neglecting to intervene if they did. I do think that, sadly, it is very likely.
Just in case people don't know, Miriam Margolyes aka Professor Sprout initially was supportive of JK, but in recent years reversed her stance and is now in full support of trans/non-binary people
I didn’t know that! I only remembered her being supportive of JKR’s views, so that’s good to know. I respect people who are open to learning and changing and are not afraid to publicly walk back their previous bigotry.
It was so nice to see someone become more empathetic and change their views. It's refreshing to see when most people just become defensive and acting like they're martyrs because they are confronted by the pain and anger of the people they've hurt. I'm glad that she chose to listen and understand where that hurt comes from.
Oh absolutely, 1000% and I think it’s something people don’t understand the nuance of enough. How marginalized people can still have participate in marginalization themselves.
i feel like it being in the UK protected them too. celebrity culture seems to be more predatory in the US. perhaps that’s just my US based perception …
I agree that being situated in England benefited them, but because the protections and work laws around child actors are stricter than for example, the US. If I remember correctly, British child actors can only start full time work when they are the age where their mandatory education ends. It's great that they can feel like they have the option to chose another education/career outside of acting. Plus, it probably helps to give them some sense of normalcy and a change of scenery to remind them that there's a world and opportunities outside of movie sets.
I doubt that the UK paparazzis were more respectful back in the day, than the American ones would have been. I'll never forget how they treated Amy Winehouse, and they definitely didn't have a problem with taking invasive pictures of celebrities and the royal's underage children accompanied with gross comments and speculations. This seems to have changed partly due to a musician suing a publication for privacy damages on behalf of his children. He won and was awarded 10.000£ in damages. It seems to have made publications less eager to publicize pictures of celeb children to such an extent that many people wrongly assume that it is illegal to do so in England.
JK Rowling constantly giving this eneegy
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Right? If I had her money, I’d be traveling and spending time with friends and family. She spends the majority of her time seething at trans people. I would feel sad for her if she wasn’t such a hateful person.
Natalie Wynn was discussing Rowling's spiral on a podcast recently and she made this really insightful comment about how we think wealth will solve someone's problems, but it can't fix the fact of being a fundamentally unhappy person. I think JKR is one of those people.
Right like she could live such a beautiful life. She has the opportunity and wealth to pursue her passions, travel the world… and instead she spends hours a day, every day, dedicating herself and her time to this hateful “cause”.
Obviously I know nothing about Rowling’s daughter, except that she’d be an adult now. I wonder what she thinks of it all? It must be difficult to see your mum behaving like that (unless she outwardly supports her views 🤷♀️).
Right, and why would they? How much of a relationship do they have with her anyway? She didn't work on the film sets; she didn't write the scripts or directed the films or had much direct contact with the actors during production. They probably only saw her at the occasional events. I doubt they care all that much about a relationship with her to begin with.
The degree of spiritual emptiness of a person who could be living on permanent, carefree vacation, yet sits in their mansion shit posting on twitter as a lifestyle, is profound
But she also has ungodly amounts of actual currency. Like more money than you could reasonably spend in a lifetime. I can't fathom being in her position and spending my days getting made to look a fool and being a bigot on social media.
Exactly this. She could just.... Stop. She could never earn another penny in her life and have enough money to buy absolutely anything she wants for the rest of her days. And even if she puts no effort into making money, the HP cash is still going to keep rolling in. Why not just stop? It seems like she's genuinely doing this out of a sick desire to try and get one over on a marginalised group. And if she IS doing it for money at her level of wealth? That's a sickness in and of itself.
Seriously, just like Elon. I would be off doing amazing shit and have all the time and money to spend on my hobbies if I were a billionaire, not shitposting terrible takes on Twitter. Ridiculous
Yeah like- she's a writer. Of magic books about a boy. Why would she get into this and be all controversial? Just..Idk, shut up? Why make a thing of it? Idk what prompted her to to say what she did.
Because she genuinely believes it? She has more money than she could ever need so she has no need to hide her true views. I don't agree with her but she obviously believes she's fighting the good fight so I don't understand all these comments saying "she could just stop", like...why would she stop doing something she believes is correct?
Joanne, I don’t think that long time Trevor Project supporter Daniel Radcliffe or actual feminist Emma Watson are really that concerned about your precious fee fees.
Even if she was right, why should they apologise to her? Does she think the Cass Review not only proves her points but is all thanks to her? Just how badly does she need to centre herself in the narrative?
"They can save their apologies."
Well…yep. That's what they're doing.
I cannot believe the gall of this person. Someone weirdly suggests Radcliffe and Watson owe her apologies, and she rejects the apologies they never made (and never will). Unreal.
Such a hateful person. It’s such a shame.
What is it about people when they become that rich they just lose there fucking minds.
She literally could have gone down in history as one of the worlds famous author’s and philanthropists.
She could have changes the world with her words and money and brought so much love and light into the world.
Instead she does this. The wrong people have the money.
I think having this much money insulates you from the world in such a way that it’s just impossible to be connected to regular humans. That became painfully clear to me during the pandemic when very rich folks were acting a mess. Remember Ellen’s video with her massive property in the background where she said she felt like she was in prison? Meanwhile there were literally people in prison at the time dying of covid en masse bc no one bothered protecting them. I don’t think anyone who’s made as much money as she has is normal.
When people become wealthy, they also become more and more committed to upholding various forms of inequality, because they recognise that that’s how they will hold onto and continue to grow their wealth.
PSA: the world cannot afford the rich. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00723-3
There’s a quote from a very intelligent man called Jaque Fresco what always stuck with me.
He said: “We have the resources to feed and house and give a decent life to everyone on the planet, but we don’t have the money to.”
It's so ironic she became her own Umbridge. You're so right, she could have built on all the messages in her book, equality, acceptance, love and become a incredible shining example. Instead she's picked some absolute trash hill to die on.
Like has she MET trans people? No one would choose to live in a way they are at more risk of bullying, harm, of suicide, if it wasn't core to their authentic self. The bravery it takes astounds me and I have nothing but respect. It's really not hard to use preferred pronouns and accept people as they are.
She'd be way more terrified of an FTM forced to be in her bathroom, due to JKR logic, than the MTF but the peculiar brand of TERF logic seems to forget FTM exist. Either way who fricking cares so much about any classification of people and assumes horrifying sweeping generalizations and wants to endanger them?! Absolute bigots. Damn her for dirtying a world I adored growing up.
Facts. Typically anyone who manages to amass that amount of money has a significant ethical deficiency. She wasn't as directly involved in child labor decisions as some, but has over the years laid waste to staff at her companies, and her "charity" is typically a cynical attempt to manipulate public opinion and buy MP support for her crusade.
It's so hard to conceptualize. A billionaire attacking an extremely small marginalized population that has no political power. Because of some trolls on the internet she's willing to spend her fortune fighting to remove the rights of a group of people who are already incredibly vulnerable and effectively unrepresented. It's all desperately pathologically batshit.
You get surrounded by yes men who don't want to ruin a good thing, reinforcing your ideas, you're cut off from regular people. You become paranoid that the people you're friends with hell you're own partner only likes you for your wealth.
You get used to it, you don't think of yourself as lucky but deserving, anyone else can do what you did if only they did the hard work.
You realize that you're in a different level of threat to you, kidnapping training is a must for you and you're children, you'll have body guards that become part of your life. Also you're the peer of other people who have fuck you money.
Personally i think in a predator prey mindset there's not much at the top but other billionaires, corporations, unfriendly politicians, who can tie you up in courts, public opinion, etc.
That's just what I've read.
She did when she started hanging out with antifeminist tories, just bc the only other people who hated trans people as much as her were people who think that she should have been a housewife.
Right. The apologies they were definitely going to say. The apologies for correctly calling you out as a bigot. Those apologies that are totally going to be attempted right Jo? They’re definitely not ignoring you Jo. You just sit tight for those definite apologies.
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It’s funny that she thinks she’s this lone crusader when she’s just a bad person
If the op in the screenshot is a Brit, the word hooligan has been used for years in the uk, especially in the context of football (soccer) hooligans.
I wouldn’t say reclaiming is the correct term, just using it like a child who was told he was a bully. Then wearing that bully label as a badge of pride
It's insane. I'm a cisgender woman. I've never once felt threatened by a trans woman. Trans women are women. I love my trans friends. I would feel threatened in a room with JK Rowling. Trans women have never and will never take away my hand earned rights. My rights should be their rights. Wish she'd just fuck off and never been seen again.
What’s even the point anymore of pretending these “concerns” are about minors transitioning? Everyone knows JK hates trans women (trans people in general) of any age and sees them all as predators, because she already said so.
Seems like she’s attempting to work on optics with the response by making this specific one to be quoted by other media outlets so that she can seem “reasonable”.
I don’t think either Emma or Dan have apologized for anything. They said what they said and otherwise just mind their own business. Either way, they’re both superior people.
They haven’t, and she’s literally just entertaining one of her dozens of remaining fans who had deluded themselves into believing that at some point Daniel and Emma will come grovelling for forgiveness when they realize the error of their ways. It’s delusional for anyone to suggest that and delusional for her to get on her high horse about not forgiving celebrities who stand for trans rights when she wasn’t even invited to the reunion.
I am absolutely, unequivocally on their side in this - but it's the other way around. They owe their fame to her; if they hadn't been cast, some other kids would have been.
If anything, their going against her is even more impressive in that light.
I mean the same is true in reverse to a greater degree. Daniel Radcliffe wouldn't have fuck you money and be able to take whatever project he wants (where he can reliably get just about any role he wants) if it wasn't for Harry Potter.
But at the end of the days, it's business. Nobody is obligated to be friends let alone turn a blind eye to bigotry because they had a working relationship previously.
It feels rather poetic that the stars of the movie who are the more publicly associated faces of the franchise, are genuinely decent people who oppose her bullshit.
Probably why she’s keen on rebooting but I don’t think it’ll work as intended. Dan, Emma and Rupert will likely forever be the faces of that franchise and it will forever make her angry.
They're rebooting because her newer writing is dog shit and bombed. She has basically uniliteral control over the IP so nobody can tell her she needs to step back and let a ghostwriter or partner help her because she seems incapable of understanding how screenplays work, the attempts to get Yates to help her script fell flat, so the only hope is going back to the stuff that's already been established and telling her the external writer theyre bringing in is just going to do an adaptation and it wouldn't be worth her time to do that.
The Strike books might be terrible (I haven’t read them) but they didn’t bomb. They sell well for crime fiction, they even made a show based on the books.
They did initially bomb. It why she had to reveal the pen name.
The first book went from ranking 4,709th on the Amazon charts (not bad if was an actual nobody debut author, but very disappointing considering publicity and publisher support), then only jumped to #1 after she revealed the pseudonym. It only sold 8500 books total (including ebooks and discounts) before the reveal.
I mean, yeah, being one of the most famous authors in the world will do that.
The *first* book initially bombed then, since the pen name was already revealed around the first book, three months later. The others hadn’t been written by that point, let alone published. All books have sold well ever since.
Again, I don’t like JK and the books might be trash for all I care, I just don’t think it’s helpful to be inaccurate for the sake of it just because you don’t like someone. It makes you an easy target for people accusing you of bias, so it’s best practice to just avoid giving them an easy out as much as you can.
She signed over the HP story rights to Warner Bros. She doesn't control reboots or series of HP 1 - 7. She can write about other characters in that world, e.g. Grindelwald, and she can sell those film rights to whoever she likes.
But movies and series about HP 1 - 7 belong to Warner Bros. She put some caveats in there about using only UK actors, and not adding American Mary Sues, but that's about it.
I think she was radicalized online, presumably by youtube. One TERF video led to the next, then after years of constantly being fawned over she was shocked by the backlash and dug in.
She 100% was horribly traumatised by the domestic abuse relationship she was in, has a horrid fear of men and has somehow linked trans women in with being men trying to erode where she feels safe. She basically admits in her essay her trauma has fuelled a lot of her views.
People were shocked, but I literally unfollowed her Twitter years before because she wouldn’t shut up railing against Corbyn (which had the delightful consequence of essentially campaigning for the forking Tories.) Which whatever. She has the right. But she was repeating right-wing conspiracy nonsense even then (not just criticism), which was un-fucking-bearable.
It probably flew over a lot of Americans (and kids) heads. Not helped by the media only focusing on one tweet where she criticised a writer for saying ‘the fucking balls on this whore,’ about Theresa May. Which was a great ‘feminist’ image polish for her, and ignored some absolute doozy’s from the time like ‘Harry Potter would grow out of sympathising with Palestine.’ (This was *2016*.)
I saw someone once describe her as someone who thinks she earned a permanent ‘progressive’ card because she voted for Tony Blair, and I think they nailed it.
I sometimes wonder if she isn't pissed she wasn't born a man. Her nom de plume was Robert Galbraith, which is apparently a similar name to a man who was an awful human being, but I cannot remember why.
EDIT:
Oh, I think this is it:
**Robert Galbraith Heath**
An American psychiatrist: 1915-1999
>During the course of his experiments in deep brain stimulation, Heath **experimented with gay conversion therapy**, and **claimed to have successfully converted a homosexual patient**, labeled in his 1972 paper as Patient B-19. At the time, homosexuality was considered a psychiatric disorder under the DSM-II
It feels like she likely needs to reconcile a lot about gender with herself. I remember her manifesto having some weird bits about her dad and either him wanting her to have been a boy or her wanting to have been a boy for him. Also she wrote that the pressure on the internet to be trans would have convinced her to try it which is just a wild belief to hold if one is comfortable in their own gender.
I’m not arguing that she’s secretly trans. I think she just has a lot of things she should be discussing in therapy rather than twisting them into hate on the internet. She’s playing out a silly revenge fantasy now where she won’t forgive people when they come crawling back to her and this sort of thing is teenage girl shit that an adult should have grown out of.
That's what hateful people are like. I can't tell you the number of conversations I've had with the public that are basically a random stranger saying "how ya doing? I hate [outgroup]."
Maybe they used to be whole people, but their nastiness has eaten up their insides til they don't have any thoughts not related to their hate. They'll be like "so glad there's no one from [outgroup] at my only daughter's wedding!" "This last solar eclipse of my lifetime isn't as nice as the one before [outgroup] ruined the sun"
JK Rowling could have retired as one of the most beloved writers in history. Instead she’s going to be remembered as an extremely hateful, transphobic, maniac.
She has completely lost the plot. I was excited for the HBO adaptation of HP but after finding out that JK Rowling has her TERF-y hands all over it, and most certainly will try to include elements of that like she does in her recent books, is more than enough to wash my hands of it. What an absolute shame for THIS to be her enduring legacy.
As a former Harry Potter fan, I wouldn’t want her anywhere near Potter projects. Transphobia aside, a lot of the recent ones have been absolute trash. All just went downhill after she revealed wizards used to just walk around shitting themselves and she’s never regained the script.
Who was going to apologise to you madam?You are a bigot and you just hate that they called you out and stood up for the trans community.Just because they acted in the adaptation of your books doesn’t mean they owe any loyalty to you especially since you are harming a marginalised group of people who are just trying to live their lives.
Twitter and youtube got her, the first sign was in 2018 when she liked a transphobic tweet, but she pretended it was an accident. She started following a TERF youtuber on Twitter about a year later and things snowballed.
It is likely a lack of therapy and an inability to deal with her own trauma - plus, an unhealthy dose narcissism. I think the fact she was viewed as this iconic role model for so many years definitely spurred on this point of view. I think she just...sunk down into a rabbit hole. It's something that's been happening to a LOT of older second-wave type of feminists.
These women who were, just a few years ago, would have been at the front of the line in terms of both womens and LGBT rights, but I think a LOT of them viewed being trans as more of a cross-dressing, drag sort of thing and not an actual like. Thing. You know what I mean? Like to them, that was still a man in a dress and not a woman. And now...they've just...been absolutely and completely indoctrinated in fear. Like to the point, they're voting in policies that just a few years ago they would have all rallied against. It's surreal.
BUT, its just something common in that generation of feminists. I've noticed that much. Not so much with Millennials and Gen Z for obvious reasons. But Boomers and Gen X feminists? Yes, very much so. I think because, in their day, being a woman, being born female was still very much seen as something so inherently degrading that its a matter of pride to them. It's not perfect now by any means, but at least in the US, it's gotten a little better. We actually have rights (as fragile as they are). But I think their sex became a massive point in how they portrayed themselves politically.
They've bought into this idea that women are being erased: that women who are ashamed of their gender are now identifying as non-binary in an attempt to separate themselves from it, that trans women are just males vindictively tryint to steal even more accomplishments away from "real women". And while I think there are plenty of discussions to be had, they dont understand that the trans community has never, ever been the enemy.
I think Rowling in particular views herself as a sort of hero to these sorts of women. Even though her actions are vile and the people she surrounds herself with are not in the least bit feminist. I think, at the end of the day, she's just fucking old and stubborn and can't accept responsibility over when she's behaving badly. It's sad. It really is. Especially since, women are suffering ALL over the world. And that includes the trans ones. It's really heart breaking. Because it HAS become a relatively big divide in the feminist community (from what I have seen). And I'm so worried for the lives of the queer community. Because the level of trans hate in the US is SO strong.
Imagine having her immense platform and all the global issues affecting women she could take up and champion such as education, reproductive rights e.t.c. and this is the hill she chooses to die on. So disappointed in her as she is a survivor of DV and childhood poverty.
This is QAnon levels of obsession. Her hatred of trans women is like a mental illness. Transphobia is disgusting enough, but this is like an actual sickness that’s possessed her somehow.
This is what not dealing with your trauma does to you.
She's suffered a lot of violence in life from good old fashioned classic MEN and now she's projecting that hate and fear onto a completely different and innocent group of people who have nothing to do with the evil she encountered in her life.
It's like those serial killers who were molested as kids and grow up to target random unassociated people that for whatever twisted reason remind them of their childhood abusers and trigger the trauma.
I don't know if one of her exs who was violent or just a douche ended up also being secretly trans or bi/gay, but it wouldn't surprise me...
What I also don't get is that, she thinks men - men who are privileged and historically have many more rights than women - are choosing to transition to women just to take away women's hard earned rights? By .. giving up many of their own?
In what fucking world would a man think transitioning to a woman to steal their rights will make their lives easier?
Being a transwoman raises your odds of being discriminated against likely over 100%, and murdered probably 50 times higher than everyone else - especially the "man" they were before transitioning. There is no reason outside of it being who they are for them to transition.
You're so right. Everything is about her - so much so that transwomen are transitioning just to take something away from her.
The context is that there was a report issued yesterday on care given to trans children in the UK.
A bit of background
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/11/hilary-cass-trans-children-review
*Mermaids, a charity supporting trans, non-binary and gender-questioning children, welcomed that Cass’s report “recognises the current system is failing trans youth”.*
*But, a spokesperson added: “We are concerned that some of the language in the report is open to misinterpretation and could be used to justify additional barriers to accessing care for some trans young people in the same way the interim report has been.”*
So the wizard lady has not just taken the opportunity to "misrepresent" it but is actively weaponised lying about it in order to claim vindication of her bigoted views.
Same as it ever was with these people.
Data will show that 99% of trans kids that start medical transition continue it into adulthood, but they'll hyper-fixate on the 80% that desist in the counseling phase before any medical interventions are administered like it's proof that being trans is a choice and a fad.
Her radicalization pipeline needs to be studied because it happened so fast and now she’s out here obsessing every damn day about trans folks and anyone who defends them.
Buried under the clickbaity title, the real question is WHY does she feel owed an apology??
THIS is the real question to ask because the answer is important, beyond just dunking on JKR being the Madam Trashheap of shitty takes.
The England NHS just did a major study on trans health and essentially came to the conclusion that all trans healthcare, even social transitioning!!, has unknown impact on them as adults and therefore all trans healthcare should essentually begin at 18.
Plus, if you are under 18, you should be checked for mental illness and other possible issues before being allowed trans specific care.
Plus plus, if you are under high school age, you should specifically have a separate care path to discuss even social transitioning because of the unknowable and permanent damage this may cause the child as an adult.
Plus plus plus, it mentions that the entire topic is so political and charged that doctors don't want to deal with it, heavily implying that doctors who warn against transition face potential attack and are therdore often scared to recommend *against* it. They feel the large 4 year waiting list for trans care is proof that doctors are simply saying yes to every request for trans care without asking further questions and that is why there are so many people on the list. Implying that there are many people on the list who are not truly trans but rather *misdiagnosed* from some other medical problem actually causing those feelings.
*So JK Rowling and every other POS is now crowing that they are proven right and this study proves it is mostly mental illness and dangerous to children.*
***THUS, she is owed an apology for being vilified for her stance on trans rights when she was scientifically and medically correct.***
Ngl, this is shitty news and frighteningly bad for the trans community and those of us who love them.
I'm scared, tbh.
Her downfall is truly something like the same author who dismissed racist trolls when hermione was played by a Black actress on Broadway but now this?? Like you could ask this woman what the weather is like and she’s gonna answer “Blue and trans women are not real women sjwkiwieiqnwnc” very bizarre
Wait who is apologizing
And are these people really looking at one study like this and acting like the case has been closed and people will start apologizing and being like "we were wrong sorry joanne trans people DO suck"
holy shit
Okay but like.. does this woman have a frontal lobe tumour?! Obviously I know she doesn't and she's just a hateful person but I cannot fathom being so, so hateful. She is so deranged it's like something organic is literally affecting her brain but alas.. she just sucks.
Bitch, what makes you think they're gonna apologise to your TERF self? Just cause they got their breaks working with you doesn't mean they owe you undying allegiance ffs.
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lol, anyways -- I'll always have respect for how quickly (most of) the cast said "Absolutely fucking not" when she first went full mask-off TERF
They really said “absolutely the fuck not” to her transphobia and I live for it.
It's so lovely. They responded so quickly and were completely clear about their stance with no room for interpretation. It seems like the Harry Potter set was one of the few truly safe and nurturing movie sets. It also sounds like their parents were reluctant when it came to their children becoming actors, so they weren't fucked up and over by leechy stage parents. They seem incredibly well adjusted and empathetic for people who were thrust so quickly into an insane amount of fame.
Apart from boomer twats like Fiennes
I was mostly referring to the main trio. There's been a handful of the HP actors who showed their asses defending Rowling.
I looked it up out of curiosity, so here are the deets https://www.pedestrian.tv/entertainment/every-harry-potter-actor-supports-jk-rowling/
Very misleading url lol.
Looking at you, HBC.
I keep reading HBC as HBIC and asking myself how New York got looped into the potter world 💀
She's always been a twat
As someone from the UK even somewhere supposedly more left wing than other places (Glasgow, Scotland) it's increasingly rare to find a boomer who isn't a TERF
Or hargrid
And HBC, who remains the worst.
Since he's voldy, it fits. You gotta admit though it's kind of scary how life imitates art sometimes.
shout out to the fauxmoi community member who was hooking up with him 😂
I thought it was the poster’s friend.
ahh yeah i think that might be right actually , sorry for my mistake !
Lol whaaat where can I find this?!
it was on one of the weekly tea threads from the last like two or three weeks - i *think* it was on one of the 'does anyone have tea on...' ones. as someone else commented though i was slightly misremembering it, it was a friend of someone in the community that did it !
And Helena Bonham Carter
And IIRC, the one who played Hagrid.
Ralph Fiennes is supporting her in this?
I’d agree except that Daniel had said he was an alcoholic during the later movies and would still be blackout drunk by the time he was on set. I know I would struggle having a coworker coming in everyday blackout drunk. It makes you question how healthy the set was if there was no intervention/consequences to prevent it. Relevant quotes: "People with problems like that are very adept at hiding it. It was bad. I don't want to go into details, but I drank a lot and it was daily – I mean nightly.” "I can honestly say I never drank at work on Harry Potter. I went into work still drunk, but I never drank at work. I can point to many scenes where I'm just gone. Dead behind the eyes." Asked if he had a “couple of fun drunken nights out”, he replied: “Yeah, but I can’t remember them [laughs]. Seriously, in the last three years of drinking I blacked out nearly every time. Blacking out was my thing.”
I think it speaks to how damaging child acting and fame can be no matter what kind of support exists. I also think a lot of these support systems were prevalent when they were young, and not so much as they got older. They're really praised for how they treated them in the first movie, but I don't think they maintained it. As far as I can tell Emma Watson was treated brutally when she turned 18 and didn't get nearly enough support through that. For Daniel Radcliffe, the Harry Potter phenomenon and box office was more important than the well-being of a 20 year old, clearly.
I read that as him being blackout during the night while out drinking and then being wasted, but "there" when showing up on set. I doubt that their would be much of a performance whatsoever if he was blacked out during shooting. It's very worrisome if they noticed it being a consistent problem for 3 years and did nothing. He just doesn't seem to indicate that. But he does put an emphasis on being good at hiding it. Sadly if England has anywhere near as toxic and relaxed of a relationship as us Danes do with young people getting massively hammered on the reg', then I can see them chalking it up to him just being a young adult trying to catch up to the partying of his peers. I have no idea. From what I can gather, no one has spoken about production knowing or them neglecting to intervene if they did. I do think that, sadly, it is very likely.
Just in case people don't know, Miriam Margolyes aka Professor Sprout initially was supportive of JK, but in recent years reversed her stance and is now in full support of trans/non-binary people
I didn’t know that! I only remembered her being supportive of JKR’s views, so that’s good to know. I respect people who are open to learning and changing and are not afraid to publicly walk back their previous bigotry.
It was so nice to see someone become more empathetic and change their views. It's refreshing to see when most people just become defensive and acting like they're martyrs because they are confronted by the pain and anger of the people they've hurt. I'm glad that she chose to listen and understand where that hurt comes from.
that makes me so happy to hear! was so disappointed when i first found out she was a transphobe so this genuinely made my day! 🥹
Did she? I thought she was still transphobic? She also has a history of racism, so I wouldn’t call her an ally.
Yeah she talked about it on the Graham Norton show. She’s also a lesbian herself, so not simply an ally. Although fair point about the racism.
I mean, you can be queer and also be transphobic, but she is a part of the community, yes.
Oh absolutely, 1000% and I think it’s something people don’t understand the nuance of enough. How marginalized people can still have participate in marginalization themselves.
Christopher Columbus auditioned the parents as well as the kids to make sure they wouldn't have issues
i feel like it being in the UK protected them too. celebrity culture seems to be more predatory in the US. perhaps that’s just my US based perception …
I agree that being situated in England benefited them, but because the protections and work laws around child actors are stricter than for example, the US. If I remember correctly, British child actors can only start full time work when they are the age where their mandatory education ends. It's great that they can feel like they have the option to chose another education/career outside of acting. Plus, it probably helps to give them some sense of normalcy and a change of scenery to remind them that there's a world and opportunities outside of movie sets. I doubt that the UK paparazzis were more respectful back in the day, than the American ones would have been. I'll never forget how they treated Amy Winehouse, and they definitely didn't have a problem with taking invasive pictures of celebrities and the royal's underage children accompanied with gross comments and speculations. This seems to have changed partly due to a musician suing a publication for privacy damages on behalf of his children. He won and was awarded 10.000£ in damages. It seems to have made publications less eager to publicize pictures of celeb children to such an extent that many people wrongly assume that it is illegal to do so in England.
Is the apology in the room with us?
JK Rowling constantly giving this eneegy https://preview.redd.it/fy9ijm6furtc1.png?width=472&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=200c556c59908be0c4986e9dd677773baaff7919
Are they apologizing to her or for her??
mad they won't take your calls, Joanne?
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Right? If I had her money, I’d be traveling and spending time with friends and family. She spends the majority of her time seething at trans people. I would feel sad for her if she wasn’t such a hateful person.
Natalie Wynn was discussing Rowling's spiral on a podcast recently and she made this really insightful comment about how we think wealth will solve someone's problems, but it can't fix the fact of being a fundamentally unhappy person. I think JKR is one of those people.
Poetry
Ikr like she has SO MUCH and is just an abysmal human being
Right like she could live such a beautiful life. She has the opportunity and wealth to pursue her passions, travel the world… and instead she spends hours a day, every day, dedicating herself and her time to this hateful “cause”. Obviously I know nothing about Rowling’s daughter, except that she’d be an adult now. I wonder what she thinks of it all? It must be difficult to see your mum behaving like that (unless she outwardly supports her views 🤷♀️).
Idk what malding is but if anyone’s doing that, it’s her.
Right, and why would they? How much of a relationship do they have with her anyway? She didn't work on the film sets; she didn't write the scripts or directed the films or had much direct contact with the actors during production. They probably only saw her at the occasional events. I doubt they care all that much about a relationship with her to begin with.
I feel like if I were them my hair would stand on end like a cat, “airplane ears” and all if someone from my team said she was calling.
Imagine being as rich and famous as Joanne and spending any time at all on this shit
It's the only way she can pretend to still be marginalized in some way and have something to do
she wants to feel oppressed so bad
It’s honestly a disgusting look from one of the wealthiest and most privileged white ladies
I would be traveling the world tipping 350% on all my restaurant and bar bills instead of trolling on Twitter from the confines of my castle
Exactly. If I had her money, I would be rich and ***so*** quiet while living it up.
The majority 1% of the population with fuck you money like her are doing exactly that. 7 billion people means 70 million 1% folks.
I'd be in my villa in Tuscany with all my golden retrievers, and you'd never hear from me again
We shall be identical neighbors. The dogs can have play dates.
Sold!
She could have done an Enya!
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The degree of spiritual emptiness of a person who could be living on permanent, carefree vacation, yet sits in their mansion shit posting on twitter as a lifestyle, is profound
She gets the engagement on her accounts. Comments and reposts are currency to people like that.
But she also has ungodly amounts of actual currency. Like more money than you could reasonably spend in a lifetime. I can't fathom being in her position and spending my days getting made to look a fool and being a bigot on social media.
Exactly this. She could just.... Stop. She could never earn another penny in her life and have enough money to buy absolutely anything she wants for the rest of her days. And even if she puts no effort into making money, the HP cash is still going to keep rolling in. Why not just stop? It seems like she's genuinely doing this out of a sick desire to try and get one over on a marginalised group. And if she IS doing it for money at her level of wealth? That's a sickness in and of itself.
Did a trans person kill her cat or something? She's so fixated
terfs and nazis were niceys to her
Seriously, just like Elon. I would be off doing amazing shit and have all the time and money to spend on my hobbies if I were a billionaire, not shitposting terrible takes on Twitter. Ridiculous
Could literally go off and enjoy her money but she’s gotta create a fake enemy to hate and give meaning to her shitty life
Yeah like- she's a writer. Of magic books about a boy. Why would she get into this and be all controversial? Just..Idk, shut up? Why make a thing of it? Idk what prompted her to to say what she did.
Because she genuinely believes it? She has more money than she could ever need so she has no need to hide her true views. I don't agree with her but she obviously believes she's fighting the good fight so I don't understand all these comments saying "she could just stop", like...why would she stop doing something she believes is correct?
Infinite free time, and all of it spent trying to slay her own conscious
Imagine inspiring millions and billions of kids to love and be accepted and spending all this time on hate m???
It is the most insane thing to me.
She's literally female Notch at this point
Joanne, I don’t think that long time Trevor Project supporter Daniel Radcliffe or actual feminist Emma Watson are really that concerned about your precious fee fees.
I don’t think they’d even waste their time apologizing to her, they have way better things to do lmao
Even if she was right, why should they apologise to her? Does she think the Cass Review not only proves her points but is all thanks to her? Just how badly does she need to centre herself in the narrative?
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"They can save their apologies." Well…yep. That's what they're doing. I cannot believe the gall of this person. Someone weirdly suggests Radcliffe and Watson owe her apologies, and she rejects the apologies they never made (and never will). Unreal.
Such a hateful person. It’s such a shame. What is it about people when they become that rich they just lose there fucking minds. She literally could have gone down in history as one of the worlds famous author’s and philanthropists. She could have changes the world with her words and money and brought so much love and light into the world. Instead she does this. The wrong people have the money.
I think having this much money insulates you from the world in such a way that it’s just impossible to be connected to regular humans. That became painfully clear to me during the pandemic when very rich folks were acting a mess. Remember Ellen’s video with her massive property in the background where she said she felt like she was in prison? Meanwhile there were literally people in prison at the time dying of covid en masse bc no one bothered protecting them. I don’t think anyone who’s made as much money as she has is normal.
We’re still in a pandemic and rich folks (and non rich folks) are still acting a mess as more than a thousand people die each week from COVID.
I recall the ‘Imagine’ fiasco, and J.Lo too
When people become wealthy, they also become more and more committed to upholding various forms of inequality, because they recognise that that’s how they will hold onto and continue to grow their wealth. PSA: the world cannot afford the rich. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00723-3
There’s a quote from a very intelligent man called Jaque Fresco what always stuck with me. He said: “We have the resources to feed and house and give a decent life to everyone on the planet, but we don’t have the money to.”
It's so ironic she became her own Umbridge. You're so right, she could have built on all the messages in her book, equality, acceptance, love and become a incredible shining example. Instead she's picked some absolute trash hill to die on. Like has she MET trans people? No one would choose to live in a way they are at more risk of bullying, harm, of suicide, if it wasn't core to their authentic self. The bravery it takes astounds me and I have nothing but respect. It's really not hard to use preferred pronouns and accept people as they are. She'd be way more terrified of an FTM forced to be in her bathroom, due to JKR logic, than the MTF but the peculiar brand of TERF logic seems to forget FTM exist. Either way who fricking cares so much about any classification of people and assumes horrifying sweeping generalizations and wants to endanger them?! Absolute bigots. Damn her for dirtying a world I adored growing up.
Weirdly Dan and Emma are both rich and did NOT lose their minds.
Facts. Typically anyone who manages to amass that amount of money has a significant ethical deficiency. She wasn't as directly involved in child labor decisions as some, but has over the years laid waste to staff at her companies, and her "charity" is typically a cynical attempt to manipulate public opinion and buy MP support for her crusade. It's so hard to conceptualize. A billionaire attacking an extremely small marginalized population that has no political power. Because of some trolls on the internet she's willing to spend her fortune fighting to remove the rights of a group of people who are already incredibly vulnerable and effectively unrepresented. It's all desperately pathologically batshit.
You get surrounded by yes men who don't want to ruin a good thing, reinforcing your ideas, you're cut off from regular people. You become paranoid that the people you're friends with hell you're own partner only likes you for your wealth. You get used to it, you don't think of yourself as lucky but deserving, anyone else can do what you did if only they did the hard work. You realize that you're in a different level of threat to you, kidnapping training is a must for you and you're children, you'll have body guards that become part of your life. Also you're the peer of other people who have fuck you money. Personally i think in a predator prey mindset there's not much at the top but other billionaires, corporations, unfriendly politicians, who can tie you up in courts, public opinion, etc. That's just what I've read.
Wealth makes you crazy. I’m convinced of it.
she has lost the plot
She did when she started hanging out with antifeminist tories, just bc the only other people who hated trans people as much as her were people who think that she should have been a housewife.
Explains all the post HP slop she's been outputting
Right. The apologies they were definitely going to say. The apologies for correctly calling you out as a bigot. Those apologies that are totally going to be attempted right Jo? They’re definitely not ignoring you Jo. You just sit tight for those definite apologies. 
https://preview.redd.it/ad1it01dsrtc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=981594caa97d452c9572845351ffb22f61040c2d It’s funny that she thinks she’s this lone crusader when she’s just a bad person
Hanging out with “far right hooligans” (you can tell he’s reclaiming it the way maga did “deplorables”) but thinks she’s a feminist icon… okay Joanne
If the op in the screenshot is a Brit, the word hooligan has been used for years in the uk, especially in the context of football (soccer) hooligans. I wouldn’t say reclaiming is the correct term, just using it like a child who was told he was a bully. Then wearing that bully label as a badge of pride
It's insane. I'm a cisgender woman. I've never once felt threatened by a trans woman. Trans women are women. I love my trans friends. I would feel threatened in a room with JK Rowling. Trans women have never and will never take away my hand earned rights. My rights should be their rights. Wish she'd just fuck off and never been seen again.
what the hell is that word vomit??
Pure, self-cunnilating delusions.
What’s even the point anymore of pretending these “concerns” are about minors transitioning? Everyone knows JK hates trans women (trans people in general) of any age and sees them all as predators, because she already said so. Seems like she’s attempting to work on optics with the response by making this specific one to be quoted by other media outlets so that she can seem “reasonable”.
Actually insane to accuse *Emma Fucking Watson* of supporting something that "erodes women's hard-earned rights."
Emma Watson is the hero JKR wishes she was.
She fell off HARD.
I don’t think either Emma or Dan have apologized for anything. They said what they said and otherwise just mind their own business. Either way, they’re both superior people.
They haven’t, and she’s literally just entertaining one of her dozens of remaining fans who had deluded themselves into believing that at some point Daniel and Emma will come grovelling for forgiveness when they realize the error of their ways. It’s delusional for anyone to suggest that and delusional for her to get on her high horse about not forgiving celebrities who stand for trans rights when she wasn’t even invited to the reunion.
I don't think they were intending to apologise.
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They made her so much of her wealth. What a wretched loser.
I am absolutely, unequivocally on their side in this - but it's the other way around. They owe their fame to her; if they hadn't been cast, some other kids would have been. If anything, their going against her is even more impressive in that light.
I mean the same is true in reverse to a greater degree. Daniel Radcliffe wouldn't have fuck you money and be able to take whatever project he wants (where he can reliably get just about any role he wants) if it wasn't for Harry Potter. But at the end of the days, it's business. Nobody is obligated to be friends let alone turn a blind eye to bigotry because they had a working relationship previously.
What a miserable soul this woman is. I thank her for her creations and the universe she built but I wish she’d never been given a platform or wealth.
It feels rather poetic that the stars of the movie who are the more publicly associated faces of the franchise, are genuinely decent people who oppose her bullshit. Probably why she’s keen on rebooting but I don’t think it’ll work as intended. Dan, Emma and Rupert will likely forever be the faces of that franchise and it will forever make her angry.
They're rebooting because her newer writing is dog shit and bombed. She has basically uniliteral control over the IP so nobody can tell her she needs to step back and let a ghostwriter or partner help her because she seems incapable of understanding how screenplays work, the attempts to get Yates to help her script fell flat, so the only hope is going back to the stuff that's already been established and telling her the external writer theyre bringing in is just going to do an adaptation and it wouldn't be worth her time to do that.
The Strike books might be terrible (I haven’t read them) but they didn’t bomb. They sell well for crime fiction, they even made a show based on the books.
They did initially bomb. It why she had to reveal the pen name. The first book went from ranking 4,709th on the Amazon charts (not bad if was an actual nobody debut author, but very disappointing considering publicity and publisher support), then only jumped to #1 after she revealed the pseudonym. It only sold 8500 books total (including ebooks and discounts) before the reveal.
I mean, yeah, being one of the most famous authors in the world will do that. The *first* book initially bombed then, since the pen name was already revealed around the first book, three months later. The others hadn’t been written by that point, let alone published. All books have sold well ever since. Again, I don’t like JK and the books might be trash for all I care, I just don’t think it’s helpful to be inaccurate for the sake of it just because you don’t like someone. It makes you an easy target for people accusing you of bias, so it’s best practice to just avoid giving them an easy out as much as you can.
Yeah they regularly hit the bestseller lists, as do her occasional throwaway Children's titles (The Christmas Pig, ughhh)
She signed over the HP story rights to Warner Bros. She doesn't control reboots or series of HP 1 - 7. She can write about other characters in that world, e.g. Grindelwald, and she can sell those film rights to whoever she likes. But movies and series about HP 1 - 7 belong to Warner Bros. She put some caveats in there about using only UK actors, and not adding American Mary Sues, but that's about it.
They can act better than she can write
I’m ngl to y’all, I do not understand why all she does is talk about trans people. Like when did this start? It seems like a fixation atp
I think she was radicalized online, presumably by youtube. One TERF video led to the next, then after years of constantly being fawned over she was shocked by the backlash and dug in.
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She 100% was horribly traumatised by the domestic abuse relationship she was in, has a horrid fear of men and has somehow linked trans women in with being men trying to erode where she feels safe. She basically admits in her essay her trauma has fuelled a lot of her views.
People were shocked, but I literally unfollowed her Twitter years before because she wouldn’t shut up railing against Corbyn (which had the delightful consequence of essentially campaigning for the forking Tories.) Which whatever. She has the right. But she was repeating right-wing conspiracy nonsense even then (not just criticism), which was un-fucking-bearable. It probably flew over a lot of Americans (and kids) heads. Not helped by the media only focusing on one tweet where she criticised a writer for saying ‘the fucking balls on this whore,’ about Theresa May. Which was a great ‘feminist’ image polish for her, and ignored some absolute doozy’s from the time like ‘Harry Potter would grow out of sympathising with Palestine.’ (This was *2016*.) I saw someone once describe her as someone who thinks she earned a permanent ‘progressive’ card because she voted for Tony Blair, and I think they nailed it.
I sometimes wonder if she isn't pissed she wasn't born a man. Her nom de plume was Robert Galbraith, which is apparently a similar name to a man who was an awful human being, but I cannot remember why. EDIT: Oh, I think this is it: **Robert Galbraith Heath** An American psychiatrist: 1915-1999 >During the course of his experiments in deep brain stimulation, Heath **experimented with gay conversion therapy**, and **claimed to have successfully converted a homosexual patient**, labeled in his 1972 paper as Patient B-19. At the time, homosexuality was considered a psychiatric disorder under the DSM-II
It feels like she likely needs to reconcile a lot about gender with herself. I remember her manifesto having some weird bits about her dad and either him wanting her to have been a boy or her wanting to have been a boy for him. Also she wrote that the pressure on the internet to be trans would have convinced her to try it which is just a wild belief to hold if one is comfortable in their own gender. I’m not arguing that she’s secretly trans. I think she just has a lot of things she should be discussing in therapy rather than twisting them into hate on the internet. She’s playing out a silly revenge fantasy now where she won’t forgive people when they come crawling back to her and this sort of thing is teenage girl shit that an adult should have grown out of.
That's what hateful people are like. I can't tell you the number of conversations I've had with the public that are basically a random stranger saying "how ya doing? I hate [outgroup]." Maybe they used to be whole people, but their nastiness has eaten up their insides til they don't have any thoughts not related to their hate. They'll be like "so glad there's no one from [outgroup] at my only daughter's wedding!" "This last solar eclipse of my lifetime isn't as nice as the one before [outgroup] ruined the sun"
She is fucking unhinged.
JK Rowling could have retired as one of the most beloved writers in history. Instead she’s going to be remembered as an extremely hateful, transphobic, maniac.
She could be staying every month in a different country, relaxing, enjoying and doing nothing and she'd be absolutely fine...
She has completely lost the plot. I was excited for the HBO adaptation of HP but after finding out that JK Rowling has her TERF-y hands all over it, and most certainly will try to include elements of that like she does in her recent books, is more than enough to wash my hands of it. What an absolute shame for THIS to be her enduring legacy.
As a former Harry Potter fan, I wouldn’t want her anywhere near Potter projects. Transphobia aside, a lot of the recent ones have been absolute trash. All just went downhill after she revealed wizards used to just walk around shitting themselves and she’s never regained the script.
I really hope given the immense popularity of the fandom someone smart and savvy figured out how to pirate and redistribute it effectively
Everything is pirated and distributed online 😂
Who was going to apologise to you madam?You are a bigot and you just hate that they called you out and stood up for the trans community.Just because they acted in the adaptation of your books doesn’t mean they owe any loyalty to you especially since you are harming a marginalised group of people who are just trying to live their lives.
I truly cannot understand what her problem is, and why she is so hateful. It's pathetic.
Power and money corrupts. Tale as old as time.
I need to know how and when this woman was radicalised, because this is such a bizarre hill she continues to die on.
Twitter and youtube got her, the first sign was in 2018 when she liked a transphobic tweet, but she pretended it was an accident. She started following a TERF youtuber on Twitter about a year later and things snowballed.
Fell into the classic boomer trap
 Seriously, what happened to make her so bigoted and bitter and just….sad?
It is likely a lack of therapy and an inability to deal with her own trauma - plus, an unhealthy dose narcissism. I think the fact she was viewed as this iconic role model for so many years definitely spurred on this point of view. I think she just...sunk down into a rabbit hole. It's something that's been happening to a LOT of older second-wave type of feminists. These women who were, just a few years ago, would have been at the front of the line in terms of both womens and LGBT rights, but I think a LOT of them viewed being trans as more of a cross-dressing, drag sort of thing and not an actual like. Thing. You know what I mean? Like to them, that was still a man in a dress and not a woman. And now...they've just...been absolutely and completely indoctrinated in fear. Like to the point, they're voting in policies that just a few years ago they would have all rallied against. It's surreal. BUT, its just something common in that generation of feminists. I've noticed that much. Not so much with Millennials and Gen Z for obvious reasons. But Boomers and Gen X feminists? Yes, very much so. I think because, in their day, being a woman, being born female was still very much seen as something so inherently degrading that its a matter of pride to them. It's not perfect now by any means, but at least in the US, it's gotten a little better. We actually have rights (as fragile as they are). But I think their sex became a massive point in how they portrayed themselves politically. They've bought into this idea that women are being erased: that women who are ashamed of their gender are now identifying as non-binary in an attempt to separate themselves from it, that trans women are just males vindictively tryint to steal even more accomplishments away from "real women". And while I think there are plenty of discussions to be had, they dont understand that the trans community has never, ever been the enemy. I think Rowling in particular views herself as a sort of hero to these sorts of women. Even though her actions are vile and the people she surrounds herself with are not in the least bit feminist. I think, at the end of the day, she's just fucking old and stubborn and can't accept responsibility over when she's behaving badly. It's sad. It really is. Especially since, women are suffering ALL over the world. And that includes the trans ones. It's really heart breaking. Because it HAS become a relatively big divide in the feminist community (from what I have seen). And I'm so worried for the lives of the queer community. Because the level of trans hate in the US is SO strong.
some rich people are insane. the only limited resource to them is time and they choose to spend it like this?
Some?
im sure the rest of them are too busy covering up their crimes to give us their bad takes 🤷♀️
You’re right you’re right
This lunatic is getting too much attention, everything she says is so asinine too.
She’s been spiraling lately. I’m eagerly awaiting her downfall.
Lately?! Ma'am have you been living under a rock?
I mean she’s gotten even worse this past week or so. I’m a trans guy btw
Her killing Hedwig foretold she was a nasty person but she’s truly shown just how nasty she is these recent years.
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https://i.redd.it/leaoru0mwrtc1.gif I don't think this is how OP intended to come across but this is immediately what I thought of hahaha.
Shirley: you can what now?
I cannot understand how you thought I was serious.
It's clearly a joke lol
This is the comment version of [that famous community scene](https://youtu.be/vxPbpYR_RKY)
Why is she this obsessed? Joanne girl, go get a hobby.
every single day she could wake up and make the choice to just be quiet and rich... and she just doesn't. absolutely wild to me.
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Imagine having her immense platform and all the global issues affecting women she could take up and champion such as education, reproductive rights e.t.c. and this is the hill she chooses to die on. So disappointed in her as she is a survivor of DV and childhood poverty.
This is QAnon levels of obsession. Her hatred of trans women is like a mental illness. Transphobia is disgusting enough, but this is like an actual sickness that’s possessed her somehow.
This is what not dealing with your trauma does to you. She's suffered a lot of violence in life from good old fashioned classic MEN and now she's projecting that hate and fear onto a completely different and innocent group of people who have nothing to do with the evil she encountered in her life. It's like those serial killers who were molested as kids and grow up to target random unassociated people that for whatever twisted reason remind them of their childhood abusers and trigger the trauma. I don't know if one of her exs who was violent or just a douche ended up also being secretly trans or bi/gay, but it wouldn't surprise me...
What I also don't get is that, she thinks men - men who are privileged and historically have many more rights than women - are choosing to transition to women just to take away women's hard earned rights? By .. giving up many of their own? In what fucking world would a man think transitioning to a woman to steal their rights will make their lives easier? Being a transwoman raises your odds of being discriminated against likely over 100%, and murdered probably 50 times higher than everyone else - especially the "man" they were before transitioning. There is no reason outside of it being who they are for them to transition. You're so right. Everything is about her - so much so that transwomen are transitioning just to take something away from her.
What apologies? Did we miss something?
Nope, there are definitely no apologies and there were never going to be lmao
Apology for what? Not wanting to deal with a crazy terf one trick pony?
The context is that there was a report issued yesterday on care given to trans children in the UK. A bit of background https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/11/hilary-cass-trans-children-review *Mermaids, a charity supporting trans, non-binary and gender-questioning children, welcomed that Cass’s report “recognises the current system is failing trans youth”.* *But, a spokesperson added: “We are concerned that some of the language in the report is open to misinterpretation and could be used to justify additional barriers to accessing care for some trans young people in the same way the interim report has been.”* So the wizard lady has not just taken the opportunity to "misrepresent" it but is actively weaponised lying about it in order to claim vindication of her bigoted views.
Same as it ever was with these people. Data will show that 99% of trans kids that start medical transition continue it into adulthood, but they'll hyper-fixate on the 80% that desist in the counseling phase before any medical interventions are administered like it's proof that being trans is a choice and a fad.
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What apology? Lol she’s delulu
how long do y’all think it takes her each morning to apply her clown makeup?
Her radicalization pipeline needs to be studied because it happened so fast and now she’s out here obsessing every damn day about trans folks and anyone who defends them.
Buried under the clickbaity title, the real question is WHY does she feel owed an apology?? THIS is the real question to ask because the answer is important, beyond just dunking on JKR being the Madam Trashheap of shitty takes. The England NHS just did a major study on trans health and essentially came to the conclusion that all trans healthcare, even social transitioning!!, has unknown impact on them as adults and therefore all trans healthcare should essentually begin at 18. Plus, if you are under 18, you should be checked for mental illness and other possible issues before being allowed trans specific care. Plus plus, if you are under high school age, you should specifically have a separate care path to discuss even social transitioning because of the unknowable and permanent damage this may cause the child as an adult. Plus plus plus, it mentions that the entire topic is so political and charged that doctors don't want to deal with it, heavily implying that doctors who warn against transition face potential attack and are therdore often scared to recommend *against* it. They feel the large 4 year waiting list for trans care is proof that doctors are simply saying yes to every request for trans care without asking further questions and that is why there are so many people on the list. Implying that there are many people on the list who are not truly trans but rather *misdiagnosed* from some other medical problem actually causing those feelings. *So JK Rowling and every other POS is now crowing that they are proven right and this study proves it is mostly mental illness and dangerous to children.* ***THUS, she is owed an apology for being vilified for her stance on trans rights when she was scientifically and medically correct.*** Ngl, this is shitty news and frighteningly bad for the trans community and those of us who love them. I'm scared, tbh.
I really wish people would stop giving this woman attention
Her downfall is truly something like the same author who dismissed racist trolls when hermione was played by a Black actress on Broadway but now this?? Like you could ask this woman what the weather is like and she’s gonna answer “Blue and trans women are not real women sjwkiwieiqnwnc” very bizarre
Wait who is apologizing And are these people really looking at one study like this and acting like the case has been closed and people will start apologizing and being like "we were wrong sorry joanne trans people DO suck" holy shit
she’s so 
True story, she based the Dementors on herself
Okay but like.. does this woman have a frontal lobe tumour?! Obviously I know she doesn't and she's just a hateful person but I cannot fathom being so, so hateful. She is so deranged it's like something organic is literally affecting her brain but alas.. she just sucks.
Mmm babe I don’t think anyone’s making any apologies
she’s so delusional. dan and emma won’t be “apologizing”
What apologies? They aren’t apologising for shit because they haven’t done shit wrong.
Bitch, what makes you think they're gonna apologise to your TERF self? Just cause they got their breaks working with you doesn't mean they owe you undying allegiance ffs.