Thanks, Julie. I really admire Jo Rowling for being able to stick her head above the parapet for the rest of us normal women who aren't allowed to say anything. She's done more for humanity than any of her critics, giving millions to charity and working with experts to find out how best that money can be used.
They hate that she's a wonderful, successful woman who cannot be shut up by them.
It's glorious how she refuses to be cancelled and how everything she does is a success.
I loved this week's Glinner update which said ' Despite the best efforts of gender zealots to nobble it, the biggest-selling video game of 2023 was JK Rowling’s Harry Potter adventure, Hogwarts Legacy. It sold over 22 million copies. Several major gaming sites and titles refused to review or write about it. Wired magazine told readers not to buy it. Numerous influencers said they wouldn’t talk about the game. One major discussion forum banned all mention of it. And the game-buying public responded to all this by… buying it by the truckload'
The Copium that her critics are sniffing is 100% pure. Layers of hate, a self made billionaire who inspires millions and a woman who won’t shut up or agree with them.
Yes I read that. The cartoon they put with the article, an illustration of JK Rowling's supposed hidden nastiness, actually says more about The New Stateman. Even something as innocuous as a vividly descriptive passage in Harry Potter is given this sanctimonious treatment.
'Rowling’s career as a purveyor of vicious social derision began on the first page of the first Harry Potter book. Harry’s uncle, Mr Dursley, is described as “a big, beefy man with hardly any neck”, while Mrs Dursley has “nearly twice the usual amount of neck”. '
This is his example of 'social derision'? I can't even read that without hearing the barrel being scraped. Is there any work of fiction worth reading that is so sanitised as to withstand that type of critique?
I haven't read JKR's non-Potter books so can only comment on the review. Nick Hilton does says some complementary things, but it seems like it's grudging and only put there to qualify his highly selective mining of the texts i.e., so he can attack her as a person. Having read his article I feel a bit uncomfortably dirty, which is odd, because I seem to remember liking that feeling.
I've read them all ,except Running Grave. Got my copy but still wading my way through "GC " books at the moment. Over 900 pages in Running Grave ,so might take me a while. Her other books have ALL been great ,but ,even if I didn't like them ,I would STILL buy them because she's a HERO !!
Transgenderism is 180 degrees opposed to feminism. They really are conflicting philosophies. Feminism 1.0 2.0 3.0, whichever .0 we are up to all take the position men and women are the same and that society has structured through bias the massive differences we see. Transgenderism says the opposite. ‘I was raised a boy, enrolled in football, given trucks and guns as a child, and no amount of socialization did anything. Deep inside I am a girl and always have been. Socialization did nothing.’ If that is true, Feminism isn’t. They both can’t be true. In addition Trans seems to glom on to the worst stereotypes of what a woman is. She is a princess, someone who loves to dress up and gob makeup on her face. These are wholly unserious cartoons of what an actual woman is. I don’t see how feminism cannot reject transgenderism.
PS For the record....all the women in my life like to dress up, feel special etc. But, it is about 2% of who they are. It's a once in awhile thing and does not define them anymore than me liking to occasionally flex my muscles in front of the mirror defines me.
JK ROWLING is far too nice. She's being attacked for being ethical and courageous. We've all seen those men whose faces are contorted with misogynistic rage and hatred protesting women's rights rallies: threatening, harassing and assaulting women just as they defame JK Rowling. We should never concede to calling them Leftists- they are a COVERT-RIGHT. I've observed them for decades and sooner or later they will expose themselves completely for who they truly are. No one who wants to subordinate those who are the most oppressed globally (women), those most subjected to violence by those with a dominant status can claim to be advocates of liberty and equality for all.
Thanks so much for this excellent piece. I have also listened to her to the podcast, The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, which is also excellent and gives a lot of insight. Here in the USA, you get nearly burned at the stake for any critique or honest questioning of the trans epidemic .
We are the ones who have given the trans-radicals their power. It was given to them by the lack of moral courage to speak the truth to power, on a national, or perhaps, an international, scale. "Give them the inch they demanded," we said. "What harm could it generate?” Well, now we know. Shrewdly, there was a widespread introduction of the unsubstantiated claim that the intolerable rates of self-harm, depression, and suicide that stem from the trans worldview are our fault. Then there was an established assumption that normalization would fix all that, again unsubstantiated. Now, if you do not respond properly to whatever self-actuated claim of “identity,” in some cases, you can be arrested!
If you can get the authorities to arrest your ideological opponents, you are not oppressed. You are the oppressor.
if you are a trans woman there are a few things that you need to understand. First of all is that you are still a man because you can't change your biological sex. It's okay to dress any way you wish and to adopt any superficial, stereotypical attributes of women that you desire. Live your life. No one should care, I certainly don't. However, because women are entitled to be treated fairly and to enjoy privacy from men there are certain things that are prohibited to you and me because we are men. You can't compete against women in most sports because it would be unfair. You can't go into women's private places like restrooms and locker rooms because that would make them feel unsafe. Finally, if you are a criminal you certainly can't be imprisoned with women.
Couldn't JK ROWLING sue them for defamation? Certainly all the evidence is on her side. Her critics are orchestrating a hate campaign that's gone on for years. There's so much evidence of the trans bad faith and lies and so much evidence of ROWLING's charity and beneficence. The trans are getting away with egregious lies. Maybe paying a hefty price for their perfidy would restrain them.
Thank you ,Julie ,for your spirited defence of JKR ,Kathleen Stock and all the other brave women like them. We ALL need to stand up for Reality and Truth. That the only way we'll ever manage to protect women and children from the effects of this abhorrent ideology ( ie Men's rights movement !!)
Thanks, Julie. I really admire Jo Rowling for being able to stick her head above the parapet for the rest of us normal women who aren't allowed to say anything. She's done more for humanity than any of her critics, giving millions to charity and working with experts to find out how best that money can be used.
They hate that she's a wonderful, successful woman who cannot be shut up by them.
It's glorious how she refuses to be cancelled and how everything she does is a success.
I loved this week's Glinner update which said ' Despite the best efforts of gender zealots to nobble it, the biggest-selling video game of 2023 was JK Rowling’s Harry Potter adventure, Hogwarts Legacy. It sold over 22 million copies. Several major gaming sites and titles refused to review or write about it. Wired magazine told readers not to buy it. Numerous influencers said they wouldn’t talk about the game. One major discussion forum banned all mention of it. And the game-buying public responded to all this by… buying it by the truckload'
Seethe, cope, dilate TRAS :)
The Copium that her critics are sniffing is 100% pure. Layers of hate, a self made billionaire who inspires millions and a woman who won’t shut up or agree with them.
Excellent piece
Oh JKR, shame on you - imagine not wanting male rapists in women's prisons?
Thanks Julie, your words really do say it best - i hope you both keep fighting the good fight! XX
Yes I read that. The cartoon they put with the article, an illustration of JK Rowling's supposed hidden nastiness, actually says more about The New Stateman. Even something as innocuous as a vividly descriptive passage in Harry Potter is given this sanctimonious treatment.
'Rowling’s career as a purveyor of vicious social derision began on the first page of the first Harry Potter book. Harry’s uncle, Mr Dursley, is described as “a big, beefy man with hardly any neck”, while Mrs Dursley has “nearly twice the usual amount of neck”. '
This is his example of 'social derision'? I can't even read that without hearing the barrel being scraped. Is there any work of fiction worth reading that is so sanitised as to withstand that type of critique?
I haven't read JKR's non-Potter books so can only comment on the review. Nick Hilton does says some complementary things, but it seems like it's grudging and only put there to qualify his highly selective mining of the texts i.e., so he can attack her as a person. Having read his article I feel a bit uncomfortably dirty, which is odd, because I seem to remember liking that feeling.
Her Strike novels are superb.
Try them. Lucky you to have them all to read.
They are actually really good. I am enjoying the Running Grave at the moment
I like how she very cleverly and subtly weaves in the issues of the day
I've added The Cuckoo's Calling to my audible library. It's in the queue.
absolutely.
I have good intentions to read them. Might have to be audiobooks.
I've read them all ,except Running Grave. Got my copy but still wading my way through "GC " books at the moment. Over 900 pages in Running Grave ,so might take me a while. Her other books have ALL been great ,but ,even if I didn't like them ,I would STILL buy them because she's a HERO !!
exactly Susan, she is and so are scores of other women quietly chipping away at the absolute rubbish being bandied about.
I still haven't started the one I have but it's rising to the top of the unread pile in my audible library. And I think you are right.
What is wrong with those descriptions of characters' necks? Neckism?
I think the swans and owls complained.
Gads! She's a Neckist! What horror!!!
Thank you and please keep writing these pieces. As the daughter of a woman , mother of two women and grandmother of a girl I need you to be fearless.
Transgenderism is 180 degrees opposed to feminism. They really are conflicting philosophies. Feminism 1.0 2.0 3.0, whichever .0 we are up to all take the position men and women are the same and that society has structured through bias the massive differences we see. Transgenderism says the opposite. ‘I was raised a boy, enrolled in football, given trucks and guns as a child, and no amount of socialization did anything. Deep inside I am a girl and always have been. Socialization did nothing.’ If that is true, Feminism isn’t. They both can’t be true. In addition Trans seems to glom on to the worst stereotypes of what a woman is. She is a princess, someone who loves to dress up and gob makeup on her face. These are wholly unserious cartoons of what an actual woman is. I don’t see how feminism cannot reject transgenderism.
PS For the record....all the women in my life like to dress up, feel special etc. But, it is about 2% of who they are. It's a once in awhile thing and does not define them anymore than me liking to occasionally flex my muscles in front of the mirror defines me.
JK ROWLING is far too nice. She's being attacked for being ethical and courageous. We've all seen those men whose faces are contorted with misogynistic rage and hatred protesting women's rights rallies: threatening, harassing and assaulting women just as they defame JK Rowling. We should never concede to calling them Leftists- they are a COVERT-RIGHT. I've observed them for decades and sooner or later they will expose themselves completely for who they truly are. No one who wants to subordinate those who are the most oppressed globally (women), those most subjected to violence by those with a dominant status can claim to be advocates of liberty and equality for all.
Thanks so much for this excellent piece. I have also listened to her to the podcast, The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, which is also excellent and gives a lot of insight. Here in the USA, you get nearly burned at the stake for any critique or honest questioning of the trans epidemic .
We are the ones who have given the trans-radicals their power. It was given to them by the lack of moral courage to speak the truth to power, on a national, or perhaps, an international, scale. "Give them the inch they demanded," we said. "What harm could it generate?” Well, now we know. Shrewdly, there was a widespread introduction of the unsubstantiated claim that the intolerable rates of self-harm, depression, and suicide that stem from the trans worldview are our fault. Then there was an established assumption that normalization would fix all that, again unsubstantiated. Now, if you do not respond properly to whatever self-actuated claim of “identity,” in some cases, you can be arrested!
If you can get the authorities to arrest your ideological opponents, you are not oppressed. You are the oppressor.
Thanks for this Julie a well thought out and informative response to the New Statesman article.
if you are a trans woman there are a few things that you need to understand. First of all is that you are still a man because you can't change your biological sex. It's okay to dress any way you wish and to adopt any superficial, stereotypical attributes of women that you desire. Live your life. No one should care, I certainly don't. However, because women are entitled to be treated fairly and to enjoy privacy from men there are certain things that are prohibited to you and me because we are men. You can't compete against women in most sports because it would be unfair. You can't go into women's private places like restrooms and locker rooms because that would make them feel unsafe. Finally, if you are a criminal you certainly can't be imprisoned with women.
That's it, just like me.
Couldn't JK ROWLING sue them for defamation? Certainly all the evidence is on her side. Her critics are orchestrating a hate campaign that's gone on for years. There's so much evidence of the trans bad faith and lies and so much evidence of ROWLING's charity and beneficence. The trans are getting away with egregious lies. Maybe paying a hefty price for their perfidy would restrain them.
She’s one of the bravest women out there! Falsely accused of bigotry simply for speaking the truth for women. She will prevail!
Thank you ,Julie ,for your spirited defence of JKR ,Kathleen Stock and all the other brave women like them. We ALL need to stand up for Reality and Truth. That the only way we'll ever manage to protect women and children from the effects of this abhorrent ideology ( ie Men's rights movement !!)