J K Rowling stands on the side of biology and reason. Scotland and Scottish women in particular are very lucky to have someone of J K Rowling's calibre holding the line against perverse, irrational idiocy. Not so lucky to have a police force that appears to be relishing the prospect of applying to the letter of what is clearly a very unpopular law.
Really? Police Scotland have said Rowling will not be investigated as she was not threatening or abusive towards any particular person.
It seems she's massively misunderstood the scope of the law. She thought she was going to be arrested for a tweet. Lol, so edgy.
That's right. JK Rowling is known for never doing a lick of research into any of the topics she writes, speaks and tweets about.
Given Rowling's finanical situation as the highest-earning author in the world and a self-made billionaire, she also can't afford advice from the best barristers and legal scholars in Scotland, the wider United Kingdom and whole world.
In fact, were JK Rowling ever to attempt to get advice from learned attorneys, esteemed jurists and other bigwigs in Scottish, British and European law, it's a pretty safe bet that not a single one would take or return her call.
UK campaign orgs focused on women's rights, free speech, and curbing police overreach - such as For Women Scotland, MurrayBlackburnMackenzie, the Free Speech Union, Fair Cop - all would turn away JK Rowling in a heartbeat if she called upon them for legal advice and support too.
As JK Rowling has demonstrated though the intricate fictional universes she has created in her phenomenonally popular Harry Potter books and other fantasy novels, her best-selling series of adult crime novels, the many speeches and interviews she has given, and her campaigning on behalf of children's welfare and women's rights, Britain's most successful writer is an empty-headed ninny totally who never thinks before she speaks is utterly incapable of thinking and acting strategically. Indeed, the woman is a blithering eejit who has no idea what she's doing.
Then again, it could also be that if anyone has "massively understood" in this instance, it's not JK Rowling, mate. It's you.
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JK Rowling could be investigated by police for misgendering trans people under Scotland’s new hate crime law, an SNP minister has said. The party’s community safety minister, Siobhian Brown, had previously claimed that misgendering – for example, using the pronoun “he” when talking about a trans woman – would not count as a hate crime, but she has now said it would be a police decision.
HOW has such clear-cut inciteful hate crime not resulted in arrest yet?
More police corruption.
More Boomer pandering.
Disgusting I am expected to live in a world where misgendering hate is not challenged.
I am assuming this is a well done satire.
Calling this satire ascribes a level of sophistication that the OP lacks. Like all his recent posts, it's just flinging poop to the wall and seeing which threads stick.
Really? Police Scotland have said Rowling will not be investigated as she was not threatening or abusive towards any particular person.
It seems she's massively misunderstood the scope of the law. She thought she was going to be arrested for a tweet. Lol, so edgy.
That's right. JK Rowling is known for never doing a lick of research into any of the topics she writes, speaks and tweets about.
Given Rowling's finanical situation as the highest-earning author in the world and a self-made billionaire, she also can't afford advice from the best barristers and legal scholars in Scotland, the wider United Kingdom and whole world.
In fact, were JK Rowling ever to attempt to get advice from learned attorneys, esteemed jurists and other bigwigs in Scottish, British and European law, it's a pretty safe bet that not a single one would take or return her call.
UK campaign orgs focused on women's rights, free speech, and curbing police overreach - such as For Women Scotland, MurrayBlackburnMackenzie, the Free Speech Union, Fair Cop - all would turn away JK Rowling in a heartbeat if she called upon them for legal advice and support too.
As JK Rowling has demonstrated though the intricate fictional universes she has created in her phenomenonally popular Harry Potter books and other fantasy novels, her best-selling series of adult crime novels, the many speeches and interviews she has given, and her campaigning on behalf of children's welfare and women's rights, Britain's most successful writer is an empty-headed ninny totally who never thinks before she speaks is utterly incapable of thinking and acting strategically. Indeed, the woman is a blithering eejit who has no idea what she's doing.
Then again, it could also be that if anyone has "massively understood" in this instance, it's not JK Rowling, mate. It's you.
Your sad attempt at sarcasm fails to understand that one can be highly accomplished in some spheres and yet be an idiot in others.
One can also be a general nobody and be an idiot, your posts here being a good case in point.
my favorite research Joanne conducted when writing HP were for all side character names.
>> googles “Asian names” for the one Asian student at school for entirety of United Kingdom
>> first hit are “Cho” and “Chang” (just ignore that they’re both last names)
>> sounds perfect!! copy paste baby.
She’s definitely a genius with well know regard for all people beyond other white women.
100% her books are riddled with things like that.
"Cho" and "Chang" are Korean and Chinese surnames respectively. It's like calling a European character Rodriguez Roux or an American character Smith McJones.
The only Irish character is Seamus Finnegan, the most stereotypically Irish name imaginable. He's also characterized a bit dumb and has a propensity to blow things up.
The goblins at gringotts are bankers, greedy and hook-nosed. Obvious Jewish tropes. There's even a star (of David) on the floor of the bank.
Durmstrang is said to be located in the far north of the European continent and it's students wear fur coats yet it's students are Bulgarian, which is in southeast Europe and quite hot.
All the overweight characters are portrayed as not too bright. Hagrid, Neville Longbottom, Crabbe, Goyle, Dudley Dursley.
Rowling has retrospectively made Dumbledore gay to appear modern and progressive, yet didn't bother to include any references to this actually in the book.
Rowling has said the werewolf in her books are a synonym for HIV/AIDS. This is problematic because the wolves are actually portrayed as dangerous and some as waiting to infect their victims. It doesn't dispel the stigma, it reinforces it.
my favorite research Joanne conducted when writing HP were for all side character names.
>> googles “Asian names” for the one Asian student at school for entirety of United Kingdom
>> first hit are “Cho” and “Chang” (just ignore that they’re both last names)
>> sounds perfect!! copy paste baby.
She’s definitely a genius with well know regard for all people beyond other white women.
100% her books are riddled with things like that.
"Cho" and "Chang" are Korean and Chinese surnames respectively. It's like calling a European character Rodriguez Roux or an American character Smith McJones.
The only Irish character is Seamus Finnegan, the most stereotypically Irish name imaginable. He's also characterized a bit dumb and has a propensity to blow things up.
The goblins at gringotts are bankers, greedy and hook-nosed. Obvious Jewish tropes. There's even a star (of David) on the floor of the bank.
Durmstrang is said to be located in the far north of the European continent and it's students wear fur coats yet it's students are Bulgarian, which is in southeast Europe and quite hot.
All the overweight characters are portrayed as not too bright. Hagrid, Neville Longbottom, Crabbe, Goyle, Dudley Dursley.
Rowling has retrospectively made Dumbledore gay to appear modern and progressive, yet didn't bother to include any references to this actually in the book.
Rowling has said the werewolf in her books are a synonym for HIV/AIDS. This is problematic because the wolves are actually portrayed as dangerous and some as waiting to infect their victims. It doesn't dispel the stigma, it reinforces it.
Good compilation. For someone who doesn’t and will never read her work, her writing sounds pretty banal, which I suppose is not surprising because banal is almost always the nature of stuff that gets incredibly popular.
Nonsense. You think that your exclusive dichotomy is founded on facts but it is not. Radical feminism of the 1970s-80s looks at biology and history and sees the contingent ways in which male domination has been established and thus how it may be contested. Of course, there are those here too who think only of biology and see its impacts but are then handcuffed by their own denial of freedom and thus the possibility of historical transformation. Radical feminism of the 1990s and beyond includes the former, as well as the Butler forms in which gender is distinguished from biological sex, where both are matters of concern and the former is something more like performance and thus contestable and mutable, while the latter is not.
my favorite research Joanne conducted when writing HP were for all side character names.
>> googles “Asian names” for the one Asian student at school for entirety of United Kingdom
>> first hit are “Cho” and “Chang” (just ignore that they’re both last names)
>> sounds perfect!! copy paste baby.
She’s definitely a genius with well know regard for all people beyond other white women.
100% her books are riddled with things like that.
"Cho" and "Chang" are Korean and Chinese surnames respectively. It's like calling a European character Rodriguez Roux or an American character Smith McJones.
The only Irish character is Seamus Finnegan, the most stereotypically Irish name imaginable. He's also characterized a bit dumb and has a propensity to blow things up.
The goblins at gringotts are bankers, greedy and hook-nosed. Obvious Jewish tropes. There's even a star (of David) on the floor of the bank.
Durmstrang is said to be located in the far north of the European continent and it's students wear fur coats yet it's students are Bulgarian, which is in southeast Europe and quite hot.
All the overweight characters are portrayed as not too bright. Hagrid, Neville Longbottom, Crabbe, Goyle, Dudley Dursley.
Rowling has retrospectively made Dumbledore gay to appear modern and progressive, yet didn't bother to include any references to this actually in the book.
Rowling has said the werewolf in her books are a synonym for HIV/AIDS. This is problematic because the wolves are actually portrayed as dangerous and some as waiting to infect their victims. It doesn't dispel the stigma, it reinforces it.
You get points for creative writing but you could do this with any book. Meh.
also Asian People usually have Asian names- stereotypes work because it’s a probability. If I seee an Asian looking person statistically they are more likely to know “Asian” food. It’s math and our minds understand. What’s bad is knowing a stereotype and like saying they are “bad”. I don’t think black proie are bad but I do think they are more likely to rob you in a city than a white person- because it’s statistic and the ffijg situation lol
Trans-activist India Willoughby, who has been "misgendered" by Rowling, says, "I am every bit as much a woman as JK Rowling." Not quite every bit, India.
The company I work for, an American 125K manpower monopoly scientific supplier with a turnover of $44B just this week sent a local email on the new voluntary 'Self ID' in your HR portal. Apparently one of reasons is to comply with reporting accurately on gender composition.
What bollocks, the "gender equality acts" that address things like equal pay, clearly was written to mean gender as 'sex', i.e. a biological woman being discriminately given less pay. Where is the evidence that a trans gender female (if that exists in fact), i.e. a 'former' male presumably earning 'what the males earn' will get 'what the women earn' when he has transgendered. What is the value in terms of the GE Act to report that skewed metric?
I will go into the portal and type in "what I look like" instead of 'he/him', as I am at the age where I could bugger off any day while they still need me and can do such defiant stuff. I pity the younger guys who have to put up with whatever a monopolist dishes out they should do.
Flagpole wrote: And, unless you're a hermit, you FOR SURE have been fooled by a transgendered person.
In general, to be fooled means to be made to believe something that is not true. So if one has “been fooled by a transgendered person,” does that mean to have been led to believe that a man is a woman, or vice versa? That the person who is presenting as a woman is really, actually, truly a man? That is not the position I thought you would take.
my favorite research Joanne conducted when writing HP were for all side character names.
>> googles “Asian names” for the one Asian student at school for entirety of United Kingdom
>> first hit are “Cho” and “Chang” (just ignore that they’re both last names)
>> sounds perfect!! copy paste baby.
She’s definitely a genius with well know regard for all people beyond other white women.
100% her books are riddled with things like that.
"Cho" and "Chang" are Korean and Chinese surnames respectively. It's like calling a European character Rodriguez Roux or an American character Smith McJones.
The only Irish character is Seamus Finnegan, the most stereotypically Irish name imaginable. He's also characterized a bit dumb and has a propensity to blow things up.
The goblins at gringotts are bankers, greedy and hook-nosed. Obvious Jewish tropes. There's even a star (of David) on the floor of the bank.
Durmstrang is said to be located in the far north of the European continent and it's students wear fur coats yet it's students are Bulgarian, which is in southeast Europe and quite hot.
All the overweight characters are portrayed as not too bright. Hagrid, Neville Longbottom, Crabbe, Goyle, Dudley Dursley.
Rowling has retrospectively made Dumbledore gay to appear modern and progressive, yet didn't bother to include any references to this actually in the book.
Rowling has said the werewolf in her books are a synonym for HIV/AIDS. This is problematic because the wolves are actually portrayed as dangerous and some as waiting to infect their victims. It doesn't dispel the stigma, it reinforces it.
I love HP but this actually made me think. There were also two Indian girls in the book as well (Parvi Patil and her sister?) but I think she treated them fairly.
Good point on AIDS but this is her counterpoint: Rowling reveals that, in an attempt to get revenge on his father, Lupin was bitten as a child. He was then isolated from other children and later by society. Lupin's family was constantly concerned with keeping the condition a secret as to avoid any shame and danger. "The wizarding community is as prone to hysteria and prejudice as the Muggle one," Rowling says. "And the character of Lupin gave me a chance to examine those attitudes." Although it may seem that Lupin lead quite the sorrowful life, Rowling makes sure to remind us that despite his condition Lupin ended up quite happy. After coming to Hogwarts he managed to find people who loved him regardless of his condition and who eventually became life-long friends.
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"Cho" and "Chang" are Korean and Chinese surnames respectively. It's like calling a European character Rodriguez Roux or an American character Smith McJones.
The only Irish character is Seamus Finnegan, the most stereotypically Irish name imaginable. He's also characterized a bit dumb and has a propensity to blow things up.
The goblins at gringotts are bankers, greedy and hook-nosed. Obvious Jewish tropes. There's even a star (of David) on the floor of the bank.
Durmstrang is said to be located in the far north of the European continent and it's students wear fur coats yet it's students are Bulgarian, which is in southeast Europe and quite hot.
All the overweight characters are portrayed as not too bright. Hagrid, Neville Longbottom, Crabbe, Goyle, Dudley Dursley.
Rowling has retrospectively made Dumbledore gay to appear modern and progressive, yet didn't bother to include any references to this actually in the book.
Rowling has said the werewolf in her books are a synonym for HIV/AIDS. This is problematic because the wolves are actually portrayed as dangerous and some as waiting to infect their victims. It doesn't dispel the stigma, it reinforces it.
I love HP but this actually made me think. There were also two Indian girls in the book as well (Parvi Patil and her sister?).
Good point on AIDS. Rowling reveals that, in an attempt to get revenge on his father, Lupin was bitten as a child. He was then isolated from other children and later by society. Lupin's family was constantly concerned with keeping the condition a secret as to avoid any shame and danger. "The wizarding community is as prone to hysteria and prejudice as the Muggle one," Rowling says. "And the character of Lupin gave me a chance to examine those attitudes." Although it may seem that Lupin lead quite the sorrowful life, Rowling makes sure to remind us that despite his condition Lupin ended up quite happy. After coming to Hogwarts he managed to find people who loved him regardless of his condition and who eventually became life-long friends.
Not sure how using ethnic names, or speaking truth is hate speech?
Yep. Parvati Patil and Padma Patil. Along with 'Cho Chang', the Asian characters are all given alliterative names for some reason and all appear as minor love interests for main characters. They're also in Ravenclaw, which is the house for 'studious' witches and wizards. Yet another lazy stereotype, this time about Asian students.
She also thought 'Kingsley Shacklebolt' was an appropriate name for a black wizard who ends up being a significant character in the later books (a shacklebolt is the pin used to link locks in a chain if you didn't know).
The HIV/AIDS allegory is pretty ill thought especially as Fenrir Greyback, one of the deatheaters, is described as a werewolf who exclusively preys on children. I know he's an evil character but portraying him as having a disease associated with gay men AND portraying him as being a paedophile is terrible.
I like a bit of Harry Potter too, they're good films and she's created an incredibly rich universe that people love. But you can't overlook these things, there's too many of them.
Flagpole wrote: And, unless you're a hermit, you FOR SURE have been fooled by a transgendered person.
In general, to be fooled means to be made to believe something that is not true. So if one has “been fooled by a transgendered person,” does that mean to have been led to believe that a man is a woman, or vice versa? That the person who is presenting as a woman is really, actually, truly a man? That is not the position I thought you would take.
Nope. It means that someone you thought was born a man was not. It means that someone you thought was born a woman was not.
Transgendered people just want to live their lives as they want to, just like all of us do.
In general, to be fooled means to be made to believe something that is not true. So if one has “been fooled by a transgendered person,” does that mean to have been led to believe that a man is a woman, or vice versa? That the person who is presenting as a woman is really, actually, truly a man? That is not the position I thought you would take.
Nope. It means that someone you thought was born a man was not. It means that someone you thought was born a woman was not.
Transgendered people just want to live their lives as they want to, just like all of us do.
Wish that were true - but sadly they do not all just want to 'live their lives' - SO many of them are pathetic attention-seekers. (Mardi-Gras anyone ? OMG)
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