15th September 2020

Graham Linehan

Sep 15, 2020

(Meme courtesy of the brilliant women at Actual Feminism.)

‘The Day’ apologises to Rowling

SheSellsSeaShells 🕉 @by_theSeaShore

JK Rowling receives apology from children's site after legal threats over trans claims

independent.co.ukJK Rowling receives apology from children’s site after legal threats over trans claimsSite aimed at schoolchildren implied Harry Potter author was ‘deeply unpleasant’

Their statement is just as disingenuous and begrudging as you would expect.

“We accept that our article implied that what JK Rowling had tweeted was objectionable and that she had attacked and harmed trans people,” the statement reads. “The article was critical of JK Rowling personally and suggested that our readers should boycott her work and shame her into changing her behaviour. Our intention was to provoke debate on a complex topic. We did not intend to suggest that JK Rowling was transphobic or that she should be boycotted.

The rest of it is better. You can hear JK’s authorial voice through their panic.

“We accept that our comparisons of JK Rowling to people such as Picasso, who celebrated sexual violence, and Wagner, who was praised by the Nazis for his antisemitic and racist views, were clumsy, offensive and wrong.

“Debate about a complex issue where there is a range of legitimate views should have been handled with much more sensitivity and more obvious recognition of the difference between fact and opinion. We unreservedly apologise to JK Rowling for the offence caused, are happy to retract these false allegations and to set the record straight. We shall be making a financial contribution to a charity of JK Rowling’s choice.”

Shout out to the ‘edgy’ comedians too chickenshit to defend JK Rowling’s freedom of speech

Frankie Boyle @frankieboyle

Shoutout to rightwing commentators, waking up in the morning not knowing what mad shit they're going to have to defend

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In what continues to be a disappointing year, Reductress turn out to be dick-pandering collaborators

Again the sheer EDGINESS of throwing a woman under the bus on behalf of men. You go, ladies!

Oh, and by the way…

All these gross people tripping over each other to condemn her, and it’s not even what the book is about.

Nick Cohen @NickCohen4

The smearing of J.K. Rowling. Me in @spectator on how fake news provoked a shitstorm

spectator.co.ukJ.K. Rowling’s latest novel isn’t ‘transphobic’ | The SpectatorThe object of a slanderer is to blacken the name of his target so thoroughly everything she says and does reinforces his slander. She can have no independent life or complexity. No one is free to say, although I disapprove of her views on X, I admire her for speaking out on Y. No quarter can be give…

Listen carefully, James Felton, Reductress, that woman from the Rick and Morty writing staff, Jedward, and Neville fucking Southall. He’s talking about you idiots.

Nick Cohen @NickCohen4

I don't know what is worse about this story. The malice, the willingess of supposedly progesssive people to repeat false allegations without even bothering to check, or the assumption that "fallen" women can be placed in a free fire zone where any lie can be told about them.