War On Women Special: JK Rowling's week
By JL
On Tuesday 15th September, Robert Galbraith’s fifth and latest Cormoran Strike novel, Troubled Blood, was published.
Were Robert Galbraith any other detective fiction writer this would have passed without incident like most other book releases.
But Robert Galbraith is the pseudonym of author, JK Rowling. Given the rage and hysteria which has followed her standing up for women’s sex-based rights, this new book was always going to be a target for trans activists.
Indeed, its release has unleashed yet another tsunami of abuse and vitriol against both JK Rowling and her work.
Jake Kerridge reviewed the book for The Telegraph. He massively over-exaggerated a reference to one of the suspects wearing women’s clothing and erroneously described the character as a transvestite. Troubled Blood, he said, is “A book whose moral seems to be: never trust a man in a dress”.
That is simply not true.
But this gave the witch-burners a perfect excuse to scream their hyperbolic and wholly unsubstantiated nonsense about JK’s supposed transphobia and bigotry.
Even before the novel was formally released, a vile hashtag, #RIPJKRowling, was trending. And not just trending, but at no 1.
Newsweek reported on the Harry Potter book-burning videos being posted on TikTok.
Even bubble gum TV talent-dodgers, Jedward, jumped on the wokewagon.
Of course Pink News dove on this opportunity to fan the flames.
Vanity Fair made the surely libellous claim that JK Rowling’s book “Proves her commitment to transphobia”.
Florida bookshop, Third House Books, announced on social media that customers trying to order Troubled Blood from them would end up on their ‘wall of shame’.
An Australian bookshop, Perth’s Rabble Books and Games, also engaged in a spot of censorship. Owner, Nat Latter (pictured), said they will no longer stock JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books so that they can make the shop a “safer space”.
Self-appointed gender defender, Benjamin Butterworth, was on breakfast television pretending that the novel “Smears transpeople” and making the entirely spurious claim that JK Rowling has been “Tweeting anti-trans views for years”.
Trans activists flooded influential literary website, Gooreads, with hundreds of one-star reviews to sabotage the book’s ratings.
What could possibly be contained within the pages of this novel to have prompted such an outpouring of lies and venom? Answer: nothing.
As Nick Cohen points out in The Spectator, it boils down to one sentence on one page.
Private detective, Cormoran Strike, is investigating an historic crime and interviews a witness about a murder suspect. “He was dark and stocky, because he was wearing a wig at the time and all padded out in a woman’s coat. They caught him in the end because of Melody Bower. Nightclub singer, looked like Diana Ross.”
That’s it. Book burnings, death threats, hysteria and moral outrage over one simple sentence describing a criminal disguised in a wig and a woman’s coat.
One wonders how these people cope with Psycho, Dressed to Kill and Silence of the Lambs. They must foam at the mouth watching Mrs Brown’s Boys and Some Like it Hot.
Except that this really is not about the book or its content; it’s about trying to silence a woman who dared to speak up for herself and her sex.
James Kirkup in The Times nails it; “The central fact of this story is not what Rowling has said and written. It is not her opinions about transgender issues. It is that she is female… Much of the anger that poisons this issue has nothing to do with trans rights. It’s about people who hate women.”
Wizarding World is on hot seat for now. They are passing information and associating with Muggle net ,despite knowing full well that the site particularly is included in witch burning and condemns JKR. I hope She sues them , afterall she still has the copyright for Potter.
I made my first meme of JKR being undesirable number 1... those who read the books will get it... I hope 😅