JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns

For a gender that less than 0.5% of the population identifies as (Wiki numbers, 355 people out of 100,000), we sure do argue about this a lot, don't we?

Fuck JK Rowling. What a bigot.

Has anyone in any country ever been incarcerated for misgendering a trans person? Is there even a significant number of people who seriously believe that would be an appropriate response?

Nope.

Just come out and tell us about your victimhood complex, Joanne.

Using the correct pronouns is an issue of respecting others, and seeing Rowling doubling down on her smug and bigoted views in public is a revelation, because during a re-read, you start seeing these views reflecting everywhere in her writing. It's a deeply prejudiced and irrational world, and it stayed that way all the way to the ending with nothing in that world really changed.

I think being an adult is realizing that I don't love Harry Potter as much as I used to, because (I can't believe I'm saying this) I've finally outgrown it. It's time to move on.

Being a grown-up is painful.

The prosecution complex is real. No one's suing you for using the wrong pronouns you bigot.

In fact, I'm almost entirely sure that no one's ever asked Rowling to use specific pronouns because no queer person could stand being around her for longer than a minute.

Does she realize what a complete arsehole that makes her look? She'd rather go to jail than treat people like human beings?

[x] Doubt

Even if you disagree, using a pronoun is just polite. She'd have to go out of her way to do this.

He really does know how to keep yall pushing their SEO score higher

JKR wouldn't survive a day in prison. This just communicates to me she doesn't comprehend just how absolutely horrible an experience actually going to prison is.

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Some people are just ugly on the inside, deep down where it counts.

Wait... is that really on the table? If so, then I grudgingly have to take her side insofar as objecting to prior restraint or compelled speech. Being an asshole is a fundamental human right.

That makes her the second gigantic prominent shithead in as many days expressing that they're willing to go to prison for their beliefs. And also the second whom I wouldn't believe for even a millisecond that they're telling the truth.

Enjoy jail then I guess. It's a pretty stupid hill to die on, especially when you're filthy rich and the conservatives already hate you over the whole witchcraft nonsense. I cannot fathom conservative doublethink.

what a weirdo lol

The twitter thread where they fantasise about being in prison reminds me of this meme:

Deal.

What a shitbrick. I am glad I never got into her books in the first place. I saw the first movie and had no interest in seeing the others. I read half the first book to my daughter and she got bored with it, so we stopped. My wife got really into her and is disappointed neither of us are, but fuck her. I don't want to spend a dime on her.

Edit: Weird part- she's always been an atheist and she loved the Narnia books.

That can be arranged/realized you cunt/cunt

Alice Caldwell-Kelly: "What can I say besides, inshallah?"

Didn't it write about a rigged election in the America harry potter series? It's a fucking joke. History well look on it's career in question of its existence.

She always looks like a miserable cow. With her money you'd think she could crack a smile.

She's too bitter and twisted though.

PS. Never did like HP, all those twee names and what have you. The only good thing that came out of it was it got a whole bunch of kids reading.

She can do one though.

That’s cool, nobodies going to give in to her persecution fetish tho lmao.

Just stop being an asshole, nobody believe your “on the premise of freedom” arguments, it’s super simple.

They’re like that kid in grade school who calls the male teacher mrs. such and such and think it’s still hilarious

How much time is she willing to do to avoid minding her own fucking business. I'm guessing it's a lot

Let see how she fares after a year has passed in jail.

I'm all for social experiments on those unwilling to adapt to society.

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What even IS the importance of sex?

It's almost like people are looking for a reason to talk about how much they hate JKR, and in turn promote her.

The Streisand effect is in full display here.

Everytime people bring out the three minute hate drum, the righteous come around and sneer, so there is a echo chamber, but there's always somebody new, somebody who's never been introduced to the debate before, who now pays attention to this person... And they might end up agreeing with this person.

So giving all this attention to one person over and over again, is creating them more converts than it's costing them. It's just promoting the personality at this point. It'd be more effective to ignore them, and just promote your own viewpoint. There wouldn't be any controversy, there wouldn't be free media attention....

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/opinion/jk-rowling-transphobia.html

https://archive.ph/r7njg

Because she has asserted the right to spaces for biological women only, such as domestic abuse shelters and sex-segregated prisons. Because she has insisted that when it comes to determining a person’s legal gender status, self-declared gender identity is insufficient. Because she has expressed skepticism about phrases like “people who menstruate” in reference to biological women.

Her take isn't crazy - it's not supportive, but not phobic either, and she clearly enjoys the media attention and public debate. She thrives in it.. so she wins everytime people give her attention

Lock her up

Off with her/she head!!!!

I'm sorry, you can go to prison for "using the wrong pronouns"? What dystopian hell hole do we live in?

I don't blame her, all these pronouns are ridiculous. Get a fucking life or deal with the fact most people don't care what you want to be called because we have enough of our own bullshit to deal with

This post is occupied by misogynists. Lemmy is a new Reddit for sure.

ITT: “fuck free speech because I don’t like what she has to say.” I guess this community is just a bunch of left wing authoritarians. Good to know!

No one gets hyperbole anymore.

Clearly she does not want to spend two years in jail. She is making a stand about the importance of sex being recognised and standing up for girls and women and the preservation of safe spaces for them.

Not all trans are like this, but: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/18/paedophile-andrew-miller-jailed-edinburgh-sentencing/