• Rowling Calls Out Leftists Against ‘Fair Sports’ for Women: No Thanks to Trump

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    The Daily Wire covered the story: ‘J. K. Rowling Reacts to Trump’s No Men in Sports Executive Order‘

    “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, who has become an outspoken critic of trans-identifying men participating in women’s sports in recent years, posted a lengthy reaction on Thursday to President Donald Trump’s signing of an executive order banning the practice.

    “Congratulations to every single person on the left who’s been campaigning to destroy women’s and girls’ rights. Without you, there’d be no images like this,” she said in a post to X that included an image of President Trump holding up the EO with his signature as he’s surrounded by young female athletes who witnessed the signing.

    “This ‘why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?’ line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous,” Rowling continued in a follow-up.

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  • Has Rowling’s Literary Career “Tanked”?

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    After great battles, in the fog of war and consequent chaos and confusion, there is inevitably a remnant group, oftentimes isolated individuals as in the Japanese zanryū nipponhei (‘holdout soldiers’) that refused to surrender after WWII, who don’t understand that they’ve lost or that the conflict is over. In the case of the ‘Trans War’ between Gender Critical thinkers and Gender Theorists, this is evident in the True Believers, the Trans Radical Activists or TRAs who believe that the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, 21st Century edition, goes on despite the now triumphant consensus that “transgenderism” is not a Civil Rights but a mental health care issue. It’s ‘early days,’ certainly, but sanity seems to have returned to the American polity, at least, with respect to sex, gender, and the guardrails for the protection of children and the rights of women.

    One quick way to spot a lost Confederate soldier is to check social media comments about J. K. Rowling. The remnant holdouts in the jungles online are testifying there that they believe their efforts to destroy J. K. Rowling, to cancel her by making even mentioning her name radioactive among all thinking people, were successful. Case in point, Kendal Peters, whose Twixter stream might be confused for a parody site because of its consistent conformity with every conventional political position advanced by the Legacy media. Last week, she (?) shared her belief that toxic and “transphobic” Rowling’s “literary career” had been “destroyed completely and globally” by the Forces of Good:

    Truth tellers rushed to the internet island Peters lives on in the ‘cloud’ to share with her, that, no, Rowling’s book sales were booming, not crashing, and she was thriving as a writer rather than someone who was “destroyed.” Read More “Has Rowling’s Literary Career “Tanked”?”

  • Rowling Tweets About Former ‘Friends:’ ‘It’s Not Paranoia to Think I Hate You’

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    I have read several reviews online of the history of Rowling’s conflict with Gender Theory ideologues, whom she refers to as “fundamentalists.” One common point they share is to offer the views of the Harry Potter film franchises’ actors and actresses who came out against the author’s views as a kind of counter-weight, as if those voices balanced out Rowling’s supposed “transphobia.” Rowling has not responded to the criticism of those thespians, but she has been absent from public events and filmed reunions in which they were featured players.

    Last week, in an exchange with dancer Rosie Kay on Twixter, Rowling made it fairly clear that she despises those she feels betrayed her at a time when she was being piled on by all the usual suspects. It seems that there won’t be any reconciliation or cameos on the HBO+ adaptations of the Potter books.

    To understand Rowling’s comments to Kay, it helps to know the dancer’s tweet, in which she struggled to “deal with feelings of betrayal.”

     

    The “small business” she refers to, I think, is the Rosie Kay Dance Company, of which she was the founder, choreographer, and principal. It’s website no longer exists though its pages can be found on the Wayback Machine. It may have been “small,” but it was a rising cultural landmark. It disappeared when Kay was forced to resign from her positions at her company after complaints were made by some of her dancers to the board. They felt she needed to be canceled because of her “transphobic” opinions, in essence, that she thought men and women are different. You can read the long painful story of her resignation in the face of this usurping of place here, here, here, and here.

    A July 2022 profile in The Times shared how much Rowling’s support meant to Kay at the time of her cancellation: Read More “Rowling Tweets About Former ‘Friends:’ ‘It’s Not Paranoia to Think I Hate You’”

  • Rowling Posts New Twitter Header, Strike Fandom Identifies, Strike9 to be in York

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    Rowling posted a new twixter home page photo and cameo yesterday and Strike fandom was all over it in a heartbeat. Ludicrous Moniker and Badly Wired Lamp identified it as the Minster in York:

    Ludicrous Moniker recalled that a page of a York guidebook was posted on the Robert Galbraith website:

    The question was raised during discovery about whether York would be featured in The Hallmarked Man or the as yet untitled Strike 9. Rowling was listening in, apparently, and answered the question:

    Hats off to Ludicrous Moniker and the other Serious Strikers on Twixter for tracking this down and for prompting that helpful response from Rowling-Galbraith!

    For the complete catalog of Rowling’s twixter homepage pictures compiled by Nick Jeffery with helpful information about the readers who identified each and links to discussion online of what they mean, see ‘All J. K. Rowling’s Twitter Headers.’