J. K. Rowling #7 JK and the Deathly Threats

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maytoseptember said:
I agree about the confidence. Emma Watson had that unmistakable self-assuredness of a private school girl.

And I checked, she went to the Dragon School in Oxford which, if you look at the Wikipedia page, has tons and tons and tons of famous ex-pupils.
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I love the fact that the only time she’s been in the news recently is for parking in front of a vehicle entrance and going to the pub and getting her car towed.

I’m confident too. Confident that she‘s a pretty awful human being and that her career is over.
 
VeniVidiVicki said:
And yet the Scottish government continues to fund it. Really, what do you have to do to stop getting cash from them? I guess a paedophile ring is about the only thing that turns off the tap
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I'm not sure even that would do it at this point but I hope to God this insanity is shut off before we find out.
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Oh my...

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Oh thank God, he's FINALLY stood down. After he was found to be "the invisible hand" behind the constructive dismissal of Roz Adams - who was totally supportive of the centre serving and employing transwomen, she just thought that service users should have a right to a female counsellor and support worker if they wanted - I thought that had to be it, but when he remained in position after that I thought the guy was fireproof.

Pissing myself that it took an investigation to find the centre failed to support women only spaces when they hired him as CEO after specifying that the position holder needed to be either natally female or have a British GRC. It seems that after that, he was probably hired literally because he fills neither count and therefore, in their minds, it made them look progressive and cool rather than bleeping stupid and exploitative.

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Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre CEO stands down after report into failings

Mridul Wadhwa was found to have acted unprofessionally while CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre.
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Falkor said:
Just randomly served to me by Facebook - I know her detractors like to try and retrofit her beliefs to the novels, but this is reaching! And they're the ones equating trolls with transwomen...

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This is the definition of reaching! This book/scene was written 30 years ago…….before any of this pc woke nonsense! Her haters just love to find offence where there isn’t any.
 
The troll wasn't entering the toilets to gain validation of its schoolgirl identity. I actually had to write that sentence thanks to this utterly barmy army.

Someone once told me Lupin was a hateful and transphobic creation because werewolves are an established symbol of transgenderism (did you know that? I didn't know that) and she hadn't made him trans. People will think I'm making this up. I'm not making this up.

I realise that once you say that women can have penises and woman is a feeling and not a sex class, there is no limit to the absurdity and ridiculousness that must follow. But it still amazes me the utter bullshit people will pretend to believe, the absolute insanity they will perform, rather than say "sex is real and binary and immutable and sometimes it matters".

Long live JKR.
 
Do you think
Strike and Robin will finally get it together? She needs to get rid of Murphy but it seems she's already checked out, really. I feel bad for him, he's a decent guy. Funnily enough, I actually think he'd suit Midge very well if only she were attracted to men!
 
ShopTilYouSlop said:
Do you think
Strike and Robin will finally get it together? She needs to get rid of Murphy but it seems she's already checked out, really. I feel bad for him, he's a decent guy. Funnily enough, I actually think he'd suit Midge very well if only she were attracted to men!
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I'm probably a minority here but in my opinion the story is only intriguing up until the protagonists in a story declare their love for each other. So if the 2 main characters get together then the story is over because the dynamic changes.
This is the basis of all romantic fiction.
if JK is going to continue writing any more books about them then they can't be together properly (something has to keep them apart). She moves the romance very slowly forward in each book because of this principle.
 
Scotch Mist said:
I'm probably a minority here but in my opinion the story is only intriguing up until the protagonists in a story declare their love for each other. So if the 2 main characters get together then the story is over because the dynamic changes.
This is the basis of all romantic fiction.
if JK is going to continue writing any more books about them then they can't be together properly (something has to keep them apart). She moves the romance very slowly forward in each book because of this principle.
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I agree with you Scitchy.

Once they get together the "happy ever after" interferes with the tension in the relationship - even if it turns out to be not-so-happy-ever-after.

It is the will-they-won't-they that keeps the narrative going.
 
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