POPSTARJade Thirlwallchanted:‘F*** you,misogyny. F*** you,JK Rowling’at the weekend.
Whileinciting blatant misogyny from the crowdby invitingthemto pile ononewoman,Jade seems unaware that there isamassivecontradiction happening here.
happened astheformer singer, now performing solo as ,wasappearing at in Londonto mark the beginning of theholymonth of .
I find it absolutely shocking that a 32-year-old popstar would beratelike this.
Itis beyond baffling and unnerving to me that a woman would attack a feminist who is putting her neck out to help us all.These crowd-pleasing, posturingidiots are so misguidedwhen theythink ofRowlingastheenemy.
I’ve been an active for more than 40 years, campaigning against issues such as rape, domestic violence, the harms of prostitutionand the murder of women.
I can tell youthatRowlinghas done more to supportwomen who are victims of this horrendous abuse than anyone I can think of in all these decades.
Look atRowling’strack record.
When she bemoaned the fact that not one Rape Crisis service across the whole of Scotland advocated for women and girls only, welcoming men into their midst–evenhiring a man asCEOin one instance–she put her money where her mouthwas and set upBeira’s Place in Edinburgh.
Whena Leche League–theworld’s first breastfeeding , foundedby mothersin 1956–began toincludemenwho claimedthey couldbreastfeed babies,several trustees resigned and set upMoMa Breastfeeding,a women-only serviceto which Rowling donated a substantialsumof money.
As a lesbian, I am so grateful for her support when it comes to speaking out against the invasion of our precious spaces by perverted menclaiming to bewomen.
Rowling’ssupportfor those of usencountering grotesque misogyny across the board has been invaluablein the fight.
Jadehas women likeRowlingto thank for the fact she’s on stage at all, because it is feminists such asRowling whoare beating down the paths for young women to be successful.
In fact,Rowlinghas contributed to the to keep women like Jade and her contemporaries safe, by speaking out against men’s violence.
HORRIFIC IRONY
Women should be thanking Rowling...not incitingmasshate towards her fromastage.
There is ahorrificironythattheseyoungwomenareturning on their own and causing hatredtovirtue signal about how lovely they are.
WhileJadeis making a pathetic attempt to pleaseriled-upcrowds, Rowling is offering to takethree lucky raffle winners out to dinner, with all proceeds from theinitiativegoingto Lumos,acharitythat seeks to endpoverty, family separationanda lack of accessible services for children with disabilities.
Encouraging awound-up crowd to scream angry obscenities against another women – in particular onewhohas made such a positive difference to so many–is nothing short ofJade betrayingher own sex.
Rowling’scharitableworkmainlyfocuses on supporting vulnerable children and women,in particular thosewhoaremost vulnerable to poverty, social deprivationor violence.
I would love to know whatJade hasdone for the good of humanitybecause it seems to me that she has no track record whatsoever in fighting for the rights of women or any other group of people prone toabuse.
Women should be thanking Rowling...not incitingmasshate towards her fromastage.
Julie Bindel
She, unsurprisingly, supports Stonewall though, and has donated a load of her old clothes to charity.Butcompletelyignoringthe world of good Rowling has done and continues to dois lazy and irresponsible.
Thewilfulmisunderstanding–based on prejudice and acult-like belief in ideology–thatRowlingis a hateful personharms all of uswhoare trying to protect women’s rights.
It is the trans activistswhospout hateful, violent rhetoric that has led to physical attacks on some women. Rowlingis not‘transphobic’ in the slightest.
Rather,sheprotectsthe rights of all women and girls by refusing to go along with thecampaignsfromextremists to allow rapists in women’s prisons, andto allowsexual predators in female-only changing rooms.
ROWLING NOT ENEMY
With her privilege and public platform,Jadeseems to think that she canthrowaway the rights that she enjoys as a woman but that she has not donenothing to contribute to.
Maybe Jade and her supporters shouldstop to think fora minuteand realisethat–without feminists–domestic violence wouldn’t be a , rape in would be legal and women wouldn’t havethe vote.
If they thought for a moment, these idiotswouldsee thatRowlingis not the enemy of women...but trans activists and their misguided‘allies’definitelyare.
