JK Rowling falls silent as she could be prosecuted in Imane Khelif lawsuit

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Author J.K. Rowling has fallen silent on her usually busy X (formerly Twitter) feed, after Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif filed a legal complaint in France for alleged cyber harassment over statements regarding her gender.

On August 9, lawyers for Khelif filed a lawsuit with a special unit of the public prosecutor's office in Paris, stemming from false statements that spread online about her gender after the Algerian boxer defeated Italy's Angela Carini in her first fight of the 2024 Olympic Games. Carini pulled out 46 seconds into the bout and told reporters afterwards that she had "never felt a punch like this."

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she thought she was Hermione. turns out she was just Malfoy.

I'm honestly confused how she could write a story where Harry Potter triumphs over he who must not be named, when he who must not be named was her hero.

It must have been really tough for her.

It's less that and more the system of prejudice itself is her hero, because she never truly challenges it, and the final state of peace at the end of the books does not require fixing its problems. Voldemort was a bad apple, nothing more (according to her I'd imagine)

Yeah the way she kind of bullies Hermione with the whole 'SPEW' thing was so off. First, Hermione had style and was a genius. I think she would know that 'SPEW' is a bad acronym.

Also, making everyone turn away from her and no one supporting her - she didn't need to really make it like that at all. Why couldnt the org have a cute name and Hermione and like Lavender Brown etc all get together to try to coordinate better working conditions for the elves. This then would later help with the plot involving the DA. It's literally a fantasy and Harry gets magical hero results all the time. It's just such a weird part of the books and negative when it really didn't serve any purpose to be negative. Except to be shitty to lady activists.

Yeah the HP books are misogynist as fuck. When I was a little one and I found out they were written by a woman, I was in disbelief. Why would a woman write something so mean to women in general?

Well, the author of HP goes by Robert these days so I guess I had the right idea.

goes by Robert

I'm sorry, I think you just short circuited my brain. JK Rowling, who has so publicly and venomously been anti-trans... has spent the last few years pretending to be a man?????? What in the hypocrisy is wrong with her??!?!

And now that you mention it, I'd read a long time ago, before she became public with her TERF-ness, that she went by "J K" on the HP books instead of Joanne because she or the publishers didn't want to discourage boys from picking up a book written by a woman. And now that I'm typing this, I realize the fact that she wrote her books from a boy's perspective, too. So in all these examples, she's inhabiting a male persona.

My brain... can list these facts, but cannot compute them together.

Robert Galbraith pretends to be a different gender in order to gain a political advantage and make money. Having absolutely no sense of empathy whatsoever, he assumes everyone else is like him. He assumes trans people are all pretending to be a different gender in order to gain a political advantage and make money. And the only political advantage you can get out of trans femininity (as opposed to trans masculinity) is the appropriation of feminist resources.

(I mean, you can also get great skin, beautiful flowing locks, and resistance to covid from trans femininity, but I don't think Robert knows about those)

Musk is Malfoy. Rowling is Crabbe.

Okay, now explain it like Star Trek.

She thought she was Kirk, turns out she was just that dumb girl that helped Khan.

I'd say she was young and naïve and attracted to a guy who was literally superhuman. She wasn't stupid though, she was the ship's historian. She basically fell in love with what she was supposed to study. It happens in the real world too... doctors falling in love with patients at the like.

She thought she was Dax, but she's really Damar. Elon Musk is Gul Dukat.