Honestly, the story of an A-list celebrity crudely propositioning a woman who didn’t work for him and immediately taking no for an answer is borderline wholesome on the sliding scale of Hollywood.

He was the Boomhauer of his day.

Weird to read a story about Dustin Hoffman preventing sexual harassment 

released under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith

“People who menstruate” is indeed not an ‘inclusive’ word but one that reduces women to a function of our bodies”

Because everyone keeps replying to them, meaning that their comment is flagged as the one with the most activity.

It's all just bad faith bullshit designed to dress up their bigotry as "legitimate concerns."

“Being referred as someone who menstruates, erasing the fact that one sex does this and not the other, just because a minority of people sees it as a problem to use the word ‘woman’, not just when discussing menstruation but literally anything about us (again, while men never have their bodies fractured into…

I just think it’s sad, because deep down, I don’t think Rowling really felt respect for her work, or her fans.  They weren’t who she wanted acceptance from, and I get a sense of a certain amount of disdain she has.  Which is sad, because there’s nothing wrong with writing books like she did, and they can be as…

Not all women menstruate. Not all people who menstruate are women. The usage of the phrase “people who menstruate” that pissed Rowling off so much was in an article specifically about COVID-19 and all the potential health issues related to menstruation the pandemic exacerbated. It was not attempting to “reduce” women…

The Devex article, which it does not seem that either you or J.K. have read, was literally about people who menstruate. Using that phrase in the headline was more accurate than “women” would have been. The article in fact does use the words “women” and “girls” when appropriate, so no one’s identity is being erased.…

Stephen King called. He thinks she needs an editor.

Here’s the thing about “people who menstruate” is that if what you’re talking about is actually specific to the biological process in question (like, say, you’re a marketing executive at Kotex) then whatever you’re saying isn’t really relevant to women who are post-menopause, women who are pre-menarche, women who have…

i said it before and i’ll say it again: everything she says about trans folks used to be said about gays and lesbians. particularly butch lesbians.

Thank you. I’m almost 70 and I haven’t menstruated for years. I also had to have a bilateral mastectomy, That means I have different medical needs than someone who has periods and from people that have never had breast cancer, not matter what their gender. It doesn’t matter how I identify, my body does what my body…

No one should be getting death threats end of story. I would say go read her blog post that she posted after the tweets. It was much, much worse when it came to her attempts to explain what’s “wrong” with trans people and might as well have been written by Ron DeSantis given her take was pretty much the same. She said…

She also tries to claim that these beliefs don’t mirror the far right on trans rights. They do. No matter how many times she wants to tell us some of her best friends are trans...

It seems to me like subbing in “women” in place of “people who menstruate” is far more reductive. Not all women menstruate. I’m not even just talking about trans women, I’m talking about women who’ve gone through menopause, or any of the other myriad reasons a woman might not menstruate that have nothing to do with…

I mean, if it helps, this novel ain’t gonna set the world on fire. Definitely more of a compelling world-builder than a compelling novelist (mechanics-wise), and the whole “canceled artist on the run” narrative is way less trenchant than some people want it to be.

Woof, even if someone was a massive fan and thought Rowling was 100% in the right, it’s REALLY hard for me to imagine the person who is psyched to read a couple hundred pages of someone complaining about how cancel culture is actually really bad.