I heard that exact same reasoning from a woman who is 80 years old and whose husband died of COVID. She still wants to wait to see what the long-term effects are. What???

Came to say took this person 20 years to tell us what we knew 20 years ago. Another portrait in courage.

A lot of people seem to be finding their consciences now that the horses have been out of the barn and marauding around for 4+ years.

Judi:

For her first few books, I agree that the “JK” made an immense difference in breaking through the barrier. Later on in her series, most of her readers were aware of her identity, and kept reading anyways.

I once had a conversation with a friend where we mutually agreed that if we ever woke up in a different timeline where Harry Potter wasn’t an international sensation, it was probably just because Joanne Rowling had authored it instead of JK Rowling.

Same could be said of one of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy authors: CJ Cherryh. A lot of sci-fi and fantasy geeks would not have read her under Carolyn Janice.

Why do you think she published under her initials? Why do you think she published under the name Robert Galbraith, instead of simply using another pen name if she wished to keep her identity secret at the time?

You know what, I did forget “I Am on a Quest, and This Quest Is a Metaphor.” My apologies to ancient Greek men, writers named Joseph, and writers who use initials containing the letters J and R. I deeply regret the error. 

So how does JK Rowling, possibly the most successful author of the 21st century, fit in to all this? It’s very safe to say that many, many men and boys have read her books over the past 24 years. Has she simply achieved a “just not that woman” status on this site?

I think you might have left out ‘I am a White Man with a Whimsical Name, and the Series of Outlandish Events that are About to Happen are Deeply Emblematic of the Human Condition’. It’s hard to miss these because they are usually a thousand or so pages long. I have one that I use to prop up a monitor.

This is strange: I think I just got triggered by that last one, and I am not a person who gets triggered. Or maybe I merely remembered something that pissed me off:

That scene is as chilling now as it was 30 years ago. Also hard to believe Goldstein is Pvt Vasquez from Aliens

I’m a Black man. Yesterday I was at my local grocery store, talking to one of the butchers, another Black man, and he asked me, “What do you think about Cosby?”

Yeah I can only imagine she fired off this tweet without reading the reasoning behind the judge’s decision, because... it’s not a good decision, even if it gets him out.

Listen now, I grew up listening to Cosby’s albums and they are a treasured part of my childhood. I watched Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids and enjoyed that cartoon. I still find the albums funny (not so much Himself which was a blatant commercial to promote his new TV series, which I never really liked.)

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Deep Cut and I love it!!

Clearly she’s angling for a role in Leonard Part 7

Getting released on a technicality is not exoneration. Cosby still admits to drugging and raping many women. So, supporting Cosby means you support rapists.