@ImtiazMadmood@BGatesIsaPyscho I’d find eating on a bus ride, regardless of religion. Besides, he never mentioned he was fasting, she said it. Or maybe it was cut off him saying it.
I hate the smell of food on a bus, it can make me sick.
@hackhilarity@jk_rowling Exactly! I will never forget seeing the documentary about the Bulgarian orphanage from hell in Krushari and thanks to @lumos and @jk_rowling this is all in the past now.
A woman is an adult human female, a biological reality, not a feeling, costume, or choice. Her body carries the capacity for menstruation, childbirth, and menopause, even if not all women experience each. Womanhood is shaped by a lifetime of growing up female in a world that treats you as such.
A trans woman may identify with femininity, but they did not grow up subject to the expectations, limitations, or physical realities of being female. That difference matters, not because of hate, but because truth matters. And when you erase the distinction, you erase women.
It’s honesty. It’s how we protect the rights, spaces, and dignity of women and girls.
“Womanhood isn’t an identity you try on like a coat. It’s an embodied reality, shaped by biology, history, and lived experience. Respecting women means recognising that truth, not rewriting it.”
@dbkstewart@ExistentialEnso@jk_rowling Many authors have published under a fake name for centuries, including names that are more suitable for the opposing sex. It’s to keep their identity hidden. JKR wanted to publish her adult novels incognito and to separate them from the HP series, hence the new artistic pseudonym
@rejserin@jk_rowling How can someone experience ovarian pain, fatigue, legs pain or womb contractions during period when they don’t have ovaries and a womb to menstruate from? How can they experience breast tenderness during pms when they don’t have pms? Etc. etc.
@jk_rowling You are awesome! I had so much trouble breastfeeding my eldest, but I stood my grounds. She also wouldn’t take a bottle. The system almost failed us and I had to beg for support. Was a lot easier the second time round. And I’m open to helping new mums on the journey.
@EmilioCadernMne@jk_rowling The first 3 books were already out when the 1st movie came out. The books were best sellers that’s why they decided to start making movies. She was already rich and managed to keep all the rights when it comes to the characters, had the last approval of the actors and the script.