@AOC It's *always* "we support women's rights!" until it's a woman who wants the right to compete & undress free from less than mediocre men
Keep your mentally ill men out of our sports, locker rooms, prisons, etc.
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.
My dear American friends,
We British Christians would get excited when, once a year, Queen Elizabeth would make a mild but sincere reference to the love of Jesus Christ in her Christmas address.
In Charlie Kirks' Memorial service, watched by tens of millions, I just heard:
- Multiple clear presentations of the gospel from men like @robmccoyus and @DrFrankTurek with clear calls to repentance and faith
- Worship songs full of Scripture sung by tens of thousands live and millions at home
- Personal testimonies of lives transformed by the work of Christ and the witness of believers
- Demonstration and explanation of the value of marriage, child-rearing and family
- Calls to Romans 13 for the government to bear the sword for the protection of good and punishment of the wicked
- Declarations of spiritual warfare on the forces of evil and promises to endure no matter the cost
- Calls to be prophets and call the nation to repent
- More Scripture references and Bible readings than I can count
- And a widow publicly forgiving her husband's killer because Christ forgave his killers on the cross.
All of it done before, and by, the most powerful people in your nation and the world.
You guys should be on your knees thanking God for your country. It is a light to the world.
Never stop fighting for it.
I listened to the presser and feel empty inside. The motive was as suspected, so now what? Now Erika knows exactly why they stole her husband, her kids’ father. Why Charlie will never get to walk their daughter down the aisle, never have a catch with his son. The shooter will likely die by firing squad one day and should. It won’t bring Charlie back.
We lost one of our best bc some gamer left-wing trans/furry-loving loser decided Charlie was “too hateful.” The L told him it was so, and he believed it. Or maybe he just listened to CK videos on trans issues and decided for himself, based on his own Left-wing ideology, reinforced by woke liars all over the news, that it was hateful to say this is a sickness … that you can’t change genders … that it’s evil to cut off healthy body parts of children and to sterilize minors.
Either way, the media won’t stop. They’re complicit in the lies that rotted this shooter’s brain. And the six trans mass shooters before this. But they’ll never acknowledge it. It’s too important to them to virtue signal and be on the side of the allegedly powerless oppressed. Murders of children, of Charlie, be damned.
The side of sanity has no choice but to forge on without these lunatics. Grow our ranks. Donate to TPUSA. Get more children educated with truth and common sense and biological reality. Parents need to get their children off the damn laptop/internet for hours on end and actively intervene when obsessive gaming/reddit surfing becomes a problem. This shooter’s parents may have turned in their son but they sure did know right away that their kid was the culprit. They took one look at those photos and knew. What had already happened to him that made their minds go there? What signs were ignored or overlooked? Maybe we can get the next set of parents to do better. Be more engaged. To protect us all.
Realistically, it’s up to us to raise our kids well and that means with a strong moral core, a strong connection to us and a strong connection to their faith. Then we must multiply our ranks by making K-12 and colleges our NUMBER ONE PRIORITY for de-programming sick and pernicious leftist ideology. What makes parents stay silent in the face of insane woke abusive schools? Junior needs to get into Harvard? Don’t piss off the administrators whose recommendation you need? They’ll make him into a full communist. And maybe a killer.
FIGHT. Fight the lies that are being told. Fight for a return to wellness practices - off the constant gaming/discord and onto a field, e.g. Do NOT remain silent when they actively try to infect your child with the woke mind virus that could cost your child or someone else’s their life one day.
Above all we must continue to spread Charlie’s message of faith, freedom, family and patriotism. We must become even more effective at it and more ubiquitous in our reach. We must say it, say it all, and say it again. And we must do it from fortified spaces so we can live.
You've never actually met a traditionally conservative woman in real life, have you?
These are the same women who would have followed their husbands across this great country in a covered wagon.
You are outclassed on every conceivable level by her ilk.
This country is over. This is not a safe space to speak your mind, take a train, walk alone at night, raise a family, or live any sort of life worth living. I'm sick to my stomach.
Ok, so for the past few days, younger people have been on this platform whining because they don't have any money, can't buy a house, working too hard, etc.
I truly am sorry that you guys are experiencing this. I know that some are blaming boomers and saying it's because we were selfish, we have no idea what it's like, etc. I want to give an honest opinion.
First of all, let's stop with generational blame. Everyone is just trying to live their life. And life is hard. Period.
Secondly, I agree that housing has gotten ridiculously expensive. Time to get a few roommates or rent a room from your family.
Thirdly, most of us also struggled when we were starting out. There are ways to save. Little things really add up... no professional services (like hairstylists, tattoos, eyebrows, nails), no coffee except what you make at home, no restaurants, only a small entertainment budget, etc. If you are not willing to do this, then you will never be able to manage your money when you finally get it.
And last of all, we are rooting for you to succeed. The posts on X are fun, but I personally really do want you to be successful in life! The end.
20 years ago, Lumos was founded on a simple yet critical principle: that all children have a right to grow up in safe and loving families rather than in institutions.
Today, we celebrate this milestone anniversary year with the launch of a special mini film series featuring our Founder & Life President, @jk_rowling and expert colleagues from around the globe.
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There’s plenty more to say on this issue, but I can’t get over that ✨Simone Biles✨ thought she’d jump into this debate by bodyshaming a woman for… having lots of muscles?