ranting about a love show

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[ranting about a love show @scumsamaritan]

@jk_rowling

[ranting about a love show @scumsamaritan]

@jk_rowling I’ve waited so long for JK to say this!!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

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.

[Joe Rogan @joerogan]

The great and powerful @elonmusk.
If it wasn't for him we'd be fucked. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.
For the record, yes, that's an endorsement of Trump.
Enjoy the podcast

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

https://t.co/MlIKklPSJT

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery

[ranting about a love show @scumsamaritan]

@elonmusk They’re all about to be cleaning up their act real quick

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

YES!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That was one heck of a day!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Live from the @realDonaldTrump rally in Pennsylvania.

Same location where he was shot.

https://t.co/qg31Yb977x

[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

i still remember the overwhelming shame i felt in March of 2019 walking through Barnes & Noble with my copy of @benshapiro's book, The Right Side of History

it was the first book i'd ever read from the Right

i sat it down on the counter hoping the cashier didn't notice what it was—kept looking over my shoulder like 'oh no! they're all about to make me'

all because i wanted to know what the other side was saying...

good times

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Meet Vanessa Yava, a nonbinary teacher at Rancho Medanos Junior High in the Pittsburgh Unified SD in California. She’s very sad that the bullet missed.

Any comment @PittsburgDrJ?

[Kevin Dalton @TheKevinDalton]

Wow, Scott Presler the prognosticator

[TIME @TIME]

TIME's new cover: Donald Trump survives shooting with nation on edge https://t.co/eQxgKW1ezt

[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

graduated in 2012 w a degree in Women's Studies

cried in 2016 when Trump got elected

lost touch w the dems somewhere around MeToo

discovered entrepreneurship

updated my voter registration in 2018 but didn't tell anyone

told myself i was a 'single-issue-voting Centrist'

the last 6-12 months i've believed i was going to abstain from voting in the upcoming election because the options are equally terrible

but watching Trump survive an assassination attempt and act like a total fucking savage just shifted me into some strange, patriotic gear that my fancy-feminism-white-men-bad infected brain never showed me

like, the dude took a bullet and stood up with blood dripping down his face, and rallied a fucking crowd while fist pumping, yelling "FIGHT!"

sorry, but i'm voting for that.

and saying it out loud feels so freeing

(2012 stepfanie would be so pissed but that's okay because 2012 stepfanie didn't know shit)

[ranting about a love show @scumsamaritan]

And please add dingy to Spotify 🤠🪩

[ranting about a love show @scumsamaritan]

I’ll always be upset over the fact that the band Elim Bolt never got the fame they deserved & I’ll forever only get to listen to one album, Nude South, from 2012. If anyone knows where they are pls pay them a million dollars to make another album #elimbolt 💔

[ranting about a love show @scumsamaritan]

Everyone’s eating QTs ass but she’s just a user. She literally tried to send Olivia home the day after she chose QT to be on the show. She is extremely fake just like Paul and Cassidy #TheCircleNetflix