Another cis woman from Africa has become the target of a transvestigation from Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling. This time it’s Barbra Banda, a Zambian soccer star who was voted BBC’s footballer of the year. J.K. Rowling insinuated that Banda was a trans woman and that her award was offensive to all women. This comes after she spearheaded a global cyberbullying campaign against Imane Khelif, an Algerian gold medalist who competed in the Paris Olympics.
wtf is wrong with people? Who actually CARES about anyone else’s sexuality? Good old JK needs her head examined.
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Hi Suze. Glad to hear from you. I hope you had a grand and wonderful holiday and are doing well. She sure does. She has lost so much respect and goodwill worldwide. But she is insulated by her immense wealth and her hate. She doesn’t care who she hurts or who doesn’t like her. Even when proven wrong she refuses to admit it or back down. That is the same question Neil deGrasse Tyson asked Ben Shapiro, why do you care, what is it to you? Please let me know how you have been and what is going on in your life. I care. 😍💖💙🤗 Hugs
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hey back at ya sweetie. I am hanging in here, still disturbing my state senators and congressmen with my annoying questions of where is their morality and compassion? and “wtf were you thinking” on other issues. One of the lovely side effects of my cancer diagnosis is a loss of some weight…I NEEDED to lose some so that’s good. I take far less meds for the diabetes and heart issues so that’s a plus. Bad part is I am sick of sewing clothes so they fit…lol I figure I’ll be hanging in until at least the next election cycle, if the cheeto doesn’t f up my social security. It’s colder than alaska here in OK right now, so I am swaddled in comforters and blankets, and my poor heater is going non-stop….in other words. I’m okay. Hugs right back at ya baby!
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Hi Suze. I love your attitude towards the future and that even with what you are dealing with you have a grand out look and kept your humor. You are wonderful. Hugs
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IMO, this is literally true.
I’d say more, but that would be outside my field.
Oh, what the heck – she should start with screening for PTSD and then move on from there, depending on what is found.
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I’d screen for alcohol abuse first, then possibly bipolar or borderline personality disorder…….and I am qualified to say…LOL
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I’d read JK was in an abusive marriage, then abandoned with her children, rent unpaid, and not a dime. Definitely PTSD figures into this, though it is not an excuse for how she’s treating other women.
I agree, as well, that women who take exception to other women using the term women, or people with uteruses not using the term women, need to look at themselves to see what their own weakness is as to their gender identity and their general self-image.
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I saw an interview with her and a childhood friend. It came out while the HP movies were being filmed and touched on the source for the Weasley’s flying car.
She and the friend chuckled a little about the escape the Ford Anglia gave them, both stopped and sighed, then they both set there as though looking at their shared past and what they were escaping FROM…. I’d wager, from that interview alone, that any abuse she suffered or PTSD she “earned” started earlier than her marriage.
I still really think she needs a therapist. But it’s like the lightbulb.
How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Just one, but it should be a good therapist, and the lightbulb has to WANT to change.
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As if it ever did anything worthy of the attention it is getting
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I hate it, but those Harry Potter books are good. It’s sad that she’s become so hateful; those books gave bullied kiddoes of all stripes hope for the future if they just hung on till they were older. And they’re well-written books.
But she is like a whole other person.
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Hi Ali. That is true and when I first read the books I was hooked as was Ron. We bought all the movies. Yet the more I read about the books, her motives, and the bigotry and racism she put in them is startling how clear it is once someone points it out. Add that to the clear hate she has for trans people and being unwilling to even entertain other ideas than her own it is clear I can’t support her nor give her space to hate in peace. I read articles of her talks with the movie studios and what she was demanding after she felt the first actors betrayed her. Her other demands were so over the top they did not go forward with more movies. She really felt they should bow to her feet for the rest of their lives. She is mean and vindictive. She has deep anger and hate, and she uses her wealth to push them both. She sues anyone who dares challenger her in England where the laws do not support the right to call people what we want like in the US. She really let her wealth and early Harry Potter success go to her head and poison her essence. She now feels she is such a powerful figure she is beyond approach by the lower beings, and everyone better do as she demands. Hugs
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But the thing about the books is, those who are racist and sexist and all are the bad guys, not the heroes. As things ought to be. She even made Dumbledore gay, so there is representation.
I’m not excusing her. I wish anyone else had written those books. But those books saved little kids’s lives.
She is an awful person. I’m certain I’ve been clear about that, that I feel she is almost irredeemable. I’m sorry if I haven’t.
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Hi Ali. I understand you are not defending her. I agree with you that she has passed the line of being redeemed. But I read a lot of articles on how she couldn’t help putting her own bigotries / racism into the books.
If you go back through the books you might notice all the bad people were smarmy dark looking. Think of how she described and made the goblins out to be? But I don’t have all the ways she inserted her bigotry in the books, but there are entire websites that detail it. The few I remember most clearly were the names she gave to her characters. She was not really subtle was she? But it is OK it is a moot point. I liked the books, loved the movies and still do. I just have to divorce them from the author. Hugs
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