You also need to consider that JK herself had to live in a women's shelter after fleeing from an abusive marriage with her daughter. She's coming at this from the perspective of a woman who once needed a woman-only space and for some reason these women aren't allowed to exist anymore even though we're supposed to "believe all women."
Exactly. Per the rules the trans-activists are trying to push, her abusive spouse could simply rock up to the shelter, claim he's now a woman with absolutely no evidence nor even effort to present as such, and just walk in.
How are they not allowed to exist? Did someone stir Joanne Rowling into a witches brew until she disintegrated? Did the Woke Left(tm) use their wizardy magic to make her disappear? Trans people just don't want to be violently raped, mutilated, tortured, and murderer for simply being trans and NOT having a safe shelter to protect themselves within. Trans women and men are just as deserving of those shelters as cis women are. We are all victims of male violence.
Great call about Harry Potter the character. His arc in the 5th book is essentially him being cancelled, resisting the calls of his friends and mentors to go silent, and then train and inspire his fellow classmates to deal with coming conflicts. He emerges on the other side as a vindicated leader respected by everyone for not backing down from the slanderers and bullies. A very powerful message in this day and age.
Exactly, Harry Potter is such a great and overlooked hero by many of the fans. He fought for what was right even when it was extremely hard and it would have been easier to do nothing like when he spoke up and told everyone that Voldemort had returned. It didn’t matter that in doing so, the government and the people writing for the news paper were trying to ruin his reputation, he stood by the truth and fought because it was the right thing to do.
This! She basically wrote about cancel culture before it became a thing. And it was a great message: stand by what you know is right, what you know is a fact. Don't let fear-mongering and popular opinions intimidate you into being silent.
" I don't care about my legacy, whatever , I'll be dead. I care about now, I care about the living " Now that statement truly is worthy of the title stunning and brave .
If she actually cared about the living she wouldn't have made the most degrading, perverted, deceitful essay completely mischaracterizing trans lives and minds to an audience of millions... She wouldn't spread lies about an already misunderstood social group during a political climate where we are getting killed more and more everyday... She wouldn't have allowed her abhorrent essay to be utilized as justification for harmful/lethal legislation that's leaving our trans UK citizens medically uncared for, legally unprotected, and ultimately left for dead. Comments like these make me want to vomit when I understand the reality of her behavior and her actions. Please go watch "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling" by Contrapoints if you genuinely care about the living like JK Rowling says she does.
It saddens me whenever I hear people talking about "being on the right side of history", as though it's more important to worry about the future judgement of people whose criteria we could never hope to predict than to strive to improve the world we live in for the people we share it with right now
Honestly that's the way a slytherin thinks, I support her, I am just saying what I saw from the pottermore quiz. I repeat I support her. I am a Ravenclaw
Her Legacy is already set and I can't think of anyone else in the electric world who's anywhere near her. I remember back I want to say between 2007 to 2008 I remember reading a write-up that was in one of the British magazines where somebody who was a techno whatever I guess of the of the writing world had said that the Harry Potter books were the worst written prose that was the antithesis of writing in the worst proving that that the future of writing was dead and gone with with that type of Storytelling. The funny thing was when I read that I started to laugh because I was thinking to myself these books were written for children first off. But anything that gets children reading is wonderful including comic books. And for somebody like that that men arguing those things about how that he felt that it was that that death of writing itself and I go no it isn't. When people are being snobbish about something then they're going to attack something especially when something is more popular than anything that they could come up with. Just like how people do with George Lucas and the Star Wars franchise that he created. This really fascinating thing was when Christopher Lee brought his children to the set when he was doing the Revenge of the Sith movie which to me is one of the greatest movies I've ever seen in my life. But seeing him Christopher Lee pointed to George Lucas and he said this man here has done something that nobody else in the movie business has ever done as far as being a director that he is is that he told the studios you're not going to mess around with my creation I'm making the movies the way I want them being made and if need be I'll make them I'll pay for them myself which is basically what he did with Empire Strikes Back but he said this man took on the studios and he did something that no other Creator ever could to say no you're not going to mess with my product you're not going to mess with my characters. At one point 20th Century Fox wanted to have Chewbacca and a set of pants cuz they said the idea of him running around naked is insane. And Lucas said do monkeys who are in a zoo are they are they naked well they're not dressed but they don't need to be they're monkeys.
Im glad we live in the timeline where the person who wrote Umbridge as a character actually is standing up to people like her in real life and not folding to the lies of institutional powers like all the actors.
Yes! And don’t forget that through the mud bloods, werewolves and Death Eater prejudices, her books were the earliest introduction for many children to the concept of bigotry and why it’s indefensibly bad. She’s arguably one of the most effective anti-bigotry advocates in recent history.
In a world controlled by lies, speaking the truth becomes a revolutionary act. That’s all Rowling did. The anger and panic from her detractors shows how weak their beliefs are - anyone that does not bend to their version of truth must be censored.
AHAHAHAH that's funny that you think trans people being rightfully upset at harmful misinformation and lies are the ones being "controlled by lies" and you're not. AHAHAHAH Hey, by the way, who's Maya? Can you explain who this "Maya" woman is that JK Rowling is "standing" with? Hmmmm I'm assuming the answers no. So, I suggest watching "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling" by Contrapoints if you ACTUALLLY care about people speaking the truth and not being controlled by lies. If you choose not to watch it, you're choosing to remain controlled. Good luck!
A word of appreciated for the Harry Potter actors who did stand up for Rowling. Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Isaacs, Evanna Lynch.
I wonder why these actors who support J.K. weren’t mentioned in the video. 🤷🏾♀️ I am so disappointed in Emma Watson and the other whose postings against J.K. we’re just sad attempts at political correctness; born of Cancel Culture and a “pick me” mentality. It’s so sad that in our society I should have to fight to be recognized as who and what I have been all my life. We really shouldn’t be fighting each other. From one marginalized group to another; we have more in common than we want to admit. I don’t get why degrading me uplifts someone else. None of this makes any sense. 🤷🏾♀️😔
I love how most of the actors who criticised Jo all said "trans women are women" as if that's some sort of cheat code that generates applause when in reality it's kind of lethargic and shows they care more about how they're seen than what they say.
To be fair to (some of) the actors, you shouldn't be pressured / borderline forced into stating your opinion on a political subject. No one should be looking to Rupert Grint for an answer about an authors opinions on Trans rights. He's an actor, not a politician, and while he's free to speak his mind if he wants to, he shouldn't be forced to comment on the opinions of anyone with a loose connection to him. That's like asking you to go on local television and make a statement about the racist rant your uncle had at the dinner table last Thanksgiving. It doesn't have anything to do with you, and you shouldn't have to prepare an essay of your thoughts on the matter to appease the masses. Some of these actors jump on every opportunity to languish in the gratitude of the "woke" or whatever the fuck we're calling them these days, but it did seem to me at the time that many of them tried to keep to themselves until the same people that canceled Rowling tried to do the same to them, simply for not stating their condemnation of her. It's disappointing that none of them stood their ground, but it's also disappointing that we demand social rhetoric from entertainers who may have their own reasons to remain uncontrovercial. Not everyone can handle the kind of hatred Rowling has encurred, and not everyone is as financially stable as she is. While some of these actors are very well off, thats not actually the case for all of them, and you can be sure that among them are people with anxitey or depression. A refusal to condemn Rowling could actually end their careers and ruin their lives. All that to say, while I am disappointed that none of the actors supported her, it's indicative of an entirely different problem the woke have created, where we force people to conform under the threat of genuinely harmful retaliation.
Well, while none of the more famous HP actors/actresses defended her, others did like the actress for Bellatrix Lestrange or whatever and Voldemort's actor, which feels ironic since those are supposed to be the evil characters lol.@@elainea7734
I can't wait for the pendulum to swing back to reality on this topic. It's bizarre that it's gone as far as it has just to quelch the demands of an extreme minority
It's gonna swing back because the damage made to young impressionable people because of the lies of denying biology is starting to pile up in really sad ways.
The fact that J.K. Rowling needed to say this just shows how insane the world has gotten these last few years. What she said is the truth and it needed to be said unfortunately. Anyone who tries to bully her into silence is wrong.
My respect for JK Rowling grew exponentially when she refused to back down. She's graceful in her mannerisms, eloquent in her speech, gracious with her patience, and courageous enough to speak the truth. It's no wonder she wrote such a wonderful character like Harry, he's an embodiment of the values she holds dear. Thank you for such a wonderful video.
She sounds so intelligent and well spoken when she speaks, it is not a surprise that she created one of the greatest books series ever with an extremely strong and compelling hero.
Women brought this on themselves. JK Rowling was one of the people who helped bring it on them. When you attack men enough to where they put on dresses and become women and then manipulate you in the same way that you manipulated them into shame.
Until watching this video, I had only flipped past the occasional headline decrying the "anti-trans" JK Rowling - I really had no idea just how completely misrepresented her statements had become. "Witch hunt" is about the best way to describe it.
This video is lying. She said so many hateful things. The first 2 tweets weren't great. But many people, even trans people, said that if those 2 tweets were it it wouldn't be that bad
It doesn't make any sense to call it anti-trans to deny that sex is a real thing - the _whole point_ of being trans is wanting to have the body of the biological sex one wasn't born with, due to chromosomes that determine biological or more importantly here, phenotypical (physical) sex. There's a number of studies showing neurological structuring in trans people that's more similar to the opposite biological sex, which points to the concept that their brain truly doesn't match the rest of their body, which would of course be a nightmarish and disconcerting feeling and go a long way to explaining what's occurring within trans people. That's because, yes, there's slight structural differences in male and female brains, and trans people have more similarities in their brains to that of the gender they feel they are, despite the rest of their body.
Damn right, especially cause she’s absolutely right. What happens when a pedophile uses the entire situation to have a reason that can be defended to be in spaces with his victims. That’s exactly where it goes, rapists, stalkers, flashers… all can now just walk right in.
Trans women are women (no, they're not). Trans men are men (no, they're not). I don't hate these people, but let's not kid ourselves. You may want to be something that you're not, but that doesn't make you that thing. If you think that's how things work, then you're delusional.
Or maybe they're just decent human beings who have consideration in their hearts for people who suffer at the hands of lying rich women like JK Rowling who mask their malice and destructive/lethal politics in polite niceties and soft spoken words and creative phrasings. @@americanwoman445
@@bigbeng6041 The thing is, they don't have to say anything at all. It would be far, far safer for these actor-types to keep their thoughts about anything but the mundane to themselves. Once they start pontificating and advocating for causes, they're stuck in what can become a very difficult position. The pendulum is in constant motion, swinging to an extreme position then moving in the opposite direction. Society always self-corrects and it often does so because real harm has been caused. What will Emma et al do when the bandwagon they've so self-rightously leapt on is found to have done just that? Is she going to step forward and accept some responsibility for riding on it? Unlikely. She might think twice if she knew that she would have to stand in front of a woman or a child whose life has been badly affected by trans activism.
I completely agree, I am not against trans gender people at all. Far from it. But I agree with this wonderful woman i love Harry Potter so much. Love to Jk Rowling
I’m sick of being referred to as “people who menstruate” I like being a girl and don’t want that experience taken away from me by others who simply “feel” like they’re a boy or girl.
As a girl, I agree. I never cared about Harry Potter or JK Rowling at all, but after this situation I've gained a lot of respect for her for having the balls to stand up for women's rights in this day and age
@@Marble8008 read an article in a popular Australian news site this week referring to "people with cervixes" talking about the HPV vaccine. How about the word female? Why the hell doesn't that suit everyone?
I never mind about her feminist views because she has never been too extreme as far as I know. It's just her virtue signal back then that I didn't like. Remember the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child stage play in 2016? Hermione was played by a Black British actress. J.K defended it said that Hermione can be of any skin colour because there's no description of her skin colour in the books. Turns out, there is. There's a sentence that explicitely described Hermione's white skin. People quickly pointed it out. There's also the official illustrations of Hermione in the books: White skin with long curly brown hair. If Hermione was indeed Black or any other race, why would J.K & her publisher approved the illustration portraying Hermione as a White girl? Woke slacktivists rallied behind her that time. Calling out, shaming, & threatening everyone who pointed out Hermione is White & the fact that race-bending her character is ridiculous & overused.
Well she was. She described Hermione as a white girl in the book and then said she could be a black girl. And she said Dumbledore was gay even though his sexuality was nowhere in the books. That's intersectional feminism. She started off woke. Then when she said her comment about men not being able to be women conservatives supported her. Personally I think that is better. I don't think supporting living in a delusion is good. Men can't be women. No matter how much they try they will always be men.
@@P.Whitestrake You forgot Dumbledore being gay. His sexuality isn't mentioned anywhere in the book and there was no reason for her to say that. She really wanted to include it she could have written it into her next book. Instead she wrote it into a screenplay. Personally I don't count it.
this is merely the process of the extreme eating itself, becoming smaller as it becomes more exclusive. It will continue to push more and more people out, and temporary alliances will be formed on the outside, and when they are finally insignificant enough the old rivalries will return and maybe we can make some progress with real debate finally.
@@MamaMOBI find this Dumbledore thing extremely weird. Ok, it wasn’t explicitly stated what his sexuality was anywhere in the books. So? It wouldn’t have been explicitly stated for him to be able to be considered heterosexual. To treat that differently when talking about him being homosexual is very weird, given that it sounds like people wanted to be able to recognize stereotypes of gay people within him…
Let’s be real here JK Rowling is rich and can afford her own private security so that her safety is never at risk. She’s speaking out for those of us who do not have access to any of that. She’s standing up for us!! That’s why I respect JK!!!
That's hilarious, what is she standing up for again? The right to spread abhorrent lies about trans people in the form of an essay that which has been utilized in legitimizing harmful and lethal legislation against UK trans citizens that ultimately get's them killed faster? OH! But it's okay because nobody gives a fuck what real trans people actually have to go through or actually feel about a specific topic or actually understand about themselves or the world or cisgender people... No. Everyone in this rancid comment section just thinks it makes complete fucking sense to listen to other cis people (JK Rowling, the person who made this video, etc.) discuss nonexistent issues that they have with trans people based on random shit that they heard other cis people lie about... OH! But it's okay because she's being so kind and polite and respectful, it doesn't matter that her actions have caused immense damage to the health care system in the UK, leaving millions of trans people to suffer. It's okay because she's just so nice and British and lovely. If you actually care about the truth, and genuinely want to understand WHY trans people are upset with her. Then watch "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling" By Contrapoints. Until you've watched that, you will continue to live in propaganda-based discontent towards a problem that doesn't actually exist. Good luck!
Couldn't you make the same arguement with trans people in religious conservative homes and/or areas? Maybe all these celebrities speak about trans issues because they have money and security to do so, unlike most trans people who will face discrimination and judgement from those around them?
So a person who's completely protected is standing up for the people who have been speaking up for years now without any protection? We don't care. We've been saying this for years now. If you're so pathetic you need a celebrity to say it... you're pathetic.
@@someonewhosdead4634 What about us conservatives who've been speaking out against this shit since the beginning and have had to deal with cancel culture? We don't have any protection. And those trans kids aren't trans. Before all of this crap 99.9% of trans kids outgrew it before adulthood. Teenagers need to realize they're going through the most emotional time in human life. Nothing they're experiencing is permanent. Let's not mutilate them before they fully grown up! You idiots act like this delusion is new it's not. We understand how difficult the teenage years are. We went through them. Maybe you kids need to realize we know what the fuck we're talking about.
Of the three main Harry Potter young actors, what’s the last thing you remember any of them being in? Emma Watson is probably the best off, but when’s the last time you honestly even wasted a passing thought on Rupert Grint? And the last thing I recall Daniel Radcliffe in was Now You See Me 2 (and who even remembers that movie?) So past Harry Potter I think the term”acting career” is a bit of a misnomer. tldr: Screw these actors. Without Harry Potter, no one would know their names at all.
Emma Watson did an interview with Paris Lees (a man who thinks he’s a woman), where she gushed over him. He asked her if she would be comfortable being in same toilets with him, and she was so exuberant in her ‘yes’ reply it was sickening. Lees has a conviction of armed robbery where he nearly killed an old man - and Emma doesn’t go anywhere without body guards, literally! So she will never have to share a toilet with this violent man. This video was touted as for teen girls - I was utterly disgusted by her. As you can tell, I stand with JK on this.
It is Emma, a mediocre actress at best, who is walking around the house thinking about her position in society and legacy. She just wants to be famous and worshiped, and was very lucky that JKR work lifted her so high. It is she and the rest of the actors, who don't understand HP books. JKR is behaving exactly in sync with HP.
Personally, I won’t have problem sharing bathroom with real trans women (like Blair white) who just wants to live their life as the opposite sex without causing trouble. We should distinguish real trans people to lunatics. Real trans men are men and real trans women are women.
I had a friend who vehemently hates JK Rowling for her opinions. Any time Harry Potter or Fantastic Beasts was brought up she went on a tirade about how transphobic and bigoted she is. One time I asked her what she said exactly that made her a transphobe, and all she could tell me was that "she doesn't think trans people are real or support their rights," even referring to her as a N*Zi at one point. I showed her the tweets she was referring to, and how misrepresented they were being treated, and she still couldn't accept that JK is just standing up for biological women's rights. She told me I wasn't allowed to watch or mention the movies around her and that I couldn't play Hogwarts Legacy because I was "literally supporting the erasure of [her] kind". It was beyond parody, like I couldn't believe people like this actually exist in the real world. Living in this perpetual victim mentality, forcing their parroted Twitter opinions onto you, positioning themselves as these holier-than-thou sages when they're the most immature people you'll ever meet. It's absolutely pathetic
She sounds like she has zero personality and is going all-in on the ID politics because she has nothing else going on in her life. That's really sad. I'd consider getting new friends if I were you. Hanging around someone like that for longer than necessary is not advisable. I speak from experience.
@@jmal You nailed it. I've slowly distanced myself from her over time. I was open-minded at first, but then she proved all of the stereotypes true over time
Exactly. Most of these so called trans activists just want to hate someone and still keep reading Potters and play Hogwarts legacy. They are hypocrite af 😂
Since I don't have Twitter and don't watch channels that cover pop culture news, I went for a long time without knowing that so many people hated this woman so much. Not until the return to Howarts special did I find out that she was despised even by all the actors in the series. When I read why the reason for all the hate I couldn't believe it... A woman speaking out for her own gender and people has been unceremoniously kicked out of the social sphere. Speaking the truth is a dangerous game nowadays.
I don't believe a word from the whole woke agenda. What you do in your private lives is yours. Bullies, abusers & actually ill. PS Stay out of Women's sports, locker rooms and bathrooms.
The real reason why so many people went against JK wasn't because of her own tweets, since she was very careful in how she worded them... it was because of the heinous stuff she would gleefully retweet daily, and all the disgusting hate groups she would join and support. So whenever anyone dared to speak against her, she could bash them over the head with her *"I'M JuSt pRo wOmEn I JuSt sAiD SeX Is rEaL"* BS. Just like how Trumptards love to say "show me the exact tweet where he said he was racist" Obviously the guy isn't going to tweet *"I AM RACIST LOL"* It's way more insidious and sick than that, and JK knows exactly how to manipulate the low-IQ right-leaning masses
She never said anything wrong. Ever notice that the weirdos never actually state the "horrible" things they claim she has said? They just love to be professional victims.
A few times, I've seen comments on different platforms saying she's transphobic and bigoted without giving any examples of said bigotry. They just repeat what they see and hear about certain people and hop on the bandwagon without researching the people they are talking good or bad about.
Their life and identity is a lie so if you don't go along with that lie then you are taking away their identity and humanity. You are guilty of their suicides and misery. You need to play along with that lie no matter how many times they decide to change genders. Apparently their "truth" is more important than anyone elses.
I looked up all these supposed "transphobic" tweets JK Rowling made over the years after hearing about all the outrage - and imagine my shock, she just made a bunch of mild ass takes. All of which were true. It is not our job to bend reality with people who spent too much time playing make believe and making up fake genders on tumblr then being told by their delusional peer groups that "every identity is valid" and now the entire world must adjust itself to their ridiculous terms.
This is why I use their vocabulary and call them women haters because that is exactly what they are. Important to mention that none of them had a real rebuttal for that.
Anyone who wants to wear a skirt can wear a skirt. Anyone who wants to role-play as the opposite sex can do that. But nobody should be forced to pretend it's real.
After all those years of bending over backwards to support their oppressive ideas, she finally realized what many have: it’s never enough. They will never accept you or any divergence from their rigid and cruel ideals, and when you finally can’t give anymore, none of your sacrifices will stop them from instantly turning all that hate toward you.
Riiiight, it's not like she pretended that ALL trans people were upset about was the phrase "sex as real" and not the fact that her "friend" Maya said the most vile, degrading, inhuman drivel about trans people lives and bodies. It's not like JK Rowling advocates for people like Posie Parker who believe trans people deserve to get violently beaten for using the bathroom that makes them feel safest. Yeah, you totally don't sound absolutely delusional and completely oblivious to the deeper reality of this controversy.
All the while creating an extensive essay promoting the most perverse, deranged assumptions about trans people's lives, bodies, thoughts, understandings, traumas, etc., and spreading that cisgender brain vomit to millions of her followers who know nothing about the reality of trans lives (as much as she does, which is NOTHING). You would be upset with Joanne Rowling too if the entirety of your being was being perversely picked apart by her in the most vile, infantilizing, unrealistic way while she masks her deranged behavior with her politely worded tweets and soft spoken words, meanwhile the entire world already misunderstands and mischaracterizes the complexities of your mind and struggle and calls you the deranged one for becoming upset because "Oh, but she's being so nice and respectful." Give me a break.
Now if only you folks would realize you're just wrong. It's not even just about the fact that if you diverge a little bit they're going to throw you under the bus. You guys are straight up wrong.
I never read a Harry Potter book. I never gave Rowling much thought. Now I'm a huge fan! Women, our uniqueness and our many accomplishments, are being erased! I stand firm with J.K. Rowling! Respect! I have great respect to her!
@@thesaltinecracker Same boat as you, babe. I've never read a single book of hers. However, I back her wholeheartedly with this gender bullshit. I love a woman who doesn't back down.
Inspiring woman. I couldn’t detect any form of hatred or bigotry in her words. This lady, even though abused by the „public“ opinion, still manages to fill her words with love and kindness. I admire that, for I am not sure whether I could do the same.
you're right no hatred or bigotry other than calling men oppressors. J.K May be right on the trans issue but she is a horrible misandrist and is dead wrong on men. Just because she came from an abusive relationship she lumps all men into the oppressor category. That would be like me getting mugged by a black person and then hating all black people and calling them all criminal thugs. Both of those conflations sound idiotic and extremely fucked.
By the wokes logic: trans women are women, and women are cis women.. yet trans women arent cis.. ??? Wet tha fokk? If this was the case we wouldnt need "trans" or "cis". But clearly theres a reason to use trans for context purposes. Cis is beyond pointless to use and was grafted by Volksmar Siguch
Agreed, they want to steal the traditional gender identifications for people who have been re-gendered and call people who don't feel the need to re-gender "cis", which is absurd in my opinion. THEY are the ones who create "new sexes", so let those "new sexes" be identified differently. The argument that the word "trans woman" is hurtful but re-identifying natural born women "cis woman" somehow isn't just shows how ludicrous their way of thinking is.
Honestly she should have known better aligning herself with radical feminism pro LGBT. These people eat their own and we've been saying it for a long time and that side always ignores it.
@@millennialodyssey5956Agreed, but pretty much everyone who was someone (or thought he/she was someone) in those days, was obliged to align with the LGB-whatever community for fear of being cancelled if they didn't.
I not only agree with the OP in my refusal to use "cis" as a prefix, I go a step further and call it out as bigoted against non-trans (aka "sane") persons. I'm a man. I need no modifier before "man," because I'm simply a man. They're literally attempting to compel us to lie.
Mad respect for her. I was a huge fan of her and her books, but I had my own misgivings about her at one point, but her taking a stand against this made me respect her even more. She has repeatedly said that she respects everyone's identity and right to live in a manner that makes them happy, and that she WILL stand with the trans community if ever their rights get cancelled, and still she was, and still, is absolutely SCOWERED by hate and vitriol, by what is increasingly apparent, are some truly maladapted, hateful and unstable people. It really helped shine a light to absolute zealous, neo-religious, and hateful core of this whole movement.
The fact that the whole Harry Potter cast turned their backs on her for fear of being cancelled is crazy. They should have had her back, but I guess they were too scared of what would happen to their careers.
@@ithamarlowe6158Careers? What careers? - Emma Watson hasn't been involved in acting since 2019 - Rupert Grint has starred in Apple TV+ and M.Night Shyamalan productions, hardly mainstream fare - Daniel Radcliffe can say he intentionally chooses more artsy indie roles, like a cop going undercover as a white supremacist or Weird Al Yankovic, but that's only because he has his Harry Potter money to fall back on - Bonnie Wright does book signings for her environmentalist stuff and barely uploads on her TH-cam channel Ironically enough, the actors who stood by Rowling are those who either played villain roles in the movies (Tom Felton) or have more established careers (Helena Bonham Carter), while the "good guys" threw her under the bus over some tweets that are actually reasonable in their stance had the alphabet people took a minute of their time to read them and not let their emotions think for them.
The problem they don't understand is that they want it both ways while making it meaningless. If a person can be a 'woman' just by saying 'I'm a woman' then EVERY issue facing women is meaningless because 'woman' is meaningless. They want to cry about the 'gender pay gap' and the 'patriarchy' but can't explain why so many trans people are males identifying as female. Why? If being female is so horrible in this world, why would they want to willingly and loudly live in it? If they want to say anyone is a woman who identifies as a woman, then there are no more "women's issues" are there? Abortion? It's not a 'women's health' issue now is it? Because if someone biologically male identifies as a "woman", they'll NEVER have to worry about abortion. Same for all other 'women's' issues (except maybe rape, but the sad part there is that they'll finally have to admit rape isn't just a women's issue, won't they?). But the loonies want to be able to scream in every manner there is - have the 'patriarchy' and 'oppression of women' while denying there is even 'women'.
She's not a strong independent woman. She is an abused woman who is projecting and imposing her insecurities and opinions into others. The world isn't just black and white.
You know what's ironic? The newspaper in Harry Potter that constantly published articles discrediting Harry's account of the night Voldemort returned is called the Daily _Prophet_ . It's like she knew this entire issue was coming and was trying to warn us. Umbridge is one of the most hated characters in the books and yet some of its biggest fans have embraced her mindset and attacked her very creator with it. The irony is fascinating and sickening. I have nothing but respect for JK Rowling, she's doing a great job speaking up for women.
@Lawofimprobability the "Three little Pigs" could easily be seen as a story about class discrimination, but it doesnt mean it was inspired by class discrimination, or that it is a dumbed down version of it
Yeah but I think few authors have made it simple enough for children. I mean most books that cover this subject are geared for adults. They are very dark and dystopian. Harry Potter covers dark themes but presents to children and teenagers. If you read them while they where coming out you aged as harry did and the books matched your maturity level. I think that aspect was impressive.
@@nestorv7627 The Three Little Pigs is about being prepared. Being complacent and unassuming will only invite those with ill intentions to ruin you. Like these oppressive laws.
I'm so tired of people acting like Rowling is wonderful. She's a misandrist who hates men, she extends that hate to transpeople too. It's not an altruistic stance when she calls men an oppressor class. How is that narrative any better? It's the same bullshit we've constantly heard and mocked but because she hates trans people "it's so important."
@@terrorists-are-among-us We know the real incels are the feminists and their simping whiteknights. But i guess they have a point. Men are better at everything, so why not this too?
You've made J.K. and true Potter fans proud with this video. Love the fact that you see how the life lessons in the books align with what is currently plaguing society.
All of the memes I've been seeing on social media showing her and equating her as being worse than Voldemort, I thought it was funny that people like that would would say something like that but then again you know like these are people who they don't like the idea of being told that something that they've said is wrong. They don't like that a doctor telling them that if they don't have ovaries they can't have children and when somebody asks there was one where a person was asking a question in the in the one who is being asked they kept saying I can't answer your question cuz I know that anyway I answer it it's going to be wrong and the reason she couldn't couldn't answer it was because she knew she was wrong that was the reality and he wasn't trying to get her for everybody else to moan it her like oh my god did you just ask that question kind of thing no he was doing it to try to help her to understand that she's not using critical thinking which they're not they don't use critical thinking on anything but Christianity and Judaism they sure don't do it against Islam obviously nor do they even understand it really if they did they'd have absolutely nothing to do with it. Especially with them having child Brides and even children dying because of men who claim they're going to wait until they started to ovulate before having sex with him and what they don't tell people is that there are times that a child can begin to ovulate but it's way earlier than normal I know I had a cousin who she began to ovulate when she was 9 years old that didn't mean she became a woman. It meant there was a health problem going on and it was when she I was saying in her mid to late thirties or early forties she went to the doctor's office and they're going to be doing a routine thing she wasn't even going to be having any anesthetic it was just she was just going to be getting a a local and then they were going to do something for her and after her mom dropped her off she was maybe half a mile away from the hospital when they called her to say you have to get over here right away and when she got over there they told her that not 20 minutes after her mom left she started to cough and then she wound up she just stopped breathing and by the time she was dead the doctors had not yet come back in the room to figure out what was going on but it was tied into her her sickness and I'm not really sure what that one was but I just know that she was a wonderful cousin her mom and dad I put high on the list of being Saints as far as anyone that I've ever known in my lifetime they are the greatest. But for people who are mentally ill and for the idiots out there who decide hey let's make tampons for men and let's make something so it looks like they're bleeding from that area
It’s disgusting how the young actors turned against her. They’d be nothing without her. Great video. 😎👍 P.S. Legally they don’t have to, but out of respect they should’ve been more open-minded and read/listened to what she had to say.
Well it’s not really about that. Just because they benefited from her story doesn’t mean they are bound to agree with her. The disgusting part is how they are unwilling to even question these ideas for a second. No skepticism, just pure adherence to the agenda.
I'm not even an harry potter fan but I always respected JKR. Her story is inspiring. It is really hard to make it as a writer and the way she managed it, is amazing! Honestly I wish I had her talent and dedication to her craft
Emma Watson is just pandering to the delusional Hollywood crowd. I don't think Emma Watson, or any woman or man wants the women and children in their life to share restrooms with a trans "lesbian" who has a history of violent sex assault charges.
@@BeatsBySelim26 freedom of speech doesn’t exist in the uk. The uk has freedom of expression, that’s why sometimes people can be punished for the things they say…
Emma Watson WOULD have a “career”. There are always openings in the UK for self righteous, well spoken, finger wagging middle class young women in the media, in politics, and on “women only” short lists for any job that does not actually involve anything remotely arduous.
The biggest shock for me was how the franchise actors turned against her! They owe their career & fame to JKR & would surely know her personally too. However,they couldn't miss the opportunity to gain some brownie points by throwing her under the bus.
For a bunch of "good guys" and Gryffindors, they're actually quite cowardly. Have they learned nothing from her own books? “Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right." - Albus Dumbledore
@@piotrczubryt1111 they are just highly social neurotypicals that reflect their values, based on people around them, or at least those that are close to them, not on true logic or thinking. They would join any ideology and definition of good and evil that is acceptable for the time. For true moral you need to thing through yourself and be able at certain moments to distance yourself from the society. Sure J.R. can do this , because as an author she have for some form of introvert nature, but people like Emma Watson are probably much shallower personalities, who can't stand to be for a long time with their own thoughts.
This is my take as well. I’m a 40 year old man but to me at least, she is far more pro women, than anti anything else…she isn’t trying to drag anyone down, she is trying to pull women up! The way I think it should be. I respect her immensely for the stand she’s taken, and for the fact she refuses to apologise for telling the truth! Sorry, rant over 😂
I agree with this content creator that posted this. I agree with Jo also. I never found her comments offensive. I am saddened that her actors turned on her. Emma was pretty, and I enjoyed hearing in the first movie that she had memorized the whole script and would move her lips when someone talked, which ruined some takes. But she's hit the wall and may never have kids or a husband. I crushed a bit on Bonnie, just because of her red hair. Dan and Ron are just stupid. Though I admire Rupert buying an ice cream to give out the stuff in the months that other people work it.
Feminism are the reason for these absurd ideas being thrust into the mainstream. The are the reason the belief in the blank slate is so common in the west and this has led to the asinine belief that you can switch to a man or woman at a whim.
well, I was banned from several Discord groups for simply stating my views due to this. When people get silenced because they assume you're transphobic just because you agree with her. It's hard to live in a insane society. There was no debate, no chance to defend myself, cancelled and banned is what they do. Harry Potter always speaks up. We all need to speak up despite the challenges.
The problem with this movement is that they are pushing to far. As majority of people aren't anti trans, but they are against what the movement is demanding. However they could not be more wrong about this. As an majority of people don't wanna see trans athletes face off against biological woman. In my country there was this school where an few girls at an elementary school does not go to gym anymore because they gotta share an dressing room with an transgender who has not transition. Or how we are fine with letting kids who aren't old enough to drive or drink can be allowed to transition. Especially since when most kids don't have an clue what they want. As I changed my mind on things 10 times on the same day as an child
@@Willowy13 Yup! I grew up surrounded by LGB and a few T's, and we never had any problems just being people with each other...now I'm repulsed, angry, and done with the whole concept that's going on. They've made me anti.
I think what really tipped me over the edge was the whole athletics thing. If someone who is male comes into a space that is strictly female, where women have trained and worked themselves to the bone to compete against other people just like them, and then dominate the entire competition with a male body that has been trained to a male athletic standard, then I cannot in any way even pretend they are women. A real woman will know or at least acknowledge the inherent unfairness of pitting a male and female body against each other in the same sport. Its ridiculous. Its cruel. Its a mockery. Watching all these men so smugly towering literal head and shoulders above women athletes, crushing women who have literally sweated and bled years of their lives away for a chance to compete against their EQUALS is a horrific and brutal example of male domination at its worst. I never once felt rage when seeing or even thinking of trans women, but after seeing that its all I feel. How could they? How could they claim to be women, and yet have no compassion for us? No respect? No willingness to concede they have an unfair biological advantage? Its so, so cruel and entitled and frankly grossly misogynistic. Its betrayal of all the compassion and acceptance that women have extended to them
I'm a trans woman, and I know that J.K. Rowling did nothing transphobic at all. I love her so much! I wonder why she's considered transphobic when she clearly stated that she knows and loves trans people.
@errol527 That is the basis for being transsex - there being 2 genders. A trans woman is a bio male who lives their life as a female and takes steps to look and act like one. If OP wasn't born male, there would be no need for her to be a "trans" woman. That's why its so cringe when the activists say otherwise.
I will forever stand with JK Rowling. She has my full support. She has always been a source of inspiration to me. Only with this, she reinforces how I feel about all of this.
@@michaelhockaday7426 According to the general zeitgeist. Like all other progressive social conventions: homosexuality, interracial relationships, women voting etc. It's easier to discard these comparisons when seen from a lens outside of that societal norm, and with the benefit of seeing what happened afterward. But it's the same.
That comparison with Book 5 and Umbridge was very apt. It really does align with Rowling's beliefs and behavior. Because honestly I did ask myself "why say anything at all, why even bother tackling this" but I can now understand why she felt compelled to speak out, and I respect that.
The best part of all is that she's practically untouchable in terms finances because J.K. has that "f*ck you money" being a self made billionaire through her gifted talent of storytelling and the haters are SCREAMING CRYING & THROWING UP that they can't use the cancel culture tactics to shut her down. J.K is my shero!
them burning the books are...well...them wasting money. 😅 they bought the book and burned it. How unworkable are their brains really if they couldnt understand JK's point? I mean, Im not a fan but I read her books and was really fascinated with it when I was younger. Never bought the books though hehe coz at that time, I couldnt afford it.
@@candycover exactly . I dont understand how people overlook the fact shes helped so many people due to her charities. I bet her haters havent donated a single dollar for charity 💀
I stand with J.K....this movement is a test to see how far these people will follow them, seems like Emma and the gang went straight off a cliff, it's called a cult.
it's not a test, they mean it. most of them just don't understand what they actually mean cuz they've never investigated what's really going on let alone the wretched self-serving theory that drives it
Id say the gang is following a eugenics based political movement that seeks to sterilize mentally disabled and/or damaged individuals. I wouldn't call it a cult, as cults are hardly the threat they seem to be, this is a political movement that deserves the same disgusting reputation as the Nazis.
Emma is a feminist's feminist's feminist. I started panning away from her views when she tried to make Belle as a feminist icon, don't need a man, washing machine inventor, corset hating girl.
I read the tweets for myself when the hate came her way because I wanted to form my own opinion instead of the narrative being pushed. I read nothing I didn’t 💯 stand with and could only agree it was done in love for all. She’ll be vindicated and all who threw her under the bus will have egg on their face.
It just goes to show you that Hollywood always makes you pick a side. You can never have a neutral opinion. I think JK Rowling is the perfect example of the center of this logic.
the main problem si not that they disagree. Just because they got a carrer thanks to rowling doesn't mean they always have to agree with her. But it's not a debate. They make statements and make Rowling a pariah based on that, just because she has her own opinion about this subject. Emma Watson - if she understood the concept of free speech - or the concept of the books her character was based on - should know debates start with "I respectfully disagree". but no. she throws around big words and makes Rowling look like some kind of a villain, as if what Rowling said was in any way a harm to anyone. But it's just an opinion. Emma Watson, the self-proclaimed feminist, simply doesn't get why women feel bad about the trans "debate".
She didn’t make their careers. They auditioned, got the part, did the job and got paid. They just worked their ass off and saying anything else would make it seem like they did nothing and she just handed them a career. Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith to name a few already had a career before that.
These actors spent their time acting in the Harry Potter series instead of going to school and attending biology classes. This is why they are uneducated thugs who can only parrot what they think is trendy. They do not have the ability to think critically about anything.
don’t get why everyone gets their knickers in about gender though, it a weird culture war thing isn’t it? Who really cares what gender someone wants to call themselves, I don’t understand why I’m supposed to be upset about that, it’s none of my business. Rowling seems to have very much got her knickers twisted about an issue that I don’t believe affects her day to day life
There will always be someone whose identity is wrapped up in being offended. Don't let their tears stop the important discussions from happening. Discussing topics that might get you cancelled is incredibly important. Let them be offended. Do not let them silence you through fear of the repercussions.
Her stand is really bold and indeed the truth. I don't understand why some celebrities are so spineless. Edit: I do agree with all the replies to my comment. All of them only care about fame and that celebrity status. I mean, wtf is Emma Watson without Hermione Granger! 😅
Laughable shittake spotted. Someone thinks he speaks for the majority of woman when the actual real majority has watched baby-level-tutorials and can therefore insta-realize Ohhhh the dumbbb-womannn is wronnggg. Ohhhh of courseee
She is intelligent, articulate, thoughtful, sensible and compassionate. I listened to the podcast and empathised with her. I'm greatful she is a voice for women 🙏🏼💛
I think a part of the lunacy that had been couched on the issues of genders and especially the trans issues. I think they're born of the fact that when you bash and and hate on men so much the natural inclination of a boy is to say well boys are men are wrong then I need to become a woman. Without realizing that it's not that easy. In fact you can go through TH-cam and see tons and tons of people who did switch and then said I want my penis back or some other health problem that occurred because of them doing these things. I know in Spokane there's been a lot of suicides of people who went from men to women or women to men. And when that's brought forward they say oh no it's if the suicide happened then it happened because of Christians not accepting them. Yet I say no that's not what they put out that's not what the person who committed suicide said because they left notes saying why they ended their lives. And it was because of people in the community because of people who could have been interested in them but they weren't because they didn't look like women they look like scuzzy old men wearing a dress so they weren't getting anyone wanting to be with him and when they voiced an issue of of themselves feeling like they were being cast out and away from everyone else did people laugh at their bewilderment that the lgbtq community wouldn't be accepting of them. And you can see these things if you go on Facebook and join some of these gay groups you will see people going into it who put up pictures of themselves and it seems like this somebody taking the worst kind of picture that they can of himself and you can tell right away if somebody puts a picture up if somebody else in the thing says something like boy you're hot or whatever but you don't see a whole lot of communication going back and forth you don't see a lot of people speaking to them asking them questions from from what I've seen I know that a lot of people who do that they're going to find somebody like that and they're going to try to guess based on what they're dressed in as to whether or not that person's got money that they would give them. Cuz the majority of people on Facebook and Twitter are all about trying to talk to people to try to get money out of them which I understand thanks to Biden and the Democrats we have the worst economy with the highest rate of inflation I know that the money I used to spend per month on groceries has been reduced to the point where it's as if I am getting less than a half of what I used to be getting. And that is because I am disabled a true disabled person not somebody feels disabled cuz they don't like the idea of getting triggered every day. Or saying that they're antisocial. There are a lot of people who feel disabled because they don't want to be under the authority of somebody else telling them they need to do everyday. And that's another issue that would get a lot of flack for telling people that it wasn't a government program that got her off of the system. It was her creating her way of making money to become as rich as she has. And I say God bless her. And which is really funny cuz I remember when that first came out all these different churches and things were saying don't go see Harry Potter movie, it wasn't until about I'd say about a year into that of hearing that in churches and so forth I know in my church we heard that so I didn't I didn't let my stepson watch that movie and tell my sister my older sister came and visited us and the very first thing she said to me was have you seen Harry Potter? And I said no and when she said that my my ex-wife looked at my sister and said is it is is it a good movie should I heard it was a bad one that that children shouldn't see it. In my older sister said well if you watch The Wizard of Oz she said it's no different than that. And it was around that time when people in different chat rooms were showing that hypocrisy of Christians who said you cannot see Harry Potter but at the same time saying you need to go see the Lord of the Rings. And they were like okay so the Lord of the Rings isn't satanic even though they've got Wizards and everything else like that and they got the black magic going on and other things that's not that's not made of Satan but this other thing is? It really was one of those things where people had to figure those things out for themselves for them to know that they're not going to be being told by somebody not to do something because they think that thing is wrong. As a matter of fact in some of the writings by Paul in the New Testament he speaks about things where there are people who say you can't eat this people who said you can't do that you can't you know and he was saying well I hope you're faithful to what you believe because whatever is not of faith is a sin. So in other words for people who say if you do this then you're committing a sin okay fine are you Faithfully following that whoever says these things. Or are you being hypocritical about them. Being raised in the church I saw a lot of hypocrisy. But at the same time I see as much in the world it's even more so I know that a friend of mine I was with him over a period when he had lost his license so he needed me to drive him to get different places to help in we spend a lot of time talking about things while we were doing that and I remember at one point he was talking about somebody who he absolutely positively hated and it was just after he was talking about the things he was doing but then when he was talking about this person who he absolutely positively hated I gave him a look like didn't you hear what you just said 5 minutes ago and it was enough for him to know what I was thinking because he turns around and says well there's there's nothing that humans like or dislike more than somebody who's hypocritical about what they like and hate because we hate what's in US. And what's in US is hypocritical. We can be both faithful and hypocritical depending on the occasion and the way we feel at that given time
I knew of the backlash she recieved for what she said but this video really opened my eyes to just how bold and unapologetic JK really is. It's honestly very inspiring and empowering. Shes starting to become someone I can really look up to and aspire to be. Unflinching in her beliefs but respectful at the same time about them. She is the definition of a strong female!!
Please don't listen to this horse shit. Watch "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling" by Contrapoints if you actually want the truth about this topic, it is a million times deeper than this video chose to cover.
As somebody born in 1990 and roughly the same age as Emma, Rupert and Daniel, I was deeply ashamed when they turned on the person that MADE them famous. Somebody who supported & praised them time and time again, only to be let down by the very people who gave cinematic life to her vision for these beautiful characters. It just goes to show that in reality, those actors were amongst the people who needed to hear the message of Harry Potter the most. 😔❤️
Don't forget what John Wilkes Booth had to say about actors, his saying and I'm paraphrasing this I apologize my my mind is not like a was when I was a lot younger but what I remember was him saying that actors are people who do nothing say nothing think nothing are nothing. And I think there was a tagline in there also about the fact that if there wasn't a writer behind an actor the whole idea of stage or the whole idea of them doing a performance would completely and utterly have died. Because like you just said about all these other factors none of them could do the same kind of things as Shakespeare it took Shakespeare to write to do Shakespeare even if it was propaganda for the Tudor kingdom. The funny part is that genealogy died with Queen Elizabeth. Once she was gone that tutors were no more but the Stuart's not so much. May Rowling be blessed in all she achieves how she has blessed the world.
As a feminist and a fantasy writer JK Rowling is a huge inspiration of mine. She's an icon of true feminism! Also, this take is genius. I had never realized how Harry's story parallels Rowling's. JK Rowling *is* a sort of Harry Potter of our times. Excellent analysis.
Funny how the actors in those movies who *did* speak up for Rowling, were mostly the bad guys in the movies. Almost like playing a bad guy in a movie takes more depth (as an actor) than playing the good guy. Because when push came to shove, the "good guys" just parroted the easy lies and chickened out of making a principled stand. While the "bad guys" understood the moment better, and didn't throw Rowling under the bus.
It might also have something to do with age since all the “good guys” in question are from the younger generation, while the “bad guys” are considerably older and might not share these relatively new ideas that anyone can be anything lol. And they might also simply have more class than jumping at Rowling’s tweets as if they have nothing better to do because their careers are already well established and they don’t need cheap celebration from the lgbtq community. Harry Potter movies ended more than 10 years ago, and yet Radcliffe, Watson, Grint and Wright just never got over it 😬
@@ingetamm7951Tom Felton and Evanna Lynch are in a similar age bracket as the "good guys" of the films but still chose to stand with Rowling. The Phelps twins are AFAIC neutral, as is Matthew Lewis.
Rowlings C. B. Strike series is awesome. I've been going to gay bars since before Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliff were born and know for a fact this current 'Transtrending' situation is just that plus child abuse to minors telling them that they are the wrong sex and allowing certain predators into women only safe spaces. Absolutely unforgivable.
I'm a female teacher that was s*xually harassed by a 14 year old student last week. A 14 year old kid that's not only protected by the law, but also is twice my size. Right in front of my students, during class, broad daylight. If this happened to me in a public space with a minor, imagine what can happen in "private" with an adult that decides he is a "woman" and takes advantage of it, how easy it could be. It is disgusting to me to even think about it. A bathroom is one of the only few spaces left out there where women can feel a little safe.
A biological male's comfort is less important then a woman's safety. Many 12 year olds are stronger and even taller then the average female. At the age of twelve.
Only 14? Wow...that's so incredibly worrying to see a display of antisocial behavior at that age especially if it involved physical acts. I wonder if that kid IS actually developing an antisocial personality disorder. If it is so, then he must be closely followed because for what i know there isnt really a remedy for that and if that's the case that person will always be dangerous even later in life. Meanwhile, i hope you are ok and recovering.
Enjoy the fruits of equality 👌 perhaps one day people will realise that equalising creatures that by nature are unequal was the beginning of this slippery slope
I'm a man, and yet, I stand with JK Rowling. Not only was the Harry Potter saga the first saga of books I read as a kid because I actually wanted to, therefore introducing me to the world of literature, but JK is just speaking the truth. And no matter how much the truth hurts, it must be spoken. Feminists like JK are the feminists we need, not those deranged, spiteful man-haters calling themselves feminists nowdays. Thank you for posting this, Baggage Claim.
I stand with Jk and always have. Her success is inspirational. And she did it as a single parent, at a time when press and media continuously carried negative stories about single parents. I was a single parent at that time too, andnot far from where she lived, and am in awe that while living that difficult life, she had the strength, drive and creativity, to produce HP. And she has never forgotten where she came from. Continued to live in Edinburgh. Continued to support local groups, and local single parents groups. Too straight, I support her.
I have great respect for those who aren't pressured by society to be a certain way and truly speak their opinion. I may not be feminist, or at least what feminism is today, but I respect J.K Rowling for being her own person and not willing to compromise the truth.
Thank you for this video. I never read JK Rowlings tweets, I only saw headlines criticizing what she said. Now that I get to hear her own words, I think she has a point. I think women-only safe places should not be accessed by just about anyone who claims to be a woman.
I'm finishing reading her newest book The Running Grave and it's amazing. Love her. Her books carried me through the most trying times in my life like so many people.
Omg I just finished it too. So good. But *SPOILERS* the Robyn / Strike will they won't they continues for another book 😭 makes my little romantic soul so sad
@@nettietrees7238 definitely recommend! I even reread first five! And I normally can't reread anything. I read Harry Potter to my kids though too 😅 The last book I just can't put it down.
@@katieociardha2196 I love them both so much! Just talk about strong female character! Isn't Robin just so awesome, badass and wise and kind, brave and feminine. All her job is such a great exploration of female strength and bravery and partnership. And what about Pat? Don't you love her? Isn't she a hero?
AHAHA what facts? "Sex is real" are you really gullible enough to believe that trans people disagree with this statement? What a fool. You have a lot of growing up to do, and a lot of conversations to have with real trans people in real life... and not the fictional ones JK Rowling presents to you in your imagination.
Man i love what J.K. Rowling is doing and i hope she won't back down from her principles. I stand with her all the way and thanks to your video people will have a bit more clarity on this matter.
Her point about the difference between old school transsexuals with horrific gender dysphoria who have had reassignment surgery to cope and the new social movement trans people - profound and accurate. Bless her!
I see transsexuals as people who suffer with gender dysphoria like her and for that I salute her standing to her belief as well as thanks her for creating Harry Potter.
As an aspiring author myself, I love JK Rowling. Her books were my childhood, and I felt like Harry and Co grew up with me as I read them. For someone who struggled to make friends, her stories kept me company. I want to bring that to others some day. I hope to be as brave and outstanding as Rowling. While I don’t always agree with her stance, I have a mighty deal of respect for her to refuse to back down. I will always stand with Rowling and the beautiful creations she made. (Side Note: Watching people burn and tear up her books was very heart wrenching to me. Same watching them block out her name with sharpie. It hurts my soul as a fellow writer to see her creation being treated as such…)
I am a 71 year old woman. It angers me as well as saddens me to see so many young women who are giving away some of the rights that we fought so hard for to men to take over. I support Jk Rowling. A thousand years from now our gender can be determined simply by looking at our skeleton. We can change the exterior but we cannot change our chromosomes.
The tictoc generation doesn't understand your "kro-mo-somis," madam. If one of them identifies itself with a pink-blue-dotted pangolin, any objection to it is Nazi hate speech 😢😢😢
I stand with JK. Emma is so out of touch. She has been in this celeb bubble all her life and thinks just because she pick causes to be passionate about, that this makes her worldly. Girl needs a wake up call. Truely disappointed in all cast that threw JK under. Alan would be turning in his grave.
Creating a safe space for some women, but not all women is not ok. You can't have a refuge for abused women that turns away Black women, or queer women. Trans women are no different and are in a high risk category when it comes to abuse.
@ihateunicorns867 she wants a safe space for biological women. She doesn't turn away from anyone. She just wants a space for actual women not one where trans women are also there
It's always important to take note when people criticize JK and say things like "controversial statements" because no news agency that makes that claim EVER reports on the statements she has made because each thing she has said has been both true and extremely polite.
The clowns who couldn't even Graduate from college are Attacking the Woman who wrote the 7 best selling books of all time , the irony is disgusting . I stand with J.K Rowling
I love this great woman. I love she is defending truth, women and sanity. I love the gentle, nuanced and reasonable way she is defending this. I love the fact that she understands how important this is. I love her courage and huge sacrifice in defending this.
Thank you Baggage Claim for making videos like you have been. I’m a father to 2 little girls. My wife was so upset when going to a restroom in the US with a man that wouldn’t leave. I wasn’t there at the time but she asked management for help and nobody would help for fear of being cancelled. I stand with woman.
I like that t-shirt that shows the man and woman symbols where it says if you go to a to a bathroom with my daughter and you look like this and it shows the the symbol that they use outside of men's bathrooms for men if you look like this and you go into this bathroom and it shows the picture of of the female thing then you're going to look like this and then use the one of the person in a wheelchair going you're going to be you're going to be putting there if you dare to go in the bathroom or while my daughter's in there. I love that t-shirt that is so funny and it would get a lot of people angry but it's it's the truth if I had it if I had a daughter I would not want to allow her to go into a woman's bathroom by herself she'll be going in the men's bathroom with me because of the fact that I wouldn't trust the other people and she can if I if I did have a daughter I wouldn't need to be watching her what she's doing but I would want her especially if she's extremely small like between 4:00 to 8:00 and there's no way she's going in the women's bathroom by herself no way and if I was married then obviously she'd be with her mother but if need be we would go to some to to if we were at the YMCA we'd go to the family changing room and that's where we go if they needed to use the bathroom but it wouldn't be by themselves not ever. You can't trust people you can't trust that even in a place like the YMCA or YWCA that they're doing everything that they can to take care of the children. As a matter of fact I went to a club up in Canada in British Columbia, they had these signs around the pool area where it said if you are more than 6 ft away from your children we will call the the child protective services. The reason why was because from what one of the people who who was the lifeguard but what had happened was somebody had gone in there and they had a toddler in the in the area where they had the really shallow part of the pool that was made for infants and small kids in that and these parents were talking to each other and they got so engrossed in what they were saying that when the one parent look down in the water they found that there toddler had fallen down face first in the water and then kept breathing in swallowing the water but they weren't making noises that they could hear that the baby was drowning. So they tried bringing a lawsuit against the place I know it didn't say YMCA on the outside I just I can't recall the name of it on the outside I just I went there cuz I wanted to work out and then go swimming but when I saw those notices on the wall I had to I had to ask the Lifeguard why. And what they told me made me laugh but not at the idea of a child dying but on the idea that somebody thought that they could bring a lawsuit against the Lifeguard that they were supposed to be watching everyone they can't at end just like as at that time then when I was in there swimming I noticed that there were 30 to 40 people in there swimming around doing things the life guard cannot look and see everywhere a baby falling into the water like that only has a certain window of time when when certain things can be done to get the water out of their lungs or to do things to get them to try to shock themselves back into being alive. But because I was a first date attendant I knew those things I knew the issues of for example this idea that people have that somehow if somebody starts CPR right away on you if they think you've had a heart attack that that's going to save their life and it's like no you know when a heart attack occurs that's cardiac arrest. When Cardiac Arrest happens you've died. Now the percentage of people who survive after somebody's giving CPR to them is very small. And just for another aside while I was in prison before you people out there who get on this bandwagon of hating Jews. I was walking and talking with a Muslim and he started to act different he was having trouble staying upright and then all the sudden my size eyes roll up in his head and he fell down like right down like somebody who just fainted and I reached over and I felt his carotid artery to go oh my God his heart stopped so I started to give him CPR and within 20 to 40 seconds he began breathing again and by then the the prison guards would come they ordered me to stop doing that to him because we it was a it's against President policy for One inmate to touch another one for any reason doesn't matter if they're trying to save their life or anything else it's their way of having a zero policy as zero policy on people who were claiming for people to turn around and say why didn't you save us from getting molested by these prisoners kind of thing. The really funny thing was that afterwards himself and myself we became like very close even closer friends but not in a sexual way obviously. But he would always tell the other Muslims including one of them who was a Muslim who was born in Jerusalem that he considered me to be a physical reality of Abraham because he said yes he said we are Arabs the one who was born in in Jerusalem and this other one who who had come from an Arabian small town and he said in here this Jew was walking with me talking and the minute I started dying he's doing everything he can to save my life. Don't believe what they say about Jews in the real brother just service those people are superstitious those ones who come here and they preach hatred. Don't believe them and likewise the same thing I say about these protesters and extremists we don't need them. And we don't need to have people telling us the way we should be thinking the way we should be talking or anything else they have no no bearing in our lives that they shouldn't at all
@@junipers-tarot youre right i am a woman. cis is just something to add specificity when applicable. its somewhat like how adoptive parents are still parents, and despite certain medical or legal situations where you need to make that distinction (since they aren't biological parents), in day to day life and social situations people understand that they are parents (Even if they don't always look the part). because sometimes there are things that have a biological basis, but the main importance is the social existence, so even if the biological basis isnt the same, the social existence still functions. adoptive parents don't threaten the reality of biological parents. similarly, trans people don't threaten my womanhood.
I love how all it takes is one situation of "wrong think" to be blacklisted from the left. You can be 100% left leaning with all their beliefs, but if you dare say that the woman of the year award should have been won by an actual woman, they instantly switch
And you don't think this phenomenon exists for "the right"? Don't be thick. The right have turned their back on plenty of people, products, restaurants, etc. because of one differing opinion.
ikr ugh im a leftist literally 190% EXCEPT on trans issues i disagree with non-binary i believe sex is real and trans women shouldnt be in women's sport and im INSTANTLy seen as a villain
I SEE YOU JO, & I STAND BY YOU! I am not anti trans, or anything, I do feel like this world has gone bonkers. The people who have taken offence to her words have not really listened to them. She has shown no distain for anyone, yet the actors (who arguably have her to thank for their careers) tried to ruin her career, by blowing this whole issue up. I know JK Rowling to be a kind, accepting woman. I will always stand by people I admire. I am so pleased that my favourite actors have chosen to stand by her too!
J.K. is a neoliberal, which is not super left leaning at all. The themes are all over her books and in her public political activities. Neoliberalism is a centrist movement that grew out of essentially abandoning left leaning principles in the 1980s to meet conservatives as they moved further right.
To me it’s scary. It’s like that thing they made me memorize in school. They come for everybody in their turn. No one is safe. You can’t hope to appease them because nothing is enough. They want all the power God has, and it’s not mine to grant them. So of course they’ll come after me as well. I can’t rejoice over such a mentality. It’s too harmful and deadly for the whole society and world in which I live. It’s no surprise for me that they’re now wanting war against Israel. And Russia. And China. And Iran. And everybody. They hate the world. The odds that they won’t also consume the trans community in the fires of their endless resentment are extremely low in my opinion. When they come after you, transes, you’ll understand we never hated you. We were trying to save you too.
@@sccuryeah not centrist. Neoliberal is just corporatism and “more palatable semi-socialism”. As is neoconservative. That’s why we now call it “the uniparty”.
I'm grateful Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), said she didn't know enough when she made her initial comment. And she now sees things in a different light. It's often not easy for us humans to admit we were wrong. If you're famous you'll receive a lot of criticism, just for being open-minded, or expressing the way you see things. I admire that she, like JK Rowling, isn't afraid to express her beliefs or admit she might've been wrong. Joanne Rowling is a very talented and intelligent woman. The way I see it, she hasn't even said anything negative about actual trans people. She spoke up against removing the word woman from female hygiene products and strictly feminine things in general, like pregnancy and periods. If someone stating some basic biological facts makes you want to ''cancel'' that person. You might need to take some more biology classes. A lot of us gay, lesbian, bi and actual trans people stand with Rowling. And since I'm a big Harry Potter fan, I have a cat named Dobby (he already had that name before I adopted his) and I'm also a lesbian woman. It deeply annoys me when people, straight or not, want to cancel a person when they themselves don't even fully know what they're talking about. Let's get out of these social media echo chambers and remember how to form our own opinions based on all sides and facts!
I thank J.K. Rowling's courage for finally getting me to look into this madness. This level of irrational idiocy will one day be looked back on for the barking-madness that it is.
Im glad I heard this, this really changed my view, I had thought she said this differently without purpose, shame on the cast I hope they hear this this way and repent
JKR came up in a conversation I had with my friend, who's a trans guy. He said, "Isn't she really transphobic?". I explained to him the truth and context about the things she had said. He was completely shocked that people would call her transphobic for the whole bathroom debacle (ie predatory men posing as "trans women" to hurt people and making true transsex women look bad). Proof that a lot of the hate towards JKR is just people jumping on the bandwagon.
The thing is you had this experience because your Trans friend is biologically female(right?). It is so important in conversation that women expose the misogyny of bio males encroaching and forcing their way into protectd female spaces. It is most always Trans women(bio males), rarely Trans men(bio females), who bully and attempt to silence women who speak up. They try to conquer and dethrone women because they were born with XY chromosomes(hormones/brain chemistry etc) and lived as such for even a part of their life. Many women are ringing the bell and realizing what's really happening though.
you do know that trans people are significantly more likely to be victimized/assaulted, than they are to assault anyone? and the core issue is she says stuff like “sex is real”- not a claim most trans people disagree with (they know they cant become cisgender, but seek to socially pass). but to her she basically does not believe trans people are real. saying “trans women are men” is transphobia man
Alright let's imagine for a moment now that only cis women are allowed in the female bathrooms and vice versa - finally now must transwomen only use the men's bathroom despite how long they've been transitioning - now predators won't pretend to be women to get into the bathrooms hurray! - well you're wrong aren't you? What's stopping these men to pretend they're trans men? It's so much easier no? "Oh I'm a transgender man so I must go into the women's restroom" - you see?
I really get sick and tired of people who put the the end bit of phobic on anything. Because it's not an an issue of of people having a unsubstantiated fear of anything that doesn't have a reason behind it. There are certain things that once you're Once Bitten your Twice Shy. That doesn't mean you're afraid of everything or having a fear of something like somebody having a fear of like let's say spiders. So they say to people I can never sleep then cuz they read somewhere of a doctor saying that when they sleep that it's normal for at least 3 to 4 spiders at night to walk in your nose or in your open mouth while you're sleeping. And trust me there are a lot of people out there that when I share that information to them that literally freak them out like crazy freak them out. But as I said to them this is something that somebody said but they didn't explain how they knew that to be true. So whenever I hear things like that people saying things like that I will I will say that issue of where's your proof for saying these kind of things. Now with what's been going on in Britain and in Europe that's a different story completely especially with the demonstrations going on. When you have a country like Ireland that had a certain type of person who was stabbing children and the police and the other people in any kind of peacekeeping ability does absolutely nothing against the perpetrators who stabbed children, then you have people saying we're not going to let them get away with this then the people go crazy and they start to Riot because they realize that that's the only thing that the government is going to respond to is when there is violence. As anybody who knows anything about Irish history go back to the 70s go back to the Bloody Sunday incident. And what happened after that the British and the Irish brought that on themselves by them not standing up and saying no to things going on. As a matter of fact Leon Uris who wrote Exodus and other historical fictions, wrote a nonfiction story because his wife was Irish and she looked at things at him being Jewish and his work that he was doing for for Jews to return home not that they're coming in there is colonizers because they're not colonizing. They're returning to where they came from. Likewise he looked at people like the IRA as being the same as the Irgun of whom Menachem Begin was a member, who were considered to be terrorists in Israel. But they use terrorism or terror. When they realized that they weren't going to get any kind of response from the British as long as they were doing things in a gentlemanly kind of fashion they were still dealing with the same kind of racism in their own country that they were facing in Germany and the occupied Eastern European and Western European areas. Anyhow so this book that was written his wife had gone to an IRA funeral and in the middle of a funeral the British paramilitaries in Belfast arrived who are not soldiers they're not British soldiers but they were Protestant ones. And instead of allowing the IRA to bury their Commander who'd been killed by the British they decided to take that event to make it change it into a battle between the British and the Irish but it was more so Protestant and Catholic because the ones who are Ira were catholic or atheist and the ones who were Protestants were the ones fighting at times sometimes against the British but many times the British folks in the in the British Army in Belfast that's the last place they wanted to be in their life they wanted to get the hell out of there didn't give a damn about either side of that whole maelstrom. Because they knew it was something that couldn't be fixed by a few laws and so forth being put out it was something that that they many of them when I was there in Belfast I saw people who had these plastic and bits at the end of their rifles and I was told that what they did or the reason they had that was to say I'm not going to fire on civilians but they could take that off to fire if the IRA began to use automatic weapons against them they could use their AR-15s. And I'm just using that as an example cuz I don't know the name of the weapon that They Carried but I I know it to see it when I see it cuz I I do recall it I was close enough to them to know exactly the way it looked. But in that situation I look at that as in the same vein as as these issues about her having the right to say what she's saying and not have to count toward to what every special interest group is going to say oh no you can't say those kind of things. Just as another aside you need to see the Family Guy one where Brian says a joke about something and then when he gets all these people on Facebook who just want to kill him because he dared to say something that was that somebody else could take us being racist and all he's trying to do is tell a joke and they they literally come to his home and they're like standing outside throwing bricks to the windows carrying on and then he comes out and when he talks to them no matter what he says everyone's getting offended by what he's saying when somebody says when they say you know what do you mean you people I'm not a people I identify as a hammer you know it's like oh my God you people what the hell is going on with you people what I said was a joke I wasn't meaning to hurt anyone now I wasn't saying anyone else should hurt somebody what's what's wrong with you people you know like come on that kind of of writing can be thought of as being the kind of thing that is just somebody trying to mock or make fun of things in the extreme. But they're not it's a realistic look at the way that these people who I've got no reason for why they say what they say or or anything. And if somebody actually asks them and then and the other person like these Brave conservative folks going to universities to talk to students and say why do you believe this way and when they are aren't being accepted for what they're saying then what do they do when they don't have the proof of scientific facts behind them then they start to they start to use profanities and carry on that way when they realize that they box themselves into a corner where they can't get out of
Wow, just when I thought I couldn't love her anymore. A true modern day hero. I love how you compared her writing of the character Harry Potter to her character. How the truth and goodness was the most important thing, no matter the consequences. Oh my goodness and her response to the legacy question....amazing.
You also need to consider that JK herself had to live in a women's shelter after fleeing from an abusive marriage with her daughter. She's coming at this from the perspective of a woman who once needed a woman-only space and for some reason these women aren't allowed to exist anymore even though we're supposed to "believe all women."
Exactly. Per the rules the trans-activists are trying to push, her abusive spouse could simply rock up to the shelter, claim he's now a woman with absolutely no evidence nor even effort to present as such, and just walk in.
Single mother selfmade billionaire
The very definition of female empowerment
But now she's the enemy
Excellent point, no one ever brings that up but should
The left eats it's own. What else is new?
How are they not allowed to exist? Did someone stir Joanne Rowling into a witches brew until she disintegrated? Did the Woke Left(tm) use their wizardy magic to make her disappear? Trans people just don't want to be violently raped, mutilated, tortured, and murderer for simply being trans and NOT having a safe shelter to protect themselves within. Trans women and men are just as deserving of those shelters as cis women are. We are all victims of male violence.
Great call about Harry Potter the character. His arc in the 5th book is essentially him being cancelled, resisting the calls of his friends and mentors to go silent, and then train and inspire his fellow classmates to deal with coming conflicts. He emerges on the other side as a vindicated leader respected by everyone for not backing down from the slanderers and bullies.
A very powerful message in this day and age.
Exactly, Harry Potter is such a great and overlooked hero by many of the fans. He fought for what was right even when it was extremely hard and it would have been easier to do nothing like when he spoke up and told everyone that Voldemort had returned. It didn’t matter that in doing so, the government and the people writing for the news paper were trying to ruin his reputation, he stood by the truth and fought because it was the right thing to do.
This! She basically wrote about cancel culture before it became a thing. And it was a great message: stand by what you know is right, what you know is a fact. Don't let fear-mongering and popular opinions intimidate you into being silent.
The Ministry also advocated for their wands to be confiscated. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Spoiler alert
@@donutbevil9669 🤯🤯🤯
" I don't care about my legacy, whatever , I'll be dead. I care about now, I care about the living "
Now that statement truly is worthy of the title stunning and brave .
If she actually cared about the living she wouldn't have made the most degrading, perverted, deceitful essay completely mischaracterizing trans lives and minds to an audience of millions... She wouldn't spread lies about an already misunderstood social group during a political climate where we are getting killed more and more everyday... She wouldn't have allowed her abhorrent essay to be utilized as justification for harmful/lethal legislation that's leaving our trans UK citizens medically uncared for, legally unprotected, and ultimately left for dead. Comments like these make me want to vomit when I understand the reality of her behavior and her actions. Please go watch "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling" by Contrapoints if you genuinely care about the living like JK Rowling says she does.
It saddens me whenever I hear people talking about "being on the right side of history", as though it's more important to worry about the future judgement of people whose criteria we could never hope to predict than to strive to improve the world we live in for the people we share it with right now
Honestly that's the way a slytherin thinks, I support her, I am just saying what I saw from the pottermore quiz.
I repeat I support her.
I am a Ravenclaw
She is amazing!
Her Legacy is already set and I can't think of anyone else in the electric world who's anywhere near her. I remember back I want to say between 2007 to 2008 I remember reading a write-up that was in one of the British magazines where somebody who was a techno whatever I guess of the of the writing world had said that the Harry Potter books were the worst written prose that was the antithesis of writing in the worst proving that that the future of writing was dead and gone with with that type of Storytelling. The funny thing was when I read that I started to laugh because I was thinking to myself these books were written for children first off. But anything that gets children reading is wonderful including comic books. And for somebody like that that men arguing those things about how that he felt that it was that that death of writing itself and I go no it isn't. When people are being snobbish about something then they're going to attack something especially when something is more popular than anything that they could come up with. Just like how people do with George Lucas and the Star Wars franchise that he created. This really fascinating thing was when Christopher Lee brought his children to the set when he was doing the Revenge of the Sith movie which to me is one of the greatest movies I've ever seen in my life. But seeing him Christopher Lee pointed to George Lucas and he said this man here has done something that nobody else in the movie business has ever done as far as being a director that he is is that he told the studios you're not going to mess around with my creation I'm making the movies the way I want them being made and if need be I'll make them I'll pay for them myself which is basically what he did with Empire Strikes Back but he said this man took on the studios and he did something that no other Creator ever could to say no you're not going to mess with my product you're not going to mess with my characters. At one point 20th Century Fox wanted to have Chewbacca and a set of pants cuz they said the idea of him running around naked is insane. And Lucas said do monkeys who are in a zoo are they are they naked well they're not dressed but they don't need to be they're monkeys.
"I do not care about my legacy, I care about now"
This is one of the coolest thing I heard anyone say ever
Im glad we live in the timeline where the person who wrote Umbridge as a character actually is standing up to people like her in real life and not folding to the lies of institutional powers like all the actors.
YES! Amen!!
Yes! And don’t forget that through the mud bloods, werewolves and Death Eater prejudices, her books were the earliest introduction for many children to the concept of bigotry and why it’s indefensibly bad. She’s arguably one of the most effective anti-bigotry advocates in recent history.
Brilliant point
I so agree - those Harry Potter actors would be unheard of without her. So ungrateful the whole bunch of them.
Couldn't have said it better myself
In a world controlled by lies, speaking the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
That’s all Rowling did. The anger and panic from her detractors shows how weak their beliefs are - anyone that does not bend to their version of truth must be censored.
Single mother selfmade billionaire
The very definition of female empowerment
But now she's the enemy
Free speech, to the weak minded people, is not free anymore. 😅
AHAHAHAH that's funny that you think trans people being rightfully upset at harmful misinformation and lies are the ones being "controlled by lies" and you're not. AHAHAHAH
Hey, by the way, who's Maya? Can you explain who this "Maya" woman is that JK Rowling is "standing" with? Hmmmm I'm assuming the answers no. So, I suggest watching "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling" by Contrapoints if you ACTUALLLY care about people speaking the truth and not being controlled by lies. If you choose not to watch it, you're choosing to remain controlled. Good luck!
In a world controlled by the woke being conservative becomes a revolutionary act.
Well said!
A word of appreciated for the Harry Potter actors who did stand up for Rowling. Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Isaacs, Evanna Lynch.
You can add Tom Felton to this list as well. Based Draco
Funny how the actors who get typecast as villains are actually nice people in real life, while those who play the good guys are the exact opposite.
Emma Watson was the worst. The others sent a tweet and that was it. Emma openly talks bad about Rowling
@@Phoenix-pm2qr She is as insufferable as her most famous role.
I wonder why these actors who support J.K. weren’t mentioned in the video. 🤷🏾♀️
I am so disappointed in Emma Watson and the other whose postings against J.K. we’re just sad attempts at political correctness; born of Cancel Culture and a “pick me” mentality.
It’s so sad that in our society I should have to fight to be recognized as who and what I have been all my life.
We really shouldn’t be fighting each other. From one marginalized group to another; we have more in common than we want to admit. I don’t get why degrading me uplifts someone else. None of this makes any sense. 🤷🏾♀️😔
I love how most of the actors who criticised Jo all said "trans women are women" as if that's some sort of cheat code that generates applause when in reality it's kind of lethargic and shows they care more about how they're seen than what they say.
To be fair to (some of) the actors, you shouldn't be pressured / borderline forced into stating your opinion on a political subject. No one should be looking to Rupert Grint for an answer about an authors opinions on Trans rights. He's an actor, not a politician, and while he's free to speak his mind if he wants to, he shouldn't be forced to comment on the opinions of anyone with a loose connection to him. That's like asking you to go on local television and make a statement about the racist rant your uncle had at the dinner table last Thanksgiving. It doesn't have anything to do with you, and you shouldn't have to prepare an essay of your thoughts on the matter to appease the masses. Some of these actors jump on every opportunity to languish in the gratitude of the "woke" or whatever the fuck we're calling them these days, but it did seem to me at the time that many of them tried to keep to themselves until the same people that canceled Rowling tried to do the same to them, simply for not stating their condemnation of her. It's disappointing that none of them stood their ground, but it's also disappointing that we demand social rhetoric from entertainers who may have their own reasons to remain uncontrovercial. Not everyone can handle the kind of hatred Rowling has encurred, and not everyone is as financially stable as she is. While some of these actors are very well off, thats not actually the case for all of them, and you can be sure that among them are people with anxitey or depression. A refusal to condemn Rowling could actually end their careers and ruin their lives. All that to say, while I am disappointed that none of the actors supported her, it's indicative of an entirely different problem the woke have created, where we force people to conform under the threat of genuinely harmful retaliation.
His name is kenneth galbaraith. Imagine faking being a man for a book and then accusing actual trans people if faking.
Well, while none of the more famous HP actors/actresses defended her, others did like the actress for Bellatrix Lestrange or whatever and Voldemort's actor, which feels ironic since those are supposed to be the evil characters lol.@@elainea7734
@@elainea7734 wow, great comment.
I can't wait for the pendulum to swing back to reality on this topic. It's bizarre that it's gone as far as it has just to quelch the demands of an extreme minority
It's already started
Minority? Men are half the world. It's men in skirts saying they're trans, sneaking in our spaces. No one's worried about like Blair white
It's gonna swing back because the damage made to young impressionable people because of the lies of denying biology is starting to pile up in really sad ways.
Read about the Weimar Republic, this insanity has happened before in history.
Blackrock CEO abandoned the term ESG in June.
The fact that J.K. Rowling needed to say this just shows how insane the world has gotten these last few years. What she said is the truth and it needed to be said unfortunately. Anyone who tries to bully her into silence is wrong.
My respect for JK Rowling grew exponentially when she refused to back down. She's graceful in her mannerisms, eloquent in her speech, gracious with her patience, and courageous enough to speak the truth. It's no wonder she wrote such a wonderful character like Harry, he's an embodiment of the values she holds dear. Thank you for such a wonderful video.
She sounds so intelligent and well spoken when she speaks, it is not a surprise that she created one of the greatest books series ever with an extremely strong and compelling hero.
Nope, she is transphobic
Women brought this on themselves. JK Rowling was one of the people who helped bring it on them. When you attack men enough to where they put on dresses and become women and then manipulate you in the same way that you manipulated them into shame.
Until watching this video, I had only flipped past the occasional headline decrying the "anti-trans" JK Rowling - I really had no idea just how completely misrepresented her statements had become. "Witch hunt" is about the best way to describe it.
This video is lying. She said so many hateful things.
The first 2 tweets weren't great. But many people, even trans people, said that if those 2 tweets were it it wouldn't be that bad
It doesn't make any sense to call it anti-trans to deny that sex is a real thing - the _whole point_ of being trans is wanting to have the body of the biological sex one wasn't born with, due to chromosomes that determine biological or more importantly here, phenotypical (physical) sex.
There's a number of studies showing neurological structuring in trans people that's more similar to the opposite biological sex, which points to the concept that their brain truly doesn't match the rest of their body, which would of course be a nightmarish and disconcerting feeling and go a long way to explaining what's occurring within trans people. That's because, yes, there's slight structural differences in male and female brains, and trans people have more similarities in their brains to that of the gender they feel they are, despite the rest of their body.
@@nevetstrevel4711 Examples?
Cancel culture at its most ridiculous. I stand with JK Rowling and the truth she espouses.
Cancel Culture be like "We are VICTIMS. Obey us OR ELSE" 🤡
Damn right, especially cause she’s absolutely right. What happens when a pedophile uses the entire situation to have a reason that can be defended to be in spaces with his victims. That’s exactly where it goes, rapists, stalkers, flashers… all can now just walk right in.
The people of cancel culture will reap what they sow in the end. It will be very satisfying to watch.
@@billyb4790 that's why they're trying to pretend they have various identities. Intersectionality! I am the ULTIMATE VICTIM! YOU MUST OBEY ME! 🤡
Trans women are women (no, they're not).
Trans men are men (no, they're not).
I don't hate these people, but let's not kid ourselves. You may want to be something that you're not, but that doesn't make you that thing. If you think that's how things work, then you're delusional.
I'll always stand with JK Rowling. She's a true old school feminist. She's protecting women's rights.
Same here. One thing most JK supporters have in common is they ACTUALLY bothered to read her tweets and think lol
Not trans or gay peoples rights tho 🤨
She wouldn't even have to stand up for women's rights if it wasn't for the T's in LGBTQ+.
See the “feminist” part is where she loses me and I feel no sympathy for the backlash she’s getting. Just different flavors of evil eating each other.
@@Eidolon1andOnly oh nah even the gays dont like her much anymore lol
Its great
I will always love her books. She is awesome. These actors who spoke against her wouldn't be anywhere in their current careers if it wasn't for her.
They follow because they want to keep working.
Or maybe they're just decent human beings who have consideration in their hearts for people who suffer at the hands of lying rich women like JK Rowling who mask their malice and destructive/lethal politics in polite niceties and soft spoken words and creative phrasings. @@americanwoman445
It's clear they are saying this because they are trying to play it as safely as possible.
@@bigbeng6041 The thing is, they don't have to say anything at all. It would be far, far safer for these actor-types to keep their thoughts about anything but the mundane to themselves. Once they start pontificating and advocating for causes, they're stuck in what can become a very difficult position. The pendulum is in constant motion, swinging to an extreme position then moving in the opposite direction. Society always self-corrects and it often does so because real harm has been caused. What will Emma et al do when the bandwagon they've so self-rightously leapt on is found to have done just that? Is she going to step forward and accept some responsibility for riding on it? Unlikely. She might think twice if she knew that she would have to stand in front of a woman or a child whose life has been badly affected by trans activism.
I completely agree, I am not against trans gender people at all. Far from it. But I agree with this wonderful woman i love Harry Potter so much. Love to Jk Rowling
I’m sick of being referred to as “people who menstruate” I like being a girl and don’t want that experience taken away from me by others who simply “feel” like they’re a boy or girl.
As a girl, I agree. I never cared about Harry Potter or JK Rowling at all, but after this situation I've gained a lot of respect for her for having the balls to stand up for women's rights in this day and age
When have you been referred as that? Real, earnest, no bullshit question.
@@Marble8008 it’s been said in medical contexts frequently.
@@Marble8008hell, even the whatspp emoji now has a pregnant man.
@@Marble8008 read an article in a popular Australian news site this week referring to "people with cervixes" talking about the HPV vaccine. How about the word female? Why the hell doesn't that suit everyone?
I remember back when people made fun of her for being extremely feminist... how times have changed, and not for the better..
I never mind about her feminist views because she has never been too extreme as far as I know. It's just her virtue signal back then that I didn't like. Remember the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child stage play in 2016? Hermione was played by a Black British actress. J.K defended it said that Hermione can be of any skin colour because there's no description of her skin colour in the books.
Turns out, there is. There's a sentence that explicitely described Hermione's white skin. People quickly pointed it out. There's also the official illustrations of Hermione in the books: White skin with long curly brown hair. If Hermione was indeed Black or any other race, why would J.K & her publisher approved the illustration portraying Hermione as a White girl?
Woke slacktivists rallied behind her that time. Calling out, shaming, & threatening everyone who pointed out Hermione is White & the fact that race-bending her character is ridiculous & overused.
Well she was. She described Hermione as a white girl in the book and then said she could be a black girl. And she said Dumbledore was gay even though his sexuality was nowhere in the books. That's intersectional feminism. She started off woke. Then when she said her comment about men not being able to be women conservatives supported her. Personally I think that is better. I don't think supporting living in a delusion is good. Men can't be women. No matter how much they try they will always be men.
@@P.Whitestrake You forgot Dumbledore being gay. His sexuality isn't mentioned anywhere in the book and there was no reason for her to say that. She really wanted to include it she could have written it into her next book. Instead she wrote it into a screenplay. Personally I don't count it.
this is merely the process of the extreme eating itself, becoming smaller as it becomes more exclusive. It will continue to push more and more people out, and temporary alliances will be formed on the outside, and when they are finally insignificant enough the old rivalries will return and maybe we can make some progress with real debate finally.
@@MamaMOBI find this Dumbledore thing extremely weird. Ok, it wasn’t explicitly stated what his sexuality was anywhere in the books. So? It wouldn’t have been explicitly stated for him to be able to be considered heterosexual. To treat that differently when talking about him being homosexual is very weird, given that it sounds like people wanted to be able to recognize stereotypes of gay people within him…
Let’s be real here JK Rowling is rich and can afford her own private security so that her safety is never at risk. She’s speaking out for those of us who do not have access to any of that. She’s standing up for us!! That’s why I respect JK!!!
That's hilarious, what is she standing up for again? The right to spread abhorrent lies about trans people in the form of an essay that which has been utilized in legitimizing harmful and lethal legislation against UK trans citizens that ultimately get's them killed faster? OH! But it's okay because nobody gives a fuck what real trans people actually have to go through or actually feel about a specific topic or actually understand about themselves or the world or cisgender people... No. Everyone in this rancid comment section just thinks it makes complete fucking sense to listen to other cis people (JK Rowling, the person who made this video, etc.) discuss nonexistent issues that they have with trans people based on random shit that they heard other cis people lie about... OH! But it's okay because she's being so kind and polite and respectful, it doesn't matter that her actions have caused immense damage to the health care system in the UK, leaving millions of trans people to suffer. It's okay because she's just so nice and British and lovely.
If you actually care about the truth, and genuinely want to understand WHY trans people are upset with her. Then watch "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling" By Contrapoints. Until you've watched that, you will continue to live in propaganda-based discontent towards a problem that doesn't actually exist. Good luck!
This lady is self-made, she has a right to everything she has worked hard for. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Couldn't you make the same arguement with trans people in religious conservative homes and/or areas? Maybe all these celebrities speak about trans issues because they have money and security to do so, unlike most trans people who will face discrimination and judgement from those around them?
So a person who's completely protected is standing up for the people who have been speaking up for years now without any protection? We don't care. We've been saying this for years now. If you're so pathetic you need a celebrity to say it... you're pathetic.
@@someonewhosdead4634 What about us conservatives who've been speaking out against this shit since the beginning and have had to deal with cancel culture? We don't have any protection. And those trans kids aren't trans. Before all of this crap 99.9% of trans kids outgrew it before adulthood. Teenagers need to realize they're going through the most emotional time in human life. Nothing they're experiencing is permanent. Let's not mutilate them before they fully grown up!
You idiots act like this delusion is new it's not. We understand how difficult the teenage years are. We went through them. Maybe you kids need to realize we know what the fuck we're talking about.
She said nothing wrong or hateful. Props to her for standing firm on her ground
Exactly this is getting out of hand
Well, calling men the "opressor class" seems both wrong AND hateful, but since it's towards men, no one cares.
Pretty much that. I still don't know or understand, what they claim to be phobic in what she said as I don't see it.
Videos like this really remind us not to subscribe to the woke mob, and really research a topic. Thank you for posting.
The trans fruits are just trying to suppress intelligent scrutiny, because they know there are serious flaws in their stance.
She's an absolute badass for refusing to back down. And she was one of the first major celebs to take a real stand in a way which could hurt her, too.
It was disgusting to see how the Harry Potter cast turned there backs on her, when she set up their life.
Opportunists weasels with no morals or a backbone.
Only the "young ones" . The already established actors are mostly suporting her
emma watson is the worst one out of all of them
Of the three main Harry Potter young actors, what’s the last thing you remember any of them being in? Emma Watson is probably the best off, but when’s the last time you honestly even wasted a passing thought on Rupert Grint? And the last thing I recall Daniel Radcliffe in was Now You See Me 2 (and who even remembers that movie?) So past Harry Potter I think the term”acting career” is a bit of a misnomer.
tldr: Screw these actors. Without Harry Potter, no one would know their names at all.
Adds to the disgusting when you have people backing them by saying "They don't owe her anything".
Emma Watson did an interview with Paris Lees (a man who thinks he’s a woman), where she gushed over him. He asked her if she would be comfortable being in same toilets with him, and she was so exuberant in her ‘yes’ reply it was sickening. Lees has a conviction of armed robbery where he nearly killed an old man - and Emma doesn’t go anywhere without body guards, literally! So she will never have to share a toilet with this violent man. This video was touted as for teen girls - I was utterly disgusted by her.
As you can tell, I stand with JK on this.
I, too, was so disappointed in Emma Watson.
It is Emma, a mediocre actress at best, who is walking around the house thinking about her position in society and legacy. She just wants to be famous and worshiped, and was very lucky that JKR work lifted her so high. It is she and the rest of the actors, who don't understand HP books. JKR is behaving exactly in sync with HP.
Personally, I won’t have problem sharing bathroom with real trans women (like Blair white) who just wants to live their life as the opposite sex without causing trouble.
We should distinguish real trans people to lunatics.
Real trans men are men and real trans women are women.
I like Blaire, but it's easier for all of them to have a bathroom of their own.
@@valeriavitale1290 You're using "are" instead of "pass as" which is a mistake.
I had a friend who vehemently hates JK Rowling for her opinions. Any time Harry Potter or Fantastic Beasts was brought up she went on a tirade about how transphobic and bigoted she is. One time I asked her what she said exactly that made her a transphobe, and all she could tell me was that "she doesn't think trans people are real or support their rights," even referring to her as a N*Zi at one point. I showed her the tweets she was referring to, and how misrepresented they were being treated, and she still couldn't accept that JK is just standing up for biological women's rights. She told me I wasn't allowed to watch or mention the movies around her and that I couldn't play Hogwarts Legacy because I was "literally supporting the erasure of [her] kind".
It was beyond parody, like I couldn't believe people like this actually exist in the real world. Living in this perpetual victim mentality, forcing their parroted Twitter opinions onto you, positioning themselves as these holier-than-thou sages when they're the most immature people you'll ever meet. It's absolutely pathetic
How old was this friend of yours?
@@Lorvina1 24, 25
I like how everyone who has even the smallest indication of correct criticisms towards the trans cult is called a Nazi
Well I guess I’m a black n*zi 🙄
She sounds like she has zero personality and is going all-in on the ID politics because she has nothing else going on in her life.
That's really sad. I'd consider getting new friends if I were you. Hanging around someone like that for longer than necessary is not advisable. I speak from experience.
@@jmal You nailed it. I've slowly distanced myself from her over time. I was open-minded at first, but then she proved all of the stereotypes true over time
Your true Potter fans are with you JK. don't ever back down
disappointed with some of the cast though. shame
Exactly. Most of these so called trans activists just want to hate someone and still keep reading Potters and play Hogwarts legacy. They are hypocrite af 😂
@@Snofey1 Most trans activists are not trans, but blue-haired virtue signalers who are perpetually online and have their own skeletons in the closet.
The disloyal cast, if they are genuine, should return all the money they made courtesy of. JKR. Or keep their drivelling to themselves
His name is kenneth galbaraith
@@jesipohl6717 who?
Since I don't have Twitter and don't watch channels that cover pop culture news, I went for a long time without knowing that so many people hated this woman so much. Not until the return to Howarts special did I find out that she was despised even by all the actors in the series.
When I read why the reason for all the hate I couldn't believe it... A woman speaking out for her own gender and people has been unceremoniously kicked out of the social sphere. Speaking the truth is a dangerous game nowadays.
I don't believe a word from the whole woke agenda. What you do in your private lives is yours. Bullies, abusers & actually ill. PS Stay out of Women's sports, locker rooms and bathrooms.
The real reason why so many people went against JK wasn't because of her own tweets, since she was very careful in how she worded them... it was because of the heinous stuff she would gleefully retweet daily, and all the disgusting hate groups she would join and support.
So whenever anyone dared to speak against her, she could bash them over the head with her *"I'M JuSt pRo wOmEn I JuSt sAiD SeX Is rEaL"* BS.
Just like how Trumptards love to say "show me the exact tweet where he said he was racist"
Obviously the guy isn't going to tweet *"I AM RACIST LOL"*
It's way more insidious and sick than that, and JK knows exactly how to manipulate the low-IQ right-leaning masses
She’s a legend - she just attended the feminist conference i Scotland called Filia 2023 - she didn’t have to. What a legend.
Single mother selfmade billionaire
The very definition of female empowerment
But now she's the enemy
Yup. Anyone ever thinking about any of the Woke Clowns? Nope. So they tantrum. People adore J.K. so they seek to destroy 🤡🤮
She never said anything wrong. Ever notice that the weirdos never actually state the "horrible" things they claim she has said? They just love to be professional victims.
They are backstabbers!
A few times, I've seen comments on different platforms saying she's transphobic and bigoted without giving any examples of said bigotry. They just repeat what they see and hear about certain people and hop on the bandwagon without researching the people they are talking good or bad about.
Their life and identity is a lie so if you don't go along with that lie then you are taking away their identity and humanity.
You are guilty of their suicides and misery. You need to play along with that lie no matter how many times they decide to change genders. Apparently their "truth" is more important than anyone elses.
I looked up all these supposed "transphobic" tweets JK Rowling made over the years after hearing about all the outrage - and imagine my shock, she just made a bunch of mild ass takes. All of which were true. It is not our job to bend reality with people who spent too much time playing make believe and making up fake genders on tumblr then being told by their delusional peer groups that "every identity is valid" and now the entire world must adjust itself to their ridiculous terms.
This is why I use their vocabulary and call them women haters because that is exactly what they are. Important to mention that none of them had a real rebuttal for that.
Anyone who wants to wear a skirt can wear a skirt.
Anyone who wants to role-play as the opposite sex can do that.
But nobody should be forced to pretend it's real.
Brilliant!!!
@@PeterValentino Thanks!
Sadly, they WANT it to be a topic of strife.
JK is a shining example of integrity. She has embodied the best quality of all the good characters in her books. Hope she stands her ground ❤
After all those years of bending over backwards to support their oppressive ideas, she finally realized what many have: it’s never enough. They will never accept you or any divergence from their rigid and cruel ideals, and when you finally can’t give anymore, none of your sacrifices will stop them from instantly turning all that hate toward you.
Because that's what happens when you let the inmates run the asylum.
Riiiight, it's not like she pretended that ALL trans people were upset about was the phrase "sex as real" and not the fact that her "friend" Maya said the most vile, degrading, inhuman drivel about trans people lives and bodies. It's not like JK Rowling advocates for people like Posie Parker who believe trans people deserve to get violently beaten for using the bathroom that makes them feel safest. Yeah, you totally don't sound absolutely delusional and completely oblivious to the deeper reality of this controversy.
All the while creating an extensive essay promoting the most perverse, deranged assumptions about trans people's lives, bodies, thoughts, understandings, traumas, etc., and spreading that cisgender brain vomit to millions of her followers who know nothing about the reality of trans lives (as much as she does, which is NOTHING). You would be upset with Joanne Rowling too if the entirety of your being was being perversely picked apart by her in the most vile, infantilizing, unrealistic way while she masks her deranged behavior with her politely worded tweets and soft spoken words, meanwhile the entire world already misunderstands and mischaracterizes the complexities of your mind and struggle and calls you the deranged one for becoming upset because "Oh, but she's being so nice and respectful." Give me a break.
@AngeW-vm4kxummm... the last 10-15 years
Now if only you folks would realize you're just wrong. It's not even just about the fact that if you diverge a little bit they're going to throw you under the bus. You guys are straight up wrong.
I never read a Harry Potter book. I never gave Rowling much thought. Now I'm a huge fan! Women, our uniqueness and our many accomplishments, are being erased! I stand firm with J.K. Rowling! Respect! I have great respect to her!
@@thesaltinecracker Same boat as you, babe. I've never read a single book of hers. However, I back her wholeheartedly with this gender bullshit. I love a woman who doesn't back down.
Thank you so much for making this, I hope everyone sees this video ❤❤
Thank you so much!
@@BaggageClaim of course! 💗
Inspiring woman. I couldn’t detect any form of hatred or bigotry in her words. This lady, even though abused by the „public“ opinion, still manages to fill her words with love and kindness. I admire that, for I am not sure whether I could do the same.
you're right no hatred or bigotry other than calling men oppressors. J.K May be right on the trans issue but she is a horrible misandrist and is dead wrong on men. Just because she came from an abusive relationship she lumps all men into the oppressor category. That would be like me getting mugged by a black person and then hating all black people and calling them all criminal thugs. Both of those conflations sound idiotic and extremely fucked.
I stand with this lady, this woman, this mother. And I refuse using "cis" stuff. Women are adult females!
By the wokes logic: trans women are women, and women are cis women.. yet trans women arent cis.. ??? Wet tha fokk?
If this was the case we wouldnt need "trans" or "cis". But clearly theres a reason to use trans for context purposes. Cis is beyond pointless to use and was grafted by Volksmar Siguch
Agreed, they want to steal the traditional gender identifications for people who have been re-gendered and call people who don't feel the need to re-gender "cis", which is absurd in my opinion. THEY are the ones who create "new sexes", so let those "new sexes" be identified differently. The argument that the word "trans woman" is hurtful but re-identifying natural born women "cis woman" somehow isn't just shows how ludicrous their way of thinking is.
Honestly she should have known better aligning herself with radical feminism pro LGBT. These people eat their own and we've been saying it for a long time and that side always ignores it.
@@millennialodyssey5956Agreed, but pretty much everyone who was someone (or thought he/she was someone) in those days, was obliged to align with the LGB-whatever community for fear of being cancelled if they didn't.
I not only agree with the OP in my refusal to use "cis" as a prefix, I go a step further and call it out as bigoted against non-trans (aka "sane") persons. I'm a man. I need no modifier before "man," because I'm simply a man. They're literally attempting to compel us to lie.
Mad respect for her. I was a huge fan of her and her books, but I had my own misgivings about her at one point, but her taking a stand against this made me respect her even more. She has repeatedly said that she respects everyone's identity and right to live in a manner that makes them happy, and that she WILL stand with the trans community if ever their rights get cancelled, and still she was, and still, is absolutely SCOWERED by hate and vitriol, by what is increasingly apparent, are some truly maladapted, hateful and unstable people. It really helped shine a light to absolute zealous, neo-religious, and hateful core of this whole movement.
The fact that the whole Harry Potter cast turned their backs on her for fear of being cancelled is crazy. They should have had her back, but I guess they were too scared of what would happen to their careers.
@@ithamarlowe6158Careers? What careers?
- Emma Watson hasn't been involved in acting since 2019
- Rupert Grint has starred in Apple TV+ and M.Night Shyamalan productions, hardly mainstream fare
- Daniel Radcliffe can say he intentionally chooses more artsy indie roles, like a cop going undercover as a white supremacist or Weird Al Yankovic, but that's only because he has his Harry Potter money to fall back on
- Bonnie Wright does book signings for her environmentalist stuff and barely uploads on her TH-cam channel
Ironically enough, the actors who stood by Rowling are those who either played villain roles in the movies (Tom Felton) or have more established careers (Helena Bonham Carter), while the "good guys" threw her under the bus over some tweets that are actually reasonable in their stance had the alphabet people took a minute of their time to read them and not let their emotions think for them.
They want strong independent women. And when they see one they attack it. Jk rolling is a live example
The problem they don't understand is that they want it both ways while making it meaningless. If a person can be a 'woman' just by saying 'I'm a woman' then EVERY issue facing women is meaningless because 'woman' is meaningless. They want to cry about the 'gender pay gap' and the 'patriarchy' but can't explain why so many trans people are males identifying as female. Why? If being female is so horrible in this world, why would they want to willingly and loudly live in it? If they want to say anyone is a woman who identifies as a woman, then there are no more "women's issues" are there? Abortion? It's not a 'women's health' issue now is it? Because if someone biologically male identifies as a "woman", they'll NEVER have to worry about abortion. Same for all other 'women's' issues (except maybe rape, but the sad part there is that they'll finally have to admit rape isn't just a women's issue, won't they?). But the loonies want to be able to scream in every manner there is - have the 'patriarchy' and 'oppression of women' while denying there is even 'women'.
She's not a strong independent woman. She is an abused woman who is projecting and imposing her insecurities and opinions into others. The world isn't just black and white.
You know what's ironic? The newspaper in Harry Potter that constantly published articles discrediting Harry's account of the night Voldemort returned is called the Daily _Prophet_ . It's like she knew this entire issue was coming and was trying to warn us. Umbridge is one of the most hated characters in the books and yet some of its biggest fans have embraced her mindset and attacked her very creator with it. The irony is fascinating and sickening. I have nothing but respect for JK Rowling, she's doing a great job speaking up for women.
@Lawofimprobability I don't see it as novel. I mostly find it ironic that this happened to Rowling herself. That's what makes it interesting.
"I'm sorry trans-activists... but I must not tell a lie."
@Lawofimprobability the "Three little Pigs" could easily be seen as a story about class discrimination, but it doesnt mean it was inspired by class discrimination, or that it is a dumbed down version of it
Yeah but I think few authors have made it simple enough for children. I mean most books that cover this subject are geared for adults. They are very dark and dystopian. Harry Potter covers dark themes but presents to children and teenagers. If you read them while they where coming out you aged as harry did and the books matched your maturity level. I think that aspect was impressive.
@@nestorv7627 The Three Little Pigs is about being prepared. Being complacent and unassuming will only invite those with ill intentions to ruin you. Like these oppressive laws.
I thank God for her! I hope she doesn’t back down! Ever. Sick of this narrative.
Me too. But sometimes I’m scared for her safety.
This is going on for a few years by now. JKR has not backed done and probably will notdo so in future.
I'm so tired of people acting like Rowling is wonderful. She's a misandrist who hates men, she extends that hate to transpeople too. It's not an altruistic stance when she calls men an oppressor class. How is that narrative any better? It's the same bullshit we've constantly heard and mocked but because she hates trans people "it's so important."
If I had a dollar for every gender I'd have 2 dollars. And a bunch of counterfeits
👏👏👏👏
It's been a while since I've heard this joke XDD
Still slaps tho
Dont forget the bills with attack helicopters on them
Ahhh, but the closeted angry incels say guys just make better women 🤡
@@terrorists-are-among-us We know the real incels are the feminists and their simping whiteknights.
But i guess they have a point. Men are better at everything, so why not this too?
You've made J.K. and true Potter fans proud with this video. Love the fact that you see how the life lessons in the books align with what is currently plaguing society.
Thank you!
All of the memes I've been seeing on social media showing her and equating her as being worse than Voldemort, I thought it was funny that people like that would would say something like that but then again you know like these are people who they don't like the idea of being told that something that they've said is wrong. They don't like that a doctor telling them that if they don't have ovaries they can't have children and when somebody asks there was one where a person was asking a question in the in the one who is being asked they kept saying I can't answer your question cuz I know that anyway I answer it it's going to be wrong and the reason she couldn't couldn't answer it was because she knew she was wrong that was the reality and he wasn't trying to get her for everybody else to moan it her like oh my god did you just ask that question kind of thing no he was doing it to try to help her to understand that she's not using critical thinking which they're not they don't use critical thinking on anything but Christianity and Judaism they sure don't do it against Islam obviously nor do they even understand it really if they did they'd have absolutely nothing to do with it. Especially with them having child Brides and even children dying because of men who claim they're going to wait until they started to ovulate before having sex with him and what they don't tell people is that there are times that a child can begin to ovulate but it's way earlier than normal I know I had a cousin who she began to ovulate when she was 9 years old that didn't mean she became a woman. It meant there was a health problem going on and it was when she I was saying in her mid to late thirties or early forties she went to the doctor's office and they're going to be doing a routine thing she wasn't even going to be having any anesthetic it was just she was just going to be getting a a local and then they were going to do something for her and after her mom dropped her off she was maybe half a mile away from the hospital when they called her to say you have to get over here right away and when she got over there they told her that not 20 minutes after her mom left she started to cough and then she wound up she just stopped breathing and by the time she was dead the doctors had not yet come back in the room to figure out what was going on but it was tied into her her sickness and I'm not really sure what that one was but I just know that she was a wonderful cousin her mom and dad I put high on the list of being Saints as far as anyone that I've ever known in my lifetime they are the greatest. But for people who are mentally ill and for the idiots out there who decide hey let's make tampons for men and let's make something so it looks like they're bleeding from that area
Honestly, the similarities are kind of spooky. No wonder Divination was in these books; J.K. Rowling is a borderline prophet.
It’s disgusting how the young actors turned against her. They’d be nothing without her. Great video. 😎👍
P.S. Legally they don’t have to, but out of respect they should’ve been more open-minded and read/listened to what she had to say.
Exactly!
Well it’s not really about that. Just because they benefited from her story doesn’t mean they are bound to agree with her. The disgusting part is how they are unwilling to even question these ideas for a second. No skepticism, just pure adherence to the agenda.
So they can't have they're own opinion? That's sick
@@1300l No, they're free to have an opinion. I just find it funny that they turned on her like that.
@@1300lThey can AND SO DOES J.K.!!!!!
I'm not even an harry potter fan but I always respected JKR. Her story is inspiring. It is really hard to make it as a writer and the way she managed it, is amazing! Honestly I wish I had her talent and dedication to her craft
Never read them myself, but support her stance on this!
Emma Watson wouldn't even have a career were it not for JK Rowling.
Emma Watson is just pandering to the delusional Hollywood crowd. I don't think Emma Watson, or any woman or man wants the women and children in their life to share restrooms with a trans "lesbian" who has a history of violent sex assault charges.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds.
So? She can still have her own opinions according to freedom of speech
@@BeatsBySelim26 freedom of speech doesn’t exist in the uk. The uk has freedom of expression, that’s why sometimes people can be punished for the things they say…
Emma Watson WOULD have a “career”. There are always openings in the UK for self righteous, well spoken, finger wagging middle class young women in the media, in politics, and on “women only” short lists for any job that does not actually involve anything remotely arduous.
*Emma, Daniel, & Rupert: **_"Do not bite the hand that feeds you."_*
I’m don’t think
Rupert said anything it was the other 2.
My first thought... what a bunch of crowd pleasing tossers. They literally are behaving like members of the Snape House.
Disgraceful.
@@ChelseaChfy-ex1po Rupert did as well after Emma then Dan, Rupert echoed them.
I stand with JK. A voice of reason amongst so much crazy. The way those actors - she made famous - have treated her is disgusting!
The biggest shock for me was how the franchise actors turned against her! They owe their career & fame to JKR & would surely know her personally too. However,they couldn't miss the opportunity to gain some brownie points by throwing her under the bus.
For a bunch of "good guys" and Gryffindors, they're actually quite cowardly. Have they learned nothing from her own books?
“Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right." - Albus Dumbledore
@@jmal "they're actually quite cowardly."
They are not cowards, they are malicious and selfish, worthy of contempt.
Hollywood sickens me, all these actors chime in to save their own skin. Or they only chime in because their costar did like Rupert Grint did.
@@piotrczubryt1111 they are just highly social neurotypicals that reflect their values, based on people around them, or at least those that are close to them, not on true logic or thinking. They would join any ideology and definition of good and evil that is acceptable for the time. For true moral you need to thing through yourself and be able at certain moments to distance yourself from the society. Sure J.R. can do this , because as an author she have for some form of introvert nature, but people like Emma Watson are probably much shallower personalities, who can't stand to be for a long time with their own thoughts.
@@ivaniliev2272
You are right. I just got a little angry. ;)
J.K. Rowling is a REALLY feminist and a REALLY strong woman
This is my take as well. I’m a 40 year old man but to me at least, she is far more pro women, than anti anything else…she isn’t trying to drag anyone down, she is trying to pull women up! The way I think it should be. I respect her immensely for the stand she’s taken, and for the fact she refuses to apologise for telling the truth! Sorry, rant over 😂
I agree with this content creator that posted this. I agree with Jo also. I never found her comments offensive. I am saddened that her actors turned on her. Emma was pretty, and I enjoyed hearing in the first movie that she had memorized the whole script and would move her lips when someone talked, which ruined some takes. But she's hit the wall and may never have kids or a husband. I crushed a bit on Bonnie, just because of her red hair. Dan and Ron are just stupid. Though I admire Rupert buying an ice cream to give out the stuff in the months that other people work it.
She's neither.
She's a coward and a liar.
Feminism are the reason for these absurd ideas being thrust into the mainstream. The are the reason the belief in the blank slate is so common in the west and this has led to the asinine belief that you can switch to a man or woman at a whim.
She is after all a real woman.
well, I was banned from several Discord groups for simply stating my views due to this. When people get silenced because they assume you're transphobic just because you agree with her. It's hard to live in a insane society. There was no debate, no chance to defend myself, cancelled and banned is what they do. Harry Potter always speaks up. We all need to speak up despite the challenges.
Oh yes. In a discord I also tried to explain where Rowling was coming from but they just weren't interested.
The problem with this movement is that they are pushing to far. As majority of people aren't anti trans, but they are against what the movement is demanding.
However they could not be more wrong about this. As an majority of people don't wanna see trans athletes face off against biological woman. In my country there was this school where an few girls at an elementary school does not go to gym anymore because they gotta share an dressing room with an transgender who has not transition.
Or how we are fine with letting kids who aren't old enough to drive or drink can be allowed to transition. Especially since when most kids don't have an clue what they want. As I changed my mind on things 10 times on the same day as an child
Thanks to their own actions, I am anti.
if the world is saying kids should decide what they want, you know the world is gone mental.
@@radidov5333 That and "they're not your kids. They're our nation's kids"
@@Willowy13 Yup! I grew up surrounded by LGB and a few T's, and we never had any problems just being people with each other...now I'm repulsed, angry, and done with the whole concept that's going on. They've made me anti.
I think what really tipped me over the edge was the whole athletics thing. If someone who is male comes into a space that is strictly female, where women have trained and worked themselves to the bone to compete against other people just like them, and then dominate the entire competition with a male body that has been trained to a male athletic standard, then I cannot in any way even pretend they are women. A real woman will know or at least acknowledge the inherent unfairness of pitting a male and female body against each other in the same sport. Its ridiculous. Its cruel. Its a mockery. Watching all these men so smugly towering literal head and shoulders above women athletes, crushing women who have literally sweated and bled years of their lives away for a chance to compete against their EQUALS is a horrific and brutal example of male domination at its worst. I never once felt rage when seeing or even thinking of trans women, but after seeing that its all I feel. How could they? How could they claim to be women, and yet have no compassion for us? No respect? No willingness to concede they have an unfair biological advantage? Its so, so cruel and entitled and frankly grossly misogynistic. Its betrayal of all the compassion and acceptance that women have extended to them
I'd never even considered the comparison between the transgender activism war and the fight between Harry and Umbridge. Genius stuff, honestly!
I'm a trans woman, and I know that J.K. Rowling did nothing transphobic at all. I love her so much! I wonder why she's considered transphobic when she clearly stated that she knows and loves trans people.
You're a man in a dress.
@errol527 And that is the truth. There's no five hundred genders, just two.
Because social engineering is easier than most people think
@errol527 That is the basis for being transsex - there being 2 genders. A trans woman is a bio male who lives their life as a female and takes steps to look and act like one. If OP wasn't born male, there would be no need for her to be a "trans" woman. That's why its so cringe when the activists say otherwise.
@errol527most normal thinking people agree there are only 2 genders.
I will forever stand with JK Rowling. She has my full support. She has always been a source of inspiration to me. Only with this, she reinforces how I feel about all of this.
This attitude will not age well.
@@ihateunicorns867get outta here, you babbling bumbling band of babboons.
@@ihateunicorns867not age well according to who? You? OK. Good. Stay young and inexperienced then.
@@michaelhockaday7426 According to the general zeitgeist. Like all other progressive social conventions: homosexuality, interracial relationships, women voting etc.
It's easier to discard these comparisons when seen from a lens outside of that societal norm, and with the benefit of seeing what happened afterward. But it's the same.
@fairymusekat Same she shouldn’t have to be called out for simply just speaking her opinion
That comparison with Book 5 and Umbridge was very apt. It really does align with Rowling's beliefs and behavior. Because honestly I did ask myself "why say anything at all, why even bother tackling this" but I can now understand why she felt compelled to speak out, and I respect that.
The best part of all is that she's practically untouchable in terms finances because J.K. has that "f*ck you money" being a self made billionaire through her gifted talent of storytelling and the haters are SCREAMING CRYING & THROWING UP that they can't use the cancel culture tactics to shut her down. J.K is my shero!
them burning the books are...well...them wasting money. 😅 they bought the book and burned it. How unworkable are their brains really if they couldnt understand JK's point? I mean, Im not a fan but I read her books and was really fascinated with it when I was younger. Never bought the books though hehe coz at that time, I couldnt afford it.
what is the differance between shero and heroine? Also she isn't a billionaire, due to the fact she has given so much to charities
Love it
Shes an inspiration for me too , so sad people nowadays cannot handle the truth . More Power to J.K 🔥
@@candycover exactly . I dont understand how people overlook the fact shes helped so many people due to her charities. I bet her haters havent donated a single dollar for charity 💀
I stand with J.K....this movement is a test to see how far these people will follow them, seems like Emma and the gang went straight off a cliff, it's called a cult.
it's not a test, they mean it. most of them just don't understand what they actually mean cuz they've never investigated what's really going on let alone the wretched self-serving theory that drives it
Id say the gang is following a eugenics based political movement that seeks to sterilize mentally disabled and/or damaged individuals. I wouldn't call it a cult, as cults are hardly the threat they seem to be, this is a political movement that deserves the same disgusting reputation as the Nazis.
Ron Weasley still chasing after Hermione even after she switched teams
Emma is a feminist's feminist's feminist. I started panning away from her views when she tried to make Belle as a feminist icon, don't need a man, washing machine inventor, corset hating girl.
I read the tweets for myself when the hate came her way because I wanted to form my own opinion instead of the narrative being pushed. I read nothing I didn’t 💯 stand with and could only agree it was done in love for all. She’ll be vindicated and all who threw her under the bus will have egg on their face.
I'm very disappointed in the actors who betrayed and attacked the person who literally made their careers. She is a person of true principle.
It just goes to show you that Hollywood always makes you pick a side. You can never have a neutral opinion. I think JK Rowling is the perfect example of the center of this logic.
the main problem si not that they disagree. Just because they got a carrer thanks to rowling doesn't mean they always have to agree with her. But it's not a debate. They make statements and make Rowling a pariah based on that, just because she has her own opinion about this subject. Emma Watson - if she understood the concept of free speech - or the concept of the books her character was based on - should know debates start with "I respectfully disagree". but no. she throws around big words and makes Rowling look like some kind of a villain, as if what Rowling said was in any way a harm to anyone. But it's just an opinion. Emma Watson, the self-proclaimed feminist, simply doesn't get why women feel bad about the trans "debate".
She didn’t make their careers. They auditioned, got the part, did the job and got paid. They just worked their ass off and saying anything else would make it seem like they did nothing and she just handed them a career. Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith to name a few already had a career before that.
These actors spent their time acting in the Harry Potter series instead of going to school and attending biology classes. This is why they are uneducated thugs who can only parrot what they think is trendy. They do not have the ability to think critically about anything.
don’t get why everyone gets their knickers in about gender though, it a weird culture war thing isn’t it? Who really cares what gender someone wants to call themselves, I don’t understand why I’m supposed to be upset about that, it’s none of my business. Rowling seems to have very much got her knickers twisted about an issue that I don’t believe affects her day to day life
There will always be someone whose identity is wrapped up in being offended. Don't let their tears stop the important discussions from happening.
Discussing topics that might get you cancelled is incredibly important. Let them be offended. Do not let them silence you through fear of the repercussions.
Her stand is really bold and indeed the truth. I don't understand why some celebrities are so spineless.
Edit: I do agree with all the replies to my comment. All of them only care about fame and that celebrity status. I mean, wtf is Emma Watson without Hermione Granger! 😅
They want work. They know what it means in this climate to say they agree with her
Money Fame Power
Its called being a good person dude
Speak against the popular opinion. Bye bye work. Bye bye cash flow. Greed outweighs morals and personal integrity for many.
@@nettietrees7238
Exactly,
JKR is just saying what most women think but are afraid to say. Thank you JKR.
Laughable shittake spotted. Someone thinks he speaks for the majority of woman
when the actual real majority has watched baby-level-tutorials and can therefore insta-realize Ohhhh the dumbbb-womannn is wronnggg. Ohhhh of courseee
She is intelligent, articulate, thoughtful, sensible and compassionate. I listened to the podcast and empathised with her. I'm greatful she is a voice for women 🙏🏼💛
Did you notice how illogical and ideological the two trans people interviewed on the podcast sounded?
I think a part of the lunacy that had been couched on the issues of genders and especially the trans issues. I think they're born of the fact that when you bash and and hate on men so much the natural inclination of a boy is to say well boys are men are wrong then I need to become a woman. Without realizing that it's not that easy. In fact you can go through TH-cam and see tons and tons of people who did switch and then said I want my penis back or some other health problem that occurred because of them doing these things. I know in Spokane there's been a lot of suicides of people who went from men to women or women to men. And when that's brought forward they say oh no it's if the suicide happened then it happened because of Christians not accepting them. Yet I say no that's not what they put out that's not what the person who committed suicide said because they left notes saying why they ended their lives. And it was because of people in the community because of people who could have been interested in them but they weren't because they didn't look like women they look like scuzzy old men wearing a dress so they weren't getting anyone wanting to be with him and when they voiced an issue of of themselves feeling like they were being cast out and away from everyone else did people laugh at their bewilderment that the lgbtq community wouldn't be accepting of them. And you can see these things if you go on Facebook and join some of these gay groups you will see people going into it who put up pictures of themselves and it seems like this somebody taking the worst kind of picture that they can of himself and you can tell right away if somebody puts a picture up if somebody else in the thing says something like boy you're hot or whatever but you don't see a whole lot of communication going back and forth you don't see a lot of people speaking to them asking them questions from from what I've seen I know that a lot of people who do that they're going to find somebody like that and they're going to try to guess based on what they're dressed in as to whether or not that person's got money that they would give them. Cuz the majority of people on Facebook and Twitter are all about trying to talk to people to try to get money out of them which I understand thanks to Biden and the Democrats we have the worst economy with the highest rate of inflation I know that the money I used to spend per month on groceries has been reduced to the point where it's as if I am getting less than a half of what I used to be getting. And that is because I am disabled a true disabled person not somebody feels disabled cuz they don't like the idea of getting triggered every day. Or saying that they're antisocial. There are a lot of people who feel disabled because they don't want to be under the authority of somebody else telling them they need to do everyday. And that's another issue that would get a lot of flack for telling people that it wasn't a government program that got her off of the system. It was her creating her way of making money to become as rich as she has. And I say God bless her. And which is really funny cuz I remember when that first came out all these different churches and things were saying don't go see Harry Potter movie, it wasn't until about I'd say about a year into that of hearing that in churches and so forth I know in my church we heard that so I didn't I didn't let my stepson watch that movie and tell my sister my older sister came and visited us and the very first thing she said to me was have you seen Harry Potter? And I said no and when she said that my my ex-wife looked at my sister and said is it is is it a good movie should I heard it was a bad one that that children shouldn't see it. In my older sister said well if you watch The Wizard of Oz she said it's no different than that. And it was around that time when people in different chat rooms were showing that hypocrisy of Christians who said you cannot see Harry Potter but at the same time saying you need to go see the Lord of the Rings. And they were like okay so the Lord of the Rings isn't satanic even though they've got Wizards and everything else like that and they got the black magic going on and other things that's not that's not made of Satan but this other thing is? It really was one of those things where people had to figure those things out for themselves for them to know that they're not going to be being told by somebody not to do something because they think that thing is wrong. As a matter of fact in some of the writings by Paul in the New Testament he speaks about things where there are people who say you can't eat this people who said you can't do that you can't you know and he was saying well I hope you're faithful to what you believe because whatever is not of faith is a sin. So in other words for people who say if you do this then you're committing a sin okay fine are you Faithfully following that whoever says these things. Or are you being hypocritical about them. Being raised in the church I saw a lot of hypocrisy. But at the same time I see as much in the world it's even more so I know that a friend of mine I was with him over a period when he had lost his license so he needed me to drive him to get different places to help in we spend a lot of time talking about things while we were doing that and I remember at one point he was talking about somebody who he absolutely positively hated and it was just after he was talking about the things he was doing but then when he was talking about this person who he absolutely positively hated I gave him a look like didn't you hear what you just said 5 minutes ago and it was enough for him to know what I was thinking because he turns around and says well there's there's nothing that humans like or dislike more than somebody who's hypocritical about what they like and hate because we hate what's in US. And what's in US is hypocritical. We can be both faithful and hypocritical depending on the occasion and the way we feel at that given time
I knew of the backlash she recieved for what she said but this video really opened my eyes to just how bold and unapologetic JK really is. It's honestly very inspiring and empowering. Shes starting to become someone I can really look up to and aspire to be. Unflinching in her beliefs but respectful at the same time about them. She is the definition of a strong female!!
Please don't listen to this horse shit. Watch "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling" by Contrapoints if you actually want the truth about this topic, it is a million times deeper than this video chose to cover.
Calm and steadfast.
The audacity of these people to tell the author of the books that she is missing the message of her own story.
As somebody born in 1990 and roughly the same age as Emma, Rupert and Daniel, I was deeply ashamed when they turned on the person that MADE them famous. Somebody who supported & praised them time and time again, only to be let down by the very people who gave cinematic life to her vision for these beautiful characters.
It just goes to show that in reality, those actors were amongst the people who needed to hear the message of Harry Potter the most. 😔❤️
Don't forget what John Wilkes Booth had to say about actors, his saying and I'm paraphrasing this I apologize my my mind is not like a was when I was a lot younger but what I remember was him saying that actors are people who do nothing say nothing think nothing are nothing. And I think there was a tagline in there also about the fact that if there wasn't a writer behind an actor the whole idea of stage or the whole idea of them doing a performance would completely and utterly have died. Because like you just said about all these other factors none of them could do the same kind of things as Shakespeare it took Shakespeare to write to do Shakespeare even if it was propaganda for the Tudor kingdom. The funny part is that genealogy died with Queen Elizabeth. Once she was gone that tutors were no more but the Stuart's not so much. May Rowling be blessed in all she achieves how she has blessed the world.
As a feminist and a fantasy writer JK Rowling is a huge inspiration of mine. She's an icon of true feminism!
Also, this take is genius. I had never realized how Harry's story parallels Rowling's. JK Rowling *is* a sort of Harry Potter of our times. Excellent analysis.
Funny how the actors in those movies who *did* speak up for Rowling, were mostly the bad guys in the movies. Almost like playing a bad guy in a movie takes more depth (as an actor) than playing the good guy. Because when push came to shove, the "good guys" just parroted the easy lies and chickened out of making a principled stand. While the "bad guys" understood the moment better, and didn't throw Rowling under the bus.
It might also have something to do with age since all the “good guys” in question are from the younger generation, while the “bad guys” are considerably older and might not share these relatively new ideas that anyone can be anything lol. And they might also simply have more class than jumping at Rowling’s tweets as if they have nothing better to do because their careers are already well established and they don’t need cheap celebration from the lgbtq community. Harry Potter movies ended more than 10 years ago, and yet Radcliffe, Watson, Grint and Wright just never got over it 😬
@@ingetamm7951Tom Felton and Evanna Lynch are in a similar age bracket as the "good guys" of the films but still chose to stand with Rowling.
The Phelps twins are AFAIC neutral, as is Matthew Lewis.
"Why J.K. Rowling won't BACK DOWN!" Because she is right about everything.
Rowlings C. B. Strike series is awesome. I've been going to gay bars since before Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliff were born and know for a fact this current 'Transtrending' situation is just that plus child abuse to minors telling them that they are the wrong sex and allowing certain predators into women only safe spaces. Absolutely unforgivable.
I'm a female teacher that was s*xually harassed by a 14 year old student last week. A 14 year old kid that's not only protected by the law, but also is twice my size. Right in front of my students, during class, broad daylight.
If this happened to me in a public space with a minor, imagine what can happen in "private" with an adult that decides he is a "woman" and takes advantage of it, how easy it could be. It is disgusting to me to even think about it. A bathroom is one of the only few spaces left out there where women can feel a little safe.
A biological male's comfort is less important then a woman's safety.
Many 12 year olds are stronger and even taller then the average female. At the age of twelve.
I am so sorry to hear that. I hope you are okay.
Only 14? Wow...that's so incredibly worrying to see a display of antisocial behavior at that age especially if it involved physical acts. I wonder if that kid IS actually developing an antisocial personality disorder. If it is so, then he must be closely followed because for what i know there isnt really a remedy for that and if that's the case that person will always be dangerous even later in life. Meanwhile, i hope you are ok and recovering.
Enjoy the fruits of equality 👌 perhaps one day people will realise that equalising creatures that by nature are unequal was the beginning of this slippery slope
This breaks my heart. I hope you're recovering.
I'm a man, and yet, I stand with JK Rowling. Not only was the Harry Potter saga the first saga of books I read as a kid because I actually wanted to, therefore introducing me to the world of literature, but JK is just speaking the truth. And no matter how much the truth hurts, it must be spoken. Feminists like JK are the feminists we need, not those deranged, spiteful man-haters calling themselves feminists nowdays. Thank you for posting this, Baggage Claim.
I miss the days when people kept their sexuality private and in the bedroom.
Gender dysphoria isn't sexuality
@@tonywoutrsHe’s still right though, degenerates are trying to force their shit on everyone.
@@tonywoutrs gender identity isn't gender dysphoria either. it's attention seeking bullshit.
@@nathanielknight1838 People with genderdysphoria identify as the opposite gender. How is that not related, lol
@@tonywoutrs Except it is. It's just another type of homosexuality.
J.K. Rowling is a queen. I was never a Harry Potter fan but I'm considering going out and buying the books just to support her.
Read the books or listen to the audiobook, u won't ever regret it, trust me.
I stand with Jk and always have. Her success is inspirational. And she did it as a single parent, at a time when press and media continuously carried negative stories about single parents. I was a single parent at that time too, andnot far from where she lived, and am in awe that while living that difficult life, she had the strength, drive and creativity, to produce HP. And she has never forgotten where she came from. Continued to live in Edinburgh. Continued to support local groups, and local single parents groups. Too straight, I support her.
I have great respect for those who aren't pressured by society to be a certain way and truly speak their opinion. I may not be feminist, or at least what feminism is today, but I respect J.K Rowling for being her own person and not willing to compromise the truth.
I was a male trapped in a woman’s body until my mother gave birth to me!
Comment of the century man!!!
🤣 Well said.
Hilarious 😂
Brilliant 😂😂😂👏👏👏🙏
Thank you for this video. I never read JK Rowlings tweets, I only saw headlines criticizing what she said. Now that I get to hear her own words, I think she has a point. I think women-only safe places should not be accessed by just about anyone who claims to be a woman.
I'm finishing reading her newest book The Running Grave and it's amazing. Love her. Her books carried me through the most trying times in my life like so many people.
I really want to start the series. Looks amazing
Omg I just finished it too. So good. But *SPOILERS*
the Robyn / Strike will they won't they continues for another book 😭 makes my little romantic soul so sad
@@nettietrees7238 definitely recommend! I even reread first five! And I normally can't reread anything. I read Harry Potter to my kids though too 😅
The last book I just can't put it down.
@@katieociardha2196 I love them both so much! Just talk about strong female character! Isn't Robin just so awesome, badass and wise and kind, brave and feminine. All her job is such a great exploration of female strength and bravery and partnership. And what about Pat? Don't you love her? Isn't she a hero?
i'm proud of her. fuck feelings, love facts.
AHAHA what facts? "Sex is real" are you really gullible enough to believe that trans people disagree with this statement? What a fool. You have a lot of growing up to do, and a lot of conversations to have with real trans people in real life... and not the fictional ones JK Rowling presents to you in your imagination.
She doesn't agree. If she did, she wouldn't be a feminist. (which was always about female special privileges and supremacy)
Man i love what J.K. Rowling is doing and i hope she won't back down from her principles. I stand with her all the way and thanks to your video people will have a bit more clarity on this matter.
Her point about the difference between old school transsexuals with horrific gender dysphoria who have had reassignment surgery to cope and the new social movement trans people - profound and accurate. Bless her!
Exactly how I feel about the whole thing. And bless her.
I see transsexuals as people who suffer with gender dysphoria like her and for that I salute her standing to her belief as well as thanks her for creating Harry Potter.
As an aspiring author myself, I love JK Rowling. Her books were my childhood, and I felt like Harry and Co grew up with me as I read them. For someone who struggled to make friends, her stories kept me company. I want to bring that to others some day.
I hope to be as brave and outstanding as Rowling. While I don’t always agree with her stance, I have a mighty deal of respect for her to refuse to back down. I will always stand with Rowling and the beautiful creations she made.
(Side Note: Watching people burn and tear up her books was very heart wrenching to me. Same watching them block out her name with sharpie. It hurts my soul as a fellow writer to see her creation being treated as such…)
I am a 71 year old woman. It angers me as well as saddens me to see so many young women who are giving away some of the rights that we fought so hard for to men to take over. I support Jk Rowling. A thousand years from now our gender can be determined simply by looking at our skeleton. We can change the exterior but we cannot change our chromosomes.
very true. It's not about how men and women identify, it about making sure the advantages and benefits go to women, not to men.
Whats happening now would be having those who fought for women's rights in the late 19th and early 20th centuries spinning in their graves.
The tictoc generation doesn't understand your "kro-mo-somis," madam. If one of them identifies itself with a pink-blue-dotted pangolin, any objection to it is Nazi hate speech 😢😢😢
Women brought this on themselves. Please spare me the "Well, I didn't argument."
@@DivineWithin JK Rowling was one of the women who brought it on women. Equality is fun to playact until men show up in a dress
I stand with JK. Emma is so out of touch. She has been in this celeb bubble all her life and thinks just because she pick causes to be passionate about, that this makes her worldly. Girl needs a wake up call. Truely disappointed in all cast that threw JK under. Alan would be turning in his grave.
I agree with your views on Em. I like her as an actor, but a bit cringe as an activist!
Nah she botched Hermione
I stand with J.K. Rowling. She is the voice of reason and compassion in absolutely crazy times. Thanks for making this video.
Imagine being mad at jk for understanding basic biology and wanting a safe haven and shelter for biological abused women. How could she 🙄
Creating a safe space for some women, but not all women is not ok. You can't have a refuge for abused women that turns away Black women, or queer women. Trans women are no different and are in a high risk category when it comes to abuse.
@ihateunicorns867 she wants a safe space for biological women. She doesn't turn away from anyone. She just wants a space for actual women not one where trans women are also there
It's always important to take note when people criticize JK and say things like "controversial statements" because no news agency that makes that claim EVER reports on the statements she has made because each thing she has said has been both true and extremely polite.
"Bigoted ideas" such as actual biology
The clowns who couldn't even Graduate from college are Attacking the Woman who wrote the 7 best selling books of all time , the irony is disgusting .
I stand with J.K Rowling
I love this great woman. I love she is defending truth, women and sanity. I love the gentle, nuanced and reasonable way she is defending this. I love the fact that she understands how important this is. I love her courage and huge sacrifice in defending this.
Thank you Baggage Claim for making videos like you have been. I’m a father to 2 little girls. My wife was so upset when going to a restroom in the US with a man that wouldn’t leave. I wasn’t there at the time but she asked management for help and nobody would help for fear of being cancelled. I stand with woman.
weird bc ive been a cis woman my whole life and cis men never needed to pretend to be women to assault them in bathrooms.
I like that t-shirt that shows the man and woman symbols where it says if you go to a to a bathroom with my daughter and you look like this and it shows the the symbol that they use outside of men's bathrooms for men if you look like this and you go into this bathroom and it shows the picture of of the female thing then you're going to look like this and then use the one of the person in a wheelchair going you're going to be you're going to be putting there if you dare to go in the bathroom or while my daughter's in there. I love that t-shirt that is so funny and it would get a lot of people angry but it's it's the truth if I had it if I had a daughter I would not want to allow her to go into a woman's bathroom by herself she'll be going in the men's bathroom with me because of the fact that I wouldn't trust the other people and she can if I if I did have a daughter I wouldn't need to be watching her what she's doing but I would want her especially if she's extremely small like between 4:00 to 8:00 and there's no way she's going in the women's bathroom by herself no way and if I was married then obviously she'd be with her mother but if need be we would go to some to to if we were at the YMCA we'd go to the family changing room and that's where we go if they needed to use the bathroom but it wouldn't be by themselves not ever. You can't trust people you can't trust that even in a place like the YMCA or YWCA that they're doing everything that they can to take care of the children. As a matter of fact I went to a club up in Canada in British Columbia, they had these signs around the pool area where it said if you are more than 6 ft away from your children we will call the the child protective services. The reason why was because from what one of the people who who was the lifeguard but what had happened was somebody had gone in there and they had a toddler in the in the area where they had the really shallow part of the pool that was made for infants and small kids in that and these parents were talking to each other and they got so engrossed in what they were saying that when the one parent look down in the water they found that there toddler had fallen down face first in the water and then kept breathing in swallowing the water but they weren't making noises that they could hear that the baby was drowning. So they tried bringing a lawsuit against the place I know it didn't say YMCA on the outside I just I can't recall the name of it on the outside I just I went there cuz I wanted to work out and then go swimming but when I saw those notices on the wall I had to I had to ask the Lifeguard why. And what they told me made me laugh but not at the idea of a child dying but on the idea that somebody thought that they could bring a lawsuit against the Lifeguard that they were supposed to be watching everyone they can't at end just like as at that time then when I was in there swimming I noticed that there were 30 to 40 people in there swimming around doing things the life guard cannot look and see everywhere a baby falling into the water like that only has a certain window of time when when certain things can be done to get the water out of their lungs or to do things to get them to try to shock themselves back into being alive. But because I was a first date attendant I knew those things I knew the issues of for example this idea that people have that somehow if somebody starts CPR right away on you if they think you've had a heart attack that that's going to save their life and it's like no you know when a heart attack occurs that's cardiac arrest. When Cardiac Arrest happens you've died. Now the percentage of people who survive after somebody's giving CPR to them is very small. And just for another aside while I was in prison before you people out there who get on this bandwagon of hating Jews. I was walking and talking with a Muslim and he started to act different he was having trouble staying upright and then all the sudden my size eyes roll up in his head and he fell down like right down like somebody who just fainted and I reached over and I felt his carotid artery to go oh my God his heart stopped so I started to give him CPR and within 20 to 40 seconds he began breathing again and by then the the prison guards would come they ordered me to stop doing that to him because we it was a it's against President policy for One inmate to touch another one for any reason doesn't matter if they're trying to save their life or anything else it's their way of having a zero policy as zero policy on people who were claiming for people to turn around and say why didn't you save us from getting molested by these prisoners kind of thing. The really funny thing was that afterwards himself and myself we became like very close even closer friends but not in a sexual way obviously. But he would always tell the other Muslims including one of them who was a Muslim who was born in Jerusalem that he considered me to be a physical reality of Abraham because he said yes he said we are Arabs the one who was born in in Jerusalem and this other one who who had come from an Arabian small town and he said in here this Jew was walking with me talking and the minute I started dying he's doing everything he can to save my life. Don't believe what they say about Jews in the real brother just service those people are superstitious those ones who come here and they preach hatred. Don't believe them and likewise the same thing I say about these protesters and extremists we don't need them. And we don't need to have people telling us the way we should be thinking the way we should be talking or anything else they have no no bearing in our lives that they shouldn't at all
@@badbunnyky you are a woman, not a cis anything. your biological sex does not need extra words to describe it, sister.
@@junipers-tarot youre right i am a woman. cis is just something to add specificity when applicable.
its somewhat like how adoptive parents are still parents, and despite certain medical or legal situations where you need to make that distinction (since they aren't biological parents), in day to day life and social situations people understand that they are parents (Even if they don't always look the part). because sometimes there are things that have a biological basis, but the main importance is the social existence, so even if the biological basis isnt the same, the social existence still functions. adoptive parents don't threaten the reality of biological parents.
similarly, trans people don't threaten my womanhood.
Hating on trans women makes you a woman hater.
I love how all it takes is one situation of "wrong think" to be blacklisted from the left. You can be 100% left leaning with all their beliefs, but if you dare say that the woman of the year award should have been won by an actual woman, they instantly switch
those particular people look like cultist
That’s precisely what will make them fall. They are already losing.
And you don't think this phenomenon exists for "the right"? Don't be thick. The right have turned their back on plenty of people, products, restaurants, etc. because of one differing opinion.
ikr ugh im a leftist literally 190% EXCEPT on trans issues i disagree with non-binary i believe sex is real and trans women shouldnt be in women's sport and im INSTANTLy seen as a villain
crazy i even have to say "i believe" sex is real it's literally a fact not a belief loll i hate the world we live in
I SEE YOU JO, & I STAND BY YOU! I am not anti trans, or anything, I do feel like this world has gone bonkers. The people who have taken offence to her words have not really listened to them. She has shown no distain for anyone, yet the actors (who arguably have her to thank for their careers) tried to ruin her career, by blowing this whole issue up.
I know JK Rowling to be a kind, accepting woman. I will always stand by people I admire. I am so pleased that my favourite actors have chosen to stand by her too!
The thing is even though JK is super left leaning, the left doesn't like her. Watching them attack their own will never not be satisfying
J.K. is a neoliberal, which is not super left leaning at all. The themes are all over her books and in her public political activities. Neoliberalism is a centrist movement that grew out of essentially abandoning left leaning principles in the 1980s to meet conservatives as they moved further right.
@@sccurno it's not centrist
To me it’s scary. It’s like that thing they made me memorize in school. They come for everybody in their turn. No one is safe. You can’t hope to appease them because nothing is enough. They want all the power God has, and it’s not mine to grant them. So of course they’ll come after me as well. I can’t rejoice over such a mentality. It’s too harmful and deadly for the whole society and world in which I live. It’s no surprise for me that they’re now wanting war against Israel. And Russia. And China. And Iran. And everybody. They hate the world. The odds that they won’t also consume the trans community in the fires of their endless resentment are extremely low in my opinion. When they come after you, transes, you’ll understand we never hated you. We were trying to save you too.
@@sccuryeah not centrist. Neoliberal is just corporatism and “more palatable semi-socialism”. As is neoconservative. That’s why we now call it “the uniparty”.
They don't like her now. Stop pretending like she isn't as bad as they are because she disagrees with this one thing. You people are so dishonest.
I'm grateful Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), said she didn't know enough when she made her initial comment. And she now sees things in a different light. It's often not easy for us humans to admit we were wrong. If you're famous you'll receive a lot of criticism, just for being open-minded, or expressing the way you see things. I admire that she, like JK Rowling, isn't afraid to express her beliefs or admit she might've been wrong. Joanne Rowling is a very talented and intelligent woman. The way I see it, she hasn't even said anything negative about actual trans people. She spoke up against removing the word woman from female hygiene products and strictly feminine things in general, like pregnancy and periods. If someone stating some basic biological facts makes you want to ''cancel'' that person. You might need to take some more biology classes. A lot of us gay, lesbian, bi and actual trans people stand with Rowling. And since I'm a big Harry Potter fan, I have a cat named Dobby (he already had that name before I adopted his) and I'm also a lesbian woman. It deeply annoys me when people, straight or not, want to cancel a person when they themselves don't even fully know what they're talking about. Let's get out of these social media echo chambers and remember how to form our own opinions based on all sides and facts!
I thank J.K. Rowling's courage for finally getting me to look into this madness. This level of irrational idiocy will one day be looked back on for the barking-madness that it is.
I never watched Harry Potter but I always admired her story, now I wanna watch it just to support her.
The books are better the movies botched a lot of the story
Im glad I heard this, this really changed my view, I had thought she said this differently without purpose, shame on the cast I hope they hear this this way and repent
Thanks so much for sharing the comment. I’m always worried my videos don’t actually change anyone’s mind.
if anything the legacy of the harry potter franchise is tainted by the hypocritical actors who played these characters
I can see why they're making another live action adaptation.
JKR came up in a conversation I had with my friend, who's a trans guy. He said, "Isn't she really transphobic?". I explained to him the truth and context about the things she had said. He was completely shocked that people would call her transphobic for the whole bathroom debacle (ie predatory men posing as "trans women" to hurt people and making true transsex women look bad). Proof that a lot of the hate towards JKR is just people jumping on the bandwagon.
The thing is you had this experience because your Trans friend is biologically female(right?). It is so important in conversation that women expose the misogyny of bio males encroaching and forcing their way into protectd female spaces. It is most always Trans women(bio males), rarely Trans men(bio females), who bully and attempt to silence women who speak up. They try to conquer and dethrone women because they were born with XY chromosomes(hormones/brain chemistry etc) and lived as such for even a part of their life. Many women are ringing the bell and realizing what's really happening though.
Yep, I had the same experience. Talking to people who hated her but had literally no idea what she said. Ridiculous.
you do know that trans people are significantly more likely to be victimized/assaulted, than they are to assault anyone? and the core issue is she says stuff like “sex is real”- not a claim most trans people disagree with (they know they cant become cisgender, but seek to socially pass). but to her she basically does not believe trans people are real. saying “trans women are men” is transphobia man
Alright let's imagine for a moment now that only cis women are allowed in the female bathrooms and vice versa - finally now must transwomen only use the men's bathroom despite how long they've been transitioning - now predators won't pretend to be women to get into the bathrooms hurray! - well you're wrong aren't you? What's stopping these men to pretend they're trans men? It's so much easier no? "Oh I'm a transgender man so I must go into the women's restroom" - you see?
I really get sick and tired of people who put the the end bit of phobic on anything. Because it's not an an issue of of people having a unsubstantiated fear of anything that doesn't have a reason behind it. There are certain things that once you're Once Bitten your Twice Shy. That doesn't mean you're afraid of everything or having a fear of something like somebody having a fear of like let's say spiders. So they say to people I can never sleep then cuz they read somewhere of a doctor saying that when they sleep that it's normal for at least 3 to 4 spiders at night to walk in your nose or in your open mouth while you're sleeping. And trust me there are a lot of people out there that when I share that information to them that literally freak them out like crazy freak them out. But as I said to them this is something that somebody said but they didn't explain how they knew that to be true. So whenever I hear things like that people saying things like that I will I will say that issue of where's your proof for saying these kind of things. Now with what's been going on in Britain and in Europe that's a different story completely especially with the demonstrations going on. When you have a country like Ireland that had a certain type of person who was stabbing children and the police and the other people in any kind of peacekeeping ability does absolutely nothing against the perpetrators who stabbed children, then you have people saying we're not going to let them get away with this then the people go crazy and they start to Riot because they realize that that's the only thing that the government is going to respond to is when there is violence. As anybody who knows anything about Irish history go back to the 70s go back to the Bloody Sunday incident. And what happened after that the British and the Irish brought that on themselves by them not standing up and saying no to things going on. As a matter of fact Leon Uris who wrote Exodus and other historical fictions, wrote a nonfiction story because his wife was Irish and she looked at things at him being Jewish and his work that he was doing for for Jews to return home not that they're coming in there is colonizers because they're not colonizing. They're returning to where they came from. Likewise he looked at people like the IRA as being the same as the Irgun of whom Menachem Begin was a member, who were considered to be terrorists in Israel. But they use terrorism or terror. When they realized that they weren't going to get any kind of response from the British as long as they were doing things in a gentlemanly kind of fashion they were still dealing with the same kind of racism in their own country that they were facing in Germany and the occupied Eastern European and Western European areas. Anyhow so this book that was written his wife had gone to an IRA funeral and in the middle of a funeral the British paramilitaries in Belfast arrived who are not soldiers they're not British soldiers but they were Protestant ones. And instead of allowing the IRA to bury their Commander who'd been killed by the British they decided to take that event to make it change it into a battle between the British and the Irish but it was more so Protestant and Catholic because the ones who are Ira were catholic or atheist and the ones who were Protestants were the ones fighting at times sometimes against the British but many times the British folks in the in the British Army in Belfast that's the last place they wanted to be in their life they wanted to get the hell out of there didn't give a damn about either side of that whole maelstrom. Because they knew it was something that couldn't be fixed by a few laws and so forth being put out it was something that that they many of them when I was there in Belfast I saw people who had these plastic and bits at the end of their rifles and I was told that what they did or the reason they had that was to say I'm not going to fire on civilians but they could take that off to fire if the IRA began to use automatic weapons against them they could use their AR-15s. And I'm just using that as an example cuz I don't know the name of the weapon that They Carried but I I know it to see it when I see it cuz I I do recall it I was close enough to them to know exactly the way it looked. But in that situation I look at that as in the same vein as as these issues about her having the right to say what she's saying and not have to count toward to what every special interest group is going to say oh no you can't say those kind of things. Just as another aside you need to see the Family Guy one where Brian says a joke about something and then when he gets all these people on Facebook who just want to kill him because he dared to say something that was that somebody else could take us being racist and all he's trying to do is tell a joke and they they literally come to his home and they're like standing outside throwing bricks to the windows carrying on and then he comes out and when he talks to them no matter what he says everyone's getting offended by what he's saying when somebody says when they say you know what do you mean you people I'm not a people I identify as a hammer you know it's like oh my God you people what the hell is going on with you people what I said was a joke I wasn't meaning to hurt anyone now I wasn't saying anyone else should hurt somebody what's what's wrong with you people you know like come on that kind of of writing can be thought of as being the kind of thing that is just somebody trying to mock or make fun of things in the extreme. But they're not it's a realistic look at the way that these people who I've got no reason for why they say what they say or or anything. And if somebody actually asks them and then and the other person like these Brave conservative folks going to universities to talk to students and say why do you believe this way and when they are aren't being accepted for what they're saying then what do they do when they don't have the proof of scientific facts behind them then they start to they start to use profanities and carry on that way when they realize that they box themselves into a corner where they can't get out of
Wow, just when I thought I couldn't love her anymore. A true modern day hero.
I love how you compared her writing of the character Harry Potter to her character. How the truth and goodness was the most important thing, no matter the consequences. Oh my goodness and her response to the legacy question....amazing.