J.K. Rowling attacked for International Women's Day message
Harry Potter author and noted womenâs rights activist J.K. Rowling savaged a British government official for her unwillingness to define what a woman is.
Government officials, celebrities and influencers have become increasingly hesitant to define a woman by her biological aspects. Either out of fear or a full-throated embrace of woke progressive ideology, the definition of women has been skewed to include male-bodied individuals, some of whom even have beards, and whose only claim to womanhood are the pronouns in their Twitter bios.
Anneliese Dodds, the shadow equalities minister in the U.K., was asked to define what a female is on BBCâs âWomanâs Hourâ, responding to the question by stating that it âdepends on what the context is,â and that the Equality Act âdoesn't say how you defineâ the word âfemale.â
In response to Dodds' refusal to answer the question, Rowling took to Twitter to savage Dodds, writing, âSomeone please send the Shadow Minister for Equalities a dictionary and a backbone. #HappyInternationalWomensDay.â
Someone please send the Shadow Minister for Equalities a dictionary and a backbone.#HappyInternationalWomensDay https://t.co/2dXZivMHyO
â J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 8, 2022
Rowling then went on to heap praise on Joanna Cherry, an MP for Edinburgh South West for her work for fighting on behalf of women and providing female victims of domestic abuse safe housing.
Rowling wrote, âThis is what a woman who owns a dictionary and a backbone looks like,â including an image of Cherry winning the âWoman of the Yearâ award from the Womenâs Rights Network.
This is what a woman who owns a dictionary and a backbone looks like. @joannaccherry pic.twitter.com/djBuD1QiBF
â J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 8, 2022
Her remarks prompted a backlash on social media, led by popular leftist chud Ian Kochinski, also known as âVaushâ on YouTube, who told her to âshut the f*** upâ in an overt attempt to silence her from expressing her views.
âAll J.K. Rowling had to do was shut the f*** up and she could have been almost uncritically beloved for like a century,â wrote the YouTuber. âWomen be quieter and start apologizing challenge.â
Rowling fired back: âWhat you and your ilk fail to appreciate is how tediously familiar I find your tactics. I had a violent ex-husband who used to tell me life would be great if only Iâd comply, but youâre making the same mistake he did. Women like me canât be bullied out of resistance.â
What you and your ilk fail to appreciate is how tediously familiar I find your tactics. I had a violent ex-husband who used to tell me life would be great if only Iâd comply, but youâre making the same mistake he did. Women like me canât be bullied out of resistance. pic.twitter.com/039pBtFtNT
â J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 9, 2022
The Harry Potter author has strongly voiced her opposition to woke efforts to criminalize free speech in Scotland, where she lives, opposing the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill, which she says will, âharm the most vulnerable women in society: those seeking help after male violence/rape and incarcerated women.â
While womenâs rights advocates and conservatives praise Rowlingâs matter-of-fact position, the popular childrenâs author continues to face increasing backlash from progressives, who have even sent her death and rape threats, Rebel News reported.

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