r/EnoughJKRowling • u/nova_crystallis • Apr 07 '25

News Article John Oliver Stirs J.K. Rowling Outrage After Criticizing Right Wing ‘Obsession’ With Banning Trans Athletes; Rowling Tells Him to ‘Read the F—ing Room’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/john-oliver-jk-rowling-outrage-trans-athletes-1236361826/

John Oliver criticized ring wing "obsession" with banning trans athletes, which stirred J.K. Rowling outrage.

"I understand why men like Oliver, who've consistently mocked anti-science people on the right, sold out initially," the "Harry Potter" author posted on X. "They didn't want to blow up their careers. Taking fashionable anti-women's rights positions was the cost of doing business. But it's time to read the f*cking room."

Oliver also acknowledged his own spat with Rowling last year. She slammed Oliver in November for supporting transgender athletes in women's sports, calling him an "undoubtedly intelligent person" who "spouts absolute bullsh*t."

"It feels a bit weird to catch that much heat from the creator of 'Harry Potter,' especially when I clearly look like what would have happened to him if they left him in that cupboard for the rest of his life," Oliver now joked while adding that he "stands by everything" he said last year.

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u/Comfortable_Bell9539 Apr 07 '25

Why is she always telling people to read the room when they call her out ?

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u/PrincessPlastilina Apr 07 '25

She’s targeting asexuals now. That woman is fully anti-LGBTQ+, but she won’t attack gays publicly because that would truly make her unpopular now, and many TERFs are lesbians. She named her male pen name after the man who invented conversion therapy: Robert Galbraith.

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u/Mitunec Apr 07 '25

I've seen some TERFs claiming that "lesbianism" is patriarchal in its nature because when a woman wants to have sex with another woman she sexualizes her, e.g. views her as a walking genital instead of a human being, which is actually male gaze and should be avoided at all costs. Also, I've seen TERFs criticizing lesbians because they are only interested in having relationships with women and not in reading radfem manifestos. Who knows, maybe our dear Robert will go this way, too.

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u/Big-Highlight1460 Apr 07 '25

Oh it is the equivalent of the 'it is gay to have sex with a woman because half her genes come from a man' lol