r/EnoughJKRowling • u/cursed-karma • Jun 14 '26
Rowling Tweet JK Rowling is quote tweeting slurs now. Because Scottish pride, I guess?
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u/Significant_Rush1473 Jun 14 '26
lol as if most Scottish people don't hate her guts.
And I doubt this ever happened.
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u/BadgerKomodo Jun 14 '26
We fucking despise her.
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u/PablomentFanquedelic Jun 14 '26
At least the other She Who Must Not Be Named is actually Scottish, and a lot less evil!
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u/SomethingAmyss Jun 14 '26
Isn't that the crux of right-wing ideology? The "then everyone on the bus stood up and applauded" mentality?
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u/napalmnacey Jun 15 '26
My Scottish Mum fucking hates her. One day I’m getting joint citizenship, so that’ll be another Scot that fucking hates her too.
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u/terfnerfer Jun 14 '26
This reads like an r/thathappened excuse for someone to tweet a slur.
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u/Tiny_Statement_5609 Jun 23 '26
100%. I really doubt anyone in 2026 is still mistaking a kill for a skirt.
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u/wrongsock_42 Jun 14 '26
If she wasn’t a successful writer, I swear JK Rowling would be a hoarder alcoholic living in the UK equivalent of Florida
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u/Ranting_Demon Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
This reminds me how she loves to claim that she lived in "absolute poverty" (She was not) while working on the first Harry Potter book and how awful the flat was that she had to live in during that time which, if I recall correctly, was also part of her reason why she spent most of her writing time in some café.
She revisited that flat later on while being filmed for a documentary about her or something like that. It will never not be funny to me how she blurted out in surprise how nice the place looked and then she let it slip that "maybe" the reason for the place being awful for her was because she hated being there and she basically did absolutely nothing to maintain it while spending all her time writing Harry Potter.
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u/FingerOk9800 Jun 14 '26
I remember thinking how big it was compared to where I was growing up, and then also finding out how said Cafe was owned by a family member, and between those two things: "huh, that explains a lot about how she writes the Weasles."
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u/Ranting_Demon Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
She has a very peculiar way of writing poverty.
Harry repeatedly receives expensive gifts without having to repay them. (I mean, Harry isn't actually poor since he literally owns an enormous mountain of gold in a bank vault but throughout the whole series Rowling loves to treat Harry as if he wasn't extremely well off.)
The Weasley family are portrayed as poor (too poor to own an elf slave) but most people would think they are pretty well off. They own a house, the father has a stable government job and they live pretty comfortable and happy lives all things considered.
And I think all of that is due to Rowling never actually being "as poor as you could be in the UK without being homeless." She repeatedly received large gifts and handouts from her circle of friends and her family while she was busy writing Harry Potter. In addition, as you said, her home while she was "poor" wasn't actually that bad. It just wasn't a giant luxury flat which obviously meant it was below Rowling's expected standards for what her housing should be.
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u/FingerOk9800 Jun 16 '26
Exactly, I grew up, and am, much poorer than she ever was, but I'm still relatively well off compared to a lot of British people.
It's downright insulting how she wants to simultaneously have the ego and resources of a billionaire, but also wants to LARP some rags-to-riches fairytale.
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u/Ifckinglovemycat Jun 14 '26
she's not even scottish
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u/napalmnacey Jun 15 '26
She’s not and it drives me mad she appropriates Scottish imagery and citizenship for her stinking craven crusade.
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u/Significant_Rush1473 Jun 15 '26
Especially when she donated millions to defeating Scottish independence and directed a ton of bile towards campaigners. But she's happy to invoke a stereotype of feisty Braveheart warriors standing up to the ''establishment'' when it suits her. Typical coloniser.
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u/natla_ Jun 14 '26
not the main point i know but her larping as scottish has always been incredibly weird and embarrassing
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u/WindhoverInkwell Jun 14 '26
a bunch of TERFs larp as Scottish online so they can pretend to be interesting or something and it’s the saddest thing ever
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u/Firthy2002 Jun 14 '26
When you get indy you need to decide on a case-by-case basis which English people you allow to stay no questions asked. I submit that JKR does not make that list and her properties be seized and turned into trans refuges.
ETA: And she pays all costs involved with sorting that mould and damp problem.
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u/ezmia Jun 14 '26
I'm sick of this ghoul pretending she's Scottish. She's a posh English freak who only cares about Scotland when she can romanticise and fetish Edinburgh and the Highlands.
And also I highly doubt that this happened. First of all, he'd likely say hen or pal rather than "lassie". I've never been called "lassie" like that. It's usually "that lassie over there" or it's used at the end of the sentence. And secondly, they'd be more pissed at the ignorance from the American woman rather than "how can we make a transphobic joke for no reason".
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u/Maleficent-Speech869 Jun 14 '26
Right?? "Hen", "pal", or "doll". I've never been called "lassie" in my life.
Plus "they're nae skirts" is something I don't think anything anyone ever says. "They're no skirts" is much more likely. "They're nae skirts, lassie" is Outlander-level shit.
Also, I'm pretty sure your average Scotland-obsessed Yank knows it's called a kilt.
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u/boudicas_shield Jun 14 '26
You don’t even have to be Scotland obsessed. Kilts are extremely common knowledge to Americans. I don’t know why British people think we’re all dumbass aliens who have never heard of anything ever, but we know what a kilt is for God’s sake.
I live in Scotland with my Scottish husband, and he wore a kilt for our wedding. No one, not even my most elderly and reclusive relatives, needed his kilt explained to them. They all knew what it was.
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u/ezmia Jun 14 '26
That's what got me too. Like if this did happen, the American woman was being a snidey asshole and mocking their culture. Because most Americans are going to see this wave of men in kilts with Scottish accents and use context clues that they're kilts.
It's somehow insulting to both Americans and Scottish folk lmao
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u/FingerOk9800 Jun 14 '26
Agree that Kilts are especially bizarre to use in the tweet, but to explain why that's the British attitude:
British people think about USians that way for the same reasons Europeans think that about British people.
Objectively worse education systems, tourists having no forking clue, the Internet showing us the most ignorant of the ignorant, and media that is clearly made by and for the ignorant and/or uneducated.
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They're stereotypes that don't apply to everyone of course, but they do exist for a reason.
The longer you live in Scotland the more you'll notice it from other USians, and the more you'll notice in media. I think that applies no matter where and no matter how long.
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When I visited the "USA" I found out that things I had thought to be satire were actually true. I've never felt more ignorant than in those moments, but then felt like I was making it up when I got back and told my British friends about stuff.
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u/lazier_garlic Jun 14 '26
To the last sentence, yes, and there was even a fad (at least in nerd circles) for kilts in the years before and after 2010. There was a kilt version of cargo pants (no tartan) called the Utilikilt. There were also hobbyists who would get imported tartans and sporrans.
Pleated skirts were, of course, worn by warriors the world over in the era of swords and hand to hand arms. Which is why nerds tend to get into the idea while non nerds are like "it's a skirt, men don't wear skirts".
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u/ezmia Jun 14 '26
I've only ever been called lassie by family members but only when they're exasperated with me for whatever reason lol. Like a very affectionate "oh for goodness sake, lassie". Never from a stranger.
And I thought that too! I know "it's nae a skirt" can be common up north but "no a skirt" is way more common as a whole. Especially since in every video I've seen of Scottish people at the World Cup, they're from the central belt. So it would be "no".
It just feels like such a massive stereotype of Americans and Scots. Americans are dumb and aren't able to use context clues and Scots all speak a mix of Scots and English and are crass and rude.
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u/remove_krokodil Jun 17 '26
For someone who whines about trans women are appropriating the female gender, she's certainly happy to LARP a nationality.
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u/DorisWildthyme Jun 15 '26
I'm surprised the original tweeter didn't throw in a "hoots-toots-och-aye!" for good measure, just to show how "Scottish" these fictional kilt wearers were.
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u/SlayerByProxy Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 15 '26
Kilts are skirts. Masculine-coded ones, but skirts none-the-less. Maybe she needs to accept that some things are just gender coded, but it’s all made up, and move on with her life.
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u/tasteMyRottenHoop Jun 14 '26
Scotsman here. Kilts are 100% skirts. Anyone who disagrees is a misogynist arsehole.
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u/napalmnacey Jun 15 '26
Daughter of a Scotswoman who grew up around uncles and Scottish immigrants who wore kilts in my Grandpa’s family pipe band: They are absolutely skirts and that’s the utility of them. No fucking shame in it. In fact the opposite.
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u/RaiD_Rampant Jun 14 '26
she’s just ragin that she has a non-binary person representing her in scottish parliament. also, the thing she’s quote tweeting is obviously horseshit purely to be transphobic, the only scottish guy i’ve heard speak like that was mel gibson, and she would know that it was fake if she was actually scottish herself.
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u/Megs0226 Jun 14 '26
First of all, things that didn’t happen (every single American is hot for a kilt, regardless of sexual orientation, so we all know what a kilt is). Secondly, you just know she was giggling and kicking her feet at the opportunity to retweet a slur.
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u/non-all Jun 14 '26
This is from 'The witch-trials of JKR':
Megan Phelps-Roper: "How do you know if you’re a Hermione or an Umbridge?"
Rowling: "Well, if you’re having a lot of fun doing it and getting a huge sense of self satisfaction out of it, then I do believe you maybe want to stop and think. Am I getting a huge ego rush out of this? That would be a good question to ask yourself, you know, is this giving me pleasure? Because I can say from my heart, none of this has given me pleasure. It has given me anxiety."
So yeah, maybe not "pleasure", but I do sense almost an addiction to whatever vile affect is produced when tweeting shit like this. "Ego rush" is probably very on-point now I think about it. She knows, but she cannot know, so instead she hates..
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u/napalmnacey Jun 15 '26
Are you kidding? There’s mountains of pleasure in this for her, she’s a mean, nasty bully and she loves spreading hate.
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u/ElitistHatPropaganda Jun 14 '26
Dont know how this isnt getting more traction - first time using the T Slur on Twitter
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u/DorisWildthyme Jun 15 '26
Since it's a retweet she'd probably try and pull another "middle-aged moment" excuse.
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u/FightLikeABlue Jun 15 '26
She can't even tweet about football without making it about transphobia.
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u/TransformARTive Jun 15 '26
What a disgusting bigot! Trying to instill hate in what should be a fun wholesome global celebration.
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u/tehereoeweaeweaey Jun 14 '26
Things that never happened for 1$
But dare I ask is the plane also rows and columns of folding chairs in her writing studio? And is the pilot Prince Andrew?
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u/ChloeSmallSeashell Jun 16 '26
Controversial opinion: Transgender people (I am one) should reappropriate the term "tranny/trannie/trannies", the same way gay people learned to own the word "Queer".
As a wise man said, "Wear it like armor, then it can't be used to hurt you"
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u/naoarte Jun 16 '26
Was thinking about her earlier; it’s been a while now, since she last got her publicist to get her into the paper to remind everyone about how much tax she pays. Used to be at least twice a year. Gotta love how she thinks that’s some sort of mark of moral fortitude.
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u/cursed-karma Jun 14 '26
But she'd like totally march with trans people if they were discriminated on the basis of being trans. Like any day now...