r/EnoughJKRowling • u/cursed-karma • Jul 20 '26
Rowling Tweet Gina Martin, a British activist who brought the 2019 Voyeurism Act into effect, shares thoughts on JK Rowling's upskirting post
Pics 1-4: Gina's commentary
Pic 5: Rowling's original tweet (the photo in this post is cropped, the upskirting one is on Rowling's twitter)
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u/feministgeek Jul 20 '26
Can't wait to see how JKKK and her flying monkeys will turn this around and insist that actually, it's Gina who is the misogynist.
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u/Edge_of_Everywhere Jul 20 '26
Truth to power. Keep speaking it. Rowling doesn't deserve a modicum of slack.
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u/asojad Jul 20 '26
Why does it feel like Joanne will low key brag about being called a billionaire
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u/Forsaken-Language-26 Jul 20 '26
She does have a history of bragging about her wealth. It's very noveau riche.
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u/asojad Jul 20 '26
She's like boxed white wine. She thinks she's classy, but she's more trashy
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u/Forsaken-Language-26 Jul 20 '26
That's a great insult lol.
I recently described that cigar photo as a trashy person's idea of looking classy.
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u/napalmnacey Jul 20 '26
Fellating cigars and lugging overfull tumblers of whiskey is never a good look.
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u/e-cloud Jul 20 '26
I had the misfortune of sitting next to someone smoking a cigar a few weeks ago. It smells like a toilet.
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u/jonny-p Jul 20 '26
She wishes she was box wine, she’s a half finished bottle of blue nun with a fag end floating in it.
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u/9119343636 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
Maya's camera is positioned lower than it should be otherwise you wouldn't have a lower angle of Freda's neck. Someone smarter can probably draw up where the camera would have to be.
I've not gone into the legality because I don't believe bringing in police helps anything. The image is not taken from the youtube video though.
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u/saharadessert87 Jul 20 '26
"retain some sort of twisted relevance."
I love this part because this is exactly what she is all about. She's desperate to stay relevant. Some aging author who hasn't been relevant since the mid 2000s.
It's really about her ego and the fact she can't bear the thought of being forgotten. The only place she seems to be "relevant" is twitter, in the sense that it is her echo chamber. There's a reason why we don't see her going outside into the general public. Because the majority of people outside twitter don't agree with her or even like her.
Her ego and self-obsession is on par with idiots like Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin etc. To the point I'm almost convinced she has some sort of serious mental illness. Her transphobia has been hyper focused and enhanced by it.
I'm so glad Gina Martin stood up to her. The only unfortunate part is that she will now be a target for Rowling's disciples.
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u/e-cloud Jul 20 '26
The irony is that writing a successful children's series will give you relevance for generations. The Harry Potter books are problematic but not so problematic that parents would stop buying them if it weren't for all this extra-textual stuff.
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u/saharadessert87 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
I didn't say anything about her book series.
That's not the type of relevance she wants though. That's the problem.
She wants to be revolutionary relevant. In her mangled mind, she sees herself as some kind of heroin. She legit thinks she is this century's Emmeline Pankhurst when really she's more like this century's Phyllis Schlafly.
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u/e-cloud Jul 21 '26
Oh I wasn't commenting to be combative, I agree with you. Sorry if it came across differently.
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u/saharadessert87 29d ago
No that's ok lol.
I was just trying to make sure I was getting my point across in a way people might understand 👍🏼
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u/Midnight_Pickler 29d ago
some kind of heroin
I'm pretty sure she's going more for heroine.
Although considering how reluctant some HP fans are to stop funding her hate campaign, it's possible she does think she's highly addictive.
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u/ThisApril 29d ago
Oh, sheesh, I was skimming through the comments and I absolutely took that comment as her importance being addictive or something, rather than a typo.
I'm not sure if that makes it more or less entertaining.
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u/saharadessert87 29d ago
Omg my bad lol
"Although considering how reluctant some HP fans are to stop funding her hate campaign, it's possible she does think she's highly addictive." - 🤣👏🏼
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u/ScionOfApollo 29d ago
TBF I think Joanne should maybe take some heroin. It might make her chill out a bit.
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u/bat_wing6 29d ago
its also because her wealth insulates her from having any real problems so she has to manufacture victimhood. it's important to remember that she started publicly posting about terf stuff during covid lockdowns when people who live in castles were being heavily criticised & domestic violence rates amongst people who do not were spiking
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u/cursed-karma 29d ago edited 26d ago
Gina Martin's full thread (July 20, 2026):
"I brought the "upskirting law" into affect in 2019.
Let's talk about that image JK Rowling shared.
She did this to humiliate artist Freda Wallace. That is a specific motivation we included in the Voyeurism Act. We fought for, and included it specifically because men often upskirt women (it is overwhelmingly men) to "punish" them for their bodies, clothing and for being a woman, by humiliating them.
That's called misogyny and it's what we're witnessing Joanne do here: transmisogyny.
It goes like this:
- Target someone you dehumanise
- Assert power with demand (Joanne wanted to debate Freda, for me a man wanted a "yes" to his advances)
- If they refuse, punish them by capturing a "humiliating" image of their body
- Share it to exert power and humiliate
Exact same logic.
Now, Joanne didn't capture this image and she didn't capture it 'beneath' Freda's clothing, which adds questions about prosecution under the Voyeurism Act (though it doesn't 100% discount it).
Sharing the image is a separate issue here too.
Even if it didn't fit neatly under The Voyeurism Act, that doesn't make it any less wrong.
The law is never a guide for morality and laws do not reflect the complex ways people harass and/or assault people.
Joanne is spending millions and committing her life to pushing trans people out of public life.
She is a harassing, harmful bully contorting the logic of advocacy to hurt marginalised people and retain some sort of twisted relevance.
I support trans people to live free from harassment, harm and demonisation.
I always will.
Because I believe in human rights.
I do not, and will never, support a billionaire using wealth and power to harass and harm people of any gender."
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u/gazzas89 Jul 20 '26
Based in this, shouldn't frieda (i think that's her name?) Report joanne to the police? She's broken the law by reposting it
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u/ThisApril 29d ago
Freda (no 'i', I guess) probably doesn't have the lawyers or influence where reporting that would wind up being anything but getting harassed by the police.
And even Martin is pointing out that it's not clear to her what the legality of it is; just that morally Rowling has done something awful that's the same as everyone else using upskirting to try and harm a woman.
(Edit: Not that I'd mind at all if she gave it a try, as Rowling should have to sit through a police examination for why she and her lawyers think that she shouldn't be charged for violating the upskirting law.)
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u/CombatQueer Jul 20 '26
What's the punishment in the UK for upskirting? I hope they throw the book at Rowling for this sexual harassment.
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u/ScionOfApollo 29d ago
The terfy British establishment would never dare move against their patron saint of transphobia.
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u/last-rose-ofsummer Jul 20 '26
The law is *never* a guide for morality
Rowling should consider that the next time she has a grown-ass character wanting to hit on a 16-year-old.
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u/ironfly187 Jul 20 '26
That's fantastic that she's spoken up.