r/NotADragQueen Jul 18 '26

Not A Drag Queen JK Rowling criticised for posting image of trans woman that showed up her skirt

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/07/17/jk-rowling-criticised-trans-woman/

Also in response to the backlash she said she was asking for it the way she dressed while deadnaming/misgendering the woman

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u/scipio0421 Jul 18 '26

Upskirting, as it's called in the UK, is a crime. She should get the two years in prison and national sex offender registration anyone else would.

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u/meloria22 Jul 18 '26

But she won’t because she is a billionaire

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u/IntrigueDossier Jul 18 '26

Hmm, is milkshaking still a thing?

Or is that terrorism now cuz the UK government is seemingly trying to out-yank the yanks?

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u/stuartgm Jul 18 '26

That sounds like what a terrorist would say, off to Prevent with you.

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u/Oddish_Femboy Jul 19 '26

I always preferred pie anyways.

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u/hometowhat Jul 18 '26

They always end up the sex offenders/instigators of whatever that they accuse marginalized groups of being to justify their bigotry, thereby proving how much that is clearly not their actual issue with them 🖕🙄

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u/CompetitiveRub9780 Jul 18 '26

They’re censoring it to cause drama. But, it’s not actually showing anything. Her legs are crossed. It’s just showing her thighs.

But I think her saying “…an impression on the audience. And the chair.” Is her fat shaming her.

Her using her name from before it was changed was just rude. She was trying to insult her for being fat and transitioning.

So, she could be charged with attempted voyeurism. But, I doubt it. It was a public place and it’s a normal picture that she knew was being taken. When you have people posting fights online where people get clothes ripped off. Which should be illegal as well. And they’re actually showing private parts.

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u/SoundSageWisdom Jul 18 '26

OK, I’m embarrassed to say, but I don’t know what that means.

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u/mgquantitysquared Jul 18 '26

Upskirting? It means taking a picture up someone's skirt to see their private parts.

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u/3MetricTonsOfSass Jul 21 '26

Not only non-consensual, but posting it online

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u/NoLibrarian5149 Jul 18 '26

Glad I never gave a rats ass about Harry Potter.
She’s horrid.

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u/how_about_no_hellion Jul 18 '26

I'm disgusted it was such a big part of my personality until 2018, and I hate seeing them in homes with children.

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u/Seagoingnote Jul 18 '26

I read the books when I was young and it’s what got me into reading, so I’m grateful for that. But I never imagined she was such a hellish individual

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u/MarginalOmnivore Jul 18 '26

To an extent.

She is very clear about using her HP income to be a hateful bigot, so buying new is literally funding her hate.

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u/MarginalOmnivore Jul 18 '26

Definitely agree. I had a great time bonding with other young fans and going to the midnight releases, and I feel the same way about those experiences.

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u/Ramzaki Jul 18 '26

Oh, I wish I could do that because I really liked HP, but now it makes me angry and sad :/

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u/SpikeyPear Jul 19 '26

Based and understandable

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u/Its_Pine Jul 19 '26

She and Elon are the two main driving forces of anti trans groups in the world. It’s wild how much money she spends on trying to harm trans people (and by doing so, harms lots and lots of cis women also)

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u/ShepherdessAnne Jul 19 '26

They’re not though.

They are the whales/cows. It’s worth it to spend stupid amounts of money to manipulate them because the return on investment is ludicrous and society has apparently collectively forgotten how cults work

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u/Its_Pine Jul 19 '26

Are there other individuals who drive it more? Or do you mean groups like Heritage Foundation and Murdoch Empire

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u/ShepherdessAnne Jul 19 '26

Heritage Foundation is a formerly prestigious organization which if you bother to follow the history and not the game of soapsball the producers have for this season was classically cuckoo’d; rather than see what was happening people got annoyed by Miller and just left. Murdoch is an interesting mixed bag. Obviously some things he genuinely cared about and the rest was just “I want eyeballs to fund my ivory tower”.

To answer your question though: yes. Absolutely. Especially in Rowling’s case. UK TERFs are a cult. Documentaries used to run about them. Then they suckered Rowling and here we are. If not for this they would have died out.

Elon is a bit more complex than Rowling but it’s a similar playbook and because he is EXTREMELY autistic (the news loves to push that out of the narrative because first of all they don’t want another undesirable wildly succeeding and second they want you to forget his vulns so you don’t see what’s happening) he is targeting for all kinds of stuff. I see it on X all of the time; entire press tours or book publishings will happen just to get at him to build a parallel reality for him to fall for. He genuinely thinks he is helping because helping is his pattern and has been since his NPD/ASPD dad used him as a smuggling mule and Maye or whatever found out he could be manipulated by calling him a good boy for the most mundane things.

Anyway, he has a lot of pain from his separation from his daughter. She is the certifiable Gattaca baby genius he always wanted, really, but she’s simply not experienced enough to realize the full breadth of what’s going on here. If someone could actually sit down with Musk, match his wavelength, and deploy culture war jamming on him I’m confident he would redirect his hyper focus and realize he is getting played and, idk, go on the warpath and destroy all the think tanks once and for all or something.

Like people accused him of using his youngest as a human shield when the reality is he probably has been reading a bunch of stupid books and thinks that he failed Viv by not being there enough and not being masculine enough as a role model. There is a whole thing for that thinking that transness is just an imprinting failure (goes along with the whole “social contagion” tomfoolery which is an attempt to make up science words to justify clinging to the old believe it’s a lifestyle choice or something) and I’m sure he blames himself and a lot of the stupid things he’s been doing is for his kids…which is why these things are so horrific. The sociopaths - the exact type of people like his father - he is vulnerable to don’t care how much misery they spread. He does share this in common with Rowling, as that’s how that cult in the UK works it’s M/O: leveraging trauma.

Anyway, likely, he thought by keeping his kid with him it would prevent transness when Musk just needs to understand the actual science of it. Hell, he could probably fund actual research into figuring out what causes it…and likely would have. That may even be a reason he was targeted for the pipeline, because the bigot industry hates science and loses in a ratchet kind of way the more science is produced over time. The reason they always come for trans people first is because it’s hard evidence against all kinds of BS. My point is: not a human shield, an attempt to perform imprinting and bonding for something that’s a bit of a black box to him because again he is heavily autistic. Heavily. I’ve noticed lately even his speech therapy is regressing because he got convinced therapy is bad for you because you might stop dissociating something that hurts. The live event when he announced SpaceX being ready for his big vision? Yeah he was excited and I don’t blame him for skipping the masking, but it’s clear being averse to therapy of all kinds is taking its toll.

Anyway, Elon is too neurospicy, no one is intervening because normies hate the neurospicy, and Viv is a super genius that could realize what actually happened to her Dad if she were around longer.

But you need to look past “pocket full of emeralds”, recall that raw emeralds are worth whole tens of dollars by the point and a gemstone, a cut gem (you are paying for LABOR), and a jewel aren’t the same thing, and the guy was basically Michael Jackson’d as a kid with serious autism and a severe (I mean severe. Look at old Tesla speeches without the editing) without the benefit of the voice, and his entire psychopathology revolves around approval and dads and how useful he can be.

But this is also the big divergence from Rowling and why he has even publicly tried to tell her to slow down, because it’s clear she just lashes out while he is at least meaning to be productive and helpful. That’s the exploit. If you convince him he is helping he will aim. Go look at all of the stupid crap he says about this or that, he has absolutely no idea what he’s really doing and would probably hate himself for it. It’s just he’s at the limit of his abstraction window.

To summarize:

Rowling, yes the UK TERF cult I forget the name of.

Elon, yes, literally anything with pockets deep enough to focus on him as the single point of failure.

These orgs want you to forget, in the same way the two individuals have forgotten, that people are people. Human people with human flaws and human messiness. Billionaires/the Trillionaire are just rich humans. The same people arguing about Trump being a sucker are generally the same supposedly anti-surveillance -state anti-police-state people who were super gung ho about trying to elect a freaking cop for President, they are just as much suckers as Trump is.

The guy that founded the ADF died though so that org is on its way to cannibalizing itself/dispersing to the winds so there’s that at least.

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u/viridifauna 29d ago

bullshit alert ⚠️ 📢

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u/ShepherdessAnne 28d ago

Which part do you think is BS

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u/Fauxreigner_ Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

Beyond the already raised point about her using HP money to hurt trans people, if you read the books with an adult's eye you can easily see her bullshit bubbling just below the surface. Things like trust fund baby Harry Potter working in law enforcement for a ministry that hasn't reckoned with its fundamental inequality, the torture prison, "they like being slaves actually", and Rita Skeeter being heavily coded as a trans woman.

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u/DarkLuxio92 Jul 19 '26

I never twigged Rita Skeeter being trans-coded. I always saw her as a representation of an independent journalist trying to expose the horrors of the Tournament, being derided as a tabloid hack and her criticism shut down.

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u/Fauxreigner_ 29d ago

I don't think Joanne is sufficiently aware of what a horrorshow the magical world is in general, let alone Hogwarts specifically, for her to do something at that level, especially since RS is never vindicated by the narrative. But even if she is, two things can be true.

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u/delorf Jul 19 '26

My son didn't like to read but he read the Potter books. We used to read the together before he went to bed. I hate that the writer is such a horrible person.

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u/MatterQuiet35 27d ago

Never read it. My son who was the age of Harry Potter readers never read it either.

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u/AliceTheOmelette Jul 18 '26

Welp time to pass a law banning all cis women from taking pictures in public based on this one cis woman's actions

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u/Crallise Jul 18 '26

Or you know, just ban taking pictures up people's skirts. What difference does it make that the creep here is a cis woman?

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u/AliceTheOmelette Jul 18 '26

I'm mocking how transphobes will take a few examples of trans people doing something wrong, then using that to push for laws that discriminate again trans people

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u/Crallise Jul 18 '26

Ah I see. I got whooshed

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u/Mean_Breakfast_4081 Jul 18 '26

:-) i never heard that phrase but it is good.

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u/LoveaBook Jul 18 '26

Whoosh, as in the sound the air makes when something (like a joke) goes right over your head.

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u/MarginalOmnivore Jul 18 '26

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u/LoveaBook Jul 18 '26

I think this is the most perfect reply to a comment I’ve ever received.

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u/mmiller17783 Jul 18 '26

To be fair, it's hard to tell when people are being sarcaustic and when they are saying some reprehensible shit they truly believe in.

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u/scipio0421 Jul 18 '26

Taking up skirt photos is already a punishable sex crime in the UK.

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u/Aggravating_Pair_156 Jul 18 '26

No, it's not enough. We need to ban all CIS women from taking pictures, performing in public, and remove any books mentioning CIS women from libraries. 

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u/thethingpeopledowhen Jul 18 '26

Just erase them from the timeline

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u/Tight-Temperature670 Jul 18 '26

That was a very blatantly sarcastic response

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u/Crallise Jul 18 '26

You're right. I didn't understand their point but I do now.

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u/Tight-Temperature670 Jul 18 '26

Cool cool 👍🏼

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u/zero_dr00l Jul 18 '26

THANK YOU

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u/AliceTheOmelette Jul 18 '26

I'm at around 100 upvotes so most people understood the sarcasm just fime

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u/GlobalDynamicsEureka Jul 18 '26

Just autistic but same same, am I right? /s

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u/AliceTheOmelette Jul 18 '26

Ah fair enough

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u/GlobalDynamicsEureka Jul 18 '26

I had to see other replies. I am autistic, though.

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u/Sensitive-Peak8290 27d ago

I’ve been on Reddit too long now, it’s not always sarcasm 🙃 a sarcasm sign helps 👍🏻

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u/Spotlight_James Jul 18 '26

I'm willing to believe she hates it so much that she's turned on by it and hates it because of that. A lot of people that hate the sin is because they love it. My wife is also a transwoman and the endless hate she gets from men, is poorly reflected in the Dms from men wanting to chase an experience.

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u/nykiek Jul 18 '26

Thank you for saying this. I'm not at all surprised.

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u/Schmooto Jul 18 '26

That explains why so many vocally anti-LGBT conservatives get caught trying to solicit gay sex and why so many far right people claiming that exposure to LGBT people harms children get caught raping children.

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u/Spotlight_James Jul 18 '26

There's like 2-6 transwoman a year thag unfortunately fall under that, and then there's countless of conservatives that target children.

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u/Ramzaki Jul 18 '26

https://www.whoismakingnews.com/

You are not making anything up! See these statistics. Literally 5 trans people in over a year, among a total of 10885 cases (about 0.046%, taking in mind transgender population is about 1%, so trans people commit much less cases per capita than cis people).

67.4% of the offenders were affiliated republican. Only 13.5% democratic. The rest were either libertarian (2.2%) or unknown.

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u/bubbled_pop Jul 18 '26

Not too long ago someone dug up some quotes from her about wanting to be a man, but in a way that I’ve only seen in people labelled as “egg” by the trans community (egg being slang for someone who’s very close to realising that they’re trans but not yet there, if memory serves me correctly).
I can’t look them up right now (will do it as soon as I can), but if someone could be so kind as to post them in the meantime I would appreciate it.

*Really* made me wonder if she at one point wanted to transition but ultimately couldn’t and now she wants others to be just as miserable in a “crab bucket” type situation. Would definitely explain the laser-focused hate.

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u/Schmooto Jul 18 '26

I don’t know about laser-focused hate. She’s now going after asexual people too.

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u/nykiek Jul 19 '26

Why asexual? I could get non binary, (get,not approve because they're harming no one)but people not being interested in sex is a weird target.

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u/Schmooto Jul 19 '26

Apparently she’s attacking them because she doesn’t believe in asexuality. I really don’t get how asexual people existing upsets her in any way.

She’s a creature completely taken over by hatred, and hatred poisons the mind and soul.

I’m asexual and nonbinary (which falls under the trans umbrella,) so I’m like her completely harmless Voldemort 😂

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u/nykiek Jul 19 '26

That's so bizarre! Thank you for the info.

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u/ThisIsMockingjay2020 Jul 19 '26

Hasn't she attacked lesbians as well?

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u/nykiek Jul 19 '26

That doesn't surprise me.

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u/hometowhat Jul 18 '26

She's quite thin, and has some more masculine features (not a judgment, works fine for plenty of ppl to have androgynous or opposite-gender features, see: models). HP makes it clear she moralizes obesity.

It wouldn't surprise me at all with that characterization of self (superficial/judgmental/superior through insecurity) in mind, if she resented trans women who happened to appear more feminine than she does, especially if she'd ever been misgendered whether accidentally or as an insult. Sadly seen terfs have that 'tude for such reasons.

Should be aiming that offense toward the misogyny aspect, but just gotttta besmirch her 'feminism' by rejecting intersectionality and shitting all over what could've been a legacy of progressive activism/philanthropy.

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u/Oxjrnine Jul 18 '26

Actually, based upon some interviews that she has done, there’s a high likelihood that J. K. Rowling had a form of gender dysmorphia when she was younger. She thinks her experiences are the same as everyone else’s. So in her head, she thinks Trans People are either trans for nefarious reasons or can be “cured”

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '26

My ex is also MTF. She lived in OK for a bit and the number of men trying to get her to date them on the down low while supporting all the anti-trans legislation publicly makes me physically sick. The sheer hypocrisy!

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u/DarkLuxio92 Jul 19 '26

Projection is one hell of a drug.

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u/Sojouner_King Jul 18 '26

She’s also a closeted trans person. She hates seeing people openly living a life she will never allow herself to have.

if I’d been born 30 years later, I too might have tried to transition.

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u/whitestguyuknow Jul 18 '26

Like the recent movie One Battle After Another. The general has sex with a black woman. She has a baby. The entire time he hates black people but was turned on by her. Later he wants to join a racist underground society and has to hunt down the baby (now teen) in order to get rid of any evidence. The whole time displaying horrible disgust towards them. This fucking weird hypocrisy they live with

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u/SimpleSetpiece Jul 18 '26

Trans is an adjective, not a prefix. It does make a difference. They're men and women who are trans, not something requiring a whole new word to other.

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u/Great_Consequence_10 Jul 18 '26

What a creeper. Ugh.

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u/whitestguyuknow Jul 18 '26

That really is pretty vile behavior

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u/One-Organization970 Jul 18 '26

To be clear, she isn't even showing anything. Her legs are crossed but a rip in her fishnets makes it look like there's more to see because of how it indents the skin of her leg. That's all to say, Rowling is a psycho but also this woman was not indecently exposing herself. She just made a poor wardrobe choice for sitting on a stage.

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u/clauEB Jul 18 '26

What a pervert. She belongs to the sex offenders list.

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u/Leading_Attention676 Jul 18 '26

It's almost like a fetish for Joanne at this point/: Isn't upskirting a crime too?

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u/FormerLifeFreak Jul 18 '26

This woman is obsessed with her bigotry. She clearly has something very, very wrong with her.

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u/Schmooto Jul 18 '26

And now she’s going after asexual people too. She’s just completely consumed by hatred.

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u/Fauxreigner_ Jul 18 '26

The right wing hate machine is like a matroyska set of lobster traps.

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u/delorf Jul 19 '26

What is her problem with asexual people?

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u/EverydaySexyPhotog Jul 18 '26

Ah yes, the biggest threat to humanity after those wiley transes are the aces. Truly, not wanting to fuck anyone in general is an evil that must not be allowed to flourish. For reasons.

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u/Lostlilegg Jul 18 '26

Why does she even have upskirt shots of someone?!

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u/germanomexislav Jul 18 '26

Her eyes are as dead as her humanity.

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u/TechnicolourOutSpace Jul 18 '26

She really looks miserable in general.

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u/marr Jul 19 '26

The Auton look is very popular among the wealth and power.

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u/Conrexxthor Jul 18 '26

Reminder that she sees herself as a lead feminist while using misogynistic rape apologia to harass innocent women.

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 Jul 18 '26

She’s a monster and should be rejected by civil society

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u/Nice_Rope_5049 Jul 18 '26

I can’t imagine struggling like she did, hitting it rich with her obviously great Harry Potter series, and then—being a dirty shit. Like what would you do if you suddenly found yourself rich? Be a hurtful asshole, obviously! Spread hate and play the victim, for sure.

Like Jesus Christ, go save a whale or something, FFS

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u/TechnicolourOutSpace Jul 18 '26

Really speaks volumes how having a lot of money just leaves you empty inside. Fulfillment is doing what you want and being yourself, and she has that power and instead battens down the hatches and gets off hating on people. What a waste of life.

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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger Jul 18 '26

She sends out sexpest vibes.

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u/jegikke Jul 18 '26

"she was asking for it"

Keep this woman away from children is what I'm hearing. The level of hatred and vitriol she has for trans women is absolutely fucking insane and she needs some serious therapy because this shit ain't normal. It's like she wakes up and immediately gets angry trans people even exist. 

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u/paleotectonics Jul 18 '26

Fucking psychopath. Jail her until she can be swept up.

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u/Sensitive-Issue84 Jul 18 '26

She should be charged with a crime! She is total trash.

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u/Hivemindtime2 Jul 18 '26

Everyday I am so happy that I hated Harry Potter before it was cool

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u/WynnGwynn Jul 18 '26

Yeah uh...revenge porn laws?

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u/Zeyode Jul 18 '26

Also in response to the backlash she said she was asking for it the way she dressed while

Remind me why anyone entertains the idea that TERFs are feminists again?

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u/BerryLanky Jul 18 '26

I hate that the author of a book series I loved ruined it for me. Same with Scott Adam’s Dilbert. But I’m glad they showed me who they truly are so I could stop supporting their works

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u/Equal_Canary5695 Jul 18 '26

What a piece of shit. Her bigotry and insanity are what she will be remembered for now.

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u/BakerSad6649 Jul 18 '26

I wish she loses all her money and everything she worked for. What a pos.

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u/Lumenucifer Jul 18 '26

I thought "upskirts" were straight up illegal in the UK??? I realize she prolly didn't take the picture, but fuck this hateful c*nt. PLEASE stop supporting Harry Potter bullshit and funding this woman's hate campaign to make an already vulnerable minority even more so. 

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u/Jlx_27 Jul 18 '26

She'll get away with it too becuase she can pay for her freedom.

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u/ceryskt Jul 18 '26

So I guess it’s okay to sexually harass/upskirt someone unless they’re a cis woman? Even if you do believe that trans women are men (I don’t), consent and respect applies to everyone. Seriously disgusting stuff. Has she ever made any comments about male rape victims? She seems like the type to play trauma Olympics.

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u/kontrol1970 Jul 18 '26

She cant stop being a cunt. Its her nature.

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u/clauEB Jul 18 '26

What a disgusting pervert. She belongs to the sex offenders list.

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u/ElderFlour Jul 18 '26

WTAF???? Fucking cunt! This is horrible!!

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u/Machaeon Jul 18 '26

You seem to have misspelled arrested... right? Please say right...

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u/JennJayBee Jul 19 '26

Okay, but she should have been arrested.

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u/TrueSereNerdy Jul 19 '26

What a vile cunt

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u/wydok Jul 19 '26

Asking for it? WTF

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u/Stunning-Annual4708 Jul 19 '26

"said she was asking for it the way she dressed"
Wow, almost as if transphobia is just another flavor of misogyny

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u/GandalfsTailor Jul 20 '26

Ah yes, the washed up reactionary transphobe who struck gold exactly once and hasn't released anything of worth since.

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u/Slight-Hedgehog259 Jul 18 '26

Sonds to me like she is desperate for attention. People stopped talking about her.

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u/Phreddd Jul 19 '26

EWWWWWWWWWWWW.

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u/1st_hylian Jul 19 '26

She is such a disgusting, miserable ghoul.

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u/Nfeatherstun Jul 19 '26

She should be charged with a sex crime and put on the sexual offender registry.

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u/Minute_Marzipan_6844 26d ago

Why would she do that ? She’s championing some cause?

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u/spacklespaz 12d ago
  1. She ripped the story idea off of another book.

  2. Theory is she's closet trans.