J.K. ROWLING GLORIOUSLY SHUTS DOWN SEXISTS VIA TWITTER
Following the (positively) surprising outcome of last week’s UK-elections, Theresa May, Prime Minister and head of the country’s conservative party, faced loads of public reactions towards her defeat. Amongst lots of spitefulness and gloating, there were also a whole lot of (unfortunately unsurprising) sexist comments by May’s male rivals. It was then that J.K. Rowling, politically outspoken author of the Harry Potter series, decided she was not going to keep quiet. Via Twitter, the 51-year old expressed her frustration with “‘liberal’ men whose mask slips every time a woman displeases them.”
I’m sick of ‘liberal’ men whose mask slips every time a woman displeases them, who reach immediately for crude and humiliating words 3/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
Even though Rowling is far from being a Tory-supporter, she refuses to put up with sexism of any kind, and obviously has no problem expressing this and standing up for herself and her fellow females, something we greatly admire this woman for.
Take a look at Rowling’s already iconic posts in all of their 14-piece-glory, below:
Just unfollowed a man whom I thought was smart and funny, because he called Theresa May a whore. 1/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
If you can’t disagree with a woman without reaching for all those filthy old insults, screw you and your politics. 2/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
I’m sick of ‘liberal’ men whose mask slips every time a woman displeases them, who reach immediately for crude and humiliating words 3/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
associated with femaleness, act like old-school misogynists and then preen themselves as though they’ve been brave. 4/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
When you do this, Mr Liberal Cool Guy, you ally yourself, wittingly or not, with the men who send women violent pornographic images 5/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
and rape threats, who try by every means possible to intimidate women out of politics and public spaces, both real and digital. 6/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
‘Cunt’, ‘whore’ and, naturally, rape. We’re too ugly to rape, or we need raping, or we need raping and killing. 7/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
Every woman I know who has dared express an opinion publically has endured this kind of abuse at least once, 8/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
rooted in an apparent determination to humiliate or intimidate her on the basis that she is female. 9/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
If you want to know how much fouler it gets if you also happen to be black or gay, ask Diane Abbot or Ruth Davidson. 10/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
I don’t care whether we’re talking about Theresa May or Nicola Sturgeon or Kate Hooey or Yvette Cooper or Hillary Clinton: 11/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
femaleness is not a design flaw. If your immediate response to a woman who displeases you 12/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
is to call her a synonym for her vulva, or compare her to a prostitute, then drop the pretence and own it: you’re not a liberal. 13/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017
You’re a few short steps away from some guy hiding behind a cartoon frog. 14/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 9. Juni 2017