Author J.K. Rowling has fallen silent on her usually busy X (formerly Twitter) feed, after Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif filed a legal complaint in France for alleged cyber harassment over statements regarding her gender.

On August 9, lawyers for Khelif filed a lawsuit with a special unit of the public prosecutor’s office in Paris, stemming from false statements that spread online about her gender after the Algerian boxer defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in her first fight of the 2024 Olympic Games. Carini pulled out 46 seconds into the bout and told reporters afterwards that she had “never felt a punch like this.”

309 points

Oh no, consequences.

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Only because she attacked a cis woman. No consequences from the years doing everything in her power to targetedly harass individual trans peolle, the community as a whole or publishing books about trans serial killers.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy to see her go quite, I hope she stays that way. But I’m bitter it wasn’t a realization that her crusade was mysgonstic hatred, only that she was a zealot who accidently friendly fired.

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This isn’t friendly fire. TERFism is inherently white supremacist and Khelif was targeted for her race.

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I abundetly agree that is correct. But I am doing my best to try to think of her personal viewpoint, in JK’s mind she is defending women from men. Hell, her stupid books are a racist allegory for how evil racism is, but when she gets praised from literaly white supramcists and dictarors, she makes excuses for being the greater good.

It’s only when from her twisted perspective, she (for the first time) attacked an “actual woman”, that she is finally giving pause. JK thinks she is feminist even if all she has done in actuality is outright misogyny. Which is why I am so frustrated, she didn’t wake up to what a monster she has been, just that she needs to be more careful in who she “righteously” attacks.

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I’m not arguing, but how is TERFism white supremacy?

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Don’t forget it’s also inherently misogynistic and attacks cis women all the time anyways.

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only that she was a zealot who accidently friendly fired.

Bigotry is illogical, and will always ‘friendly fire’. No one is ever safe. People have transvestigated Joanne Koanne Roanne and Andrew Tate. No one is ever safe.

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tbf tho Tate is a little manlet. I am in disbelief that anyone takes their cues on traditional masculinity from him. Guy with a face like that, he should be preaching the virtues of open mindedness and tolerance. If he was, I’d respect his masculinity. But since he demands that men be judged for failing to embody masculinity, I’m happy to treat him as he wishes to be treated and conclude he is a tiny soyboy with a pathetic chin.

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It’s the start, the lawsuit has more chance to win that way, and can pave a path for trans people to win cyberbullying lawsuits too

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Someone finally got Rowling to shut up! Imane Khelif is my hero!

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Getting JK Rowling to shut up is arguably a more impressive accomplishment than winning Olympic gold

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Re: Your username. Do you sneakily swipe bread sticks, or use them as weapons? Also, how do you feel about garlic bread?

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Anyone with basic critical thinking skills would have known this whole scandal was bullshit in the first place. Did it not occur to any of these TERFs and transphobes that Algeria (a Muslim nation known for persecuting the LGBTQ community as a whole) is one of the least-likely nations to field a trans candidate?

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Yes, it did not occur to them. They simply don’t care. Facts and reason can’t matter to the misogynistic anti-trans crowd. Their whole approach is built on hate and bullshit, and they know it.

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Yeah, I’ve had a sad laugh about all this stupid alt-right knee-jerk reaction. Algeria, bastion of “wokeness”.

How out of touch are these people?

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They are just so desperate for an Olympic level “gotcha” in their cultural crusade that they just singled out a woman boxer for being “too butch” and just ran with their assumptions.

Then every try-hard wannabe right wing influencer type just gloms onto it hoping to be chosen by the algorithm for ten hot seconds of vainglorious right wing attention/validation.

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You assume they even heard of Algeria before this. Or even during it. The country she represented was not part of the bigotry, just her looks/build.

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The TEFRs notably did not choose a white woman to attack here.

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Joanne has a full university education and has traveled the world. There is absolutely no way she doesn’t know Algeria is a Muslim country and that a Muslim country would in no way approve an openly queer athlete to be on their Olympics team.

She’s just a bigot.

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On the other hand, Algeria is a country unlikely to formally recognize an intersex person.

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Are they more likely to be intersex than just doping with testosterone?

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Doping with testosterone would certainly have been tested for (amongst other PEDs).

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This reminds me of moon landing deniers. Like, y’all don’t think that America’s greatest enemy of the time, the Soviet Union, with all of their resources, wouldn’t have been denying the US’s claim to having landed on the moon if there were any credible evidence that it hadn’t actually happened?

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It’s about fucking time someone shut her up

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she thought she was Hermione. turns out she was just Malfoy.

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I’m honestly confused how she could write a story where Harry Potter triumphs over he who must not be named, when he who must not be named was her hero.

It must have been really tough for her.

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It’s less that and more the system of prejudice itself is her hero, because she never truly challenges it, and the final state of peace at the end of the books does not require fixing its problems. Voldemort was a bad apple, nothing more (according to her I’d imagine)

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Yeah the way she kind of bullies Hermione with the whole ‘SPEW’ thing was so off. First, Hermione had style and was a genius. I think she would know that ‘SPEW’ is a bad acronym.

Also, making everyone turn away from her and no one supporting her - she didn’t need to really make it like that at all. Why couldnt the org have a cute name and Hermione and like Lavender Brown etc all get together to try to coordinate better working conditions for the elves. This then would later help with the plot involving the DA. It’s literally a fantasy and Harry gets magical hero results all the time. It’s just such a weird part of the books and negative when it really didn’t serve any purpose to be negative. Except to be shitty to lady activists.

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yep.

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Musk is Malfoy. Rowling is Crabbe.

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Okay, now explain it like Star Trek.

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She thought she was Kirk, turns out she was just that dumb girl that helped Khan.

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Thinks she’s Sisko, but she’s Kai Winn.

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She thought she was Dax, but she’s really Damar. Elon Musk is Gul Dukat.

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She thinks she’s Future Guy, but she’s really Silik.

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Rowling is Umbridge.

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She’s a Stan Shunpike- radicalized offscreen, leaving everyone else confused

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She’s not Malfoy, she’s Umbridge.

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She doesn’t have quite enough of a backpfeifengesicht to be Umbridge. She’s Umbridge from Wish

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TemUmbridge

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