'Heartbroken' editor of world's biggest Harry Potter fan site urges people to stop buying JK Rowling's books and watching her films after 'transphobia' row

UK Daily Mail ^ | June 12, 2020 | Tom Pyman

[C19fan]

The editor of the world's biggest Harry Potter fan site has urged supporters to stop buying JK Rowling's books and films over the author's 'transphobia' row. Ms Rowling has faced an intense backlash since she took issue with an online article about 'people who menstruate' last week - including from actors starring in the movie adaptations of her novels, such as Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. Then yesterday, it emerged that a school in West Sussex dropped its plans to name a house after the author, telling parents Ms Rowling was 'no longer an appropriate role model for our community'.

[dfwgator]

Have to give kudos for encouraging kids to read.

LOL, it took "Captain Underpants" to encourage my kids to read.

[bgill]

Daughter’s 1st grade teacher was fired because most of the class was reading on a 6th grade level. Zipped through the 1st grade reader in the first six weeks so got to read on their own in the library for the rest of the year so the teacher could help the special ed and ESL kids back in the room. Nope, nope, nope. Can’t have any student bypassing the lowest common denominators. This from a conservative school.

These kids started out in a little couple of mornings a week church pre-school together. The group didn’t hang together through school but were all (except one) honor graduates despite some horrid teachers and admin. who went out of their way to slap them down. I suspect their success had a lot to do with the parents of that pre-school group.

A little bit of parenting goes a long way. Too bad so many parents had rather be out rioting or at a bar or on the street corner or not getting their noses out of their phones long enough to make sure their kids have their homework done.

[cpdiii]

Relative to menstruation that Rawlings mentioned it is true that only women bleed as a natural function. I am a man and do not bleed as a natural function. I can take all the hormones in the world and will not bleed as I do not have a uterus and vagina and all the associated body parts. I can grow tits with the administration of hormones and I will not bleed as a natural function of a female because I am not a female.

The only bleeding the natural female and male have in common are hemorrhoids of which god equally gave us both.