JK Rowling accused of bullying football manager | Jeremy Vine

[@mousenation3867]

It’s a bloke, and it’s ok to say it. Not sure why that guy is so upset JKR called a man a man ?

[@solentforest]

Article said first transgender manager. What's the point in going out your way and setting you legions of fans, AND the media on an otherwise normal person.

[@CrashbeeUK]

You are being hateful (and dehumanising her) by referring to her as 'it'.

[@danielsutcliffe7876]

It's taking jobs from women

[@benghiskahn3673]

It's a middle age white bloke who chooses to wear womens clothes. It's not difficult. If the same person self identified as an ethnic minority person, would everyone just nod along and clap? Not a chance.

[@solentforest]

so basically you don't know the difference between gender and ethnicity. Nice.

[@CrashbeeUK]

Yikes

[@phil2768]

If you 'champion' things like "first openly transgender manager" (paraphrasing) all over Twitter then expect a backlash. He's a straight, biological male who has a wife and a kid. There was no need to promote it in the first place all over Twitter, that way you won't get Rowling tweeting in response, which she has every right to do because this is just a guy managing a football team nothing brave or courageous about it. That's all she has really said.

[@author4you443]

Hear hear 👏

[@solentforest]

I mean if you seriously have an issue with the statement "first openly transgender manager" then you're the biggest snowflake of them all. Classic cancel culture.

[@solentforest]

Would you and Joanna also take issue with a title like "the first openly gay manager" ? How about the "first female manager in the men's league"?

[@nikobellic570]

"man" is not a slur

[@joecmccluskey]

It's a Fecken BLOKE

[@davidblight7502]

I don't know who this guy is but bloody well said.

[@frankopitt]

2men lecturing a woman on women's rights! The patriarchy is strong

[@solentforest]

They were talking about trans rights. The strawman is strong.

[@frankopitt]

@@solentforest it's a "woman's right" to want woman only safe spaces

[@solentforest]

@@frankopitt what's that got to do with the first openly trans manager in a top 5 division? The strawman is strong.

[@StuartGrant-fm6ti]

@@solentforest still male or female.. We don't all live in denial land..!!

[@solentforest]

@@StuartGrant-fm6ti how obsessed must you be to turn that story, into your comment. Living rent free 😂

[@barneyrubble8590]

Bith men are talking crap

[@MontageMomentt]

This women is missing the point that JK Rowling fights and argues with people on Twitter within their echo chambers and unhinged opinions. If live your life arguing with trolls and griefers online, don't generalise that to everyone else, and verbally ridicule a trans person who has done nothing wrong and use your online fights as an excuse to do so. Everyone is a victim if you start fighting people online... god knows what unhinged people will say behind a computer screen

[@CrashbeeUK]

I like the way she's pretending that all the abuse is from those mean trans people, as if her side isn't constantly threatening to sterilise and wipe out and murder trans people and calling them slurs

[@dreamclaw00]

The black guy here is absolutely spot on.

[@is17a985]

No.

[@CrashbeeUK]

@@is17a985 yes

[@hiropon2985]

Nope. It's a man and it's not hateful to say so.

[@CrashbeeUK]

@@hiropon2985 Nope. You are being hateful (and dehumanising her) by referring to her as 'it'.

[@desperateliving22]

The guy on the panel was spot on!

[@ralfl.k.5636]

Male transwomen, then I'm a biological male ciswomen ?

[@author4you443]

No, cis is a slur, as there is only one type of womam (no Prefix required).

[@bronzeboldyboy]

I notice the bloke is more critical of jk than jk is of the bloke , but we aren’t allowed to mention that, and no one does

[@bronzeboldyboy]

Calling out the kings news clothes, and why not

[@KM-iu1ls]

It’s a geezer anyone arguing the toss I’m afraid is delusional.

[@solentforest]

whoooooosh

[@tommoric376]

Life is like a fever dream lately 😂

[@dreamclaw00]

I know isn't it awful when the little people won't just stay in their place and do as they're told.

[@orionnebula1136]

Jkr is so unlikeable

[@sarahbartlett4945]

JK is right. Sorry guys

[@CrashbeeUK]

JK is wrong. Sorry guys

[@danielsutcliffe7876]

Jk is right get your head out your ass

[@macsmiffy2197]

… on a programme which has a raison d’etre for binary arguments and then try and shut the woman down for having an opinion on the subject.🙄

[@solentforest]

She literally spoke uninteruppted for over half the video compared to the fifth that the black guy got. It's so frustrating when people cry wolf on genuine issues like this because it undermines cases where it really happens.

[@CrashbeeUK]

Her opinion is just wrong though. I like the way she talks as if all the abuse is coming from trans people and JK's friends and supporters aren't constantly talking about sterilising trans people, encouraging trans people to kill themselves, and publicly talking about how much they'd like to murder trans people.

[@hiropon2985]

Thats a bloke

[@h6hfelie]

Will he take liberties by acting as if he really is a woman? Will he walk into the changing room while the athletes are changing? Will he hang around the shower area while they're showering to talk about the day's match? How much power does he have as a 'transwoman', and how much power has his trans identity taken away from the female players (who, lets not forget; wont be able to say much in their own defence without risking backlash to their careers)?