Love the blouse
Well what do you know – a homemade tv news hobby that operates out of someone’s bedroom invited both “India” Willoughby and JK Rowling to do an interview and for some massively perplexing reason only Indier accepted.
The hobbyists are very excited to have coaxed Willz to take part – they call the result EXCLUSIVE. Hahaha that’s cute guys (something tells me they’re guys) but of course it’s exclusive. Nobody cares what Willoughby thinks.
lol
“That would look great on your CV, not so good on mine.”
“I’m a journalist”. Sure. Sure you are kid. I guess the costume is easier to make than an astronauts.
If Willoughby was smart, he would realize that taking JKR to court would be the last thing he would want. Her being arrested and or taken court would be extremely newsworthy; she could point out the dozens, scores (hundreds?) of women who have been harassed by police without their having been covered in the press, women without the resources or security that Rowling had, who were forced to undergo an ordeal of what amounted to state terrorism meant to punish them, and frighten any other woman who might dare to question or resist.
On the stand she would refuse to call Willoughby “her.” Why would she? He’s a man. The world will hear this from her directly. It would be nearly impossible to rewrite her. Rowling has already said she would rather go to jail than call a man “she” or “her.” Giving her the opportunity to follow through with what she promised to do would be a costly own goal. I even think most judges would think twice before finding her in contempt, as she would be, in essence, be putting the entire legal system on trial. If they fell for the trap, more headlines, more WTF? moments for the public.
Any such trial would give Rowling an even bigger platform and even more attention than she has already, which are exactly what trans activists don’t want. They want people to ignore her. They want people to be unable to hear or read her own words directly, and unfiltered. A trial would undo all of that. As an added bonus, Rowling would be able to expose the utter dishonesty and cynicism of the policies that granted Willoughby a passport that lists his sex as “female.” Willoughby himself makes such a big deal about his legal “womanhood” that he has unwittingly opened its very basis up to potential examination and scrutiny in any trial that might arise from Rowling’s “misgendering” of him. Hell, I bet she’d sooner be taken to court than appear on this amateur hour exclusive “interview” he’s so proud of having taken part in. Despite his desperate need to leverage his bargain-bin fame and notoriety before it goes past its best before date, getting the police and the courts involved would be a stupendously bad move. He might talk a big game to his friends and hangers-on, but if he doesn’t want to immolate his precious legal fiction, he’ll shut up and learn to reframe his “trauma.”
Such a trial would do more to destroy the trans “rights” movement than just about anything else I could imagine. None of the other damning exposes and reports have had as much effect as they should have; their audience were more limited and specialist to start with, and the results were thus more easily swept under the rug. But if Rowling were put on the stand, that would be front page news around the world. It would reach beyond the social media bubble and be known by millions of people unaware or naively ignorant of trans issues, who’ve only ever heard about the issues involved through trans compliant channels. It would reach a global audience that would result in the crippling of trans “rights” far beyond the UK. It is a consummation devoutly to be wished. It probably won’t come to this, but one can dream. I know I’m not Rowling, but I can imagine her thinking “Bring it on, ‘India’!”
Would a trial be an instance of the Streisand Effect?
What if I call Willoughby a jackass? — A “protected characteristic” or hate crime?
I’ll just remind people here what Willoughby said about migrants:
“Thank God for Nigel Farage! I’ll say it. The fact the French are escorting them over is awful. We’ve got Brexit and we’re leaving the EU.”
“We should take control. I think it’s £100million we’ve spent on this problem. I’d go down the Trump route.
“Why not have a nice spikey barbed wire fence somewhere on the channel? Instead of using the English channel, they should use the legal channel.”
https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/india-willoughby-this-morning-migrants-channel-comments-371025/
But of course the Novara Media crowd think Rowling is the bigot here.
As Abe Lincoln famously said: “You can fool all of the people some of time; you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” (Attributed to Abraham Lincoln in The New York Times, August 27, 1887.) But he went on to say nothing about those who like to fool themselves, whether some of the time or all of the time, and who then go on to expect, demand, cajole, etc, etc, etc, others to play along with their dopey narcissistic game..
I put that down to oversight on Honest Abe’s part.