School that cancelled JK Rowling and replaces her with Kelly Holmes is ridiculed because of Olympic legend’s own controversial comments about transgender athletes
School that cancelled JK Rowling and replaces her with Kelly Holmes is ridiculed because of Olympic legend’s own controversial comments about transgender athletes
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Let’s break down the so-called ‘backlash’.
> The Boswells School was lambasted online over the switch in role models, with **one person commenting**: ‘Seems like a weird decision given that Holmes has publicly stated the same views previously anyway.’
> **Another** said: ‘Cancel culture at its finest. Utterly moronic and once again we see women’s rights being eroded.’
> Dame Kelly was chosen after staff picked a shortlist of names and the whole school voted on the replacement. But parents have criticised the move, with **one describing** it as an attack on freedom of speech.
Interesting the Daily Mail chooses not to post screenshots, sources or mention names of the three commentators like it has done in other pieces. I think it’s safe to say most students, parents and teachers at that school don’t care about any of this.
So the staff at the school picked a shortlist of names, then everyone in the school voted on who they wanted from that shortlist.
Surely people aren’t trying to cancel the staff and students of this school?
Why don’t they name their houses after rocks.
Rocks are pretty inoffensive, no?
Can’t think of a single incident involving an offensive rock.
>The Boswells School was lambasted online over the switch in role models
As someone who’s used social media, this is about as surprising as a sunrise. Not surprising though that the mail has reported is something significant, they have a habit of picking out the odd shitpost to stoke the culture war fire.
This is why its much easier to name your houses after famous historical figures with dubious pasts that people have already forgotten about or ignore, like my daughters school.
Noticed a big JKR push across the right wing media past week or so, have her PR people been making calls/distributing payments?
I mean more than usual.
>The former middle-distance runner appeared to show solidarity towards her under-fire predecessor yesterday by describing her as a ‘brilliant, world-renowned author’.
Her April 2019 tweet, posted during the South African Athletics Championships, said ‘have a trans category if need be but even better a trans games’ to avoid a ‘backlash and abuse… from spectators’.
This feels a bit less than JK Rowling. It doesn’t claim trans women aren’t women.
To quote one Peter Griffin:
*Oh my God, who the hell cares!?*
>But parents have criticised the move, with one describing it as an attack on freedom of speech.
Love all of these idiots don’t understand the concept of free speech.
Yes, JK Rowling can say the shit she wants to say, but that also means the school are allowed to say “We don’t agree with her so we’re renaming this house”
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> It didn’t claim trans women aren’t women.
Can someone help me with this, what exactly does the phrase “trans women are women” mean?
Is it that we should treat and regard transwomen as women, or does it mean that they are literally the same?
The former I get, the latter seems… off.
Everybody needs to start a meditative practice of writing a list of things that matter to them. In some semblance of order. Important things at the top. Less important things lower down.
The first thing you’ll likely notice. Is that none of this probably matters to most people. You’re being distracted by things that if you actually put them on your list then it would likely take you several pages to reach it.
The second thing you’ll notice is that if you look at those lists on average. And compared them to lists from several years ago. People like JK Rowling have moved significantly further down that list for a lot of people. To the point where meeting JK Rowling likely comes after avoid meeting JK Rowling or at least is heavily implied by the great variety of things they would rather be doing rather than meet JK Rowling. There is a reason for this. It’s because the things that JK Rowling has to say today are significantly less interesting than the things she would have said several years ago.
The more articles like this that I see. The further down that list she goes.
I find it hard to give a shit about very specific stuff like this while the NHS simply isn’t an option for trans care, and the most reliable healthcare provider costs £1000 in setup fees before you even get your prescription.
Like yeah I don’t like JK Rowling but like really this is a non issue. I’d rather we worried about actually making healthcare accessible before we start lambasting schools for their poor choices in who they name their Houses after.
I’m not sure the comments from both women are entirely comparable, are they?
“Controversial comments about transgender athletes” so discussion is out the window then or you’re labelled a transphobe I guess
I didn’t care about the faux outrage months ago when it started and I care just as little now. This entire thing is media driven and inflation to get hate clicks; from people who base their life around opposing stuff and hate JKR because they heard something about some tweets they didn’t read and from counter-pc-culture addicts who base their life around opposing stuff.
Those two groups should be best friends. They try to bully the 95% of people who couldn’t give a toss and call them bigots against something or another if you’re not interest lmao.
School got JKR and KH to agree to visit… My school couldn’t even get out music teachers to consistently come in for lessons.