POPSTAR Jade Thirlwall chanted: ‘F*** you, misogyny. F*** you, JK Rowling’ at the weekend.

While inciting blatant misogyny from the crowd by inviting them to pile on one woman, Jade seems unaware that there is a massive contradiction happening here.

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The incident happened as the former Little Mix singer, now performing solo as JADE, was appearing at the LGBTQ+ music festival in London to mark the beginning of the holy month of Pride. 

I find it absolutely shocking that a 32-year-old popstar would berate Rowling like this.

It is beyond baffling and unnerving to me that a woman would attack a feminist who is putting her neck out to help us all. These crowd-pleasing, posturing idiots are so misguided when they think of Rowling as the enemy. 

I've been an active feminist for more than 40 years, campaigning against issues such as rape, domestic violence, the harms of prostitution and the murder of women.

I can tell you that Rowling has done more to support women who are victims of this horrendous abuse than anyone I can think of in all these decades.

Look at Rowling’s track record. 

When she bemoaned the fact that not one Rape Crisis service across the whole of Scotland advocated for women and girls only, welcoming men into their midst - even hiring a man as CEO in one instance - she put her money where her mouth was and set up Beira’s Place in Edinburgh.

When a Leche League - the world’s first breastfeeding charity, founded by mothers in 1956 - began to include men who claimed they could breastfeed babies, several trustees resigned and set up MoMa Breastfeeding, a women-only service to which Rowling donated a substantial sum of money. 

As a lesbian, I am so grateful for her support when it comes to speaking out against the invasion of our precious spaces by perverted men claiming to be women.

Rowling’s support for those of us encountering grotesque misogyny across the board has been invaluable in the fight.

Jade has women like Rowling to thank for the fact she's on stage at all, because it is feminists such as Rowling who are beating down the paths for young women to be successful.

In fact, Rowling has contributed to the campaigns to keep women like Jade and her contemporaries safe, by speaking out against men’s violence.

HORRIFIC IRONY

Women should be thanking Rowling… not inciting mass hate towards her from a stage.

There is a horrific irony that these young women are turning on their own and causing hatred to virtue signal about how lovely they are.

While Jade is making a pathetic attempt to please riled-up crowds, Rowling is offering to take three lucky raffle winners out to dinner, with all proceeds from the initiative going to Lumos, a charity that seeks to end poverty, family separation and a lack of accessible services for children with disabilities.

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Encouraging a wound-up crowd to scream angry obscenities against another women – in particular one who has made such a positive difference to so many - is nothing short of Jade betraying her own sex.

Rowling’s charitable work mainly focuses on supporting vulnerable children and women, in particular those who are most vulnerable to poverty, social deprivation or violence. 

I would love to know what Jade has done for the good of humanity because it seems to me that she has no track record whatsoever in fighting for the rights of women or any other group of people prone to abuse. 

Women should be thanking Rowling… not inciting mass hate towards her from a stage.

Julie Bindel

She, unsurprisingly, supports Stonewall though, and has donated a load of her old clothes to charity. But completely ignoring the world of good Rowling has done and continues to do is lazy and irresponsible. 

The wilful misunderstanding - based on prejudice and a cult-like belief in transgender ideology - that Rowling is a hateful person harms all of us who are trying to protect women's rights.

It is the trans activists who spout hateful, violent rhetoric that has led to physical attacks on some women. Rowling is not 'transphobic' in the slightest.

Rather, she protects the rights of all women and girls by refusing to go along with the campaigns from extremists to allow rapists in women's prisons, and to allow sexual predators in female-only changing rooms. 

ROWLING NOT ENEMY

With her privilege and public platform, Jade seems to think that she can throw away the rights that she enjoys as a woman but that she has not done nothing to contribute to. 

Maybe Jade and her supporters  should stop to think for a minute and realise that - without feminists - domestic violence wouldn’t be a crime, rape in marriage would be legal and women wouldn’t have the vote. 

If they thought for a moment, these idiots would see that Rowling is not the enemy of women… but trans activists and their misguided 'allies' definitely are. 

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