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Author J.K. Rowling has fallen silent on her usually busy X (formerly Twitter) feed, after Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif filed a legal complaint in France for alleged cyber harassment over statements regarding her gender.

On August 9, lawyers for Khelif filed a lawsuit with a special unit of the public prosecutor's office in Paris, stemming from false statements that spread online about her gender after the Algerian boxer defeated Italy's Angela Carini in her first fight of the 2024 Olympic Games. Carini pulled out 46 seconds into the bout and told reporters afterwards that she had "never felt a punch like this."

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[–] suction@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How much money did she make with HP, billions not millions, right? How can she be so dumb spending her life like a bored internet Karen instead of enjoying it to the fullest with no worry whatsoever?

[–] militant_spider@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Weirdly, I saw a video online about how people have been looking at videos JKR has been making and the weird coincidence that black mold has allegedly been seen in her backgrounds, given the symptoms of black mold in a person and how the appearance of it lines up with when she started spouting these “opinions.”

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Anyone with basic critical thinking skills would have known this whole scandal was bullshit in the first place. Did it not occur to any of these TERFs and transphobes that Algeria (a Muslim nation known for persecuting the LGBTQ community as a whole) is one of the least-likely nations to field a trans candidate?

[–] buttfarts@lemy.lol 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They are just so desperate for an Olympic level "gotcha" in their cultural crusade that they just singled out a woman boxer for being "too butch" and just ran with their assumptions.

Then every try-hard wannabe right wing influencer type just gloms onto it hoping to be chosen by the algorithm for ten hot seconds of vainglorious right wing attention/validation.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 months ago

Rowling should be in jail for hate crimes. That person need rehabilitation before we can let her back into society.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

The irony of Rowling getting sued for calling a biological woman trans

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

"Could any picture sum up our new men's rights movement better?" the writer asked. "The smirk of a male who's knows he's protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he's just punched in the head, and whose life's ambition he's just shattered."

This fucking smug cunt.

[–] riplin@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Only because she attacked a cis woman. No consequences from the years doing everything in her power to targetedly harass individual trans peolle, the community as a whole or publishing books about trans serial killers.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see her go quite, I hope she stays that way. But I'm bitter it wasn't a realization that her crusade was mysgonstic hatred, only that she was a zealot who accidently friendly fired.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

when a man breaks a record he is a super human, when a woman breaks a record she is a man.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Good, sue her ass off Imane. Take her for every penny. Rowling is an asshole.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm a Conservative championing Genital Inspections on Children to make sure ONLY PEOPLE with Vaginas play Girl's Sports but also THIS Women with a Vagina is ACTUALLY A MAN!

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 0 points 8 months ago

It's about PROTECTING WOMEN! And if I have to hurt a bunch of women to protect them from hypothetical scenarios I made up to demonize trans people, so be it!