3/The patriarchy have always hated her (see how many of the comments on this thread are men). I'm only 25% English and don't give a toss that parts of my culture are used as an influence on the stories ...
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4/As for her 'million pound advances'. Her first book she basically got nothing. An advance is a forward payment on royalties. She came out about £750million in profit and owed nothing ...
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5/It's like the Cho Chang thing. Chang is a hugely popular surname and god forbid anyone who dares come up with a fictitious name that that fits with that. I mean it's not as if she ever did that with loads of the English people in the series, Jesus.
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6/Go and do something positive with your life instead of dragging a successful woman who has made huge, positive change to tens of millions of peoples' lives.
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This ridiculous defensive rant is actually helping radicalize me against the whole idea of liberation-through-representation Like the simple fact that JK Rowling is a woman, and JK Rowling is successful, means JK Rowling's success is all women's success
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No matter how many obviously stupid or ignorant or insensitive things she does, no matter how many other people she steps on, no matter how little she actually does in any material sense to uplift other women writers or other writers at all You Go Jo, Girl Power
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this guy's whole rant:pic.twitter.com/ckBMP38DzI
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The galactic irony of this tweet...
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The Baroness Thatcher, of course, was well into her political retirement by the time JK Rowling got famous, but Rowling is certainly very good friends and allies with a different Tory member of the House of Lords, the Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
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They became friends when they started a charity together to help orphans (the nerve of these women)...and WFT has that got to do with my tweet...?
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People don't like Margaret Thatcher because her being a symbol of women's accomplishments and success don't really balance out the fact that she was an evil Tory piece of shit JK Rowling is friends with an evil Tory piece of shit and rapidly becoming one herself
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