I'll answer that question by saying who the Question Time panel would be the week after their policy was announced: JK Rowling, Graham Linehan, Hadley Freeman, plus Diane Abbott would be there for the gammons to scream at
Objectivism? As in the theories promoted by the strange person Ayn Rand? How so? Can't see the link here.
The rules of Quidditch are pure Objectivism: collective effort cannot win the game, only the individual can Hogwarts pupils having to buy their own wands in Diagon Alley is also a very Randian approach to free market economics On the other hand, I don't recall Rand ever writing fat kids to be the subject of derision or scorn due to them being fat...
1. The new "landlord class" that the financial sector created (though the above would probably already be helping) ?? 2 A purge of the infestation in the state sector of the 'social disease' (which is) : - acclaim without blame - reward without penalty As good a starting list as any IMHO (FWIW I am a devotee of the "Theory of constraints" ) ...
She's done a lot of good with her charitable donations, but some of her work is dubious. I also find it a bit odd that she freaks out about trans issues while writing as a man.
My understanding is that JK Rowling is disliked for her opinions on how the social treatment of 'trans-sex' women is / may be endangering the superset of women.
Also for being a **** writer, a pro-Union windbag, and somebody who wields lawyers like a broadsword to bully critics into silence
Historically lots of people write under a pseudonym and I think her work as Galbraith was to ensure the books were read for their own merit and not trading off the name JK Rowling. I am not sure she could be correctly accused of freaking out about trans issues. So far as I can tell she voiced concerns for women's safety in an unregulated environment. Her Harry Potter books got a whole generation of children (my son included) into reading for which I think she deserves credit - whether or not she is a Shakespeare or Dickens
Is she also not on record as saying the use of the "JK" in her author name so as not to reveal her sex (and give a kind of Tolkien feel - "JRR" etc) . "I am not sure she could be correctly accused of freaking out about trans issues. So far as I can tell she voiced concerns for women's safety in an unregulated environment." Assume on socio-politics she is an utter gobsh*te. Then is not the argument that : 1. she is no different to the likes of Lineker 2. anyone who claims #1 is not so, then tis beholden on them to cogently show why this is not so "Her Harry Potter books got a whole generation of children (my son included) into reading for which I think she deserves credit whether or not she is a Shakespeare or Dickens" That is undeniable. Also astonishing (these are not "Ladybird" thickness books) .
I have no idea. I have not read much of what she has actually said as I don't really have any interest in her as a political animal. I think she has appeared on QT but I gave up on that show a long time ago. I do not read or care about anything that appears on Twitter. Lineker likewise really - he knows something about football but I would not look to him for political advice.
The minor detail that her pseudonym is uncannily similar to gay conversion therapy pioneer Robert Galbraith Heath does beg a few questions, though
Has anyone accused her of homophobia too? I don't easily bite on conspiracy theories though. Galbraith to me (as an economist) would be John Kenneth Galbraith and she is on record that she was an admirer of Robert Kennedy and liked the name Robert. Why would she deliberately leave clues to link her to a gay conversionist? Buy it if you believe it.
Not that I can think of, though her retroactive gaying up of Dumbledore upset some people, I think. Can't think of any other gay characters in the original Harry Potter books, but I'm not that familiar with them, either.
AFAIK, she may have suggested after the Harry Potter books that Dumbledore was homosexual. Something of course that has no bearing on his manner or motivations in the Potter universe, but those infected with "idea pathogens" or with little in life to live by or cling to, a very big deal (and obviously finding the fatal flaw in that - with her opinions on 'trans-sex' women ) .
