Rowling, who has been critical of Theresa May’s in the past, particularly over her meeting with Donald Trump, came to her defence on Friday
They don’t call Harry Potter author JK Rowling the ‘Queen of Twitter’ for nothing.
Rowling, who has over 10 million followers has been praised and criticised for taking a stand on several issues including same sex marriage, Brexit, and the Scottish referendum.
Rowling immediately came to the defence of May on Friday after the UK General election verdict. Someone, who Rowling said found funny, called May a wh***, which resulted in the Harry Potter author unfollowing him on the social media site.
After that, Rowling in a series of 14, well-articulated tweets, gave her followers as master-class on misogyny. “Just unfollowed a man whom I thought was smart and funny, because he called Theresa May a wh***. If you can’t disagree with a woman without reaching for all those filthy old insults, screw you and your politics. I’m sick of ‘liberal’ men whose mask slips every time a woman displeases them, who reach immediately for crude and humiliating words associated with femaleness, act like old-school misogynists and then preen themselves as though they’ve been brave. When you do this, Mr Liberal Cool Guy, you ally yourself, wittingly or not, with the men who send women violent pornographic images and rape threats, who try by every means possible to intimidate women out of politics and public spaces, both real and digital. ‘C***’, ‘whore’ and, naturally, rape. We’re too ugly to rape, or we need raping, or we need raping and killing. Every woman I know who has dared express an opinion publically has endured this kind of abuse at least once, rooted in an apparent determination to humiliate or intimidate her on the basis that she is female. If you want to know how much fouler it gets if you also happen to be black or gay, ask Diane Abbot or Ruth Davidson. I don’t care whether we’re talking about Theresa May or Nicola Sturgeon or Kate Hooey or Yvette Cooper or Hillary Clinton: femaleness is not a design flaw. If your immediate response to a woman who displeases you is to call her a synonym for her vulva, or compare her to a prostitute, then drop the pretence and own it: you’re not a liberal. You’re a few short steps away from some guy hiding behind a cartoon frog,” she said.
The thread which was posted on Friday evening went viral soon after she posted them.
Check the tweets here
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