Swift backlash from 2SLGBTQ+ community over series author J.K. Rowling

Natalie Stechyson · CBC News · Posted: Jul 28, 2026 1:10 PM EDT

  • npcknapsack@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    I’d like you to think about how that conversation actually must have gone. Someone called in, ostensibly because they were raped. The automated messaging said “your call is important to us, and also recorded.” Because that’s what every line says before you are put through. Then they got on the line with someone. They said something about PCOS and a full beard. And then, they were told “you know this is recorded, right?”

    Do you think they thought they were believed?Would you spend your time trying to convince them that you were a rape victim, or would you hang up knowing that they didn’t believe you? That no one is going to believe you, because your voice is too low. We hear it all the time, don’t we? You’re too ugly to be raped.

    And then, to add insult to injury, JKR tweets about this call from someone who is, ostensibly, a rape victim. So, now… now everyone knows or should know there’s no privacy there. Your calls are recorded and subject to a billionaire listening to you and using you as an example to others.

    • SalamiDommie@lemmus.org
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      6 hours ago

      I guess I don’t live in the obsession of this that you do.

      I was mole-sted as a kid. Sometimes it seems worse to have happened as an adult.