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JK Rowling's organisation Beira's Place on anti-porn crusade

  • 03-06-2025 08:36AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭


    Claims it's a 'gateway to criminality'.

    Women’s centre founded by JK Rowling to host conference on internet pornography | The Herald

    I wonder what her many gay supporters think, esp as the LGB movement is based around the idea that same sex attraction is mainly being attracted to one's genitals.

    Speakers include Mary Sharpe of the controversial Reward Foundation. As Mike Stabile noted on Bsky, 'Sharpe has argued that many form of sexual release is potentially dangerous and that orgasms can lead to terrorism, due to a dopamine drop. I kid you not. This is who they're trotting out.'

    Mary Sharpe - ABC listen



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    Christ , what an utterly stupid opening post.

    There's plenty to argue that pornography has a damaging influence on society (although I think people should be free to watch and perform in whatever they want as long as they are consenting adults),You're attempt to make this homophobic is laughable, why are you only linking gay people with a liking for porn and not heterosexual people.Gay people ahve same sex attraction not same genital attraction there is more to being sexually attractive than just genitals.

    You just can't stand that JK Rowlings stance on trans issues has proven to be 100% correct so now you are trying for a nonsensical gotcha.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,964 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    <Admin Snip> ..

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,199 ✭✭✭✭volchitsa


    I’m so delighted that Joanne Rowling exists.

    And anyone who thinks that pornography is not destroying children is being wilfully blind. Or complicit.

    A couple of decades ago, children showing precocious sexualised behaviour were considered to be the victims of sex abuse by being exposed to inappropriate content. Now so many are exposed to such content so early that almost a whole generation are in effect the victims of sex abuse.

    And all because men want anonymous access to porn.

    "If a woman cannot stand in a public space and say, without fear of consequences, that men cannot be women, then women have no rights at all." Helen Joyce



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭George White


    I am not the TRA you think I am. I am gender nonconforming, but I am rather cynical about 'gender ideology' and the fact that so many different forms of contrasting gender nonconformity have been unhealthily lumped together. And this obsession with cisness that so many people had, a hateful word that basically cordons gender nonconformity to a precious few, mainly people desperately trying to seem more interesting than they are.

    I am not trying to make this homophobic, I am just pointing out the hypocrisy that is inherent in the movement, and one of the reasons that alienated me from this movement.

    I was fully in support of the gender-critical gays, lesbians and bisexuals, because I did believe they were merely stating the truth - that gender nonconformity and same sex attraction are not the same, but then it was clear that they enjoyed belittling and bullying trans people, rather than merely leaving them to their own devices and recognising that transness was a separate thing to LGB.

    They seem far more focused attacking trans people than focusing on their own communities.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    There is nothing Toxic about what she has said, she's just pointed out basic common sense but some people don't like hearing it

    But i thought you liked her 😂😂:

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    Mod Edit: Warned for being a dick

    Post edited by Necro on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,199 ✭✭✭✭volchitsa


    Sorry why do you think an anti porn conference is about trans?
    Seriously??

    "If a woman cannot stand in a public space and say, without fear of consequences, that men cannot be women, then women have no rights at all." Helen Joyce



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,297 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    What was the date on that post?

    Out of curiosity, as it seems like an odd detail to snip in your screen grab.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    You just can't stand that JK Rowlings stance on trans issues has proven to be 100% correct so now you are trying for a nonsensical gotcha.

    How has her stance been proven to be 100% correct? Can you provide a source for this?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,232 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Yeah I'm not sure "😂😂 You had a different opinion about this person 8 years ago" is quite the gotcha you think it is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,305 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    That's slightly bizarre to go in search of an 8 year old post of a poster. Plenty of people's positions on Rowling have changed as her views became more public, that includes much of the cast of Harry Potter btw...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    Well she's been proven correct about Imane Khelif in recent days, she's been proven correct about much of the transgender rights movement in Britain as their hysterical reaction to the recent court clarification showed they were a bunch of loons.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,964 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    You had to go back nearly a decade to find that post. That says more about you than me, honestly.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭Jack Daw




  • Site Banned Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭Yvonne007


    Sorry, but why did you feel the need to announce you are gender "non-conforming"? But since you have, are you willing to tell us what gender you identify as and what biological sex you actually are

    Her stance is that women are women and men are men. That is 100% correct. Biology trumps self identification.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,964 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    It's quite telling that her work made them and now they want nothing to do with her.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    I think it says a lot about you that at one time you were fawning over someone and now you hate them, despite never having actually met them.That kind of mood swing about anyone is quite odd.



  • Site Banned Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭Yvonne007


    It is telling. But not for the reasons you believe.

    Modern thinking that you must believe that being a man or a women are interchangeable and based on feelings is valid or else lose your standing in celebrity is absurd.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'm in awe of this woman, a rock of sense. I'm not sure what the original poster is talking about, but the dangers of pornography have been well documented over the years. I completely agree with her anti-porn stance. She's speaking nothing but common sense. Some people just don't like hearing it, and you have to wonder why.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,305 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Ya, I think you're beginning to sound progressively more silly. 8 years and their petition on a person has changed, that's not as big a deal as you think it is. I was a big fan of her books and can't really stand her any more. I know plenty of people who feel the exact same.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,964 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    It just seems to me that you want to get one over on some lad on the internet rather than having any kind of sensible discussion.

    The fact that you think that nobody should ever change their mind just makes no sense to me. I base my opinions on facts and change them accordingly.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • Site Banned Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭Yvonne007


    I can imagine the dinner:

    "Oh thanks for coming JK, the starter is smoked salmon. Hope that's ok? Oh and by the way, what are your preferred pronouns?"

    "That's lovely. I love salmon. But I don't have preferred pronouns. I believe that men are men and women are women"

    "………………………………….get out of my house……..BIGOT!!!!"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭George White




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,232 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    So leaving aside anything to do with trans rights for a minute, you're saying that your opinion of someone should be absolutely immutable even over a period of many years where that person does or says things which are in direct conflict with your own values? That doesn't constitute a "mood swing", that's just changing your opinion.

    I think it would say a hell of a lot more about a person if after 8 years they were unwilling to change their opinion on something based on new information.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 53,862 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    'people who are able to change their mind based on new information, are not to be trusted' is one of the weirder takes i think i've seen on boards, i have to say.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,159 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    There's a huge problem in the media with the promotion and glamourising of Only Fans. My nephew told me there was an incident in his school of boys distributing hardcore porn of that bell-end Bonny Blue. I wonder how many boys are watching content on this and normalising it, likewise how many girl are being groomed into thinking it might be a good career choice.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,008 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    There have been studies that show that about 30% of people who view porn are women.

    What's needed is better education. Because I don't think banning a consensual adult, from watching two other consensual adults, is the way to go. And I'm not even sure it's possible unless we go for mass surveillance like china.

    Problem is that the kind of person who wants to ban porn is normally the kind of person who wants to ban sex education. And they're generally right wing anti lgbt. And quite often religious.

    They'll argue against teaching kids about consent or discussing sex with teenagers in a classroom.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,296 ✭✭✭prunudo


    The whole current media narrative is one big hypocritical lie. On one hand they claim toxic masculinity is the biggest threat to teenage boys, yet on the other hand they promote bonnie blue. The western world has lost its morals and values.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,964 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,008 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    God forbid a person should change their mind about someone over a period of 8 years.

    And god forbid someone should develop an opinion on someone in the public eye without meeting them.

    I never met Saddam. Am I not allowed hold an opinion about him? Or is it ok for me to base my opinion on what he's done and said?

    Do you actually think we should't have opinions about people we haven't met? Is your head a big empty void of opinion?



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  • Site Banned Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭Yvonne007


    A genuine question, i promise. How does that make you gender non-conforming?



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