Good headline.
JK Rowling: Amnesty has ‘deep-seated hostility’ to women’s groups
Oh well. We had…what…50 years or so of lefty/enlightened men treating women as if we were fellow humans, adults, colleagues, comrades; or if not treating us that way at least pretending to, or saying they did, or meaning to one of these days.
JK Rowling has issued fresh criticism of Amnesty International UK, accusing it of demonstrating “deep-seated hostility to all organisations that believe sex is real”.
Her comments were in response to an article in The Times on Thursday which revealed the charity’s apparently long-held view that “gender-critical” feminists were anti-rights.
Pot calling kettle black much? Amnesty is not exactly warmly affectionate toward women’s rights, now is it.
Amnesty was forced to withdraw a report this week which claimed that dozens of organisations, including Beira’s Place — a centre for victims of sexual violence that was set up with the help of Rowling — “targeted” LGBT people.
Forced? No it wasn’t. It may have felt it had to in order to save face, but that’s not the same thing as being forced.
The charity insisted it regretted publishing the report and that the language used “does not reflect the position of Amnesty International UK”.
Oh really?! But they’ve been using that language for years! Yes, it’s been getting steadily worse, but it certainly didn’t begin just a few days ago.
However, The Times unearthed a second report — published in May and still available on Amnesty’s website — that also represented “gender-critical” feminists as “a movement against the rights of women and LGBTI people”.
Yuhuh, feminists are against the rights of women. Brilliant thinking there, Ammers.
The Times then quotes JKR at length without saying that’s what they’re doing. There are a surprising number of mistakes and omissions in this article.
“It appears that, far from being an accidental slip-up or an editorial error, the latest defamatory report accurately represents Amnesty UK’s deep-seated hostility to all organisations that believe sex is real and important, in contexts such as same-sex attraction and healing after sexual violence and trauma.
“Those who’ve been defamed are owed an explanation of why Amnesty claimed to have withdrawn the report because of its ‘language’ when, per The Times article, it had already expressed exactly the same beliefs, in the same language, months previously.
“The defamatory report has already had serious consequences for a service supporting women at the most vulnerable time of their lives, as detailed by Beira’s Place lawyers in the legal letter sent two days ago. The withdrawing of the report cannot undo the harm it has already done and is continuing to do. If Amnesty is under the illusion that the women’s, children’s and gay rights organisations it has attacked will be unwilling to go to court, they have made yet another massive error of judgment.”
Amnesty busy making life even more difficult for victims of male violence.
After threats of legal action from organisations including Beira’s Place, Amnesty this week withdrew its report, “A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK”, and issued a statement that claimed the document was uploaded accidentally without passing internal review.
Which, as many people have pointed out, is laughable coming from Amnesty given the crap they’ve been saying about us for years.
