Boy, that is messy.
Boy George picked a battle with JK Rowling on X (previously Twitter) over the “Harry Potter” writer’s controversial views on the transgender neighborhood.
The feud began Saturday when the British DJ, 64, responded to a thread between Rowling, 59, and one other consumer the place she requested, “Which rights have been taken away from trans people?”
“The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully!” George, who’s brazenly homosexual, wrote.
However Rowling had a scathing response to the singer the subsequent day.
“There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate,” Rowling wrote, stating that George is a person, whereas she’s a girl, and that he’s “been wealthy and famous” since his early 20s, whereas Rowling didn’t make a reputation for herself till she was over 30.
“I’ve never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain,” Rowling added, referring to George being sentenced to fifteen months in jail in 2009 after he was convicted of the assault and false imprisonment of a male escort.
Persevering with her takedown of George, Rowling wrote, “You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you.”
“That’s why I don’t want to see men identifying into women’s prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above,” she defined. “Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary.”
Rowling concluded: “For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn’t have become more predictably or more tediously conformist.”
The next day, an X consumer resurfaced a 2020 message from George that learn, “SO many pronouns, so little time,” which sparked a response from Rowling.
“In fairness, he’s no worse than half the slebs who clambered onto the gender bandwagon because they were scared of being unfashionable,” she tweeted. “You could dig up most of their deepest convictions in under a minute, with a teaspoon.”
George, in flip, hurled extra insults at Rowling.
“The demolition of her filler face is more laughable! The dragon has been slayed!” he wrote.
In one other tweet, George — actual title George Alan O’Dowd — instructed Rowling she will get her enjoyable “from other people’s pain.”
Rowling’s controversial feedback in regards to the transgender neighborhood have been met with backlash over the previous couple of years.
“Harry Potter” stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson even spoke out to publicly disagree along with her again in 2020.
In April, Harry Potter” franchise actors Eddie Redmayne, Paapa Essiedu and Katie Leung signed a pro-trans open letter after the UK Supreme Courtroom dominated that the phrases “woman” and “sex” refer strictly to a organic girl and organic intercourse.
Rowling celebrated the ruling with a photograph of her smoking a cigar and holding a drink. “I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights,” she wrote in her caption.
Her views have even prompted some “Harry Potter” followers to threaten to boycott HBO’s upcoming TV present adaptation, which she’s an government producer on.
Nevertheless, HBO CEO Casey Bloys went on document saying that the collection won’t be “secretly infused” with Rowling’s opinions.
“The decision to be in business with J.K. Rowling is not new for us. We’ve been in business for 25 years,” Bloys stated in April.
“And if you want to debate her,” the exec added, “you can go on Twitter.”
