#in the last 10000 years when have men chosen women over themselves?

[joannerowling]

It is a bad thing to encourage traumatized people to reinforce one another’s hate and fear.

@fierceawakening This is so naive. Tell that to Gisèle Pélicot. Tell that to the Afghan women currently treated worse than animals by the men of their countries. I'd love to know what you are doing for them from your high horse.

People keep searching for ways to argue that JK Rowling has always been a horrible person deep down as a way of explaining her recent behaviour.

But here's the thing: that's probably not true at all.

Pretending it is discounts the harsher, scarier truth: that even decent, well-meaning people can be radicalised by dangerous, hateful, predatory groups, and given enough time they can become truly hideous versions of their former selves.

It can happen to me. It can happen to you. It can happen to any of us, given the right mix of circumstances. And over the past few years, we've seen it happen to one of the most famous children's authors of our age.

Nobody is immune.