JK Rowling Is Not Here For Emma Watson! Harry Potter Author Bites Back After Actress’ Olive Branch!

JK Rowling Is Not Here For Emma Watson! Harry Potter Author Bites Back After Actress’ Olive Branch!

The girls are fighting. Well, one of them is fighting. The other one is just talking. And I have a lot to say, which might surprise you. Hello, my friend. It is Perez, the queen of all media, the original influencer, and Harry Potter icon. Emma Watson was just a guest on the J. Shetty podcast where she chatted for over two hours about a bunch of different topics. But the topic of Harry Potter author JK Rowling has really gripped a lot of people because obviously when talking about her now Emma also had to talk about her views. JK Rowling is viewed by many people as trans phobic, though I’m sure she would say that she’s not trans phobic. What is accurate though is that JK Rowling does not want trans people to be viewed as equals and have equal rights. We can all agree on that, right? So needless to say, this one over here, who began her career using a nonfemale name, a very genderneutral rebirth as JK Rowling. Joanne is very polarizing and Emma beloved, I would say so. I mean, who does not like Emma Watson? I like her. you like her, right? So, when she had to talk about her, she didn’t have to. It was a choice. And you could literally see her brain spinning. Word salad. Not quite. No, not word salad. She just was very deliberate with every single word she said. Emma says that she refuses to cancel out JK Rowling despite their very public disagreement about the issue of gender identity. Emma, alongside Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter himself, was one of several Potter alums who in 2020 publicly distanced themselves from Jo-Annne’s views about trans issues. And now in 2025, Watson says in this new podcast interview, quote, “It’s my deepest wish that I hope people who don’t agree with my opinion will love me. And I hope I can keep loving people who I don’t necessarily share the same opinion with.” Okay, that first part made me roll my eyes a bit, but the second part might surprise you. I fully agree with her. I don’t need to be loved by anyone except for my mother and my children. However, as many of you know, I was born and raised in Miami in a very homogeneous neighborhood, in a very homogeneous school, in a very homogeneous family where everyone was the same. They thought the same. They were conservative Republicans. And I always knew I was different. And because I am Latino, I think differently than a lot of my Anglo counterparts in the United States. I might be generalizing, but my perception is that it’s far more common for Caucasians, Los Blanos, Losingos to cut out people from their lives whom disagree with them on politics. And Latinos, we just put up with it and we don’t talk politics. Some do, but I don’t bother because they’re entitled to their opinion. And I know that I’m not going to change their minds. I’m not even going to try to. I’m going to live my life. I’m not a politician. I’m just me representing only me. And my thoughts might not be in alignment with that group or this group or the other group. And that might explain why I’m truly a centrist. I carry with me my lived experience that was very religious, conservative, and then not feeling accepted there and not feeling like that was my truth. But I still hold dear a lot of conservative principles which people criticize me for. Like I don’t let my daughters wear bikinis. Yeah. Only one pieces. And they even have a lot of skirts on their swimsuits. And and speaking of my daughters, if they grew up to be poised, articulate, classy women like Ivanka Trump, I would feel mission accomplished. Leave her father out of it. But Ivanka Trump is goals. I wish my daughters were Ivanka Trump like. Better to be Ivanka like than Kim or Kylie or Kendall or any of them. You know what I mean? Anyways, got a little sidetracked. Back to Emma Watson. For many years now, JK Rowling has spoken out against trans activivism, which she says has eroded the concept of biological sex. She has denied being trans phobic. She says instead that she’s just worried about the effect of women in single sex spaces. And in this new interview, Emma says that I can love her. I can know she loved me. She says that her previous relationship with Rowling means she is still able to treasure Joe, which makes sense to me. I treasure my family in Miami, even though I know they all voted for Donald Trump, but I treasure them. I still talk to them. I still love them. I think the thing I’m most upset about is that a conversation was never made possible, says Watson. The actress, now 35, praised Rowling for the kindness and words of encouragement she gave when she was growing up and for the opportunity to play a character that, to be honest, barely exists in the history of English literature. There’s just no world in which I could ever cancel her out or cancel that out for anything. It has to remain true. It is true. I just don’t know what else to do other than hold these two seemingly incompatible things together at the same time and just hope maybe they will one day resolve or co-join themselves. What the hell? What? Okay. and maybe accept that they never will, but that they can both still be true. And I can love her. I can know she loved me. I can be grateful to her. I can know the things that she said about me are true. And there can be this whole other thing. You know what? Another reason why I get her is because of me, my public persona. I have some celebrity friends that I know are judged for being friends with me. or even recently. I know that the ACLU of Nevada had to really think hard before agreeing to represent me as a client against Blake Lively because I’m me and I’m a very polarizing person, but I’m also a nice person. I’m a genuinely good and decent person. I am. And I don’t have to prove that to anybody. I know it. And yes, I made a lot of mistakes. So has she. So has she. She She even talked about her driving drama in this podcast interview. We are all human. We all f up big time. Mine and hers and hers are just very public. But nobody is free from mistakes. And Emma adds, “My job feels like to just hold all of it.” Meaning the complexity of loving and supporting but also not supporting JK Rowling. But she continues, “The bigger thing is just what she’s done will never be taken away from me.” She doubled down saying, “I really don’t believe that by having had that experience with her and holding the love and support and views that I have mean that I can’t and don’t treasure Joe and the person that I had personal experiences with. I will never believe that one negates the other and that my experience of that person I don’t get to keep and cherish. Well, I thought that was a lovely olive branch. Joanne, nope, she did not think so. Earlier today, JK Rowling took to her favorite platform, Elon Musk’s, and said the following quote, “A little reminder for anyone who may be regretting their very public sprint to the front of the mob and is now trying to discreetly shove their pitchfork out of sight.” She linked to a post that she made back in May that says, quote, “In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticizing the UK’s Supreme Court ruling on sexbased rights, it’s possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes or has ever believed that humans can change sex or that binary sex isn’t a material fact. These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well. That pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue. What? All the trans women I know call themselves trans women. They know they were not born a biological woman. I hate that word cis. I’m not a fan of cis. They know their biology though. That’s why they know they’re trans. She doesn’t get it. Rowling continued. I often wonder whether the signitories of such letters have to quieten quieten quieten quieten oh my god I don’t know how to pronounce that word is it quieten quieten I am I’m keeping that in because that’s real quieten quieten we don’t use that word very often though. Quiton. Am I even pronouncing quite correctly? I often wonder whether the signitories of such letters have to quieten quieten their consciences before publicly boosting a movement intent on removing women’s and girls rights. I don’t think that’s what the trans movement is all about. I think the trans movement is about safety and promoting acceptance. You know, it’s dangerous being a trans person, especially trans women. I I I don’t see how they’re trying to take anything away. Like obviously there are some militants and extremists in that camp, but the loudest voices don’t necessarily represent the majority of trans people is my understanding. And she says that the trans movement bullies gay people who admit openly they don’t want opposite sex partners and campaigns for the continued sterilization of vulnerable and troubled kids. Listen, I’ve said this before. I don’t believe in giving hormones and definitely not surgery to minors. We can agree on that. Building bridges, she continued. Do they feel any qualms at all while chanting the foundational lie of their religion? Trans women are women. Trans men are men. I I don’t I don’t believe I don’t think that’s true. I don’t think that trans people are saying that. At least that’s not their messaging anymore. And I never viewed it that way. Trans women are trans women and trans men are trans men. I have no idea. She continues, “All I know for sure is that it’s a complete waste of time telling a gender activist that their favorite slogan is self-contradictory nonsense because the lie is the whole point.” I wonder what she thinks about non-binary people. Has she spoken out about that? Let me look it up. Because non-binary people don’t claim to be male or female. They’re not taking anything away from women. Let me look this up. Ah, yes. She’s not for that either. She was especially triggered by the term people who give birth and people who menrate. Here’s the thing I don’t get. I may not actually personally agree. I actually agree with maybe not her, but I believe in the binary. I believe you’re male or female. Personally, I believe that I’m neither gender. I think that that’s very privileged and intellectual thinking. Okay. But I will respect you. At the end of the day, it’s really just all about respect. She may not agree with trans this or trans that, but the way that she communicates herself is with such disrespect. More than that, many people say that she communicates herself on this topic with hate. And that’s sad. The reason JK shared this post that I’ve been reading to you all is because Emma Watson was among 1600 film and TV figures who signed this open letter saying they stand in solidarity with the trans, non-binary, and interex communities who were affected by the Supreme Court’s ruling in the UK which said a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law. And she said in her post today that she links back to from May, some argue that signitories of these sorts of letters are motivated by fear. Fear for their careers, of course, but also fear of their co-religionists who include angry narcissistic men who threaten and sometimes enact violence on non-believers. Backstabbing colleagues ever ready to report wrong think. The online shamers and doxers and rape threateners. And of course, the influential zealots in the upper echelons of liberal professions, though we can quibble whether they’re actually liberal at all, given the draconian authoritarianism that seems to have engulfed so many. Gender ideology could give medieval Catholicism a run for its money when it comes to punishing heretics. So, isn’t it common sense to keep your head down and recite your hail Mulaneies? To me, that’s clearly a reference to Dylan Mulaney, a frequent punching bag of many, a trans woman who is just trying to make people happy. History is littered with the debris of irrational and harmful belief systems that once seemed unassalable. As Orwell said, “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” Gender ideology may have embedded itself deeply into our institutions where it’s been imposed top down on the supposedly unenlightened, but it’s not invulnerable. You know what else I think this got me thinking? Like I shared earlier, I’m pretty conservative in a lot of ways. I think this trend of stating your gender in emails like in your little bio or your your sign off or what do you call that? You know, your your you know your your email, you know, your name and then pronouns. Like that’s stupid for me. I won’t do I don’t do that. That’s silly to me. And I might think it’s silly if somebody else does it, but if it makes you happy, do it. It’s all about respect and communicating with respect and it’s all about intention. What rubs me the wrong way with her is that her intention so often is to be divisive and dismissive instead of being understanding, open-minded, and firm in her own beliefs. She continues, “Court losses are starting to stack up. The condescension, overreach, entitlement, and aggression of gender activists sounds like she’s projecting also is eroding public support daily. Women are fighting back and winning significant victories. Sporting bodies have miraculously awoken from their slumber and remembered that males tend to be larger, stronger, and faster than females. Parts of the medical establishment are questioning cutting healthy breasts off teenage girls is really the best way to fix their mental health problems. I agree with a lot of that, but I also communicate myself differently. One seemingly harmless little white lie. She says, “Trans women are women. Trans men are men.” uttered in most cases without any real thought at all. And a few short years later, people who think of themselves as supremely virtuous are typing, “Yes, rapists pronouns are absolutely the hill I’ll die on.” rubbing shoulders with those who call for women to be hanged and decapitated for wanting all female ripe crisis centers and furiously denying clear and mounting evidence of the greatest medical scandal in a century. I wonder if they ever ask themselves how they got here and I wonder whether any of them will ever feel shame. Well, I would love to hear Emma respond to JK and it says a lot about her that she responded the way she did to an olive branch. A little reminder for anyone who may be regretting their very public sprint to the front of the mob and is now trying to discreetly shove their pitchfork out of sight. Her hateful thoughts have made her a hateful person. I know this. I was guilty of that in the past. I don’t hate anybody. Well, I do hate one and a half people, but I’m trying to get that out of my heart. I don’t want to hate anybody. I really don’t. I really try to be an understanding person. I genuinely want to create spaces where everyone is welcome. People that I disagree with as well, especially them, everyone. I want to build bridges. As my friend Gloria Estfan says, I need to do that again. As my amigga Gloria says, “Let’s open doors and close or heal wounds. Wouldn’t that be nice?” The older I get, the more I want to be like my mother. 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JK Rowling Is Not Here For Emma Watson’s “Love”! The Harry Potter Author Bites Back After The Actress Extends An Olive Branch!

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