JK Rowling Defends Theresa May After Twitter User Calls Her A 'Whore'

J.K. Rowling, the author of the acclaimed 'Harry Potter' series, unfollowed a man on Twitter for calling UK Prime Minister Theresa May a "whore" on Friday.

Rowling, an active Twitter user with over 10 million followers, has previously been critical of May, especially over her meeting with United States President Donald Trump in January. May praised Trump for what she called a "stunning election victory," and she invited him for a state visit to the United Kingdom. Prior to May's meeting with Trump, Rowling sent her a warning via Twitter. The author tweeted a link to a Huffington Post article with the headline 'Theresa May Heaps Praise On Trump As She Starts US Tip,' adding, "History's watching, Theresa."

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Rowling has drawn both praise and criticism for voicing her opinions on issues such as same-sex marriage, Brexit and the Scottish referendum. She has previously used Twitter to express her negative opinions about President Trump. Most recently, she used the social media platform to criticize Trump's initial tweets responding to the London terror attacks as well as his comments about London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

In the days leading up to the UK General election, her tweets and retweets urged followers to vote. The U.K. General election ended in a hung parliament on Friday. A hung parliament occurs when there is no clear winner in the election. The party with the largest number of seats tries to form a coalition government with one of the smaller parties. Although an election was not due until 2020, May organized an early vote in an attempt to strengthen her political power before beginning negotiations with the EU. However, the early vote did not have the intended result, leaving the UK in political confusion.

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After the results of the election were announced on Friday, the man who Rowling said she found "funny" expressed his displeasure at the results by referring to Theresa May as a "whore" in a tweet she saw. She swiftly unfollowed him on the social media site and wrote a series of 14 tweets explaining the situation and elaborating on the danger of misogyny.

Just unfollowed a man whom I thought was smart and funny, because he called Theresa May a whore. 1/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017

If you can’t disagree with a woman without reaching for all those filthy old insults, screw you and your politics. 2/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017

I’m sick of ‘liberal’ men whose mask slips every time a woman displeases them, who reach immediately for crude and humiliating words 3/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017

associated with femaleness, act like old-school misogynists and then preen themselves as though they’ve been brave. 4/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017

When you do this, Mr Liberal Cool Guy, you ally yourself, wittingly or not, with the men who send women violent pornographic images 5/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017

and rape threats, who try by every means possible to intimidate women out of politics and public spaces, both real and digital. 6/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017

‘Cunt’, ‘whore’ and, naturally, rape. We’re too ugly to rape, or we need raping, or we need raping and killing. 7/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017

Every woman I know who has dared express an opinion publically has endured this kind of abuse at least once, 8/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017

rooted in an apparent determination to humiliate or intimidate her on the basis that she is female. 9/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017

If you want to know how much fouler it gets if you also happen to be black or gay, ask Diane Abbot or Ruth Davidson. 10/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017

I don’t care whether we’re talking about Theresa May or Nicola Sturgeon or Kate Hooey or Yvette Cooper or Hillary Clinton: 11/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017

femaleness is not a design flaw. If your immediate response to a woman who displeases you 12/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017

is to call her a synonym for her vulva, or compare her to a prostitute, then drop the pretence and own it: you’re not a liberal. 13/14
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 9, 2017