JK Rowling play: Julie Bindel CLASHES with playwright Josh Kaplan
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Published 2024-07-23
Natasha Feroze hosts a debate between Joshua Kaplan, the writer, and Julie Bindel, feminist, author and campaigner.
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All Comments (21)
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No one who's actually read JKR's tweets could say she wasn't right.
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This ‘writer’ gives the impression of being no more than semi-literate. He can’t even convey a simple thought into spoken English.
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Kaplan is an internet troll who couldn't get arrested in a meriticracy. An adult infant chasing notoriety by insulting the talented because he has no talent to sell.
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WHAT exactly are T rights? To have the rest of us to pau for mutilating procedures? To convince gay kids that there is something wrong with them requiring mutilation?
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No question about how he couldn't find any women that would accept a role in his play?
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This man seems unable to articulate what his play is about. Lots of evasive eye movements & dismissive shrugs as a response to simple questions. What a grifter
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God spare us from people who end their sentences with rising intonation...
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So if some random woman did no research and put on a play about effeminate men how would Mr Kaplan feel and they could use him as the fantasy totem? Perhaps that will be on at next years fringe about him...
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"The controversy over trans rights". No, Mr Kaplan. The controversy (your word) about WOMEN'S rights. Although why such a subject should be controversial, I've no idea. Any decent man would want to protect the women in his life.
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Julie Bindel presents her position clearly and with energy. She is a serious and very capable advocate for women's rights who has given decades to the cause.Josh seemed unwilling or unable to engage with her arguments.
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This Josh person just comes across as a vacuous rabble rouser with very little integrity.
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And no surprise, the writer is a white, middle class millennial American. Espousing his luxury beliefs for all his worth (probably a Harry Potter fan as a kid - her biggest critics usually are!)
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You should have this Josh back on after his play has been performed so that he can't hide behind "well you haven't seen the play" He's courting controversy, hate farming. It's a useful tool for the creatively bankrupt.
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Josh is a scamster.
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Brava, Julie Bindel. 👏 Little Joshy really isn't up to robust debate, bless him.
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The "intervention" idea shows his politics.
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Will the play detail the hate Rowling has gone through, the doxing, people standing outside her house, threatening her with ** and violence?
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If he wasn't so toxic, he would be plain silly ..
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I'm also.going to add that the danger to girls is real..my granddaughter, age 9, is going to Spain next week. I have had to tell her mother to never let her go to a toilet anywhere on her own, because Spain is rife with trams identified males who can and will and do use female only spaces. There is no way, that female child is going tona toilet on her own now or ever. When she's a teenager, she'll go with a female friend. As an adult, she'll go with another woman. This is what will happen more and more with the younger generation. They will not be told by us older people to not trust their instinctive reactions to males in our spaces.
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Seems like he's using Rowling's fame to launch himself