We've never read Harry Potter or seen a film, so we can't judge her writing skills, but JK Rowling strikes us as somebody of below average intelligence and very bigoted when it comes to talking about life and yet her fantasy writings seem to make her feel qualified to speak out on anything she fancies. Born in 1965, like me, Rowling seems to know very little about feminism. The shrieks of 'TRANS-WOMEN ARE PREVERTS WHO WANT TO ABUSE WOMEN!' seem to appeal to her, as does the notion that men are less trustworthy than women as carers, nurses, etc. Rowling, of course, fails to make comparisons with her own gender unless it's the fact she believes she and others of her kind are 'sugar and spice and all things nice'. She does, of course, make her queenly pronouncements to an audience of adorers, who love her fantasy tales, and in a comfortable environment largely provided by glass cellar job men upkeeping the infrastructure. Amazing. Rowling tends not to see much ...

The Feminist movement has a long history of appropriating the suffering of others for its own narcissistic, power-crazed ends. Take gay man. Far more discriminated against than lesbians in history and well into recent times, Feminism has taken that and wrapped it up in a fake pan-movement - beginning, of course, with 'L' for lesbian. Although in terms of suffering, and even alphabetically, 'G' should be ahead of that. Now, after all those years of chanting 'gender is a social construct', Feminists screech that women are being erased by trans-women. Of course, many chivalrous males, as always (it is the male role to defend women), go along with it. That's our thoughts. Enjoy Brian Martinez and Alison Tieman of Honey Badger Radio as they trawl through a related Spiked magazine article for International Women's Day.