Another mammoth resurrected!

David Futrelle has brought back We Hunted the Mammoth! Go read it!

The latest post is about JK Rowling and Graham Linehan. OK, maybe you should run away instead — nothing good can come of those two nitwits. There is a healthy dose of schadenfreude here, though. The TERFs have won a victory in the UK Supreme Court, but they’re still miserable and bitter. Futrelle has a long list of various reactions from fervent anti-trans wackaloons, and they’re all whining about how people hate them so much.

Victoria Smith @glosswitch But then when there is hope it also hits you just how awful it is, how much open hatred of women has been enabled, how utterly worthless so many professional, paid ‘feminists’ have been, how they will always say nothing no matter how bad it gets. Julie Bindel @bindelj I feel lower than a snake’s armpit the past couple of days – sending love x 10:36 AM · Apr 20, 2025

They don’t get it. Their critics are not expressing “open hatred” of women, they’re disgusted with this small, loud crowd of haters who succeeded at getting legal approval of their bigotry. We’re repelled by you, not women.

And then there’s Glinner.

Graham Linehan @Glinner “Let it”. It destroyed my family because of the cowardice of my friends, who stood by while a whole generation of gay kids were mutilated and sterilised, and the women who fought it lost their livelihoods. You’re a coward and a fraud @jonronson Quote On a clear day @ICanSeeForever1 · Mar 14, 2024 Adam Buxton and Jon Ronson on Graham Linehan ‘I was kind of obsessed with our mutual friend who let it take over his life to the extent that he lost all of his work and his family’

The “it” that destroyed his family is, he thinks, trans people, but really “it” was his pathological obsession with hatred of trans people. Graham Linehan is just a sad pathetic failure of a human being.

Welcome back, David Futrelle. Nothing has changed.

As for Rowling, here’s an accurate assessment from Salon, commenting on her selfie with cigar and liquor.

But no matter how much money you have, you can’t dominate the world if you’re not out in it. In her photo, Rowling is notably posted up on a yacht or some beach resort, enjoying the spoils of her wealth and a strong 5G signal from her cellular provider. She’s not joining the cheering members of For Women Scotland and the other anti-trans voices in person, she’s playing edgelord from the comfort of a life so far removed from reality that the truth is just a speck in the distance. After years spent tarnishing her brand with rampant trans-exclusionary takes, Rowling has assured that her writing won’t define her legacy; her flagrant cowardice will.

Despite what she might say, Rowling isn’t for anyone, especially not women, whom she claims to champion; she’s for herself. The author of a beloved book series about coming together to fight the rise of fascism has written herself into the story as a real-life villain. No matter how much fans try to separate the art from the artist, Rowling and “Harry Potter” are inextricably linked forever. And with the “Hogwarts Legacy” video game and Max’s upcoming “Harry Potter” series trying to breathe new life into the franchise, it’s time for even diehard Potterheads to put their money where their mouths are and leave Rowling’s wizarding world behind for good.

It’s amazing how this group of people who eagerly embraced discrimination and hatred of trans folk have become so wretched, in spite of any wealth and success.