\"Harry Potter\" author J.K. Rowling on Friday delivered a passionate takedown of \"liberal\" men who profess progressive politics yet still call women vile and derogatory names when they disagree with them. <\/p>\n
\"Just unfollowed a man whom I thought was smart and funny, because he called Theresa May a whore,\" Rowling tweeted. \"If you can't disagree with a woman without reaching for all those filthy old insults, screw you and your politics. I'm sick of liberal' men whose mask slips every time a woman displeases them, who reach immediately for crude and humiliating words associated with femaleness, act like old-school misogynists and then preen themselves as though they've been brave.\" <\/p>\n
Rowling frequently tweets acerbically about President Trump and is a champion for liberal causes, yet her defense of May came after the British prime minister's Conservative Party suffered a major blow losing its majority in the House of Commons. <\/p>\n
Rowling ended her tweetstorm with a reference to Pepe, the online mascot of the \"alt-right\" movement that dishes out vitriolic hate on Twitter, and said \"liberal\" men who attack women based on their \"femaleness\" are no better. <\/p>\n
\"I don't care whether we're talking about Theresa May or Nicola Sturgeon or Kate Hooey or Yvette Cooper or Hillary Clinton: femaleness is not a design flaw. If your immediate response to a woman who displeases you 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. You're a few short steps away from some guy hiding behind a cartoon frog.\" <\/p>\n
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