Stephen King Corrects J.K. Rowling in Viral Message
J.K. Rowling, as the two had an expletive-riddled social media exchange about her feelings on being labeled a "transphobe."Harry Potter writer Rowling—who has faced backlash over her comments about transgender people for around five years—addressed the ongoing criticism she has received in a post shared on X, formerly Twitter, late on Wednesday."Amazed this still needs saying, but some don't seem to have got the memo," she wrote. "If calling me 'transphobe' and 'fascist' was going to scare me out of speaking up for women's rights, it would have happened years ago.
Whatever the square root of not giving a f*** is, that's where I am."Responding to the post, which as of press time had garnered more than 3 million views, King flexed his mathematic muscle as he suggested that Rowling would perhaps need to use a different calculation to represent her feelings."I think you may mean 'not giving a fuck squared,'" he stated. "The square root, I believe, would mean a *smaller* amount of giving a f***.
I could be wrong."On Thursday morning, Rowling playfully stood her ground in response to King's correction, which was viewed more than 500,000 times in the hours after it was posted."But I was going for a fraction of a f***," Rowling wrote to King. "I barely give a tenth of a f***.
So I stand by my square root. What we really need here is a certified f***ologist."As King is known to regularly use his platform to weigh in on political issues, some fans questioned the nature of his exchange with Rowling."Is he calling her out?
