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J.K. Rowling's essay on trans-sexuality[edit]

Hi I feel somewhat stupid asking this question, as the answer is almost certainly "just a link" - but google isn't being very helpful, so I thought I'd ask here instead.

J.K. Rowling apparently wrote a (controversial) essay on the "trans rights movement" and trans-sexuality in general. Whenever I try googling, I find a lot of articles about the essay, but what I'm trying to find is the original essay itself in full.

Can some kind soul help me and track down a link to the original essay? Preferably not behind a paywall, if possible?

Thanks Eliyohub (talk) 08:29, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[1] --Viennese Waltz 09:04, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See also Politics of J. K. Rowling § Transgender people. --Lambiam 10:48, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Women working historically in the UK[edit]

It is well known that women fought for the right to work in the UK, but the timeline and reasoning of events is not clear. For most of history, it seems that women did work, for example as governesses, maids, cleaners, and cooks in a manor house while men might be the butlers, footmen, and gardeners. Then it seems that, as jobs started paying a better wage or as men had jobs independent from working for just one family, such as from the industrial revolution, families could live off of one wage and it became unfashionable for women to work, and instead they stayed at home and looked after children. And then women again fought for the right to work. (Edit: Actually, I think even during the industrial revolution, women worked on looms, while men worked in mines)

This trend is visible in India today, and as a middle class is growing, fewer women are choosing to work now that they do not need to because they receive more family time. Maybe in future, they will follow the same journey and return to working (although most still do).

It's just not clear how long that out-of-work period was. Was it decades? Was it centuries? Did it exist? Really, my questions are: 1) When and why exactly did women stop working in the UK, and was this due to any laws? I know there was a law in 1870 which allowed married women to keep their wages, so presumably they worked then. 2) When did women start re-entering working in the UK, and was this due to any laws? I know that WW1 enabled many women to show that they were capable of doing "men's jobs" when the men were away.

Thank you for any insight you can provide, or sources you can find because I'm struggling to find them. 2A02:8070:7CC:4F00:4CF4:6DF6:7490:D4C1 (talk) 09:34, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

For the 19th century, see BBC History - Women's work. Alansplodge (talk) 10:39, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We have an article: History of women in the United Kingdom. See also Women in World War I#Great Britain. Alansplodge (talk) 10:47, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you :) 2A02:8070:7CC:4F00:4CF4:6DF6:7490:D4C1 (talk) 18:07, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One. Alansplodge (talk) 19:46, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a question more of class than of anything else. Working class women worked, they did horrible, repetitive, painful, crippling work. Herring girls, bal maidens, and there's not a farm in the land that didn't rely on the work of women, maybe not in the fields but butter doesn't churn itself, bread doesn't bake itself to feed the labourers, and pigs don't roll themselves in nitre to make your ham. Your tailor might have been a man, but the cloth he cut would have been spun and woven by women. Having women who didn't have to work was a mark of a family having a certain status, and for your wife, sister, or daughter to have to go out and earn money - as a governess, companion, or suchlike - was a great come-down for men of a certain class, but then most men weren't, and aren't. Women have always worked, since Adam delved and Eve span. DuncanHill (talk) 01:34, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Women (and small children) used to work down the mines, until the Victorians put a stop to it. (This seems to have been partly due to concern about the dangerous working conditions, and partly due to prudery about the idea of women and men being in close proximity in the dark while not wearing much). See Mines_and_Collieries_Act_1842 and [2] Iapetus (talk) 09:04, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Buddhism and self[edit]

Hello dear experts
Are there actually Buddhist schools that accept some kind of permanently existing self? -- 19:29, 6 July 2021‎ 82.82.76.143

Judging by a quick look at our article on Buddhism, the most fitting example seem to be the Dhammakaya tradition. Some traditional disagreement about what is that is reborn and possible problems with the concept of "Buddha-nature" are also mentioned. Personuser (talk) 22:39, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

One of the primary difference between Buddhism and Hinduism is that Hindusim, which existed first, asserts that Ātman (Hinduism) exists, which states that there is a permanent sort of self or soul or whatever you want to call it. Buddhism asserts Anattā, there is no self. So, what you appear to be looking for is a blend of Hunduism and Buddhism, which does exist, but Buddhists will say it is not Buddhism and Hindus will say it is not Hinduism. Similarly, there are blends of Buddhism and Christianity as well as blends of Buddhism and Islam. I've personally witnessed a person who preached a blend of Buddhism and Jedi. So, you can take any two philosophies and bland them. Pick what you like from group A. Pick what you like from group B. Create a new group C. 97.82.165.112 (talk) 14:27, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Like with Nazi Quakers, who declare war and then refuse to go. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:04, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]