You know how in old Silver Age comic books you'd get villains who would become stupidly obsessive about something that wronged them and then turn their entire life into destroying that thing?

And we're in the 21st Century like "That's hilarious!"

And then suddenly JK Rowling.

JK Rowling is like Clock King if instead of time he was obsessed with other people's gender

True story: one reeaaaally old origin for Lex Luthor was that he and Superboy were friends until Superboy accidentally ruined one of Lex's experiments to save his life and Lex went bald, so he swore revenge.

JK Rowling is like that except being told she was wrong about gender.

Between this and Paul Krugman digging in about the lack of anti-muslim bias after 9/11 ... I do not get it.

Listen: I have been wrong.

And I have been wrong about important things, like how we respect people's decisions about gender.

I did not rise up in vengeance over it.

I felt bad. I didn't like that I could have hurt someone with what I said, or maybe even actually *did.* It's the internet. It's hard to say.

But what I do know is I was wrong, and I stopped, and I tried to do better.

It really does suck that the internet has made it a place where one of the worst things you can do is BE WRONG ABOUT SOMETHING.

But the easiest way to deflate that is acknowledge it, step back, and apologize. Take the L, come back tomorrow, y'know?

And here we have one of the richest people on earth who can't accept she's wrong about this.

Who's throwing in with horrible people because they back her up on it (which, babies, is always a warning when the worst people you know suddenly love your ass).

She took the ability to write a book millions and millions of people are going to read and turned it into a petty vendetta.

I mean, *Jesus.*

I'd love to have a million people interested in something I had to say. A story to tell. Something to impart.

That's such a big thing.

I think that's the worst part about Rowling, that she's squandering it all on being an ass.