lol says the person who hid behind initials because having her real name on cover would hurt her sales due to sexism.
Her? Appropriating a gender? Wow never ever /s
What a fraud
She wrote a whole series about how bigotry is bad but in retrospect, it feels like she didn’t really understand why bigotry is bad. She just needed her children’s books to have a moral message and she made a very surface level parallel to the holocaust. Then years later, she showed her ignorance about the holocaust by denying that transgender people were a target.
The reason is simple: she’s a bigot. She has been successful at pushing her transphobic agenda into UK law, and she will continue to move across the spectrum because hate only knows how to hate even when they succeed.
This is exactly the reason I’m shifting from just warning people that buying her shit is immoral so outright calling them bigots for supporting bigotry. If they don’t want to be bigots they can stop giving her their goddamn money.
I disagree with this take. Buying HP stuff won’t change anything. Not “it will change very little”. It will actually do nothing. If the whole world decided to stop buying anything that gave her money, it wouldn’t change her lifestyle at all. She already made enough money that she never has to consider it for her lifestyle. People might as well enjoy what they like and not have one more thing weighing on their mental health. Let people have their escapism.
You should encourage them to pirate any JK Rowling-associated content, then, if these people cannot be assed to read different books by different authors. Though obviously you’re 100% correct in that she’s already fabulously rich and a boycott of her works will not materially harm her. Also, she still has devoted bigoted fans who love being paypiggies, so a boycott is impossible.
You sure about that? Generally, people worth boatloads still cry about losing worth and refraining from encouraging IP’s directly benefitting her could distract her or even send a message to her potential allies. It would maybe not change her ways, but it could change the platforms available to send her harmful ideas into the world.
Then for escapism, piracy is still available. 🏴☠️ There’s also no shortage of things to do that don’t concern her.
refraining from encouraging IP’s directly benefitting her could distract her or even send a message to her potential allies.
I also think that isn’t worth it. You’re still letting some rich moron’s actions have too much sway over your mental health. What you’re describing is the most tiny of marginal gains. Her IPs are already dying in relevance. Your energy would be better spent telling people about how cool some other thing is rather than how bad HP is. If someone loves HP and it makes them happy, I see no benefit to raining on their parade.
The thing is - there are millions of other things that you could find enjoyment in that don’t actively harm other people.
How about, for example, the plethora of IP that JKR plagiarized to create the HP franchise? Or anything that doesn’t have harmful stereotypes of various marginalized peoples? Or one that doesn’t degrade women’s roles in society by actively mocking main characters, or even passively by only having a grand total of 28 named women characters across over the one million words that make up the series?
Edit: apologies, I misremembered. There are 28 named women characters within the top 100 named character as listed by number of total mentions within the series.
Even if she weren’t a bigot, and she didn’t use her money to actively harm people using the money she makes, you would still be better off finding some other form of media to enjoy. You don’t have to land on one thing and make it your personality for the rest of your life. It’s okay to grow as a person especially if you’re an adult.
I support and share most of your opinions. She is a huge bigot and should be accountable for her actions. My only point is that we have kids and teenagers still consuming her books and products that are completely unaware of what is happening and shouldn’t be called out because of that.
While I don’t disagree I think it’s important to keep in mind that kids and teenagers aren’t stupid - they are capable of understanding that you shouldn’t allow a bad person to continue to be a bad person if you have a conversation about why what JKR is doing is bad. Most of the vocal pushback that I’ve experienced offline has actually come from teenagers.
The problem lies squarely with millennial parents who continue to buy books/movies/games/merch for themselves or their young children because of nostalgia. They are old enough to know better, and should be held responsible for their actions.
There are very few people that can turn my stomach up like this bitch.
You’d think this dumb cunt could just fuck off and enjoy her fortune, but no
This is literally fun to these people. Foaming at the mouth gives them energy, it’s all they can run on anymore. Vapid angst.
Getting too much money reaaaaally fucks with your head. Becoming a billionaire should count as a brain injury.
Eh. It’s more that you hear a lot about the nuts ones. Number 5 on the richest list is currently a guy named Bernard Arnault, who mostly French people know about, while the infamous Peter Thiel is at 129.
Same story here. Rowling may or may not have a full billion, but she’s famous and good at getting rage views like this one.
What a hateful idiot lol that’s all I can say
How the actual fuck could asexuals offend you? smdh
It does make me wonder if JK is actually asexual herself, and feels shame about it. Like how men who claim that “being gay is a choice” often feel that way because they consciously forced themselves to be straight despite their attraction to other men.
I’ll steelman her POV because it seems people are (rightly) confused.
Asexuals are requesting a day of recognition for what she sees as a negative-identity. Keep in mind, conservatives are often meritocratic.
It’s like if there were a day for “coffee refrainers”, for everyone who doesn’t like drinking coffee. I’m sure if someone dunked on that day and the coffee refrainers, it’d all be in good spirits.
But if someone dunked on asexuality, I’m sure it’d cause a lot of upset and defensive argument, which implies more “merit” to asexuality.
While progressives can go “who cares, just leave em be”, conservatives see all “non-deserved” attention as an affront to meritocracy, that needs to be squashed.
This actually really helps me understand her perspective. I think she’s wrong of course, and even harmful, but I appreciate the steelman.
Harry Potter creator goes on rant about asexuals for some reason 🤷🏽♂️
Because she is a homophobic piece of shit.
Sounds like Voldermor was inspired by her own persona
More the Dursleys IMO. She hates the people who don’t conform to her view of normality.
Homophobic? I thought she was just anti-trans.
Either way, I’m very curious how the LGBT community views a wholly trans-phobic shit stain that simultaneously claims to support the gay community. I know just such a person and would like some insight from the community itself.
The term is TERF.
Homophobic? I thought she was just anti-trans.
Will she sure is not an ally, or even neutral.
In the HP fanfiction community many/most despise her.
So transphobia wasn’t enough to satisfy her bigoted brain, now she’s going for asexual people as well. Pathetic.
Irony is that the entire Harry Potter series is like discriminating against people for who they are is wrong.
To be fair, I’m pretty sure the slave race of house elves continue being slaves because “they love being slaves”.
Didn’t Hermione lead a campaign to liberate house elves but was laughed at by everyone until she dropped it?
Then Harry frees one elf and is considered a hero while the person trying to solve the systemic problems is a whiny bitch. She’s showing how she thinks about the world with that one.
I mean she has to be a troll at this point for attacking asexual people right? J.K. Trolling
Like, it’s just people who don’t like sex, I don’t understand the hate? And I’m about as far from asexual as you can get.
She hates asexual people for the same reason she hates transgender people, they’re not conforming to her view of normality.
There are a strange amount of people who seem to hate the idea of asexuality and this unfortunately includes people from all swaths of life like the LGBTQ+ community. I’ve seen too many gay people say hurtful, and frankly hypocritical, things along the lines of asexuality not existing and being more akin to a disease. It seems that while more people have become aware and accepting of homosexuality, they still don’t understand asexuality and it scares them. Sad really. But luckily there are still lots of kind souls out there that will be accepting of anyone who’s accepting in return. Maybe they can show everyone else the way…
Honestly I don’t understand it. Most likely don’t. But it’s also it’s none of my business what consenting adults choose not to do.
Really the arguments are no different to any sexual interest. As long as the people are happy and consenting adults. I do not need to understand.
Yeah, I’ve seen it from hypersexual people who seem to have unprocessed shame and need to believe their own behaviour is justified by being a universal human trait. The existence of asexuality threatens that.
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Average JKR disaster of an opinion
What the hell does the bottom post even mean? Is she saying she prefers segregated bathrooms? I knew she is a TERF but she’s apparently also racist?
For a professional writer you’d think she would know that a quotation (even a fictional one) requires quotation marks around it to make it clear to the reader that it’s not what you are saying but somebody else. Perhaps this makes more sense:
“Refusing to accept that people who don’t like sex belong in the gay category is akin to wanting segregated bathrooms in the 1950s, John,” as approximately a thousand gender activists will inform you once their hands stop literally shaking.
She’s mocking the people who replied to her.
Wow she really isn’t very good.
How were we so starved for something that we latched onto her baloney?
I don’t read it like a quote. She’s telling John an opinion (sarcastically) and then letting him know the activists will inform him the same thing. It’s not grammatically incorrect, just difficult to parse (which is still not the best writing).
Not to defend her, but she’s saying that the ““woke”” crowd is saying what she’s saying is as bigoted as segregated bathrooms. She’s racist for entirely independent reasons
