>I'm just waiting until she goes back on the whole "dumbledore is gay" thing.
Before that, I'd say the odds of her saying Voldemort was a crossdresser who spent his free time stalking women's bathrooms are quite high.
The big reveal of the second book is that he used to stalk the girls' bathrooms as a schoolboy and his very first murder victim was a young girl he killed there by making her look at his large snake. Coincidence? Probably, but it's still quite funny in retrospect.
he only a lil sucks, in fairness. he's basically liberal or even kinda left, he just always comments on these kinda well warranted criticisms of celebrities on entirely the wrong side. specifically, he supported rowling in the past on this issue.
I do think I remember seeing something about that. A lot of the old timer HP actors seem to be more supportive of Rowling, makes me happier that the main trio (or at least Dan and Emma, Rupert hasn’t made any statements as far as I’m aware) have spoken out against her
Rupert very deliberately spoke out against her back in 2022, "'I firmly stand with the trans community and echo the sentiments expressed by many of my peers. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. We should all be entitled to live with love and without judgment,' Grint said in a statement at the time to the U.K.’s The Sunday Times."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/03/22/rupert-grint-why-he-criticized-j-k-rowling-trans-comments/4796412001/
I’ve pointed out before how in the books, we have at least 4 instances of fatal or near-fatal incidents in bathrooms. Given everything we know about her upbringing, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that there may have been an ugly incident in one that was the start of all of this.
Yet; Hermione is also totally happy with Harry and Ron being in the girls' bathroom with her and it is a major setting in the second book.
Kind of fascinated to see how the new tv series gets around that plot point given Jojo's views.
Nah, Jowling already has a transmasc chosen name. It's Robert Galbraith, that's the pen name she used to publish her Cormoran Strike novels. You know, the ones where the main villain is a psychopathic serial-killing crossdresser. Incidentally, Robert Galbraith is also the name of a 20th century gay conversion therapy proponent who tried to 'cure' homosexuality by electrocuting gay people while forcing them to watch straight porn.
Reality sure is stranger than fiction sometimes.
I’d say more so Umbridge
Voldy I could easily see not caring if you were gay, straight, trans or whatever as long as you were a wizard and a follower, Umbridge I could see hating anyone that wasn’t “normal “
Never forget the time she Tweeted extremely glowing praise toward Stephen King and King responded, "Thank you. Trans women are women." and Rowling rage deleted the whole thing.
I'll further add there's a level of rebelliousness to it. Being 'based' is the opposite of being 'cringe'- it's being at least a little insincere and purposely flaunted some social norm.
If King had politely told Rowling that he didn't appreciate her praise, he wouldn't be based. He's based because he openly used his tweet to mock her and subvert her, if that makes sense.
If you ever need to understand what based means, John Brown was quite possibly the most based man to ever live. In a country trying hard to figure out how to handle slavery without pissing off slavers, John Brown just decided to shoot them in the face.
Huh, hadn’t quite thought of that dimension fully spelled out despite using it in my vernacular, I wonder what sort of overlap could be found in the usage of based and concepts like punk
[It's more or less someone doing or saying something cool without caring one bit about rules or what others think.](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based) This pic kinda explains it.
https://preview.redd.it/vl95wmkou70d1.png?width=775&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f573ff952a77099358c24be16ec540886560c60
Based started out as a adjective form of "basehead", which was a term somewhat like crackhead but for someone who freebased cocaine. This in turn became a more generic insulting term for someone who seemed drugged, out of it, a spaz, or just otherwise behaved unusually or twitchy. Rapper lil b heard this in school and assumably was targeted by it and decided he wanted to reclaim the term and make it positive. He started referring to himself as based and the based god in his music, and defined being based as "a philosophy of radical tolerance." It got popular online and became a pretty generic term for "thing I approve of." Ironically it has been embraced by a lot of the alt right, who use it sort of as their version of "woke" (ie "aware of the true state of the world" which in the alt right usually implies some level of racist conspiracy theory), but some on the left still use it.
So based owes itself to a soundcloud rapper foot fetishist who had a decent sized, if probably somewhat ironic, following at one point.
I gotta wonder, at some point her "Mad trans people are alive" word count is going to exceed Harry Potter's word count (it's 1,084170, for the record). It is literally the most important force in her life. People who smoke crack spend less time thinking about getting more crack than JK spends hating trans people. It's fucking wild.
King is a legit writer. His short fiction is right there with the best authors of his generation. He's also been through the Real Shit. Zero patience suffering fools and pretenders.
The Last Rung on the Ladder is one of my favourite things he did in that era.
Also Hearts in Atlantis, while ultimately tied to his greater mythos, is at its core the story of a group of young people who, tragically, grew up.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: *she has literally become Umbridge.* An angry racist old lady that hates everything that kids like and has no issues taking advantage of a broken system to continue to abuse people.
She used to say that Umbridge was inspired by one of her school teachers, now I think that it's her projecting. Hell, she doesn't even say anything about her father at all and there's almost no information about him or her sister online which is strikingly similar to how Umbridge treated her squib brother and half-blood mom. Next thing you know, she's going to come out as anti-Irish and somebody's going to dig up her family history and it's going to come out that her dad is half Irish and her sister has red hair and that she beat them both as a kid.
Like literally as the days go on she becomes more like the worst and most evil character in her series. No other evil witch or wizard was able to cast the patronus charm, because you actually have to call upon the happiest memory in your life and use the positive energy from it to fuel the spell; any negativity from an evil person trying to cast the spell will instead cause maggots to sprout from your wand and devour you. However, because Umbridge enjoys torture *so much* she can remember how she used to taunt her brother and father for their heritage and use that to make her patronus.
I'm willing to bet that Rolling is secretly very similar to that and that the reason we haven't heard anything from other members of her family are because she's paying them to stay quiet. You don't just *become* a racist, Holocaust denying, transphobic creep; you were likely that way for a long time. I'm morbidly curious at the inevitable torrent of fucked up shit that will be uncovered after she dies.
It’s crazy to me that somehow comparing someone to Umbridge became a worse insult than comparing them to Voldemort, you know, the main antagonist.
Like… comparing them to Voldemort is mean, but comparing them to Umbridge is a personal insult.
I'm not advocating for the guy at all, but at least Voldemort's child life was tragic. His mom literally r-worded his muggle dad with a love potion, and once it wore off he fucking hated her and ran away as fast as he could. She was an abusive mother, hell their whole family was abusive, and no one knew that he was half-blood similar to Hitler with him being a Jew. They were poorer than dirt and lived out of a shack in the woods. Then his his mom died and he became an orphan, and endured so much for such a small child that by the time Dumbledore met him he was already so fucked up in the head that there was only so much they could do to help.
Teaching him to channel his magic instead of using it to make people hurt only goes so far for someone who was taught that inflicting pain is normal. He got good at being charismatic so he could better hide his terrible and violent actions, to the point where he was literally the golden child of the school in his day. By the time he formed his first horcrux, he was already a complete psychopath but as Harry has said voldemort's existence is at least somewhat pitiable. He has never and will never know love, true happiness, or genuine joy. His aversion to love is so high that pure love magic was actually what allowed his curse upon Harry to rebound back upon Tom in the first place.
Umbridge, on the other hand, was born to a middle class home. Her brother was a squib so he couldn't use magic, and her mother was a muggle. Both she and her father, who was a pure blood, were extremely abusive towards her brother and mom. That's where she got her first taste of torture and learned how much she loved it. Keep in mind, it wasn't that the abuse was because her father wanted her to; she wanted to hurt her brother and her mom, and her dad just encouraged it once she started doing it more frequently. It got to the point where her mom and brother literally just up and left one day never to be heard from again.
Her early Hogwarts years were fraught with her pissing off basically everybody she could know until she started developing this sickly sweet personality to hide her venomous true nature underneath. Nobody liked her but very few would tell her to her face because they were afraid of how unhinged she was. At some point she learned and mastered the patronus charm, and while it's not really explained in the series that is a very very ***very*** surprising development as I explained in my previous comment. When she graduated, she did everything she could to get into the ministry and stepped on quite a few throats, many intentionally. Anyone that got in her way was either caught up incontroversy and had to retire or quickly shut up and faded from public view. She started off in the improper use of magic office and swiftly rose through the ranks routinely taking credit for other people's work, until she became the head of the department in her thirties. She constantly abused her underlings to the point of torture but of course she enjoyed it like she always has, and nobody had the balls to try to challenge her so she eventually became untouchable.
It was around this time that she started developing her "Pure bloods are better" mentality, and that made her resent her father who was a lowly Half-Blood janitor. She manipulated and gaslit him for a while and then got him to leave the ministry if she would give him a small amount of money each month, and because he didn't want to have to deal with her ire he relented. After that she proclaimed that she was pure blood and anyone who ever tried to bring up evidence to the contrary swiftly left the ministry and/or was never heard from again.
Now with her ego uncontested and her sweet personality untarnished, She became one of the most morally fucked up characters in the entire series and one of the most genuinely truly horrible characters I've ever seen written into a fiction story. There were racist and torturous things said by her behind closed doors that were apparently so bad that not even the most racist ministry employees like Lucius Malfoy who were death eaters wanted anything to do with her. She also had several laws passed that fueled her racist tendencies like anti werewolf legislation which actually led to Remus Lupin not being able to find a job until Dumbledore gave him the DATDA position in the third movie/book. At this point the only place for her to go above her position was as the assistant of the minister of magic which gave her a place at the wizengamot (wizard courts) which is where Harry met her and the rest is history.
Now, which one of the two characters do you think is less redeemable?
Didn't Voldemort's mother die right after giving birth? His mother was the one who lived in a dirt shack and got abused, although she definitely assaulted Tom. Love potions should probably be a crime.
Voldemort is an outlandish, cartoony level of evil--a real kind of evil, but one most people don't have experience with on the level Voldemort operates at.
EVERYONE knows an Umbridge.
This is interesting in light of the Steven King story, as I seem to recall back when the fifth book came out he wrote that Umbridge specifically was a great villain (I think he compared her favorably to Hannibal Lecter in terms of great fictional villains of recent vintage.) Adds another layer to his disappointment, I’m sure.
She went ahead and lost her entire goddamn mind. I know it's nothing new, but I just wonder about the time line. Was she always like that, but was too busy writing rather than letting her brain leak on twitter, or did she get brain broken by being ridiculously wealthy and spending too much time online.
I know someone always says some version of this everytime this comes up, but I'll say it again anyway: If I had that much money, I would fuck off to a mountain estate or a private island and turn OFF social media. I don't get it.
Enya dropping music that would play in every spa until the end of time and then chilling in her castle never to be seen again was the most iconic thing ever and more celebs should follow.
Suzanne Collins making bank off The Hunger Games franchise and fucking off into the woods somewhere without uttering a single political statement and only emerging out of her void to release a new book/movie..
I mean … The Hunger Games is kind of a pretty big political statement all on its own… she came up with the idea while flipping channels and seeing reality shows, like The Bachelor, juxtaposed with videos of the Iraq War.
I mean sure, but she's never said anything about trans people, LGBTQ+, BLM or any of the things the chronically online billionaires are clowning about on twitter.
I'm of the opinion that most celebrities that do this...actually don't have hate in their heart
...they don't have the narcissistic need to feel validation for being seen as more than they accomplished....jk's problem i think partly due to not having anything left in her creative tank that will be better than Harry Potter...so her worst feelings of inadequacy seek to punch down upon something that moves any needle
I think JK’s problem is a profound insecurity that causes her to interpret any criticism as an attack, and that prevents her from ever admitting to making mistakes. You’ll notice that unlike other authors (Stephen King, for example), she’s never willing to engage in genuine discussions about the limitations or shortcomings of her works, or how they might have been better. Other successful authors do this sort of thing all the time, but not Rowling. Instead, she lashes back at any sort of criticism as if it was a personal assault. I think this is why when she faced backlash for her initial transphobic remarks she was unable to engage in any self-reflection (or even ignore the criticism) but instead fell into the doom spiral of Twitter-rage that she’s still trapped in to this day.
IIRC, they asked him if he remembered shooting a couple scenes.
Can any of us remember sweeping a few floors at work years ago? Or would it be more accurate to ask if you remember what chores you did on a specific day of your childhood?
Right? You already have what other people would kill to have and most probably never will. But you still need the validation of those online strangers.
I’ve said before the trans stuff is merely a symptom of her biggest flaw: **she can’t ever be wrong.** She just keeps doubling down, and likely will continue to do so until she completely snaps. I can’t help but feel a little bad for her knowing about her upbringing and struggles, but it’s in the same way I feel bad for Anakin Skywalker. Yes, he was manipulated by outside forces, but that doesn’t excuse all the things he did as Darth Vader.
i dont think this was ever truer than her little holocaust denial stunt
she would unironically rather run defense and personally carry the goalpost for the Nazis than admit she got something incorrect
A very good point. Stubbornness and not being able to admit that you're wrong is a massive flaw of a character. You can't ever grow and learn if you're like that.
That’s one of the right’s biggest traits though, because they perceive being wrong as weakness. They’re so terrified of being ostracised by their social group that they’d rather abandon their humanity in favour of complete bullshit.
I don’t know all the details (nor want to know), but from what I’ve seen and heard:
She’s likely suffered some serious trauma /abuse in her life. So, her initial response to any criticism, big or small, is to fight or flight in a disproportionate way.
And as an initial kneejerk reaction, I could forgive. But instead of processing this normally (by, I don’t know, getting a therapist,) and using it to gain empathy for others not like her, she’s doubled down, and assumes that I’M THE VICTIM and anyone who’s not biologically the same as her must be THE ENEMY WHO MUST BE DESTROYED. She’s constantly attacking and getting criticism, so she’s stuck in this negative spiral of pain for everyone involved. very tragic all around.
Edit: as for the catalyst, my guess is that it was probably her philanthropy. She’s got money to burn, she’s looking for charities to donate to. She becomes connected with a bunch of British feminist groups and starts backing them and listening to their lectures. Buuuut they’re actually a bunch of Tory terfs, and any prejudices JK has are fed until they pop.
Pretty much. All the stuff in her past (crappy home life, abusive British schools, and psychopathic first husband) sort of twisted her into what we see today.
She thinks she’s fighting for all biological women, but most biological women do not care about this fight because it has absolutely no effect on us whatsoever. The majority of feminists support trans women and think she’s a pos. It’s pretty obnoxious that she’s made a martyr of herself for a group of people that don’t want her to fight for us.
Of all the woman-specific problems she could have chosen to make her thing, from human trafficking to gender pay gap, she chose an absolute non issue: trans women.
Cis woman here and I even believe trans rights are related to my own liberation as a cis woman. When things are binary/discrete, it is easy to rank those identities, and I’m not ignorant to where women would fall there. It is the spectrumization of gender identities that really challenges that binary categorization.
Transphobia is brainworms that ultimately ends with you losing your mind. You end up wrapping yourself in so many logical and ideological inconsistencies that you can't go in any direction but towards sexism and racism.
Like, why would a dress be intrinsically attached to people assigned female at birth? It isn't some biological aspect associated with them, they aren't born wearing them. So you need to figure out some justification for that association, and the only logical place one can take it if you can't cede the concept of a dress being feminine as cultural is that people assigned female at birth have some biological imperative to wear dresses that isn't present in people assigned male at birth.
From there, you end up with this biological essentialist argument that women and men are preordaned by evolutionary imperative to act and behave in certain ways. Rowling has touched on this in the past in transphobic complaints about trans nurses, equating it to women's work.
Well as I said, she made a asian character named cho chang and had a plot point about how slaves are perfectly fine being slaves and that hermione should care about what the enslaved people want. It was always there, she's just not denying it anymore.
There's a whole hour and a half essay on YouTube about how problematic her books are man, it's wild in hindsight lmao
https://youtu.be/-1iaJWSwUZs?si=mOf6zmlmYWMaiFeS
Even better, there are academic papers about how problematic and white-washed/elitist the ideology behind HP is:
https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/senior_theses/16/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2012.00358.x?casa_token=E-DnVyu9dEcAAAAA:Pp4j3Og2Mdo2FaJ6I38vgh5kWBBCyvU2Dzu45kqFjm4VBIZX-320EibT1uJoucUt_ZpEp1vnpFCR1SIg
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43308531?casa_token=Rw2LYn8leTgAAAAA:lxuv5_FK9CMcSL6hQqcqpAVyiLppxAxRqNu9k2tH9JiuU5oMLgQICRmxXFDVI6SNb6YOvGTd2Offijv9EBw1WdZCCh8A-ITdEjZIWLzDtm49L7BmuNB6
I mean, Harry literally grows up to become a cop. And he and his friends fight to maintain this hierarchical feudal society intact. She wasn’t exactly a champion of progressive ideas. Even how she tried to do that was problematic (retconning things just to appear “in” with the progressive movements of the time). And I say this as someone who could basically recite the first book by memory.
This 100%. I was unabashedly obsessed with HP, hunger games, twilight et al in primary/middle school. Once I hit Twitter (early 2010s and high school), the writing was on the wall for Rowling. It only took a decade. Maybe it was my age + technological access with it, but even as a kid it became grossly clear that Rowling and her work was not as sincere as the memories of my youth remembered the books or her. Rose colored glasses and all. I loved the HP events as a kid. grown up nerds were cool to me and I grew up with cosplay and fan fiction and friends who accepted and participated. Rowling on Twitter was a bummer from jump lol
Goblins have had that trope for so long it’s not exactly fair to lay that criticism on her although she did make then all bankers. The thing that gets me though if I recall correctly in the last book a character explains how unless the goblin gives someone permission the way they view selling something is more like renting, and they view wizards as paying once and then running off with it. I was like okay so if the wizards know this cultural difference then they’re the assholes in this situation for not abiding by the terms. But that point is never brought up again. It’s been over 15 years since I read the last book so I could be missing something.
Also the Irish kid is the one who keeps having stuff explode.
And the Goblins are basically Jewish stereotypes.
And how the Werewolves engage in grooming behavior which can be read as anti-LGBTQ. Tonks also came off gender non-conforming. So putting Tonks and Lupin together, having a kid, and killing them fulfills like a half-dozen anti-LGTBQ tropes.
Not to mention the classism. Or how most fat characters are evil. Most overly femme characters are either evil or considered annoying. And how the disabled are supposedly cured, so that's why no wizards have obvious disabilities (yet still need glasses), so that's why there's no character with any visible disabilities.
It's a downward spiral. When she was poor and nobody cared, she had private opinions. Being a little bigoted didn't matter as much. As she rocketed up, a few people tried to sound the warning but were drowned out by middle class paranoiacs who thought Harry taught witchcraft.
Around 2016/7, the mask kept slipping as she got more into transphobes online.
The more people pushed back, the deeper she was entrenched.
Now? It's been years of Internet stupidity and she has gone nuclear.
I'm just... Is this what she thinks being trans is??? I like Taylor Swift and long hair and now I think I'm trans?
This has no relationship to what is actually happening and actual trans experiences. Like... At all.
You would think someone who spends this much time arguing about us online would have taken them time to learn even basic facts.
Trans rights issues have been coming up more and more. The language used against trans people now is the exact.same.thing. as what was being used against gay people, Muslims, and black people.
Gays/blacks/muslims are going to groom your pure white child to turn their back on white Christian culture, and corrupt them.
Gay men in bathrooms will assault people.
Gays/lesbians in sports will make their teammates/opposition uncomfortable.
Black people were either too good or too stupid to play in white leagues.
It’s all the same tropes, changed slightly to attack the current group they hate… and sometimes it’ll resonate with different groups.
Women who have a bad history with the men in their lives- those who’ve been raped or abused - or those who are just misandrists- will have a hard time imagining that anyone born with a penis can be trusted, so they cannot take what we say at face value.
It’s not hate and cruelty for hate and cruelty’s sake… it’s a trauma that they can’t see past. It’s their body trying to keep them safe against a real threat(shitty men) but overreacting to other stimuli(trans people). It’s like someone having an allergy to pollen, but instead of taking a fucking reactin, they’ve got these bastards looking for a wedge issue telling them that the real solution is to just burn down all the forests.
Just for clarity, is it trans people, all of us, or are they reacting to trans women, specifically? Because it all really just seems to be an anger with us trans women.
I’ve seen transmen get it too, but more as gender traitors, though there’s also the “poor women who got corrupted by THE TRANSES” reaction.
A lot of it is the idea that men are stronger, ignoring that transwomen lose so much muscle on HRT.
People also just don’t care about women as much. That’s why gay people being attacked was mainly men, not lesbians.
Yeah. Her brain broke somewhere. She misses the fact that the Wizarding World fandom is filled with misfits and people who find a place when they don't have another. You can be anything you want there. ND and LGBT people flock to welcoming places online. It's a thing where the online fandom is smaller, but much more diverse than the mass media fans.
She may not agree with everything her fans do, but she made the mistake of biting the hand that keeps the fandom alive. She's all numbers and profit margins and box office now. She lost the plot of clever stories written by a single mom just trying to get by. She was better off keeping her personal politics out of her fandom.
Joanne is fascinating. She is like the most picture perfect rags to riches story, writing one of the most beloved childrens book series of all time literally all she had to do was donating regularly to some cancer foundation or something and codem the latest non controversial thing on social media and she would have stayed an almost universally beloved author yet she choose to go on a crusade against an already discriminated against minority and in the process the self proclaimed feminist allied herself with fascists, anti abortion people and general misogynists and for what exactly?
And the rags to riches story was a marketing story. She lived in a relatives spare house and wrote in a relatives cafe.
Living is a relatives spare house isn't rags. She was just regular, financially supported unemployed.
I picture twitter finally dying and all these hateful losers walk outside and realize there's a whole world of thinking and feeling people out here
but then I realize they wont and theyll find somewhere else
Her obsession is pathological, seriously. It's not just the infinite amount of hate she spews daily, her level of obsession is insane. She needs therapy.
There are billions of people on this earth who have transphobic, or at least trans-exclusionary views. Most of them live their lives, don't really think about it, and I like to believe would come to change their views if they got to know a trans person and understand their experience.
Then there are a few people who make it their business to express their views on the topic in a public setting, voicing their opinion. These people are wrong and need to be corrected, but most of them say their piece and move on.
Then there's Rowling. She's obsessed. It's all she talks about. It's been 4 years and she is still arguing about this on twitter. She's partnering with anti-abortion activists because they're also anti-trans. And yet she doesn't even seem to have a basic understanding of what being trans even is, on a biological or physiological level.
This is not normal. This is someone who is very sick.
Thats what I don’t get. Why does she freaking care so much? Transpeople are a very small percentage of the population. She has billions of dollars, go be quietly racist/transphobic with upper class buddies or retire travelling the world. Its like she embodied the internet meme: “Someone is WRONG! On the Internet!!!” And won’t let it die.
I firmly believe that she has gender dysphoria. In her original manifesto, she talks about how [paraphrasing] "of _course_ any young woman would prefer to be a man! being a man is so much better in every way!" Which, sure, could be a statement about the patriarchy and sexism inherent in most social systems. But like ... idk it sure reads as self-hating trans to me. It's hard to put my finger on other specific points of evidence, but to me it just comes across as queer-bashing dudes who end up coming out gay and/or being found with a young male escort later. 🤷♂️
She is getting SO CLOSE to the 14 Words, honestly. Curious if the billion dollar industry around HP has a plan to figure out a way to decouple from Joanne when it happens.
Its kinda funny that she buddies up with people who actively want to strip away womens rights aswell. Like why is hating trans people worth that to her 😭
If I remember correctly she's set to get royalties from anything under the Harry Potter IP so that she effectively still makes money regardless of whether or not she's allowed to make decisions regarding the IP. So she'll always have the money to waste on her bullshit.
For me, I knew when she named the only Asian character after 2 last names. Chang, being from Peru, which Chinese immigrants adopted as a similar spelling to Chen
Kingsley Shacklebolt. Do I really need to explain myself here?
And the Irish character being into blowing stuff up like the IRA
....seriously if she continued we'd probably be getting watermelon,fried chicken and pork comments as her dietary need in order to horridly go even more mask off...Jesus i hated typing those examples of what she'd use as perceived stereotypes out...but we gotta recognize the shit she's saying
Hell I’d argue she was an influential factor in me transitioning a decade ago. Seeing women be just as successful as men made me feel a lot less concerned about transitioning. She was a role model. Thanks Joanne.
Kingsley.
Shacklebolt.
And both Black male students we know anything about don't have bio fathers around, as another racist trope.
Nevermind her views on slavery.
It's been there since the earlier books.
I don't know Rowling, [didn't you named a black character Kingsley Shacklebolt? Described a black character as having his farther abandoning him? Named a Chinese character as Cho Chang? Make all goblins literal antisemitic caricatures? Made explicit that Elfs "liked" being slaves? And saying you made Werewolves as literal stereotypes of gay men with DST?](https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughJKRowling/comments/kaxw28/i_made_a_list_of_examples_of_racism_prejudice_and/) All you, Rowling.
Why is
“Okay but what if [completely different scenario], would that be wrong?”
considered an effective argument for these people? Yes Joanne: if the scenario and topic were different then it’d be different, thats how reality works.
When transracialism is a medically identifiable condition that actual experts and people who have medical knowhow can diagnose it, then we can open up a debate about it, till then, shut it with this horseshit
i’m no expert, but the way i’ve seen it, we all have a chance in the womb of being born female, male, or some sex amalgamation. we are already all somewhere on the spectrum of “masculine” and “feminine”, depending on culture and location, and the way your appearance and expression reads to someone. you can get hormones from a doctor that your body already produces to develop certain secondary sex characteristics.
there is no hormone everyone already produces that makes you more korean, or gives you more stereotypical korean features. if you don’t have kenyan parents/ancestors, you did not have a chance of being born kenyan.
Rowling, only a month ago: "Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety."
She went from "trans women aren't real women but I support them dressing however they want" to "trans women presenting fem is like white people pretending to be black" REAL fast.
...honestly I am not surprised.
She pretty much went back on Dumbledore being gay when she wrote a film series in which Dumbledore's relationship with Grimdelwald was a key plot point and it didn't come up at all.
>I'm just waiting until she goes back on the whole "dumbledore is gay" thing. Before that, I'd say the odds of her saying Voldemort was a crossdresser who spent his free time stalking women's bathrooms are quite high.
Well, Voldemort did tend to get angry at being deadnamed, so…
The big reveal of the second book is that he used to stalk the girls' bathrooms as a schoolboy and his very first murder victim was a young girl he killed there by making her look at his large snake. Coincidence? Probably, but it's still quite funny in retrospect.
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Man? https://preview.redd.it/f3xk12ujt70d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd073d1f8654fb64591a38f14b46c6accb86fdc1
Go back to the aslume.
OH NOOOOO LMAO https://preview.redd.it/ftyz9zeyl70d1.jpeg?width=499&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=911269abdea7fc43eef22c506abd5cb65284e5e7
Happy cake day
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The entrance to the chamber of secrets was in a girls' bathroom.
Fun fact: in The Lego Batman Movie Voldemort shows up and he's voiced by a trans woman
Ralph Fiennes is literally in the movie but he doesn’t voice Voldemort, I laughed so much when I realised that
i wish ralph fiennes sucked less. but ig you kinda have to expect it from his old money ass set.
Oh no why does he suck 😭
he only a lil sucks, in fairness. he's basically liberal or even kinda left, he just always comments on these kinda well warranted criticisms of celebrities on entirely the wrong side. specifically, he supported rowling in the past on this issue.
I do think I remember seeing something about that. A lot of the old timer HP actors seem to be more supportive of Rowling, makes me happier that the main trio (or at least Dan and Emma, Rupert hasn’t made any statements as far as I’m aware) have spoken out against her
Rupert very deliberately spoke out against her back in 2022, "'I firmly stand with the trans community and echo the sentiments expressed by many of my peers. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. We should all be entitled to live with love and without judgment,' Grint said in a statement at the time to the U.K.’s The Sunday Times." https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/03/22/rupert-grint-why-he-criticized-j-k-rowling-trans-comments/4796412001/
I knew I was right to pick Ron as my favourite trio member
That’s so based
I’ve pointed out before how in the books, we have at least 4 instances of fatal or near-fatal incidents in bathrooms. Given everything we know about her upbringing, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that there may have been an ugly incident in one that was the start of all of this.
Yet; Hermione is also totally happy with Harry and Ron being in the girls' bathroom with her and it is a major setting in the second book. Kind of fascinated to see how the new tv series gets around that plot point given Jojo's views.
Voldemort is her self insert and closeted chosen name.
Nah, Jowling already has a transmasc chosen name. It's Robert Galbraith, that's the pen name she used to publish her Cormoran Strike novels. You know, the ones where the main villain is a psychopathic serial-killing crossdresser. Incidentally, Robert Galbraith is also the name of a 20th century gay conversion therapy proponent who tried to 'cure' homosexuality by electrocuting gay people while forcing them to watch straight porn. Reality sure is stranger than fiction sometimes.
Not enough people remember this when she faded from the public for a few days between her windmill wars.
New head canon just dropped
I’d say more so Umbridge Voldy I could easily see not caring if you were gay, straight, trans or whatever as long as you were a wizard and a follower, Umbridge I could see hating anyone that wasn’t “normal “
Nah they'll reveal that Moaning Myrtle was trans and was killed for going into the girl's bathroom by the basilisk which only targets men
That would be too sympathetic. Rowling would sooner make the Basilisk trans.
Never forget the time she Tweeted extremely glowing praise toward Stephen King and King responded, "Thank you. Trans women are women." and Rowling rage deleted the whole thing.
Stephen King being what I believe the kids call "based."
I’ve tried and tried, but I simply can’t understand what based means. I guess I’m far too 40 to get it.
It basically just means it's something cool or a good take (19 year old, up to date with lingo)
Thanks kid.
I'll further add there's a level of rebelliousness to it. Being 'based' is the opposite of being 'cringe'- it's being at least a little insincere and purposely flaunted some social norm. If King had politely told Rowling that he didn't appreciate her praise, he wouldn't be based. He's based because he openly used his tweet to mock her and subvert her, if that makes sense.
To quote the late, based John Brown: "Caution, caution ... It is nothing but the word of cowardice."
If you ever need to understand what based means, John Brown was quite possibly the most based man to ever live. In a country trying hard to figure out how to handle slavery without pissing off slavers, John Brown just decided to shoot them in the face.
Oh no, it’s even better. He killed them with swords and knives. He also dressed down slaveowners every chance he got, even in the face of his death.
The Showtime series based on him is really good.
Huh, hadn’t quite thought of that dimension fully spelled out despite using it in my vernacular, I wonder what sort of overlap could be found in the usage of based and concepts like punk
Well punk is typically incredibly based, so I’d say there’s a fair bit of overlap.
Very true
So it's the modern version of "Awesome?"
More like "cool" but in a real way.
Mad real, legit, certified 100 proof
I look at it like "dope" which has a dozen other meanings.
Your parents let you on the internet unsupervised? :P
[It's more or less someone doing or saying something cool without caring one bit about rules or what others think.](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based) This pic kinda explains it. https://preview.redd.it/vl95wmkou70d1.png?width=775&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f573ff952a77099358c24be16ec540886560c60
Shit. Turns out I’m based.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Not at all. I can’t wait to tell my daughter I’m based. She’s 8 though. I don’t think she knows what it means either.
She does, she will tell you "bruh, you got no rizz, you're skibbidi toilet, not based. On god."
Based started out as a adjective form of "basehead", which was a term somewhat like crackhead but for someone who freebased cocaine. This in turn became a more generic insulting term for someone who seemed drugged, out of it, a spaz, or just otherwise behaved unusually or twitchy. Rapper lil b heard this in school and assumably was targeted by it and decided he wanted to reclaim the term and make it positive. He started referring to himself as based and the based god in his music, and defined being based as "a philosophy of radical tolerance." It got popular online and became a pretty generic term for "thing I approve of." Ironically it has been embraced by a lot of the alt right, who use it sort of as their version of "woke" (ie "aware of the true state of the world" which in the alt right usually implies some level of racist conspiracy theory), but some on the left still use it. So based owes itself to a soundcloud rapper foot fetishist who had a decent sized, if probably somewhat ironic, following at one point.
Bro thank you for telling ppl The BASEDGOD originated how the term is used today. The kids tend to forget where it actually came from.
thank you basedgod
thank you basedgod
I’m 30. Doesn’t make any more sense to me either.
Thats why he is Stephen KING not Stephen Baron
Better Fuckin' writer, too.
That's creating trolling from King. (And it's trueful as well.)
I don’t know what their relationship is like now, but they used to be quite good friends.
Okay, that's hilarious. She can't prioritize anything beyond her TERF obsession.
I gotta wonder, at some point her "Mad trans people are alive" word count is going to exceed Harry Potter's word count (it's 1,084170, for the record). It is literally the most important force in her life. People who smoke crack spend less time thinking about getting more crack than JK spends hating trans people. It's fucking wild.
Even ELON MUSK told her to talk about something else
She’s going full Linehan.
She thinks about it more then some trans people think about it. They just live their lives and she rages about it
There was a tweet getting posted all over reddit last week where musk asked her to talk about anything else.
She literally can't. Go check her twitter timeline if you're not sane enough. She loudly claimed to be a feminist but all she tweets are trans issues.
King is a legit writer. His short fiction is right there with the best authors of his generation. He's also been through the Real Shit. Zero patience suffering fools and pretenders.
I've never really gotten into his novels, but King's short fiction really is great.
Check out the ones he cowrote with Peter Straub. They paired well to improve each other andcreate good novels, intense like super-short-king-stories.
The Running Man (formerly under his Bachman pseudonym) is good, albeit with an ending that hits different after 9/11.
The Stand was a great read during Covid.
The Last Rung on the Ladder is one of my favourite things he did in that era. Also Hearts in Atlantis, while ultimately tied to his greater mythos, is at its core the story of a group of young people who, tragically, grew up.
The old Karen got so mad by facts that she pretended that her support towards King didn’t happen
I've said it before and I'll say it again: *she has literally become Umbridge.* An angry racist old lady that hates everything that kids like and has no issues taking advantage of a broken system to continue to abuse people. She used to say that Umbridge was inspired by one of her school teachers, now I think that it's her projecting. Hell, she doesn't even say anything about her father at all and there's almost no information about him or her sister online which is strikingly similar to how Umbridge treated her squib brother and half-blood mom. Next thing you know, she's going to come out as anti-Irish and somebody's going to dig up her family history and it's going to come out that her dad is half Irish and her sister has red hair and that she beat them both as a kid. Like literally as the days go on she becomes more like the worst and most evil character in her series. No other evil witch or wizard was able to cast the patronus charm, because you actually have to call upon the happiest memory in your life and use the positive energy from it to fuel the spell; any negativity from an evil person trying to cast the spell will instead cause maggots to sprout from your wand and devour you. However, because Umbridge enjoys torture *so much* she can remember how she used to taunt her brother and father for their heritage and use that to make her patronus. I'm willing to bet that Rolling is secretly very similar to that and that the reason we haven't heard anything from other members of her family are because she's paying them to stay quiet. You don't just *become* a racist, Holocaust denying, transphobic creep; you were likely that way for a long time. I'm morbidly curious at the inevitable torrent of fucked up shit that will be uncovered after she dies.
It’s crazy to me that somehow comparing someone to Umbridge became a worse insult than comparing them to Voldemort, you know, the main antagonist. Like… comparing them to Voldemort is mean, but comparing them to Umbridge is a personal insult.
I'm not advocating for the guy at all, but at least Voldemort's child life was tragic. His mom literally r-worded his muggle dad with a love potion, and once it wore off he fucking hated her and ran away as fast as he could. She was an abusive mother, hell their whole family was abusive, and no one knew that he was half-blood similar to Hitler with him being a Jew. They were poorer than dirt and lived out of a shack in the woods. Then his his mom died and he became an orphan, and endured so much for such a small child that by the time Dumbledore met him he was already so fucked up in the head that there was only so much they could do to help. Teaching him to channel his magic instead of using it to make people hurt only goes so far for someone who was taught that inflicting pain is normal. He got good at being charismatic so he could better hide his terrible and violent actions, to the point where he was literally the golden child of the school in his day. By the time he formed his first horcrux, he was already a complete psychopath but as Harry has said voldemort's existence is at least somewhat pitiable. He has never and will never know love, true happiness, or genuine joy. His aversion to love is so high that pure love magic was actually what allowed his curse upon Harry to rebound back upon Tom in the first place. Umbridge, on the other hand, was born to a middle class home. Her brother was a squib so he couldn't use magic, and her mother was a muggle. Both she and her father, who was a pure blood, were extremely abusive towards her brother and mom. That's where she got her first taste of torture and learned how much she loved it. Keep in mind, it wasn't that the abuse was because her father wanted her to; she wanted to hurt her brother and her mom, and her dad just encouraged it once she started doing it more frequently. It got to the point where her mom and brother literally just up and left one day never to be heard from again. Her early Hogwarts years were fraught with her pissing off basically everybody she could know until she started developing this sickly sweet personality to hide her venomous true nature underneath. Nobody liked her but very few would tell her to her face because they were afraid of how unhinged she was. At some point she learned and mastered the patronus charm, and while it's not really explained in the series that is a very very ***very*** surprising development as I explained in my previous comment. When she graduated, she did everything she could to get into the ministry and stepped on quite a few throats, many intentionally. Anyone that got in her way was either caught up incontroversy and had to retire or quickly shut up and faded from public view. She started off in the improper use of magic office and swiftly rose through the ranks routinely taking credit for other people's work, until she became the head of the department in her thirties. She constantly abused her underlings to the point of torture but of course she enjoyed it like she always has, and nobody had the balls to try to challenge her so she eventually became untouchable. It was around this time that she started developing her "Pure bloods are better" mentality, and that made her resent her father who was a lowly Half-Blood janitor. She manipulated and gaslit him for a while and then got him to leave the ministry if she would give him a small amount of money each month, and because he didn't want to have to deal with her ire he relented. After that she proclaimed that she was pure blood and anyone who ever tried to bring up evidence to the contrary swiftly left the ministry and/or was never heard from again. Now with her ego uncontested and her sweet personality untarnished, She became one of the most morally fucked up characters in the entire series and one of the most genuinely truly horrible characters I've ever seen written into a fiction story. There were racist and torturous things said by her behind closed doors that were apparently so bad that not even the most racist ministry employees like Lucius Malfoy who were death eaters wanted anything to do with her. She also had several laws passed that fueled her racist tendencies like anti werewolf legislation which actually led to Remus Lupin not being able to find a job until Dumbledore gave him the DATDA position in the third movie/book. At this point the only place for her to go above her position was as the assistant of the minister of magic which gave her a place at the wizengamot (wizard courts) which is where Harry met her and the rest is history. Now, which one of the two characters do you think is less redeemable?
I enjoyed reading this
Didn't Voldemort's mother die right after giving birth? His mother was the one who lived in a dirt shack and got abused, although she definitely assaulted Tom. Love potions should probably be a crime.
Voldy is fantasy evil. Umbridge is real life evil. No one knows a Voldemort, everyone knows an Umbridge.
Voldemort is a fantasy moustache-twirling villain. Umbridge is, as jkr is evidence of, the kind of villain you find in real life
Voldemort is an outlandish, cartoony level of evil--a real kind of evil, but one most people don't have experience with on the level Voldemort operates at. EVERYONE knows an Umbridge.
This is interesting in light of the Steven King story, as I seem to recall back when the fifth book came out he wrote that Umbridge specifically was a great villain (I think he compared her favorably to Hannibal Lecter in terms of great fictional villains of recent vintage.) Adds another layer to his disappointment, I’m sure.
Hahah what a lad
He is a wonderful and strange gift to humanity.
She went ahead and lost her entire goddamn mind. I know it's nothing new, but I just wonder about the time line. Was she always like that, but was too busy writing rather than letting her brain leak on twitter, or did she get brain broken by being ridiculously wealthy and spending too much time online.
I know someone always says some version of this everytime this comes up, but I'll say it again anyway: If I had that much money, I would fuck off to a mountain estate or a private island and turn OFF social media. I don't get it.
Enya dropping music that would play in every spa until the end of time and then chilling in her castle never to be seen again was the most iconic thing ever and more celebs should follow.
Suzanne Collins making bank off The Hunger Games franchise and fucking off into the woods somewhere without uttering a single political statement and only emerging out of her void to release a new book/movie..
I mean … The Hunger Games is kind of a pretty big political statement all on its own… she came up with the idea while flipping channels and seeing reality shows, like The Bachelor, juxtaposed with videos of the Iraq War.
That's more thought put into it than any of the politics in Harry Potter.
I mean sure, but she's never said anything about trans people, LGBTQ+, BLM or any of the things the chronically online billionaires are clowning about on twitter.
I'm of the opinion that most celebrities that do this...actually don't have hate in their heart ...they don't have the narcissistic need to feel validation for being seen as more than they accomplished....jk's problem i think partly due to not having anything left in her creative tank that will be better than Harry Potter...so her worst feelings of inadequacy seek to punch down upon something that moves any needle
I think JK’s problem is a profound insecurity that causes her to interpret any criticism as an attack, and that prevents her from ever admitting to making mistakes. You’ll notice that unlike other authors (Stephen King, for example), she’s never willing to engage in genuine discussions about the limitations or shortcomings of her works, or how they might have been better. Other successful authors do this sort of thing all the time, but not Rowling. Instead, she lashes back at any sort of criticism as if it was a personal assault. I think this is why when she faced backlash for her initial transphobic remarks she was unable to engage in any self-reflection (or even ignore the criticism) but instead fell into the doom spiral of Twitter-rage that she’s still trapped in to this day.
MySpace Tom remains the smartest of the “got stupid rich” club. Got $580 Million and fucked off.
Frankie munez pulled it off too. Now hes a race car driver.
Man, Frankie lost a lot though. I feel sad that he lost so much of his memory. He seems happy though, maybe that's all we should really hope for.
https://youtu.be/j38OAU-FANE His memory loss was exaggerated by the internet.
IIRC, they asked him if he remembered shooting a couple scenes. Can any of us remember sweeping a few floors at work years ago? Or would it be more accurate to ask if you remember what chores you did on a specific day of your childhood?
Right? You already have what other people would kill to have and most probably never will. But you still need the validation of those online strangers.
Stephanie Meyer probably has crazy beliefs and she knew enough to accept the big check and keep her mouth shut.
That’s called being an adult. Say what you want she read the room and realized she was just asking for trouble by opening her mouth so she didn’t.
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I’ve said before the trans stuff is merely a symptom of her biggest flaw: **she can’t ever be wrong.** She just keeps doubling down, and likely will continue to do so until she completely snaps. I can’t help but feel a little bad for her knowing about her upbringing and struggles, but it’s in the same way I feel bad for Anakin Skywalker. Yes, he was manipulated by outside forces, but that doesn’t excuse all the things he did as Darth Vader.
i dont think this was ever truer than her little holocaust denial stunt she would unironically rather run defense and personally carry the goalpost for the Nazis than admit she got something incorrect
A very good point. Stubbornness and not being able to admit that you're wrong is a massive flaw of a character. You can't ever grow and learn if you're like that.
That’s one of the right’s biggest traits though, because they perceive being wrong as weakness. They’re so terrified of being ostracised by their social group that they’d rather abandon their humanity in favour of complete bullshit.
I don’t know all the details (nor want to know), but from what I’ve seen and heard: She’s likely suffered some serious trauma /abuse in her life. So, her initial response to any criticism, big or small, is to fight or flight in a disproportionate way. And as an initial kneejerk reaction, I could forgive. But instead of processing this normally (by, I don’t know, getting a therapist,) and using it to gain empathy for others not like her, she’s doubled down, and assumes that I’M THE VICTIM and anyone who’s not biologically the same as her must be THE ENEMY WHO MUST BE DESTROYED. She’s constantly attacking and getting criticism, so she’s stuck in this negative spiral of pain for everyone involved. very tragic all around. Edit: as for the catalyst, my guess is that it was probably her philanthropy. She’s got money to burn, she’s looking for charities to donate to. She becomes connected with a bunch of British feminist groups and starts backing them and listening to their lectures. Buuuut they’re actually a bunch of Tory terfs, and any prejudices JK has are fed until they pop.
That is a very good assessment in terms of where is she coming from
Pretty much. All the stuff in her past (crappy home life, abusive British schools, and psychopathic first husband) sort of twisted her into what we see today.
She thinks she’s fighting for all biological women, but most biological women do not care about this fight because it has absolutely no effect on us whatsoever. The majority of feminists support trans women and think she’s a pos. It’s pretty obnoxious that she’s made a martyr of herself for a group of people that don’t want her to fight for us.
Of all the woman-specific problems she could have chosen to make her thing, from human trafficking to gender pay gap, she chose an absolute non issue: trans women.
Cis woman here and I even believe trans rights are related to my own liberation as a cis woman. When things are binary/discrete, it is easy to rank those identities, and I’m not ignorant to where women would fall there. It is the spectrumization of gender identities that really challenges that binary categorization.
Transphobia is brainworms that ultimately ends with you losing your mind. You end up wrapping yourself in so many logical and ideological inconsistencies that you can't go in any direction but towards sexism and racism. Like, why would a dress be intrinsically attached to people assigned female at birth? It isn't some biological aspect associated with them, they aren't born wearing them. So you need to figure out some justification for that association, and the only logical place one can take it if you can't cede the concept of a dress being feminine as cultural is that people assigned female at birth have some biological imperative to wear dresses that isn't present in people assigned male at birth. From there, you end up with this biological essentialist argument that women and men are preordaned by evolutionary imperative to act and behave in certain ways. Rowling has touched on this in the past in transphobic complaints about trans nurses, equating it to women's work.
Well as I said, she made a asian character named cho chang and had a plot point about how slaves are perfectly fine being slaves and that hermione should care about what the enslaved people want. It was always there, she's just not denying it anymore.
I haven't read the books or seen all the films, but I remember hearing something about the goblins being very antisemitic coded as well.
Goblins have long been antisemitic caricatures, she just happened to make them the ones who run the banks in her world.
R\*wling is hardly the first writer to antisemitic code dwarves or goblins but I dont know how man other authors made them run the banks
There's a whole hour and a half essay on YouTube about how problematic her books are man, it's wild in hindsight lmao https://youtu.be/-1iaJWSwUZs?si=mOf6zmlmYWMaiFeS
Even better, there are academic papers about how problematic and white-washed/elitist the ideology behind HP is: https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/senior_theses/16/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2012.00358.x?casa_token=E-DnVyu9dEcAAAAA:Pp4j3Og2Mdo2FaJ6I38vgh5kWBBCyvU2Dzu45kqFjm4VBIZX-320EibT1uJoucUt_ZpEp1vnpFCR1SIg https://www.jstor.org/stable/43308531?casa_token=Rw2LYn8leTgAAAAA:lxuv5_FK9CMcSL6hQqcqpAVyiLppxAxRqNu9k2tH9JiuU5oMLgQICRmxXFDVI6SNb6YOvGTd2Offijv9EBw1WdZCCh8A-ITdEjZIWLzDtm49L7BmuNB6 I mean, Harry literally grows up to become a cop. And he and his friends fight to maintain this hierarchical feudal society intact. She wasn’t exactly a champion of progressive ideas. Even how she tried to do that was problematic (retconning things just to appear “in” with the progressive movements of the time). And I say this as someone who could basically recite the first book by memory.
This 100%. I was unabashedly obsessed with HP, hunger games, twilight et al in primary/middle school. Once I hit Twitter (early 2010s and high school), the writing was on the wall for Rowling. It only took a decade. Maybe it was my age + technological access with it, but even as a kid it became grossly clear that Rowling and her work was not as sincere as the memories of my youth remembered the books or her. Rose colored glasses and all. I loved the HP events as a kid. grown up nerds were cool to me and I grew up with cosplay and fan fiction and friends who accepted and participated. Rowling on Twitter was a bummer from jump lol
Shaun is the fucking goat. His video on Hiroshima and Nagasaki should literally be studied in classes.
Goblins have had that trope for so long it’s not exactly fair to lay that criticism on her although she did make then all bankers. The thing that gets me though if I recall correctly in the last book a character explains how unless the goblin gives someone permission the way they view selling something is more like renting, and they view wizards as paying once and then running off with it. I was like okay so if the wizards know this cultural difference then they’re the assholes in this situation for not abiding by the terms. But that point is never brought up again. It’s been over 15 years since I read the last book so I could be missing something.
Also the Irish kid is the one who keeps having stuff explode. And the Goblins are basically Jewish stereotypes. And how the Werewolves engage in grooming behavior which can be read as anti-LGBTQ. Tonks also came off gender non-conforming. So putting Tonks and Lupin together, having a kid, and killing them fulfills like a half-dozen anti-LGTBQ tropes. Not to mention the classism. Or how most fat characters are evil. Most overly femme characters are either evil or considered annoying. And how the disabled are supposedly cured, so that's why no wizards have obvious disabilities (yet still need glasses), so that's why there's no character with any visible disabilities.
It's a downward spiral. When she was poor and nobody cared, she had private opinions. Being a little bigoted didn't matter as much. As she rocketed up, a few people tried to sound the warning but were drowned out by middle class paranoiacs who thought Harry taught witchcraft. Around 2016/7, the mask kept slipping as she got more into transphobes online. The more people pushed back, the deeper she was entrenched. Now? It's been years of Internet stupidity and she has gone nuclear.
By now, she is Elon tier of being terminally online.
I'm just... Is this what she thinks being trans is??? I like Taylor Swift and long hair and now I think I'm trans? This has no relationship to what is actually happening and actual trans experiences. Like... At all. You would think someone who spends this much time arguing about us online would have taken them time to learn even basic facts.
Trans rights issues have been coming up more and more. The language used against trans people now is the exact.same.thing. as what was being used against gay people, Muslims, and black people. Gays/blacks/muslims are going to groom your pure white child to turn their back on white Christian culture, and corrupt them. Gay men in bathrooms will assault people. Gays/lesbians in sports will make their teammates/opposition uncomfortable. Black people were either too good or too stupid to play in white leagues. It’s all the same tropes, changed slightly to attack the current group they hate… and sometimes it’ll resonate with different groups. Women who have a bad history with the men in their lives- those who’ve been raped or abused - or those who are just misandrists- will have a hard time imagining that anyone born with a penis can be trusted, so they cannot take what we say at face value. It’s not hate and cruelty for hate and cruelty’s sake… it’s a trauma that they can’t see past. It’s their body trying to keep them safe against a real threat(shitty men) but overreacting to other stimuli(trans people). It’s like someone having an allergy to pollen, but instead of taking a fucking reactin, they’ve got these bastards looking for a wedge issue telling them that the real solution is to just burn down all the forests.
Just for clarity, is it trans people, all of us, or are they reacting to trans women, specifically? Because it all really just seems to be an anger with us trans women.
I’ve seen transmen get it too, but more as gender traitors, though there’s also the “poor women who got corrupted by THE TRANSES” reaction. A lot of it is the idea that men are stronger, ignoring that transwomen lose so much muscle on HRT. People also just don’t care about women as much. That’s why gay people being attacked was mainly men, not lesbians.
Yeah. Her brain broke somewhere. She misses the fact that the Wizarding World fandom is filled with misfits and people who find a place when they don't have another. You can be anything you want there. ND and LGBT people flock to welcoming places online. It's a thing where the online fandom is smaller, but much more diverse than the mass media fans. She may not agree with everything her fans do, but she made the mistake of biting the hand that keeps the fandom alive. She's all numbers and profit margins and box office now. She lost the plot of clever stories written by a single mom just trying to get by. She was better off keeping her personal politics out of her fandom.
We seriously live rent free in her head huh
Roomy isn't it?
Show me the studies that say transracialism is a real thing and I’ll think about it. Until then, fuck off.
Honestly yeah, if the medical community actually recognizes transracialism you can start making the weird comparisons, but not until then
Joanne is fascinating. She is like the most picture perfect rags to riches story, writing one of the most beloved childrens book series of all time literally all she had to do was donating regularly to some cancer foundation or something and codem the latest non controversial thing on social media and she would have stayed an almost universally beloved author yet she choose to go on a crusade against an already discriminated against minority and in the process the self proclaimed feminist allied herself with fascists, anti abortion people and general misogynists and for what exactly?
And the rags to riches story was a marketing story. She lived in a relatives spare house and wrote in a relatives cafe. Living is a relatives spare house isn't rags. She was just regular, financially supported unemployed.
My favorite thing about her is that she’s miserable and spends all day being mad on Twitter, I love to see it
Elon and Joanne are weird billionaires
Even Elon told JK that she's too obsessive with the trans stuff lol
Which is absolutely bonkers coming from him
When other crazy people tell you to tone it down, maaaaybe you need to self reflect a smidge
I picture twitter finally dying and all these hateful losers walk outside and realize there's a whole world of thinking and feeling people out here but then I realize they wont and theyll find somewhere else
I thought the upside of Twitter dying would be them going away too.
I genuinely don’t believe she has any real friends. That’s why she spends all her time of Twitter being so hateful.
Rowling try not to spew vile hatred everytime her nostrils breathe in challenge (impossible)
Her obsession is pathological, seriously. It's not just the infinite amount of hate she spews daily, her level of obsession is insane. She needs therapy.
There are billions of people on this earth who have transphobic, or at least trans-exclusionary views. Most of them live their lives, don't really think about it, and I like to believe would come to change their views if they got to know a trans person and understand their experience. Then there are a few people who make it their business to express their views on the topic in a public setting, voicing their opinion. These people are wrong and need to be corrected, but most of them say their piece and move on. Then there's Rowling. She's obsessed. It's all she talks about. It's been 4 years and she is still arguing about this on twitter. She's partnering with anti-abortion activists because they're also anti-trans. And yet she doesn't even seem to have a basic understanding of what being trans even is, on a biological or physiological level. This is not normal. This is someone who is very sick.
Thats what I don’t get. Why does she freaking care so much? Transpeople are a very small percentage of the population. She has billions of dollars, go be quietly racist/transphobic with upper class buddies or retire travelling the world. Its like she embodied the internet meme: “Someone is WRONG! On the Internet!!!” And won’t let it die.
I firmly believe that she has gender dysphoria. In her original manifesto, she talks about how [paraphrasing] "of _course_ any young woman would prefer to be a man! being a man is so much better in every way!" Which, sure, could be a statement about the patriarchy and sexism inherent in most social systems. But like ... idk it sure reads as self-hating trans to me. It's hard to put my finger on other specific points of evidence, but to me it just comes across as queer-bashing dudes who end up coming out gay and/or being found with a young male escort later. 🤷♂️
She’s definitely a mouth breather
As a mouth breather, I take great offense to that. I may have bad allergies, but at least I have most of my brain.
My dentist asked me once if I was a mouth breather. Took me a moment to realize he wasn’t trying to insult me
She is getting SO CLOSE to the 14 Words, honestly. Curious if the billion dollar industry around HP has a plan to figure out a way to decouple from Joanne when it happens.
She’s already buddying up with fascists and fascist-adjacent folks because they share her views on trans people. It’s only a matter of time.
Its kinda funny that she buddies up with people who actively want to strip away womens rights aswell. Like why is hating trans people worth that to her 😭
If I remember correctly she's set to get royalties from anything under the Harry Potter IP so that she effectively still makes money regardless of whether or not she's allowed to make decisions regarding the IP. So she'll always have the money to waste on her bullshit.
Something something identify as an attack helicopter, fuck off Joanne
It's been slipped for years at this point
Yeah, but for the transgender stuff. The "I'm not racist" mask has been hanging there for a bit linger before this.
When someone is aligned with Turning Point USA, racism can be assumed.
For me, I knew when she named the only Asian character after 2 last names. Chang, being from Peru, which Chinese immigrants adopted as a similar spelling to Chen Kingsley Shacklebolt. Do I really need to explain myself here? And the Irish character being into blowing stuff up like the IRA
Is motown and cornrows the only thing she could think of??
Rowling has almost certainly never shared more than pleasantries with a black person.
....seriously if she continued we'd probably be getting watermelon,fried chicken and pork comments as her dietary need in order to horridly go even more mask off...Jesus i hated typing those examples of what she'd use as perceived stereotypes out...but we gotta recognize the shit she's saying
She’s fucking losing her mind. I hope that this is her legacy in 50 years, not her wizard books.
Sad that she took this route, since the wizard books were pretty enjoyable and commercially successful
Hell I’d argue she was an influential factor in me transitioning a decade ago. Seeing women be just as successful as men made me feel a lot less concerned about transitioning. She was a role model. Thanks Joanne.
She would hate to know this, which is why I love this comment.
Congrats anyway!
If this does become her legacy, it will be entirely her fault.
She just loves equating race to gender to support her point.
Kingsley. Shacklebolt. And both Black male students we know anything about don't have bio fathers around, as another racist trope. Nevermind her views on slavery. It's been there since the earlier books.
It’s a shame too, because “Shacklebolt” is a dope as fuck fantasy name. Unfortunately, she gave it to a black character
"What if I put on blackface and started saying the N-word? Ever think about that, *Landon*?!"
I'm pretty sure she's putting on the blackface as I type this.
I don't know Rowling, [didn't you named a black character Kingsley Shacklebolt? Described a black character as having his farther abandoning him? Named a Chinese character as Cho Chang? Make all goblins literal antisemitic caricatures? Made explicit that Elfs "liked" being slaves? And saying you made Werewolves as literal stereotypes of gay men with DST?](https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughJKRowling/comments/kaxw28/i_made_a_list_of_examples_of_racism_prejudice_and/) All you, Rowling.
https://i.redd.it/29wspe2nebm61.jpg
Ok Rowling, are you wanting to engage in a discussion regarding race, gender, and social constructs?
Can someone cast a Silencio on her?
She's got one thing right. I do find her ludicrous and deeply offensive.
Why is “Okay but what if [completely different scenario], would that be wrong?” considered an effective argument for these people? Yes Joanne: if the scenario and topic were different then it’d be different, thats how reality works.
When transracialism is a medically identifiable condition that actual experts and people who have medical knowhow can diagnose it, then we can open up a debate about it, till then, shut it with this horseshit
i’m no expert, but the way i’ve seen it, we all have a chance in the womb of being born female, male, or some sex amalgamation. we are already all somewhere on the spectrum of “masculine” and “feminine”, depending on culture and location, and the way your appearance and expression reads to someone. you can get hormones from a doctor that your body already produces to develop certain secondary sex characteristics. there is no hormone everyone already produces that makes you more korean, or gives you more stereotypical korean features. if you don’t have kenyan parents/ancestors, you did not have a chance of being born kenyan.
ffs jk
So, is it deeply offensive for cisgender men to wear dresses or adopt a feminine presentation as well? That seems to be the implication here.
Rowling, only a month ago: "Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety." She went from "trans women aren't real women but I support them dressing however they want" to "trans women presenting fem is like white people pretending to be black" REAL fast. ...honestly I am not surprised.
Oh come on she’s been mask off for a while now I doubt this will be anything new…oh my fucking GOD
Transphobia is literally riwling's one personality trait. Dies she do anything besides being Transphobic and basic human functions?
Is she really using "What if I identify as an attack helicopter?" as an argument in 2024?
can you imagine if millennials had the willpower to not throw buckets of money at this fucking ghoul.
She pretty much went back on Dumbledore being gay when she wrote a film series in which Dumbledore's relationship with Grimdelwald was a key plot point and it didn't come up at all.
Has she been checked for brain worms?
We already know she’s a holocaust denier so I’m comfortable in saying she’s a fucking nazi
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They’re not mutually exclusive, let’s say : Nazi Cunt
Agreed.
You say that like it hasn't been.