We lost nice people during the COVID waves instead of her. It isn't right.

Except she still gets royalties and uses those to donate to political organizations, so you know

You mean the world where slaves like to be slaves and trying to release them is wrong, apartheid is right because the other sentient people look different, the bankers are antisemitic stereotypes and the main character becomes a literal cop enforcing all this?

It's really a magical world /s

Have you seen the two hour video by Shaun on the books? I highly recommend it for a look back on the books and the issues that we couldn't have picked up on as kids but are pretty obvious on a reread.

They're not as great as we remember them to be (if I have to read the phrase "mannish hands" or another word about a 16 year old girls "square jawline" again I think I might vomit) and if the best parts of the world are the bits created in spite of the author, why continue to associate it with her work. Obviously, it's easier said than done when you're talking about an entire community, but there's plenty of other worlds created by nicer authors.

The best thing to come out of the series was the cast from the movies being as cool as they are today, but any time I think of the world, all I can think of is the token diversity characters named things like Shacklebolt and Cho Chang (almost, but not quite Ching Chong), the young Irish boy obsessed with whiskey and explosives, and the defense of slavery that's identical to arguments from actual slave owners in the US.

Plus, there's the whole thing with the hook-nosed bankers that totally aren't Jewish stereotypes. You know who created a fantasy race based on Jews that doesn't feel like an offensive stereotype? Tolkien. Tolkien's dwarves are based on Jewish stereotypes, but don't come off that way at all because of how they're presented in the world.

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At my last job, the only who was in his 50s or older and was nice to the trans employee had HP tattoos. He saw JK being a terf (we taught him the word) as her (referring to Rowling) own problem to solve.

I am once again asking you to please read a different book

I've seen quite a few people with the old Carlsberg logo tattooed on their bodies. Imagine being a beer lover only to discover people think you're a Nazi. /s

That's a low low bar to try to beat in the first place lol

When you separate the art from the artist, you still have:

• a slaveowner cop main character
• an Asian named Ching Chong
• slavery abolitionism as a joke
• genetic superiority of certain characters (the bad guys were just wrong about which people are superior)
• rampant fatphobia
• Jewish goblin bankers
• slaves who like being enslaved
• slave heads decorated in Santa hats by the "good guys"
• freeing slaves is bad because they become alcoholics
• a black guy named MLK Shackles
• a Jewish guy named Goldstein (I did not have to change this name to make the racism more clear)
• none of the systemic issues that created the villain are ever addressed by the main characters beyond a surface level so nothing has actually been fixed, they've just delayed the takeover of society by fascists another generation or two

Good to know that I am not the only one doing this 😅

You do this after drinking, not before?

She started with 'the Nazi's didn't target transgender people' which is...

You know, provably wrong.

And since she's hanging out with more and more Nazi's, it's getting worse.

(EDIT: I think this video with Matt Bernstein and Natalie Wynn does a great job of explaining the current path Rowling is on. )

How long before we start hearing her spout that old canard about "well, as much as I disagree with Nazis, at least they're willing to speak honestly about the threat of <insert libelled minority group here>"? I believe this naziwashing manner of argumentation is called the Sam Harris Code-Injection Exploit.

Or my personal favourite: "Given how much society and the media have lied about trans people being human beings, I've now started to question everything else I've been told, such as the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and the truth about the Holocaust".

I think Graham Linehan has actually said that about vaccines and climate change, that he now questions them because most of society doesn't agree with his vicious bigotry about trans people. JKR isn't far behind him.

Christ, what a bunch of contrived bollocks. Who's the irish guy with the whiskey? Seamus? I don't even know if he mentions it once. And his spells blowing up is just the films.

What's the skinwalker thing from?

Irish character who's obsessed with whiskey and explosives.

If you try to talk about Seamus, I don't remember him making explosions intentionally. Obsession requires intention. Same with Lockheart's explosion in second book.

• Jewish stereotype goblins

So also add speciesism?

DT Rowling

Depends on the person.

And yet, at no point did she say or even infer "only white people can be women" nor bring race into the issue. The OP disagreeing with Rowling on transgender issues is absolutely fine, but to smear her by innuendo to associate her with also being racist is going too far.

It is also an example of the straw-man nonsense deployed by right wing extremists all the time; it's disturbing to see the same tactics being deployed by the left or centre on twitter and then more disturbing to see it being upvoted and even justified here.

It feels like people make loving or hating this literally a core part of their personality, and is a good model of the enshittification of the internet. The more one side pushes, the further the other side pushes back. A new species has emerged from the mingling of internet trolls and keyboard warriors. I'm going to call it the internet troglodyte. Constantly inflamatory and escalating conflict, the trog does not troll for the lulz, but they have such strong opinions they must share them everywhere every chance they have, often harming the cause they purport while turning online spaces into echo chambers.

Or just not comment if all you’re trying to do is be super edgy or whatever.

Telling lemmy not to be super edgy is a losing battle, friend.

Maybe I wasn't clear, I don't think calling out Rowling's shitty views is part of the problem. What I was trying to point at was that fandoms are just a means of marketing and people are too uncritical about how capitalism interferes with art. People are getting steered towards "investing" time and attention into something that isn't really worth it, and the author, unable to follow up the success because she really isn't that talented, instead clamps on the attention by putting out edgy political statements.

Trans-exclusionary radical feminist.

"The mudbloods are stealing our magic!"

Really? That's worth wishing she was dead? Who the fuck cares? Again, on a scale of 1-10, I think that rates a 2.

If you actually read her posts (the ones I read in 5 min of internet searching before I asked this question), her message is basically (paraphrasing) "I support trans people's rights to live as they want, but I value womanhood and take pride in my womanhood. As such, I want trans people to live as they want, but I want to keep the idea of womanhood separate because I value it as a space for women." I'm assuming she said something much worse somewhere else??? ... but that's really a fucking lame thing to base all this hate on. Really, there has to be something more, right? Right?

Thank you for being the only person who actually answered my question. I appreciate your response.

I like your comment. It's interesting to consider how the construction of gender varies not only across cultures (e.g. what is expected of womanhood in Canada versus in Japan today), but also across different cultures perception of each other.

In my country, women who are indigenous looking (physically speaking) are considered less elegant or classy than their white/whiter counterparts by these white/whiter people. These people see their femininity as not wide enough because a mix of classism and racism/colorism makes them believe that an indigenous-looking woman can only put a costume, an imitation of a high class woman, because they cannot really be one (as they think money comes only from European descent, and so being classy belongs to them) and that they don't fit those things due to their physical appearance anyways.
That's a widespread belief turned into an aesthetic perception. Show people who believe and now feel this way an indigenous woman in a gala attire and they'll feel something's wrong.

I wouldn't say this is a non-binary experience, though. I'd say this is the plurality of understandings about what is a woman and who is 'more woman' than who. It's not possible to establish what a woman is simply because it is an ever changing matter. Gender, in itself, is fluid. We expect different things from it at different times, often influenced by external factors (as seen in wars, for example). I wouldn't say this makes the people living these experiences non-binary, trans, etc. They're imposed a rule-set by their sex at birth, by their physical characteristics, just like everyone else. "You shouldn't behave this way", "you should not wear this", "do this instead", etc.

You can only say it's non-binary if you judge that the dominant ways are the standard. That is, that a woman of European descent with Western ways of life is the way women are, and that a deviation from that is non-binary. That's only true in countries like mine, like the U.S., like Argentina or the Philippines, and only for the white/whiter population. Thinking that everyone else is measuring against this standard is an ignorant and inflated vision of themselves. Sure, this standard is influential, but people have their own cultures and ideas of gender aside from possible cultural interference and influence from Western values. I'm sure an indigenous woman of my country finds the way she is criticized and scrutinized for wearing different clothes obnoxious, but that's not her whole experience as to say she lives non-binarily. She still has traditions, beliefs, and ideas of gender within her community in which she might be the epitome of womanhood. She's only living non-binarily according to white/whiter people. These people shouldn't be the ones from which names are given. It reminds me of the dichotomy of "white - POC". Why are people in the entire world categorized as "of European descent - any other" as if Europe should be the center and the defining criteria in human populations? While these divisions are common within groups ("Jews - gentiles", "Christians - heathens"), they shouldn't be used outside limited contexts and definitely not in science or any serious analysis. But that's Western egos, especially U.S.-American egos, I guess...

White people said that, I can guarantee it.

I might have missed this. To you have any sources or quotes?

Sad little duck that you are