I don't understand the lore around JK Rowling and her disdain for Trans people. Didn't she make gay characters?
Its confusing to be accepting of one and not the other.
this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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You're asking prejudice to make sense....
Years ago when I boycotted the Harry Potter game people told me it was identity politics and people using the game to fundraise for trans people would be more effective. I know there's no ethical consumption under Capitalism, and we also have very few or no options even if we try, but I still have some hesitation giving my money directly to something I know will funnel it directly to harming others (like avoiding ChicFillet) especially with software where you can just pirate.
But now we see her directly affecting politics and causing harm to people (such as the bullshit biological sex = gender ruling in the UK she funded) and it no longer feels conceptual. Any money or support of Harry Potter goes directly to harming others. Even just fundraising or steeling the software isn't good enough if you're promoting or even just making people feel validated to consume it. Trans rights are more important than my nostalgia for a kid's book.
Years ago when I boycotted the Harry Potter game people told me it was identity politics and people using the game to fundraise for trans people would be more effective.
To be honest, I feel like a lot of these boycotts are good for calling attention to issues at least, and trying to create a narrative that we should be more conscious consumers in general. We should change attitudes from "it won't do anything anyway" to "I can't stomach giving money to these people".
It is time to move on from Harry Potter, not just "decouple" it
Sad that someone who created such a beloved childhood series for so many is a massive bigot.
Stares mournfully at my Orson Scott Card Ender collection that started my childhood love of science fiction
My heartbreak was Marion Zimmer Bradley.
That's easy.
If you want to continue enjoying Potter related things, pirate the fuck out of it.
Or just don't. Accept that it was created by the figurehead of a widespread bigoted movement and move on. I read the series over 10 times. Read the 5th 6th and 7th books on release dates when I was a child. I discovered aspects of my identity through the Fandom. It far and away is the series I read as a kid that had the largest impact on me... well there were others that were close but still.
Haven't touched any of it in half a decade. I never will again either. I'm not invested in the creations of people who cause harm to me and those I love. I have no interest in anything produced by people who would bring mass violent harm against my community. I accept the influence it had on me but I let go of it and moved on. I dont believe that anyone is incapable of that, genuinely. There are other better things out there that weren't made by fascists.
I like harry potter. There are people out there judging me for doing so. to that i say, fuck off.
I am capable or separating art from the artist, something a lot of people really need to learn to do.
Her 'art' is shit though, apart from her being a transphobe her books are filled with racism, fatphobia, really weird talk about genitals etc and in the end at least one of her characters becomes a cop.
Besides all that, seperating the 'art' from the artist, if you still give her money (as she has careful contracts where she always gets royalties) is directly funding transphobia. If you wish to be the cause of more hatred, stripping of rights and death of trans people, well we don't want you here, quite frankly.
And you give your money to the art or the artist?
i dont, actually. but thats just cuz im too poor to be spending money on random stuff i wanna read. piracy ftw
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Its not a matter of separating it from her. She isnt dead, shes still alive and consuming her work is kind of a passive endorsement. You know, sure she might be the figurehead of a movement that literally rejects transgender people from society, but thats not enough to give me pause in reading and enjoying her content.
Do you think listening to Chris Brown is cool? What about Diddy? You know separating art from the artist and what not. Consuming art is apparently an entirely neutral activity with no real world implications or consequences, so surely being like "sure Diddy is a serial sexual abuser, but I just adore his music. I'm capable of separating art from the artist" is also entirely valid in your view.
That's great for you.
But for people that want to continue enjoying it, that's not a viable route.
And, like I said to a different comment, that's pretty much reiterating the post that I was responding to. And that's fine for what it is, but it's such a pointless thing to make as a response to a suggestion of piracy that works fun a base assumption that there are people that won't just throw away their existing books and movies, and jump on a boycott.
Like, your opinion is valid and all, it just wasn't useful as a response to my suggestion
I do think on some level piracy is more ethical than paying her money, but I still see consuming her work in any form as unethical. I think everyone has an internal line beyond which they will no longer consume or engage with art created by someone. Like child abusers tends to be a major one, or sexual assaulters or murderers. Not that these are hard lines that immediately disqualify any art from consumption, but I think most would agree that consuming art knowingly made by people who do those things is wrong and unethical. There's exceptions as always, loads of famous people running around who do those things who's art people love. But still I think that its hard to defend that, and that most people have a line somewhere.
By continuing to consume her work you are indirectly stating that she hasn't done anything to cross that line for you. (Not you specifically, the proverbial you) I don't think it's impossible to let go of content created by harmful people, or that anyone categorically can never do that. I think to suggest that is kind of ridiculous. Like I doubt many people would seriously defend listening to and enjoying Diddy's music.
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I read an interview with someone at Adobe a long time ago that talked about how they knew very well Photoshop was the most pirated software on the planet at the time and in fact they even did their best to track how much it was pirated and factored that in to their estimation of prevalence and reach.
I'd be surprised if the publishing industry doesn't do something similar in order to get an idea of just how popular a title and/or author is, which will of course factor in to any decision to keep publishing new work by an author and thus make them all more money.
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~~bitch~~
edit: i didn't think i was being misogynistic here but after some reading and self-crit i can see my mistake.
Someone being awful is no excuse for misogyny.
Alright then, she's a piece of shit.
[Genuine] Much better. 🙂
Excellent use of that meme 😆
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