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J.K. Rowling uses personal wealth to fund anti-trans org
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the Harry Potter series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
You can "seperate the art from the artist", but can't seperate the Harry Potter royalties from the anti-trans funding.
Don't forget that she also has publicly said that she considers consumption of Harry Potter media as support for her political ideology. She herself literally made it a political stance.
People seemed to have no trouble dropping Gaiman after his horrendous behavior came to light, but even suggest people drop their beloved nostalgia books and it's all "but my blorbo! JK bad I guess, but I like my blorbo!".
The sad part is that the HP-verse is so clearly not for us -- that is, not for anyone besides straight white liberal Christians. The stereotypes, the handwaves, the defense of the status quo. But people choose to engage with and perpetuate this media anyway.
People would rather just enjoy the blorbo than take a stand against what it represents/supports. Comfort is "easier" than tension.
My Christian mom didn't let us watch Harry Potter because our church said it was evil. I guess it's not for Christians either, though I think that has changed and it's fine now.
Yeah, I forgot about that satanic panic stuff around HP. Maybe those xtians feel more comfortable now knowing she hates the same people they do.
Nah, that was just boomer panic and the moms now are millennials that read harry potter.
As a millennial I'm dying 😭. I feel like many of us really split between "comfy cozy uwu" and jaded cynicism
Trans rights and stuff
Rocky Horror is a bit better than Harry Potter. DON'T dream it, be it.
E .****fff
There's a real dark irony in a book about a young boy quite literally coming out of the closet to discover his true self written by a woman who might as well be a Dursley.
The irony disappears slightly when the whole slave liberation arc was literally Confederate propaganda that was so distasteful and irrelevant to the plot, it was cut from the movies.
The house elves love being slaves. It's the natural order of things.
The real dark irony is Jo saying they probably would have transitioned when they were younger if they were aware of gender expression.
Harry Potter has no true self to discover. From the first to the last page of this pile of rags he is a wizarding Mary Sue with near-infinite privilege and the personality of an oyster. The story opens with "yer a wizard" in the first 50 pages and that's the end of his character arc. From then on he's a mere vessel for the reader to experience the world and the author to move the plot along.
.... As a matter of fact, what even is the biggest character arc in that story? I don't remember much, but Neville and Hermione have a glowup and Harry's uncle dies or something? And the weasleys open a shop? I certainly don't recall anything that lends credence to the idea that Rowling even believes that either individual people or societies are capable of profound change. The story begins and ends basically in the exact same place except the characters are 10ish years older.
And then he grows up to become… a cop.