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TERF JK Rowling continues to be a hateful bigot.
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The fact that this idiot referenced Enoch Powell's speech at all, brought it back for more exposure and then praised JK Rowlings language for it's supposed bravery by saying the following:
The winners: The 2020 Russell Prize for best writing
The Russell Prize for 2020 is announced, celebrating great writing.www.bbc.com
It really should be a new thread because of how much it says about the BBC.
They awarded J K Rowling a literature prize for her writing on transgender rights. And praised her bravery. And compared her to Enoch Powell.
Fucking disgusting, cowardly scum.
The winners: The 2020 Russell Prize for best writing
The Russell Prize for 2020 is announced, celebrating great writing.www.bbc.com
It really should be a new thread because of how much it says about the BBC.
They awarded J K Rowling a literature prize for her writing on transgender rights. And praised her bravery. And compared her to Enoch Powell.
Wow
Fucking gross of BBC. Imagine if they had rewarded some writer who wrote a similar attack piece on minorities on how homosexuality is a curable disease or how black people are inherently dumber than white people or some such. That's how vile praising JK Rowling in this situation is. But because it's about those weird, perverse trans people, it's ok.
This was my first thought. Why is this so difficult?
Hmm? Oh wait, yeah, now I remember. The new books she writes are under a (male?) pen name that is also the name of some somewhat (in)famous homophobe with connections to conversion therapy, yeah?
The amount of supposedly intelligent people who don't understand this incredibly basic thing is astounding.
It's almost as if they're being willfully obtuse just to sustain some way to legitimize their bigotry.
Indeed. He literally tried to electroshock homosexual men into becoming heterosexual. She has claimed it's a coincidence (which, I mean, come on), but even so, a reasonable non bigot if they somehow made such a mistake would stop using the name and not write 6 books under it.
When they say "sex is real" what they mean is that "in our society we divide stuff by sex, not by gender so the sex you are matters most than what gender you are" but everything outside of a doctor's office or a laboratory, gender is what matters in anything in life, so saying that the "male and female bathroom" refers to gender to them it means that "sex is not real" because "sex does not matter"
The winners: The 2020 Russell Prize for best writing
The Russell Prize for 2020 is announced, celebrating great writing.www.bbc.com
It really should be a new thread because of how much it says about the BBC.
They awarded J K Rowling a literature prize for her writing on transgender rights. And praised her bravery. And compared her to Enoch Powell.
Yeah, mods can Peebs make a new thread?
This story is going to get buried and I think "BBC Celebrates Transphobia With Award, Cites 'Bravery'" should be more exposed. BBC needs to get a lot of shade for this.
With this link attached?I already wrote a complaint in about the latest BBC article. It probably won't do anything, but make your voice heard at least.
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Disappointing.
news.sky.com
Source cited there is Telegraph, but the original article both misgenders her and is behind a paywall.
JK Rowling isn't transphobic, says gender-fluid Eddie Izzard
Comedian Eddie Izzard has defended author JK Rowling, saying "women have been through such hell over history".
news.sky.com
Source cited there is Telegraph, but the original article both misgenders her and is behind a paywall.
This is just more on the pile for me. I was originally wary when the "special" characters, magical-types, used diminutive slurs (muggles, squibs, etc.) to describe non-magical characters, and then those characters (the Dersleys, Filch, etc.) are alwaye depicted as horrible people.
Then came Gringotts and I got REALLY wary that she portrayed bankers as goblins with huge noses and no morals, like worse versions of ferenghi.
There's more but this stuff just piles on that she really is a sack of troll shit.
Then came Gringotts and I got REALLY wary that she portrayed bankers as goblins with huge noses and no morals, like worse versions of ferenghi.
There's more but this stuff just piles on that she really is a sack of troll shit.
i don't see why the Contra Points video shouldn't be its own thread. what does it achieve when we burry a video like that in this catch all thread about JKR. i mean i'm fine with not opening a thread everytime she says a stupid thing but i feel like this goes against the point of that.
Not quite sure why deconstructions of how and why Rowling is bigoted are shunned into this thread while Harry Potter TV series and game threads are allowed with a "don't worry it's alright to be excited tho" disclaimer in them. Pretty counterintuitive imo. I had hoped that the nods toward potentially blocking the IP here for how morally repugnant support for it is – that came in the wake of Cyberpunk 2077's mess – were more than just lumps of snow in the morning sun.
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Someone made a thread for it -
www.resetera.com
J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints
Just became visible to non-patrons and it lasts 90 minutes, so haven't watched it, but I thought some of you would like a heads-up. Content warnings apply, obviously, for discussion of transphobia but also abuse and assault. Really, really curious about her take on Rowling's (and a lot of the...
www.resetera.com
There was but it was locked because apparently we can be hyped about all things Harry Potter but not give (re)new(ed) visibility on her bigotry.
It was locked and then reopened, to give some context for the above.Someone made a thread for it -
J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints
Just became visible to non-patrons and it lasts 90 minutes, so haven't watched it, but I thought some of you would like a heads-up. Content warnings apply, obviously, for discussion of transphobia but also abuse and assault. Really, really curious about her take on Rowling's (and a lot of the...
Joan is a billionaire with endless money streaming into her accounts thanks to being the creator of one of the most profitable media properties ever. Not buying a game because she's gonna get royalties from it is not the point you should be making.
You should instead boycott this game because the world of Harry Potter itself is incredibly bigoted and reflects JK's own disgusting views. A lot of her transphobia and bigotry in general manifests itself in her work, sometimes in subtle ways (see: JK's obsession with girls' bathrooms in Harry Potter always having an evil/dangerous intruder in them) and other times in not so subtle ways.
The point I'm trying to make here is that you can't separate the art from the artist in this instance, because the art itself is dripping with the artist's prejudices and bigotry.
You should instead boycott this game because the world of Harry Potter itself is incredibly bigoted and reflects JK's own disgusting views. A lot of her transphobia and bigotry in general manifests itself in her work, sometimes in subtle ways (see: JK's obsession with girls' bathrooms in Harry Potter always having an evil/dangerous intruder in them) and other times in not so subtle ways.
The point I'm trying to make here is that you can't separate the art from the artist in this instance, because the art itself is dripping with the artist's prejudices and bigotry.
who even said that sex isn't real? Why does she continue to blather on about it? it's so bizarre. Nobody is denying that sex is real lol what the fuck Joanne
Hmmm, I haven't read the books in a long while but I don't think I ever got that from reading them. I think I'm going to do another re-read with this in mind, I'm sure it'll be eye opening.
Your broader point is more relevant but also one of the Devs is a huge bigot too apparently? So that's just another reason to stay away from the game, specifically?
I agree that her work is shaped by her biases, but I think it would be worth boycotting her even if that wasnt the case. Keeping her work relevant gives her an increased platform that she uses to spread her hate.
I want to ask the staff if the new ruling to ban talk about the marketing of the Hogwarts game on Era will also be extended to other JK Rowling properties, like whenever Warner Bros. plans to show off the next Fantastic Beasts movie to the world. This is under the assumption that nothing changes at Warner Bros and the terrible people in charge of the franchise are still in charge of the next products in the series as well.
There is also the plot point that there is a spell on the girls dorm to keep boys out but not vice-versa. Some house elves are said to "like" being a slave. And the bankers are goblins described as being short with beady eyes and large noses much like racist depictions of Jews.
And that's just off the top of my head.
Damn, I do remember being confused about the girls dorm room stuff and the house elf stuff back when I initially read the books. I'm so so on the goblin thing since that's a common descriptions of goblins in general, though maybe origins of goblins (in general) are nefarious. I expected a glass/childhood shattering experience on the re-reads.
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I think a lot of these are problematic but also a lot of them seem to miss the point. Like, okay, say Werewolves represented HIV or a stigmatized disease, wasn't the whole point of Lupin and Fleur + Bill (I think?) to fight the stigma?
The whole house elves seemed fucked as well, but I don't remember them being particularly excited about being slaves. Like, wasn't that the whole point with Dobby and Hermione's fight to free house elves?
And yikes, I don't remember the implication that Umbridge was raped :S
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The house elves loved being slaves, dobby was considered an odd ball in his own community for wanting to be paid and get days off.
One could make the argument that house elves were the victim of internalized racism, but JK has shown that she doesn't deserve that kind of charitable interpretation.
Especially since Hermione's efforts to free them from slavery is treated as both misguided and insensitive. There's no analysis of why the elves "like" being slaves, no discussion of the ethics of slavery as an institution, and no real resolution beyond "yep, race-based chattel slavery exists in this universe and pretty much everyone is okay with it".
In retrospect, pretty big red flag, now that I think about it...
Reminder that the entire plot of Harry Potter 2 revolves around a massive snake (dick) in the girls' bathroom that is hidden/not easily visible wreaking havoc and causing the downfall of the entire school.
Also in the first book Hermione was assaulted by a massive troll intruding in the girls' bathroom.
Also in book 6 Malfoy got savagely disfigured in the girls' bathroom.
And also that incident where Moaning Myrtle was killed by a boy in the girls' bathroom.
There's clearly a pattern here.
Also in the first book Hermione was assaulted by a massive troll intruding in the girls' bathroom.
Also in book 6 Malfoy got savagely disfigured in the girls' bathroom.
And also that incident where Moaning Myrtle was killed by a boy in the girls' bathroom.
There's clearly a pattern here.
Just....so much yikes. Holy shit. Thanks for laying all of those points out. Absolute garbage person
You'd think the bathrooms woulde be one of the least central places one would write about in a magic school. Guess it's because it was such a groundbreaking invention in the wizard world, lest someone thinks "whoever" came up with all of this has some serious freudian issues with defecation.
I mean that just makes it all the more baffling she has these politics when none of these seem to at all involve entering those areas under false pretense or somehow being granted permission to do these harms. Even in her own fiction she seems to recognize that people who want to do harm aren't going to be deterred by the gender on the bathroom sign.
There was also that scene where Dumbledore kept refilling a woman's wine glass and got her super drunk to get information out of her which came across as incredibly fucked up to me
But that's just a minor observation. Since nobody in Harry Potter believes in meaningful reform (besides Hermione who is treated as a joke as you said) the series is all about fighting to preserve the status quo. Which is just lame.
Her brain is hardwired to think women's restrooms are dangerous places and it completely dominates her writing - there's not a single piece of fictional writing that fixates on girls' bathrooms as often and as randomly as Harry Potter.
Whether this irrational fear is derived from her transphobia or the cause of it, idk.
(also book 2 blatantly states that the presence of a snake/penis in the girls' bathroom means doom)
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