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they didn’t even fucking apologize you dipshit
This is fascinating for two reasons.
1. They haven’t actually apologised for anything. She’s pre-emptively rejecting an apology that they have no intention of giving.
2. Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson are extremely well-liked. A lot of people are more attached to them in their roles as they are to the actual characters in the books.
What does JK Rowling gain by coming out with this?
as a german that got taught all of this in school, I want to fucking throw up and as a gender non conforming person, I also want to FUCKING THROW UP
My thoughts on the whole JK Rowling thing
So, personally I have always been a fan of the Harry Potter Books and Movies because they were very hyped when I was a child. I spent a lot of time reading the books and daydreaming myself into the HP world. Sadly enough, JK Rowling has made it harder for me to enjoy her media, because of her internalized misogyny and transphobia, that keeps popping up in her works. For example: Ginny, Molly Weasley and Hermione being mean to Fleur for no reason (Misogyny) and the description of Rita Skeeter hinting at her being trans (Transphobia obviously). I am still kind of a fan of the Harry Potter Universe but I do not agree with any of the disgusting and transphobic tweets she keeps writing. In my opinion, it’s very sad that she had to ruin her story with her stupid opinions and it’s also sad, that in order to make her shut up, we would need to make her (and in turn also her franchise) irrelevant. I might or might not watch the new Harry Potter series, but if I do I will do so illegally. One thing everybody can do is to not buy any Harry Potter merch and to not stream the movies on streaming services that earn money through that. Because these things end up earning money for JK Rowling. I just hope that people stop listening / paying attention to her bullshit and that trans people know they’re great the way they are.
You still woke up today. You still exist, despite policies being written which erase your existence. It will be hard, but as long as you exist, it is a protest. To feel joy is a protest. Do not let them rob you of life. You not only deserve to survive, you deserve to live.
hey if you're a UK resident can you sign this petition and if not please rb to spread the word
this is an official UK government petition that they have to respond to if it reaches 10,000 signatures
People keep searching for ways to argue that JK Rowling has always been a horrible person deep down as a way of explaining her recent behaviour.
But here’s the thing: that’s probably not true at all.
Pretending it is discounts the harsher, scarier truth: that even decent, well-meaning people can be radicalised by dangerous, hateful, predatory groups, and given enough time they can become truly hideous versions of their former selves.
It can happen to me. It can happen to you. It can happen to any of us, given the right mix of circumstances. And over the past few years, we’ve seen it happen to one of the most famous children’s authors of our age.
Nobody is immune.
The comment highlighted in specific seems like just a joke, but like people in the comments mentioned, it's still fucked up that Tumblr will mark tags related to Trans and Queer stuff as mature but then let fucking TERFs and other hate groups on the website???
Like, I know that the moderation system is likely at least semi-automated, so if a bunch of Transphobes get together and mass report something, but logically not report their own tags, then the automated system will take action on the queer tags and not on the hate tags and be none the wiser.
However, it's still strange because like... You'd think that, for the queerest place on the internet, the humans on the mod team would see these hate tags and be like "That's fucked up, we shouldn't allow that here", but they don't??? What's up with that???
dude oh my god. like theres no question that theres a transphobe working for staff doing this shit and theyre just letting it happen
You CANNOT separate art from the artist when the artist is still alive and producing new media to profit off.
So on that note, do NOT watch the new Harry Potter series. Do not hate watch it. Do not watch it because “it’s going to be my childhood remade”. I do not care. Do not watch it. This is a direct move to erase the original trio who have all stood against jkr.