Somebody said JK Rowling is literally beefing with people she knew when they were 9 years old because they think people are entitled to to rights and dignity and for me that really made it clear for me that she does not live a single day of unfettered joy and you know what, good.
Unfathomably Rich People Being Miserable In Mansions is a satisfying flavor of schadenfreude (see also Notch in his Willy Wonka ass ant trap home ranting about the same shit)
The Notch one is especially funny to me because nobody even really remembers him. And that's for the better because he's barely done anything for minecraft himself
TERFs are some of the most singlemindedly miserable people on earth. Living in a state of aggrieved persecution 24/7. An ex-acquaintance went down that rabbit hole years ago and her entire online presence now is screeching about "biological reality" and trying to get retweeted by Graham Linehan.
Just going to throw this out there: you think it's weird the woman who hates it when people present as the opposite gender writes under a man's name? Cause I sure do.
yes, literally her terrible Corman Strike mystery novels. Male POV and a male pseudonym until she revealed they were her books cause they werent selling
Sadly it's worse than she revealed it because it wasn't selling. She actually sued the guy who leaked (and won).
Then it sold like hot cakes, got a TV deal, and she wrote 6 more, all of them bestsellers. Because she just wants to be anonymous and do it for the art, you see.
Normally, I wouldn't read anything particular into that. But if you're going to insist that men and women are virtually different species separated by an uncrossable gulf, it does seem a bit odd.
Apart from the obvious, she also appears to enjoy being horrible to her neighbours. Our local press, in Edinburgh, as made mention of her disputes, hedges, NIMBYism, the whole lot. A completely joyless person.
She legit thinks her books about a community of people who hide from mainstream society out of fear that they’ll be persecuted for who they are absolutely does not speak to trans people and that’s just some god tier fucking ignorance.
Now that I think about it, did they actually say that’s why wizards keep secret in the books? It’s a reasonable inference but I can’t remember them actually being afraid of that. I remember them saying that actual witches were never caught by witch hunters cause they just teleported away
I’m starting to wonder if they didn’t just keep themselves secret because they think they’re superior to everyone else, which would track with JKR’s outlook
Yeah, like the difference between the bad guys and good guys is that the bad guys are mean to their slaves but the good guys are nice to their slaves (and the only person saying they shouldn’t do slavery at all is treated as a joke and a hypocrite)? It’s really fucked
Filch literally mentions once how torture in the dungeons was a typical punishment for students at Hogwarts and how he “missed the screaming.” Meaning that it had been happening as recently as the 20th century. Cool.
That was my read of it. The "muggles" couldn't hang, so the "Wizarding World" left them to all of their illness and resource distribution issues and such. What would a wizard or witch in that world fear that wasn't magical?
No. In the first book Hagrid makes a comment about "everybody asking for magical solutions to their problems" and then it never really comes up again. Implying they COULD help people, they just can't be bothered. So wizards are more analogous to rich ghouls than vulnerable minorities (what the fuck)
I can't help thinking of all the Harry Potter wizards in Weimar Germany or Khmer Rouge Cambodia or famine-stricken Ireland exasperatedly declaring "Blimey, everyone be wantin' magical solutions to their problems! Piss off."
These are protagonists for sociopaths.
Even as a kid I remember constantly thinking "Harry, mate, any comment? Follow-up questions? No? Alright then." You could swap him out for a cabbage and have a more active protagonist.
Yep! lmao. Early in the series (Prisoner I think) Joanne actually said that witches burned at the stake would use freezing-flame charms and their screams were just from being tickled. Fantastic Beasts movies roll this back entirely and the American wizards are now traumatized by the witch hunts.
Don't get me wrong, I'm VERY glad people remember a message of inclusion and resistance and community from those books, that's great and valuable and I genuinely like that that's what in people's hearts, but it's not exactly supported by the text. The text is Blairite lib shit all the way down.
What do they even have to apologise for? They followed her lead to stand up against bullies and injustice. It's not their fault, they grew up to watch her become the villain, she was warning us all about.
tbc she was like this before and HP was plagiarized. hardly a shock if her true ideology and thinking come out in the later books after running out of The Worst Witch to rehash. her story of desperate poverty is also typical bunk
