THIS is the ONLY time JK Rowling has mentioned Harry Potter on Twitter this year, and it’s THIS:
🇲🇮🇸🇨Imagine this is all happening because Someone hacked her account and shes tied up in a closet somewhere
She’s gotten the old Imperius curse going on.
She was Pius Thicknesse all along...
It's actually Enya
Wait, is Enya a fucking TERF too?
Honestly, who knows? Because Enya did what JK should have done, and took her money, bought a castle for herself and her cats, and then more or less kept to herself.
If she had any ability to shut up she'd still be beloved for writing Harry Potter. She could have been remembered as the woman who overcame her circumstances to become a billionaire, but no, she has to hook twitter up to her asshole and post everything that comes out.
It’s just so weird to pick this hill to die on of all things…
She isn't the only one. She just has enough money to not be impacted by it. The acclaimed comedy show runner Graham Linehan, went down the same rabbit hole. Only it has completely destroyed his life. lost his career, his wife and kids. It became a mania, with him tweeting hundreds of times a day. There is something addictive about twitter and internet outrage.
Wow I had no idea Graham Linehan did that. I did find it strange that his career died after he made 3 very successful shows. I just looked it up on Wikipedia and it says it started with the transgender it crowd episode? Maybe I’m misremembering but I didn’t think the trans character was the butt of the joke, it was Matt Berry’s character for being an idiot?
Yeah I think there was some very minor backlash to that episode and it just massively snowballed as a result of his reaction to the backlash. He really went off the deep end following
Didnt JR rowling's TERF shit also start as minor backlash? Some people just can't seem to handle being wrong, and have to double down, it seems like.
I mean she's the only writer I know that will make a huge deal of "NO NO NO You're wrong the canon is actually ...." if a fan comes up with a cool and interesting theory based on the books as published.
i mean i've seen authors do this before. she the only author i have seen however who makes up the canon on the spot because it obviously didn't exist in the first place either in the original books or even in the authors head previously.
Most famous authors didn't have internet! Marx was an alcoholic who even sold his own trousers to get a new drink while his children (at least 6) died of diseases. Freud was constantly high on opium and cocaine. Hemingway was a womaniser and aloholic who liked to gameble. Now, imagine if all of those had internet and the midnight tweets we would have got.
That said: J.K. Rowling is just a thief who stole events from Trolkien's books and put them in modern day U.K.
Let me bring Ursula le Guin's Earthsea series to your attention, about a young boy brought up in neglectful circumstances, bordering on abuse, who is talent spotted by an older wizard and sent to an ancient school learning to be a wizard. He spends the third book fighting another wizard who uses powerful magic to try to live forever. Le Guin criticised her a few times for not acknowledging the inspiration.
Got to admit, I haven't read Tolkeins books.
The first time I ever read Harry Potter, the similarity that got me was to "The Worst Witch."
She stole bits from Gaiman too
Which is funny since she just retcons her own lore constantly to suit her current needs. She does it so often it's just become a joke
Honestly a ton of her shit is just LeGuin with a dash of Piers Anthony.
I think Brandon Sanderson is my favourite with the way he handles this sort of thing, where he says something along the lines of "that's a really interesting theory! It's not what I have in my ridiculously extensive notes and plans (and you'll find out more about this soon I promise), but I really love your take on it!"
Or when someone has a question about the lore, and he just says, "read and find out!"
Because she lifted her entire concept from better writers and thinly disguised it as original plus British schoolchildren
I get why it’s popular but she also has never deserved her fans adoration. Far more lucky than good
Am I misremembering or did Anne Rice do similar?
I remember reading on old TVT somewhere she had a hand in OurXAreDifferent due to raging about fan fic
Fair. I guess only one loud enough that I noticed it without following them or watching interviews of them.
Yeah, she started off being subtle about it. Liking terf tweets and things. Harry potter stans were adamant she wasn't a terf.
Then she was forced to unlike them and unfollow the terf accounts and apologise, so she apologised but didn't unlike or unfollow. Then it snowballed from there.
Took a while for harry potter stans to acknowledge she was actually a terf. Which makes sense, cause if somebody you look up to has horrendous ideals, you'd find it hard to believe and need some serious proof.
She let the mask slip ever so slightly. If she had kept it on a bit longer, she might've released a few more books and movies. Though, she's already made squillions and has nothing to really lose.
Edit: In hindsight, I think it started during covid? Which might explain it. Terminally online whilst inside turned a lot of people insane.
But it might've also been before that
Honestly, any fan of HP who was still listening to her by the time the TERF shit started to surface was already huffing copium, unless they'd repressed the memories of Cursed Child and the whole "wizards shitting in corners" thing, and all the other dumb shit she'd tweeted (and if that is the case, I envy them)
She seemed to get high on the notion that people were doing deep-dives on her books, and became convinced that no matter how deep people dove into the series that she’d worldbuilt even deeper.
It was that doubling down on thinking she’d put more time into her books than the people analysing them that led her to creating that overconfident double down attitude that went down so poorly on the trans stuff.
I dunno - she wrote the first Robert Galbraith novel in 2010-11 but it took until her terfdom for his name to raise red flags (Robert Galbraith Heath - proponent of gay conversion therapy).
Not entirely true, people were certainly all “waaaaaaait a minute?!” At the time. It just didn’t really go anywhere.
I think she was just desperate for attention and found something that gave her positive attention from the right and from TERFs which allowed her to still feel “progressive” what with that flimsy excuse for feminism they pretend to actually care about, since I do think it’s a major part of her identity
That’s the thing. The episode wasn’t extremely transphobic in itself, as far as I can remember, although in quite bad taste. But when the criticism came up in the general public discussion, he doubled down and started making anti trans comments that just grew worse and worse.
Iirc the source of the humour was despite the fact that the character had transitioned into being a woman, they gave themselves away by doing lots of male coded things, i.e. arm wrestling, downing pints of lager. The not so subtle underlying message being, no matter how much you try, you'll always be a man really.
I’ll take your word as I don’t remember it. That seems pretty mild to me.
You're both right. I didn't remember it being really transphobic, but when you look back with hindsight, you CAN feel the seed of what he later became. I think he had some very common latent transphobic attitudes of "I don't get this, it feels pretty ridiculous and a bit yucky". Like lots of the previous generation of mainstream tv writers felt about gay men. It then snowballed into very radical fringe dangerous transphobia. He's been surprisingly influential over the transphobic hate movement. Weirdly, that MAGA conspiracist trope of "ok groomer" (as a reply to anything a trans woman says on Twitter, implying they're a paedo) seemingly started with HIM.
Funnily enough, I took the joke that Matt Berry’s character was too bigoted to accept his perfect relationship
He's someone I've been so disappointed in. I was on marches with him against religious ownership of a maternity hospital here and linked in with him and his wife during the campaign to overturn our abortion ban. He was always abrasive and direct but I felt he was a good guy on the right side of history. I believe he started getting into anti trans shite after surgery when he was at home with nothing to do but go online. His wife must have faced an intolerable situation seeing him fall down this rabbit hole and he can't come back to normal because this is his sole identity now.
I think you have to classify it as a mental illness. It's destroyed his life and is clearly compulsive.
Boredom and money. Rowling has succeeded and has everything and anything she wants. She's fucking bored out of her skull and debating people from a heavily disagreed upon viewpoint is entertaining.
Day drinking hasn't helped.
Seriously
She legit sounds like my alcoholic aunt going on a 5 hour tirade about something that happened 40 years ago that nobody else remembers
Brain worms
RFK is carrying on the family legacy of having holes in their brains
Oof
Right?! You had the world by the balls, lady! Why ruin it over one political view! A view you could absolutely have in the privacy of your own mind and no one would care if you just SHUT UP about it! Had she just dropped it after that first op-Ed everybody would have pretty much forgotten about it by now, but instead she doubled down a million times over!
She cares too much about the woke world for her own good
I don't understand why people are so surprised she picked this hill, there is such a large percentage of people who share her view, who feel their voices are being drowned out. She knew exactly what she was doing and how lucrative it would be for her! It's exactly why radio shock jocks share their bigoted opinions! She knew it would give her so much notoriety and maintain her relevance, and she knew foe every fan she lost, she'd gain popularity with crowds she previously was irrelevant too. She'd already tapped out most of her old market.
For me, it's more just that I can't fathom having as much money as this money and being so chronically online and chronically outraged by things that don't actually affect my life.
She has enough money to literally do ANYTHING she wants. If it was me, I'd be off on a tropical island somewhere and twitter would be the least of my concerns.
It’s probably Graham Linehan.
she's at the bottom of a coffin and someone is plucking her hairs
Meh, I'm pretty sure all of that money's just gone to her head.
If I convince myself that this is true, does that mean I can unironically enjoy the books again?
If only...it'd make more sense to us. This is just sad.
Does she ever tweet about anything else? It’s fucking weird trans people are all she tweets about.
Even Elon Musk told her to tone it down.
If Elon Musk is the voice of reason, you know you're in too deep.
Like Kanye on Alex Jones
The odds of one of them being saner than the other are 50:50 on any given day.
Jones reached a limit when Nazis were praised, pretty sure Kanye reaches his limit when Jones claims to know the future.
Let's not give him too much credit, when he told her to tone it down, he also said he "heartily agree"d with her
I think that's what makes it even more absurd - musk is OPENLY transphobic and even HE is saying rowling should tone it down.
He only told her to also post other things, not to stop posting TERF shit.
That's a good point. I was more interpreting it as he wanted her to post less TERF shit.
He wrote “… may I also suggest posting interesting and positive content on other matters” which I interpret as
(a) he thinks her anti-trans shit is “interesting and positive”
(b) he just wants her to not exclusively about that one subject so she doesn’t lose her Potter fanbase and keeps a larger audience for anti-trans messages on the way.
Ooh, I hadn't thought about point B.
Yeah and that makes it even more funny, like "um Jo I love you and support you but, um, look, you have such a massive following, could you please help me out here and diversify your content a little bit, as much as we love your transphobia it's starting to become a bit of a drag."
Also it's funny that she keeps supporting and platforming all those far-right men while proclaiming herself to be a staunch feminist, and then one of them hits her with the equivalent of "you'd be prettier if you smiled more". And she just meekly agrees and tweets about her creative work for the first time in ages.
“I agree with what you’re saying but can you talk about literally fucking anything else?” Was pretty his take on her
This is true.
She’s Graham Ladyhan now. They should marry each other and never fuck.
Or fuck so much they stop tweeting already.
At this point, I don’t think either of them can cum without a character limit anymore 🤣
Hell is watching those two shag over and over for eternity...
They’d never, ever be sure the other wasn’t secretly trans.
She talks about trans issues more than trans people do
She claims to do it for the sake of women, but focuses 99.9% of her energy into shitting on trans people just trying to live their lives and mentioning next to nothing about women. Not sure what she thinks she's doing for us. I know she's done some charity, and thats great, but its clearly not her focus at all. Its just so bizarre.
Yeah I haven’t seen her spend even a fraction of the time focusing on actual women’s issues, like how basic reproductive rights are being eroded.
American women dying from sepsis in hospital beds because doctors aren’t allowed to perform medically necessary abortions? Being forced to carry their rapist’s baby to term? I sleep
trans women peeing in mall bathrooms? Real shit
She's 10,000% abusing people in some bathroom and accusing others of doing it.
Their kind always accuses themselves
Imagine knowing her before when she was just a regular broke biggot
She's in a cult.
You know, I hate orange juice. But I never make it other people’s problems. I just don’t drink it. I don’t spend my time thinking and talking about how much I hate orange juice. I just never buy it and never consume it. She could learn from this example.
You don't drink it with vodka? Well, there's your problem right there.
Vodka sunrises are actually the one time I tolerate them.
The breakfast of champions!
People drink just straight mixers? How weird.
She's such a broken person. Imagine having all the money in the world, and spending all your time locked up in a Scottish castle where you tweet endlessly about trans folks. It's just not the sign of a healthy mind.
Her ex husband probably realized that she's an ass and got caught having a good time with a transgirl. Her hate for them is more than just disagreeing with them. It's a vendetta against them.
No, she was sexually assaulted by a man. Now she can’t trust anyone who was born a male. Everything men do is bad, and trans women are just evil crossdressers who are trying to deceive her.
She’s written a column about her SA experience, and a whole book under a male pseudonym where the bad guy is a crossdresser who kills women.
It’s all trauma. Like, incredibly basic stuff.
Which, you know, my sympathies… but she’s attacking another, wholly unrelated community who’s already having a hard time and trying to punish them for something that has nothing to do with them.
All to feel safe and in control, this rich woman just sits alone on her pile of money, spends her days on Xitter, spends her money funding extremists, and just… can’t be happy.
Then she should get fucking therapy already. Doesn't even have to wait on the NHS like the rest of the plebs, she has all the money in the world for private care.
I hate this argument so much. Like, I got SAd myself, I know this shit sucks ass, but no one else is responsible for the actions of the dipshit who SAd me, and thinking that everyone even broadly similar to him is the same is utter madness.
If I fell into that thinking, I'd be entirely unable to function at all, and that she's chosen to put her entire trauma on an extremely vulnerable group of people who have nothing to do with her assaulter just makes her a POS of the highest calibre.
The problem is, she's in a cult that specifically targets survivors of that type of abuse. They had almost run out of money, too.
Which cult?
GC movement is not officially a cult, but they are very predatory and use similar tactics.
I was SA'd by a woman. it would be asinine for me to just come out of that saying all women including myself are evil and out to get all other women. It's just a major cop out of dealing with an obvious psychological issue.
It's not even like she was SAed by a trans woman. It was A MAN. That's like getting revenge on a bully by shooting a bystander
It’s all trauma. Like, incredibly basic stuff.
She's also said some really egg-coded things. While I don't think she's actually a transman, it does sound like she has some gender trauma from her childhood that she never fully processed. After decades of stuffing those feelings down, she's now unwilling or unable to processes them. What's worse, instead she has bought too deeply into the gentle lies of the TERF brain rot and projected all those uncomfortable feelings onto trans people.
plus, yknow, she's the mind that wrote a race of people who like being slaves even though said race's most important character's story was about being freed from slavery, so I think any form of systemic change might be outside of her grasp.
Usually when people become bigots due to past trauma, they become bigoted at the demographic that traumatised them. So why is she out to get trans women if she got abused by a cis man?
I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out one of her kids became trans and cut her off, just like what happened to Elon Musk.
it's because she doesn't belive trans women are women, she belives they are men trying to invade women's spaces. She probably thinks all men are inherently bad, so trans women can't be women, because they were born a "man" and therefore they are inherently bad and theres nothing they can do about it and they are evil and a menace to "real" women.
If you are willing to ignore the really misandrist and transphobic bases to that conclusion, her logic is actually surprinsingly sound, too bad those points are too concerning to ignore.
Trauma has its own logic. It errs on the side of caution, even when that’s not objectively reasonable.
Trauma also impedes our ability to learn. When she was growing up, trans people weren’t a thing.
Had she learned enough about trans people before her SA, she might have come out of it with a different attitude, because those categories would have already been differentiated in her mind.
It’s highly ironic that while she was assaulted by a cis person, she fears trans people; and while she was assaulted by a man, she is especially fearful of trans women.
As said, trauma indeed does have its own logic.
It's because she also doesn't believe that being trans is a real thing. So she believes that any trans woman is actually a cis man who's lying about it. So in her mind, her hatred of trans people is just an extension of her hatred for men.
Ahh, the Elon Musk method.
From what I've seen I think it stems more from misandry than anything. I see that a lot with "feminist" anti-trans women. They seem to have an intense fear or loathing of men in general, and can't see trans women as anything other than that. And they feel like trans women existing is a violation of them by men.
Ask them about trans men though. They infantilize them, say they’re just confused or tricked, because ultimately they’re somewhat misogynistic too.
Well typically to be misandrist requires a pretty shitty view of gender as a whole, so it's not surprising.
I find TERFs ultimately very self-defeating; their whole point brews down to accepting that men are inherently violent etc. which means that they genuinely believe feminism can never bring equality, and only 'manage' the worst traits they see in men. This is how supremacist shit starts, tbh.
My friends mom is a TERF and she told me a story about how one of her siblings is trans and her response to them coming out to her was to say she still loved them but she doesn’t believe you can be trans because she fundamentally disagrees with gender? I’m not totally sure what she meant but I was pretty disgusted that she could do that to a sibling.
I think TERFs in general just don't past the sniff test from the gender angle, like, feminism was always about moving past sexual essentialism in gender - women are not only useful for their ability to give birth, there is no innate divide besides the one that is enculturated to us.
TERFs did a 180 on that, which tbf biological essentialist feminists were a big critic of feminist movements throughout time, but it wasn't until the 80s/90s that you started getting people who were biological essentialists and claimed to be feminists, but there were always a sorta weird fringe group that didn't really get any mainstream traction until they started becoming the face of hating on trans people - and they are pretty much exclusively supported and platformed by people who also hate women, they are used as a means to an end.
Yeah, she wrote that whole “im not transphobic” manifest, and one of her arguments was “i’m not transphobic because i include trans men in my feminism”.
If I remember correctly, Rowling actually wrote an essay about how she felt unsafe and insecure in a female body when younger, with the implication she may have been "easy prey for going the trans route" if it had been available to her, so all trans men are essentially that - women afraid of being women.
And by transfer of BS thought, that's why gender affirming care shouldn't be available to anyone, because the AFABs are confused, vulnerable and tricked into ruining their bodies, and the AMABs are rapists who want easier access to women.
They infantaLise trans men and they think that transwomen are men.
I haven't kept up with her because it's just gross. But I remember finding her early tweets and links she was sharing and I got this impression. One blog post she shared stuck out to me as it was supposedly written by a gay woman who worked at a gay rights non profit. She fet so scared being anti trans at work and pressured by coworkers to accept trans people she was secretly writing it from the bathroom (seems legit...) and it was pretty much just saying being okay with trans people was being a gender trader.
Just a lot of self victimizing.
Ooh. Gender trader. That’s sane and loving language.
Misandry is on the money. And didn’t it all kick off with trans women in female bathrooms? She a particular thing about ‘invasion’ of female only space and it’s grown from there. Maybe she should some of her pile on therapy.
It kicked it off with a retweet that got minor backlash to it. She never could handle that.
The ‘invasion’ shit now led to TERF in my country getting angry at (check note) department store having a parental friendly room in man’s ,and urinal for toddlers in women’s rooms.
They are an extremely tinny group of terminally online people but they will go out of their way to harass any company or government institution they perceive as enemy.
You're kind of right. A lot of it is misandry.
But there's also a particularly British style of TERFism that seems to be an extension of 2nd wave feminism's "gender as class".
2nd wave built on top of a lot of the class conciousness philosophy that was gaining traction at the time, particularly insofar as woman was defined as an underclass to man, through an oppressor oppressed relationship. "Political Lesbianism" in particular can be understood as essentially class gender solidarity.
It makes sense then, that UK style TERFism is ideologically linked to their long and lingering issues with classism at large.
And it goes a long way to explaining why UK terfs tend to be so different (at least in rhetoric) to the US style anti LGBT+ religious moralism.
If you listen to interviews with a lot of the major UK TERFs (e.g. Kelly Jay Kean, Julie Bindel, Louise Distras, and Rowling), you can see that a lot of them have struggled with the way that they've been treated due to being women. built their identity and see their womanhood in opposition to men. And rail against the "gender ideology" that seeks to break down this binary that may have caused them harm, but ultimately become a core part of their personal identity.
It's evident in how they tend to treat Trans women as dangerous predators yet treat Trans men as either gender traitors or as poor young girls "fleeing" womanhood.
Rowling's recent Twitter rant about how there's no logical inconsistency in refusing to be defined by her chromosomes whilst simultaneously refusing to accept the validity of trans people doesn't make any sense if you think about it from the progressive standpoint, but it makes perfect sense from this "quasi 2nd wave gender as class" perspective.
TL;DNR yeah, it's essentially misandry with extra steps. But it's particularly british in how it manifests.
Well yeah she is the texbook defijition of a TERF
This ^
I remember many of her tweets were clearly showing how she’s angry at men “invading women’s spaces”. She did never hide very well her hate for men
The deep misandry is from this 100% they are from the 2nd wave and this is why people like jk reject intersectionality they basically reject the 3rd and 4th wave and over time this group created the terf movement. And over time the radical feminists got heavily influenced by the far right. Like how the liberation of labourers and workers got turned into authoritarian dictatorships like the USSR and China etc, the whole point was to liberate a group of people but something happened and turned into hate.
Like if you read Wikipedia, trans people always have been in the feminist movement, but in the 70s the radicals didn't want to include trans people and then in the late 70s BS about how trans people want to force women back into gender norms (remember at this time straight radical feminists were calling themselves lesbians) and claiming that trans people r*pe womens bodies by reducing the real female form to artifacts. Literally all the current shit thrown at trans people come from this part of feminist history and mostly from 1 book. And basically from this onwards actual lesbian feminists started to protect trans people, mainly trans women.
Why were the straight 2nd gen radfems calling themselves lesbians? I'm good with puzzles, but can't figure that one out...
political lesbianism. i can't really explain in more depth but that's a jumping-off point
Yeah,I have seen some prominent anti-trans women on other platforms (not English one) basically calling all trans women man with malicious intent, like they legitimately believe the only reason they transitioned is to gain entry to women’s and children’s spaces ,to a point now they are attacking government buildings for having parental friendly bathrooms in man’s room,because it IS a space for man to do crime (don’t ask me how, don’t understand it either) .
And they even got angry at department store for having toddlers urinal in women’s bathroom ,because,I shit you not their argument is “WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO LOOK AT A DICK IN WOMENS ROOM”
Stop looking at baby’s peepee you freak,Jesus Christ, they call themselves TERF but sided with literal misogynist who openly call all women who want right over their bodies baby killers and against equal rights, I just can’t understand this kind of madness.
from what i've seen most transphobic arguments stem from some sort of sexism. of course you belive that you cant be a gender different from your AGAB if you also belive that some genders are born to be evil and bad or that some other genders are born to be fragile and naive.
Most arguments against trans women being women just end up saying that cis women are baby making machines and nothing more, which is hella ironic since basically the entire point of feminism is promoting the idea that they are not.
Overall if you really belive both genders are equal then you'd have no problem having people switch between them, therefore if you belive in gender equality you must logically belive in trans rights, so that means that by definition it is impossible to be feminist and transphobic at the same time. The only way that you could say you support womens rights, but not trans rights is if you are a misandrist masked as a feminist, which is basically every TERF. We should just stop calling these people feminists because they are not and just end up harming actual feminism.
My wife and I think so too! There’s a deep misandry at play there…
Nah. It’s just old fashion boomer homophobia/transphobia.
Bit how can she be homophobic if Dumbledore is gay?
(/s obviously. It's not a good thing that the only gay relationship in the 7 books, 3 movies and 1 play she wrote ended in heartbreak and that Dumbledore never had another partner)
"Heartbreak" a.k.a. turns out one gay man was a magical Hitler and the other was manipulating young kids into doing his bidding, definitely no agenda pushing there.
She’s terrible but her ex was just an abusive tool. She ran away with her child to get away from him. He came out of the woodworks like a year or two ago and claimed he only slapped her once and that he doesn’t regret it apparently. It’s unfortunate she’s chosen to weaponize her dv experience and use it against trans people.
Looking back on it, Rowling has had anti-trans views for a lot longer than we've realised.
If you look at how she describes Rita Skeeter in Goblet of Fire, I think you can connect some dots.
Rowling describes her as having "large, mannish hands" and a "heavy-jawed face"
And what did Rita Skeeter do? She disguised herself to spy on children. Which is exactly what Rowling thinks that trans women are doing.
I mean, it's not just Skeeter. If you look at physical descriptions of "villain-coded" characters, a truckload of them are either fat, "mannish" women or both. She's very clear in her disdain for specific physical features from the first book onwards.
To be devil's advocate, she mostly gave her masculine features because she's ultimately a misandrist. I don't even think she intended for her to be a trans allegory - but of course, the misandry is what led to the TERF shit.
I had to google Rita Skeeter's description because it's been years, and shit, you're right
Someone could write a book about this
Not Voldemort, she’s more of an Umbridge. Condescending as hell.
I was looking for this comment 😄
It all makes sense if you realize she’s Umbridge not Hermione.
Funny you mention Hermione because JK originally based Hermione off herself 💀. She even admitted that Ron was the type of guy she was into at the time. Hermione had her flaws but she would absolutely not be a terf who incessantly whines about trans people online.
Honestly some choices she made with Hermione make a lot more sense when you realise how JKR acts these days. The narrative tends to be a lot more forgiving of Hermione's fucks up compared to Harry or Ron (Ron in particularly is never spared at all). With Hermione, even when she is wrong, the narrative always includes some element that makes her at least partially right so she is never really wrong. Yes that includes the house elves, the narrative proves her right in the end (as it should!). The kiss between her and Ron happens after Ron, who mocked the movement the most before, makes a pro-elf remark.
However this tendency of Hermione always being excused carries into even when she is being an ass. She is totally unsympathetic to Ron not wanting his pet rat being eaten by her cat - well the book emphasizes how sad and miserable she is over mean Ron being mad at her, and in the end the rat turns out to be a murderer while the heroic cat was trying to save them the entire time.
In HBP, Hermione attacks him physically with birds over her jealousy, and it's still Ron who is described by the narrative in unflattering terms, while Hermione is presented as a poor victim (compare to Goblet of Fire, where Ron's extreme jealousy, which was never physical, is portrayed as an ass moment for him, while Hermione's violent jealousy is treated as a deserved lash out). Then later in the same book Hermione makes fun of him during class, and he retaliates by also making fun of her. Hermione begins to cry, Harry takes her side and tells Ron to stop acting like that. Rowling is like Hermione; she is the first one to attack, but when her victim fights back she begins to act like she's being victimized and claims total innocence. JKR thinks she's some unsung warrior who is never wrong fighting against injustice, just like Hermione is constantly having her flaws and nasty moments brushed aside or at least excused to some extend.
you analyzed this so well!!
Starting from the third book I began disliking Hermione, and seeing her current behaviour honestly I feel justified for having never liked her self-insert.
Condescending but most of all... vile, nasty, venomous.
She’s so lame. This is what happens when you lose your passion for writing because you don’t need to work anymore and you fill your long days with social media and being a Karen.
The way I would disappear from social media and enjoy my money if I became rich. Bye, losers. I’m traveling, shopping, helping people, saving animals and having fun. You wouldn’t catch me trying to oppress a tiny minority that is not hurting anyone.
Oh, so that's what the K in JK stands for
I’m not even rich and I’ve disappeared from most social media (minus this) and it’s been fine
Ironically she refuses to use an editor anymore for her murder mysteries.
I’m going to guess she didn’t really have much of an editor for the last few Potter books either
I don't think she ever had a very good editor. I distinctly remember my father reading them to me as a kid when they first came out and he would literally stop reading to mention that the editing was awful. My dad is a STEM lord, if he can notice it, it has to be pretty bad.
That would explain why the last few books all ended up about the size and weight of a refrigerator.
If you look at the books in a row, you can tell the point where she became more powerful than her publisher.
i don’t understand why this would be anyone’s hill to die on. tbh it doesn’t matter if you believe in more than 2 genders or not, or even if you don’t think a trans woman is a woman but wtf happened to the golden rule? just respect people. that’s it
Bro JKR really became a billionaire, then realized trans people exist and went “fuck you all in particular”
Can you imagine being so twisted
What's crazy is the trans issue is not an issue. They've existed for all time and they're such a tiny portion of the population for how much of the new cycle and coverage that they dominate. Because certain political parties have weaponized them to stir up emotions in their base and in JK's case broken her brain through exposure in the algorithm.
Like honestly just let them exist how they've always existed nobody cares. This is all so dumb and fruitless. I've never seen something such a non-issue becomes such an issue for no reason at all
The elites need a scapegoat to distract people from issues such as wealth inequality and climate change.
My theory is that since they've pretty firmly lost the cultural war when it comes to gay people they had to shift the focus somewhere else.
Yep, and as soon as they've sufficiently ostracized and criminalized trans people they'll go right back to hating gay people.
Since gays are generally more accepted into society, they can't use that scapegoat all the time. It's just a pain that as soon as I realise these feelings I have may be due to being trans, they become enemy number one
They will eventually run out of scapegoats hopefully
Literally, there aren't more trans people now they are just more visible. People are pretending like we haven't heard the exact same talking points about gay people just a couple of decades ago.
A massive portion of the transphobes Ive heard speak think trans people just started existing in the last couple decades and that its just a trend and therefore doesnt deserve respect. They dont even care to educate themselves about very basic facts. Its sad.
Exactly
We aren't a new thing, we have been around as long as humans have
All the oldest cultures (that have decent records) have mentions of things like a "third gender" or people no gender at all (and a ton of genderless gods)
Even a roman empress was trans, they just didn't have the terms for it back then. Elagabalus literally offered half of Rome for any doctor that could make her biologically female
If I wrote the single best-selling children's fantasy book series of all time and made billions upon billions of dollars from it, I would simply shut up and go away forever to live in my mansion on my island that I own and never talk to a single person again. Or am I the one who's crazy for that?
you’re absolutely right and i don’t understand either. i would just keep pumping projects i really wanna do from my faraway mansion and twerk the other half of the time. i don’t understand the need to install twitter and argue with people
Rowldemort
ONE tweet about Harry Potter and it's still about gender. She's obsessed.
I’ll take things that didn’t actually happen for $50 please.
Terfs suck dude
She lost me at wizard poop a long time ago.
Do y’all think being an absolute weirdo and unable to read rooms or fit in comes with certain kinds of gifts? I’m asking because I’m running into a situation with someone very well known and respected (and seemingly very much a genius in his field) and the more I get to know this person, the more WTF I uncover about his opinions and thoughts and behavior. I’m not making excuses, I’m just wondering if there’s a relationship here, and if this is why these people tap into a part of the brain we don’t that sort of makes them disconnect from other things that are easy for the rest of us.
Jesus, does she EVER STFU? "Oh, I'm bored, im just going to make up a fantasy thing in my head about my books and then go and post it on twitter and pretend its real".
Grow up Jo, that never happened.
When you think about it, JK is just the book writing equivalent of a one hit wonder...
Pretty much. She's tried to do other things since the HP books end and none of it has gone well. It's kinda sad that posting this kind of thing on Twitter is the only reason she's still relevant.
Even the HP books kiiiiinda sucked more and more with every volume. She kept writing herself into a corner and despite having the excuse of “a literal wizard did it” everything got more and more contrived.
she wrote time travel into the story and didnt even make it hard to use then and had to write it out by having someone fall and break all the time travel devices.
like she cant think of some super insane restrictions or magic reason they cant use them to solve all the problems in the universe or the foresight to just not write that shit in the story before needing to do all that
To be fair you can’t really have time travel in stories without making it a time travel story. But I guess it was her choice to use time travel in the first place.
The restriction on Time-Turners is that they make closed time loops and can't be used to travel more than a few hours backwards. (No, the play doesn't exist)
I mean she made them annoying to use because you had to go back minute by minute (imagine the cursed play with THAT), which im guessing she thought would have been good enough
Sorry, we can't go back and prevent your child's death. The time travel machine we made is too annoying and I just can't even
Im sorry your son got hit by a car last night. It was over 5 hours ago, so we arent using the time travel machine because idk man that seems like to short for a sleep but to long for a nap so sorry for your loss - the magic doctor
Her detective novels sell really well and have been turned into a series for Showtime. Her drama, The Casual Vacancy was a best seller and made into and was made into a mini series for HBO, and starred Kate Winslet.
Am I thinking of someone else, or are those the books she wrote under an alias and they sold in poor to middling numbers, then she revealed it was her to boost sales and attention?
yeah, and it sucks ass. 50 shades sells well but nobody pretends it's any good.
her galbraith stuff is embarrassingly bad, and crammed full of vile, dehumanising queer stereotypes and oh yeah is named after a man who liked to torture queer people. but getting back to my point, it's really really bad.
Honestly I bought the first one off of ebay to see if it was any good for $4. I'm 60 pages in and it's just dead boring. If she had not been JKR, absolutely no way would she have been able to publish more than one of these.
they tick all the boxes of boring, artless, dumb, and offensive. truly remarkable, considering there's so much actually good material in HP. some toxic shit too, but some genuinely great, insightful, creative stuff as well, as much as that is irritating to those of us who deeply hate her now.
it's clear her brain just broke at some point. it's just not clear exactly when.
this is exactly the reason its 'best selling'. the people who support her trash politics are buying to purely own the libs even tho they considered her books evil Satan story till 2010
The woman is insufferable
She’s made her whole, weird thing about trans people her entire heel persona.
She's completely lost it.
That woman needs to get a hobby...
Does the J.K. stand for Just Kidding?
No, it stands for Jowling Kowling.
JK Rowling is a disappointment
She’s obsessed. Sounds like she’s jealous
My husband’s theory is that she made a monkey-paw wish to have her books published, but the trade off was that she became a massive arsehole, or was no longer able to hide her arsehole ways.
All you had to do was keep your mouth shut amd sit back and let the money roll in. But no, get rich, go fasc.
I loved to read harry potter. I loved to watch the movies. I can understand the themeparks and merch, but some people are overdoing it. Also i think it's a bit overrated. Same for the author.
What does she think an editor is for?
I'll take her money if she doesn't know what to do with it
She keeps throwing it at fundraisers and such for anti-trans legislation. She's literally funding legal transphobia. If I were to take that money and spend it all on a villa with a fully functioning private zoo and botanical garden with a massive fence around it to keep the plebeians out of my back yard it would still be better spent than the shit she's using it for.
Did she just like.... lose her mind one day? or was she always like this?
I'm so glad JK Rowling wasn't my childhood and Katherine Applegate was ☺️
Jesus JK. Give it a rest.
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