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J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
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Let
Harry
Potter
Die
Just let it go.
They won't and its crazy. I know people that just CAN'T because they made it part of their personality.
The amount of people with Deathly Hallows tattoos is crazy. My partner is among them
I know a trans person who still consumes HP media. I didn't respect them before they came out and transitioned and I sure as hell not going to start now. They've always been a selfish Adult Child and they'll never stop being one.
The artist is not the same as the work.
The world of Harry Potter, the books, the movies, future shows or whatever involve a lot more people than just this fucking idiot shit writer. And a shitty person can anyway create a good thing that helps people.
Now in this case where the author is still alive, let people enjoy harry Potter stuff, while asking people to not send money her way. Help people pirate her books if they really want to read them, pirate the shows and movies. Better yet, make those involved in the shows and movies voice their opinion against her, make the money going to those works support trans people to counter JK. Make her see her works support the causes she hates.
Alienating people for liking some book series, movie or show that was made, paid, produced, written or whatever by some asshole won't help the situation. In other words, in this case, harry Potter is not the problem, it's the author.
Harry Potter is part of the problem. I am totally onboard with the idea of 'The Death of the Author', which is the concept that something like Harry Potter is much more than just intellectual property owned by a person. It's a shared cultural experience which is so much bigger than one person it becomes impossible to say the author owns it.
However, J.K. is using the profits from her intellectual property to hurt people. Harry Potter is being used as a tool to hurt people. As much as I hate to say it, Harry Potter is part of the problem. At least for now. So pirate it, consume her IP without ever paying her a penny.
Also she's not Trans rights are human rights but she wrote pollyjuice potion into her world...
Read them with a little media literacy. Birth/Blood nature keeps coming up and was one the reasons I was getting uncomfortable with the story and dropped half way though. Hagrid is naturally angry. Voldemort is evil because he was a rape baby. House Elves are natural ~~slaves~~servants. The Weasley family will always be poor(even when Harry should be paying rent or at least buying them a new car). Hell, the Irish character keeps blowing things up. This mind set in her writing reflects to JK's views on trans. You are the way you are at birth.
This. Not only is JKR a sorry excuse for a human being, she didn't even write good stories. Ursula K LeGuin wasn't keen on them either:
"I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the 'incredible originality' of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a 'school novel,' good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited."
Shaun pointed out how mean spirited the books were as well. I remember back when there was a mini satanic panic targeting the HP books and Philip Pullman came out and said that his books were way more anti-religion and that he should have been getting that attention.
The first book was... fine I guess. Nothing ground breaking and the weirdness was still shallow and hadn't created a pattern yet. I was really surprised that Voldemort became the reoccurring villain. He's just a boring villain.
Let it go, let it goooo