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CW: Harry Potter. What's your stance on JK Rowling and Hogwarts Legacy
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Hey there, I'm a mod of c/traa and was recently called out for saying JK Rowling is transphobic and buying the Hogwarts game is a bad idea. I was told that the 'actual trans people with sense' are here and agree that playing the Hogwarts game is fine, and so is giving money to a transphobe billionaire. This ally of trans rights (and instance admin of a large server that isnt blahaj or hexbear) of course seems to vehemently disagree.
So, as a question, do you agree with giving money in any way to JK Rowling? Do you agree with supporting Harry Potter as a franchise? 🤓 I have a feeling I already know the answer to this, but I figure yall might find this whole thing amusing
I expect my post will be controversial. I bought it and played it. I don't regret getting it.
I accepted myself as trans and came out to my wife a couple months ago. Before coming out I was really deep in denial and didn't let myself play as girls in games even though deep down I really wanted to.
Hogwarts Legacy was the first game I played as a female character by choice in a long time. The game was okay, it's been a really long time since I played that genre. Role playing as a girl was really freeing. Sure, I could have chosen countless other games, but it was new enough and unique enough that I actually wanted to play it. I'm pretty picky about games I play now; I have two young kids and a pretty demanding job.
There's trans representation in it. It's very explicit, the barkeep at Hog's Head mentions that most of her former-classmates don't recognize her since she's now a witch instead of a wizard.
It sucks that it supports JK Rowling a tiny bit. I definitely did not want to support her. But I was in a pretty bad mental state when I was playing it and it was a welcomed distraction. It even helped me come to terms with my trans-ness a little bit.
I don't play games much, but I've been told by other transfems that cyberpunk2077 is really affirming gender wise due to how immersive the first person camera is
And yeah the rights to making games for the Harry Potter universe is valued at 3.8 billion right now I believe, so I wouldnt say its a little, its enough to influence British politics, but piracy fixes that on an individual level