Imagine getting all that wealth just to use it to hurt people
What a miserable person. I can't imagine having her wealth and using it to try to hurt people.
I can think of quite a few people that I would go out of my way to destroy.
Starting with a few politicians.
#piratepotter don't let a dime go to Rowling or those trying to benefit from her.
Or just read other books, watch other movies, and so on. Like, Harry Potter is genuinely not even that good
What?? The only books that exist are:
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy ^*^
~* All five of them. Six if you count Mostly Harmless.~
Agreed.
The difference between not being keen on trans people and making a few shitposts versus actively devoting time and money towards oppressing them is HUGE.
This isn’t just someone with an alternative opinion we’re talking about. It’s someone using more wealth than a lot of us will never touch, to fuck over an already marginalised group. She’s pure fucking evil.
It's loathsome because she has chosen to use her vast wealth to punch down.
It's one thing to still support someone despite them having some problematic opinions on the side. I do it, you probably do it, it annoys the shit out of me to know that this thing that I like is made by someone who shares opinion with which I strongly disagree with, sometimes that are even against me, personally, as a trans person.
But not understanding something, being ignorant and being kind of an asshole about it, is very different than what this hateful bitch is doing. She has dedicated her entire life to make people like me fucking miserable. And it's working!
I'm having a very hard time reconciling the fact that lots of people love Harry Potter and some people in my entourage are the same and they will support and pay for stuff made by this horrendous person regardless because this universe means that much to them. My sister is like that. I'm having a very hard time with that. I don't want to be that person... but fuck this hurts.
The worst part is that most people don't know about it. Most people don't know how much of a hateful, awful person J.K. Rowling is. And I have to admit, those people in my life, I'm genuinely afraid of telling them. Because I know that there is a chance that I'll tell them everything, and that in the end, they won't change a thing. Because my rights as a human being matters less to them. And I don't want to find that out...
I hate everything about this.
Harry Potter defenders: “JK Rowling just said mean words online she hasn’t actually harmed trans people!”
What JK Rowling is doing with the money:
J K Rowling can go suck a fuck.
It would have been so easy for her to shut her mouth and keep supporting the feminist causes she did support, and instead she’s spent so much time and political capital attacking the ideas she doesn’t support.
It’s fucking asinine. Her mother clearly never taught her to shut the fuck up if she has nothing of value to say.
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.
Pirating Harry Potter stuff is now not only a moral thing to do, but almost a moral obligation.
I’d say just don’t engage with it at all.
If someone talks about it, pretend ignorance. Like total ignorance of any aspect of the stories.
Or, if someone mentions it, just say you don’t give bigots money.
Editing to expand: by pirating you are perpetuating the cultural impact. The majority of people pay for access to this media, and by engaging with it you make it more costly for other people to skip it.
Transgenders are living rent-free in her head.
What a sad, hateful person who has squandered an opportunity to actually do something good with her considerable wealth and previous social capital.
Rowling donated £70,000 (roughly $88,200) to the anti-trans group For Women Scotland in 2024 after it lost its challenge to a 2018 Scottish law that legally recognized trans women as women. The group appealed its case to the U.K. Supreme Court, which ruled last month that trans women aren’t considered women under the nation’s Equality Act.
Rowling responded to the decision by posting a picture of her having a drink and smoking a cigar, with the text “I love it when a plan comes together.”
Setting aside the question of the cause itself, I'm not sure that taunting people is a good way to effect social change.
kagis for image
JK Rowling smokes cigar as she celebrates court ruling on yacht in the Bahamas
Yeah, that seems likely to antagonize people.
I am glad she smokes
I was gonna say that some people who smoke cigars use them on a very occasional basis, but it sounds like she's had a very long-running nicotine habit:
https://blog.lucy.co/10-people-who-smoked/
- J. K. Rowling
Not only did J. K. Rowling create the Harry Potter universe, she did it while smoking so much that she experienced symptoms of nicotine overdose [1]. Rowling had been smoking since her teen years where she was frequently caught smoking at bus stops with boys in leather jackets [2]. But the author quit smoking in 2000 with a combination of nicotine gum and the popular game, Candy Crush, to keep her mind occupied when she'd otherwise be giving in to cigarette cravings [3].
I suppose she un-quit at some point.
EDIT:
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0600-times-treneman.html
The only time I see her inhale is around a Marlboro Light. She claims this was to be a non-smoking day. I'm not sure how this squares with five cigarettes in two hours.
https://thefriendlyeditor.com/2015/06/16/rowling-writing-harry-potter/
Rowling has been open about her struggle to write book four, which nearly caused her to have “a nervous breakdown”:
That was the period where I was chewing Nicorette. And then I started smoking again, but I didn’t stop the Nicorette. And I swear on my children’s lives, I was going to bed at night and having palpitations and having to get up and drink some wine to put myself into a sufficient stupor.
2024:
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1797759158688854150?lang=en
I'll be a smoker til the day I die, even if I never have another cigarette. If I could choose one drug I could take forever without consequences as long as I gave up all others - caffeine, alcohol etc - it would be nicotine.
What a miserable person. More money than God and all she can do is sit around hating people she’s never met.
Boycotts work! Don’t watch her show on HBO and cancel your subscription after The Last of Us season finale of course. If her brand becomes toxic nobody will fund projects around it and she will fade into obscurity.
FUCK OFF JK YOU FUCKING TWAT.
Thar is all
What a rotten bitch
What an ugly human being
Piece of shit author continues being a piece of shit. More news at 11.
It's good to publicly remember every now and then. Plenty of people don't know that she's a raging transphobe, and if even one of them recently joined lemmy and sees this post and is convinced to no longer buy her work, then that makes this post worth it, imo.
Okay, I'm sure I'll get vote-bombed here, please don't jump the gun, I'm pro lgbtq+. I don't give a shit who or how someone loves, just hope they're allowed to be happy with themselves (unless they're hurting people, obviously).
I believe trans rights, and womens rights, are human rights. I don't think anybody should be treated differently due to gender, sex, race, or orientation, and they shouldn't be discriminated against in any way. I'm just trying to make sure I understand fully for when I defend the pro trans position that I believe to be correct.
I started looking further into this because a friend of mine, which is a total HP nerd, was trying to give me some context on where her anti-trans activism comes from. It SEEMS like she mostly wants to make sure women stay safe (paraphrasing her own words here). In Scotland apparently they're changing things so that a dude can just say he's not a dude, and be legally allowed in all women only spaces if they register with the government or whatever. I can absolutely see how that could be used in a predatory manor, and can see that side of the argument.
I just read her piece here: https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/ To make sure I'm getting as complete of a look at the situation as I can.
And it confused the issue a little for me. All of her arguments seem to be coming from a place of reason, and some of them made sense (if the referenced stats were true). Most of her arguments seem to come from a "I don't want to make it easier for male predators to prey on women" standpoint, which makes sense at the surface level.
is the current climate making it fashionable to transition? I find it hard to believe someone would go that far without truly thinking it's the right thing to do, but some people are highly influenced by peer pressure. I can also see maybe some women wanting to change to escape the misogyny of our current world. I'm a straight cis-male, and I can't personally resonate with the idea of changing that because it's "popular" or whatever, so I don't put a lot of credence into that argument, but I'm not everyone 🤷.
I also understand that sex and gender are separate, and Rowling seems to be on the train that conflates it, which might be the basis for her position.
Please help me learn and understand. Someone with more context or knowledge, please let me know. I'd love the opinion of some trans folks if you see this. Rowling says she's getting support from trans women for her positions. And I'm sure that's true, there's bound to be some, like there's women who support patriarchy.
Edit, reordered my statements so my current position is clear at the start
As a cis man who is only tangentially acquainted with transgender issues, and as a person who isn't particularly eloquent, I cannot do this topic justice myself. You'll have to trust me when I say that the image of "just any bloke can call himself a woman and go into the bathroom and assault women" is language that is deeply colored by propaganda, and has no basis in reality. When you indulge in language and ideas like that, you are doing harm. Similarly, the "men doing women's sports" idea is harmful to both cis and trans women, and has, again 0 basis in reality.
If you are truly interested, and not some right wing troll who's "just asking questions" (we get a lot of those on .world, it's like the instance attracts them), please, please give these YouTube videos a watch:
https://youtu.be/EmT0i0xG6zg https://youtu.be/qfUsuQ8rfu4
The shorter one is from a cis man, but it seems to me that he explains the idea very well, at least behind the sports thing. And I promise that the longer one is worth it. It will help you understand a deeply marginalized segment of the population much better, and you will be a better person for it. I think that's worth 2 hours.
It boils down to this for me: If some bad actor is going to pretend to be trans to access some naked lady area, why are we trying to punish actual trans people for that by taking away their access to bathrooms and healthcare?
It’s just stupid.
Thank you for this. I will absolutely go through both videos.
I appreciate the context you provided as well. In my mind it makes sense that someone willing to break the law to hurt people isn't going to stop because the sign on the door says it's not for them. That argument never felt particularly strong to me, and I'm glad that you've affirmed it basically doesn't happen.
I'm no troll, and am truly trying to understand further.
Thanks again for your time, I hope to be able to watch those videos soon.
As far as I know, if you're a dude, you can already just walk into womens bathrooms. There aren't police outside or anything checking peoples pants. There's not some epidemic of people legally transitioning just so they can be predators.
These laws end up hurting women, who were born women and were always women, who don't happen to look "feminine" enough (ETA: or the opposite, cis men who don't look manly enough), and people start harassing them for using the bathroom they were meant to use.
If you want to go after predators, go after predators. It's not that hard. You don't need to go after trans people to do that.
My comment to her is that we need to enforce anti-harassment laws in all spaces. I don't care if you're a man harassing a man, a man harassing a woman, a woman harassing a man, or a woman harassing a woman, the cops should come take you away and ... educate you why we don't do that shit in a civilised society. And you don't need to make a person presenting as a woman use the men's washroom, or a person presenting as a man use a woman's washroom, to make that happen! In short, you don't need to be a dick to people.
Fun fact. I saw a recent news article where a trans-man (i.e., born female, presents as male) went into the woman's washroom because the only free stalls were urinals, which he couldn't use. So he went to the woman's washroom to use a stall there, and got harassed by the police because...well, he was a man in the women's room. Except he wasn't. He was born a she, and in North Carolina, you USED to be demanded to go to the washroom of your birth gender, and they're trying to force that back in again, after it was partially repealed and allowed to expire back in 2020.
It's not about protecting women. If it was, they'd just enforce the laws on the books about harassment, sexual or otherwise, and be blind to the genders of the perpetrator and victim. But we can obviously see that this is about legally harassing transgender people, and it just uses women's rights as cover for the hatred. Your only answer as a transgender person to peeing is hold it...or pee yourself. Or move to a state, city, or country that doesn't treat you like shit because you would prefer to be the other gender...or not be restricted to the binary structure in general!
It amazes me how some people just refuse to put their money to anything actually useful.
Fucking god, she’s still doing this shit? She’s going to turn her franchise into another Tesla.
It’s always the people you most expect.
Harry Potter defined so much of my young life. I’m confused as to if Rowling has always been this way, or if something changed. I first found out about this kind of behavior around 10 years ago
I heard a YouTuber refer to her as Jeepers Kreepers Rowling recently, and it makes me giggle. What an awful woman.
Ugh. What a despicable person. I was thinking about pirating her shitty TV show, but i don't think i will. They probably base popularity, among other things, on torrents. I don't want her to have any popularity. She's a really gross person :/
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