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JK Rowling dismisses Emma Watson as 'ignorant' over trans rights row (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 104 points 1 week ago

The author said the "turning point" in her feelings came in 2022 when Watson appeared to aim a subtle dig at Rowling on stage at the Bafta Awards.

Host Rebel Wilson introduced Watson by saying: "She's proud to call herself a feminist, but we all know she's a witch." Watson responded that she was "here for ALL of the witches", which was widely interpreted as a statement of support for the trans community.

Bro Rowling is so delusional. Watson just made a generic "I love all my fans" statement and Rowling is in her damp black mold cave watching it on TV like "THIS IS ABOUT MEEEEEE"

[-] marcela 34 points 1 week ago

Obscure internet lore has it, that Watson mouthed "bar the one", right after "here for ALL the witches".

But this does not make a difference.

[-] growsomethinggood@reddthat.com 91 points 1 week ago

She's not a child anymore Joanne, she's in her 30s. Is it really that hard to consider that you might be wrong? You don't reach enlightenment when you become a billionaire y'know.

[-] Deyis@beehaw.org 61 points 1 week ago

Emma Watson is older than Joanne when she first published; it's so creepy that Joanne is desperate to infantilise her.

[-] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 31 points 1 week ago

That's what they do with all they see as women, even trans men/masc and nonbinary people, sadly.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 week ago

You don’t reach enlightenment when you become a billionaire y’know.

Pretty much the opposite, to be frank.

[-] HoopyFrood@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

They can sure define the word “enlightenment” to be whatever they want. However, the spiritual concept traditionally referred to as “enlightenment” has been pretty consistent for millennia. Traditionally enlightened people would carry the traits of being at peace, able to experience joy through suffering, and having heightened sense of empathy and connectedness to those around them. All the billionaires i read about are selfish, miserable people with poor emotional intelligence and an insistence to project blame away from them; these are not traits of the enlightened

[-] prole 4 points 1 week ago

Is it really that hard to consider that you might be wrong?

If they were capable of this, conservatives largely wouldn't exist.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 64 points 1 week ago

supporting the harry potter tv show is supporting rowlings attempt to erase the golden trio from harry potter history and lore.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

In your opinion, would pirating the show and not talking about it to my friends count as supporting it?

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

They're bootleg cigarettes and i smoke them alone

You're still gonna have cancer.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry, could you spell out what you actually mean?

Because if you think I'm gonna become a shitty transphobic person because of one piece of problematic media, I can assure you I won't. I grew up in the 90s and 00s. If transphobia was gonna get me through media, it would have by now.

[-] dandelion 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I personally don't think someone who is aware of the transphobic views of the creator, and who takes steps to deny the creator commercial success by pirating the media as a result, is the problem.

Watching the media isn't itself the problem. Hell, I watch Matt Walsh's films as opposition research - that doesn't make me a transphobe.

We should campaign and pressure WB to not work with JK Rowling because of her views, and we should boycott and undermine WB's commercial success for the works they collaborate with her on - so we need to find ways to push that boycott movement into the mainstream, and maybe applying a strongly moralizing taboo is one way to do that, but that can also alienate people who don't get it, so finding a way to reach those people is important.

I guess my point is purity testing among the devout is less important than building a mainstream boycott movement.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago

I guess my point is purity testing among the devout is less important than building a mainstream boycott movement.

That's my attitude too. I'm just trying to see how other people are thinking about it too, y'know? I tend to be deeply pragmatic and wouldn't want to alienate any of my friends or allies, but I can definitely understand why some might be tempted to be less practical and more devout, as you put it.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

i mean i think that's fine friends are just your social circle. talking or live tweeting while it airs would give them legitimacy

[-] princessnorah 36 points 1 week ago

Rowling went on to suggest that Watson was "never likely to need" to use the types of single-sex spaces she has campaigned against trans people having access to, such as changing rooms and public toilets.

🤨

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 30 points 1 week ago

If you walk around town and smell shit it was probably someone who walked by. If everyone smells like shit, check your shoe.

[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 week ago

My urge to spray paint some gender diversity symbols over all the Cursed Child advertisements I see around here grows daily.

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