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What a shitty way to end a great run, John Lithgow...
also because it's a shit idea and rowling is a holocaust denying piece of nazi shit
I'd like a source on this. Not because I doubt it but because I want to compile a list that I can show people who thinks her shittyness isn't so bad.
Edit: Fuck it, post proof of all the awful shit she's said. Let's make a hate thread.
Appreciated. Keep it coming. I wish to learn.
Learning to hate is easy. Everyone is doing it. Being a peaceful person is very rare.
This bitch gets trans kids killed. Fuck her and fuck you for pulling that shit.
Hating evil and being peaceful are not mutually exclusive.
Username checks out.
Rowling does not deserve peace. She's broken the social contract.
She's broken the agreement between the bourgeoisie and the state that the state will use violence to defend bourgeois privileges/rights in exchange for the bourgeoisie accepting certain obligations/civic duties?
Didn't that old thing get put out of its misery by Margaret Thatcher almost 50 years ago?
Loving people without hating the ones that hurt them is worthless.
It generally agrees with my views of Rowling, but is there anything beyond that single tweet to further flesh it out?
She could easily back out of that statement by saying “the fever dream” she’s referring to is the assertion she backs Nazi gender theories / policy instead of that they don’t do that.
I’m more apt to believe she’d deny it, but … skeptics and all.
When others provided her with sources, she responded by linking to an anti-trans account calling the first transgender woman to undergo gender reassignment surgery in Germany to a "troubled male.” The thread in question also denied that transgender people were targeted by the Holocaust.
Come on, it's literally in the text
Recently watched this really good video essay about the all the other things that are wrong with the Harry Potter books (e.g. fat shaming) and how it's informed by her neoliberal ideology.
Shaun? Click the link... Shaun!
Saving this for later. Thank you!
I don't know about Rowling specifically, but an unsurprising number of TERFs are real buddy buddies with far right groups, and this definitely includes people in Rowling's orbit.
Forgot the names, sorry, because this is one of the sad reality things you don't want to dwell too much on or you'll just get permanently sad. These people are miserable.
Why make up shit when she's done enough real stuff?
Oh fuck, I didn't know THAT was on her list of insane takes.
Pick a random insane take, and she probably believes it. She really is a rubbish person. I say this as someone who LOVED HP.
No, I get it. I used to cosplay with a troupe. We did literary events at elementary schools in character to encourage kids to read.
I was so proud of that, until I found out the truth.
I generally try not to use vernacular not of my generation, but...
based.
Verily.
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You're ALLOWED to say NO?
-The Actors in this NEW Harry Potter series!
To be fair, they're probably not already established, and they're starving for work.
Yeah, John Lithgow and Nick Frost were really hoping for that breakout role
The child actors get a pass for now, everyone else, I've lost absolutely any respect for
Sigh.. I liked Lithgow. He really shouldn't need this with what he's already got. Yet here we are :(
And, he’s a terrible choice for that character, anyway. Not that I’d ever watch it.
I would've thought that about him playing a serial killer too.
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Should have accepted it, and then used only trans people for the entire cast. Not a single cisgender person on screen for the entire runtime.
Directors of a tv show usually don’t cast roles. That’s what the casting director and producers do. They were probably asked to direct a single episode.
Hm, yeah. I guess I was thinking of it in a movie context, where the Director is basically the big boss and everybody on set answers to him (including the Casting Director). Still has to answer to the producers, but they're usually not hands-on, and if they disagree with what they're doing, their only leverage is the threat of firing him (but replacing a Director mid-production is a huge headache, so it's not often done).
But in a TV context, yeah, the Director is often only there for one episode, and it's the Show Runner who's usually the big boss, who controls the project as a whole, and who the Casting Director answers to. One episode's Director wouldn't be in charge of casting. Maybe they'd be able to do casting for a small role that only features in the one episode, but that's it.
Except JK Rowling is an executive producer on the show and would probably use her vast resources to destroy their lives and force HBO to reshoot with a new cast.
jk rowling would probably raise hell and prevent the show/movie from being aired.
Okay. You still get paid, and now the terf's whole project is getting cancelled. Win/win!
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The reason? Rowling’s views on trans persons’ rights, which many have alleged are transphobic.
Is this variety being shit or are they scared that sex pest rowling will sue them? Why the fence sitting?
It's not even about her views anymore, it's her actions
She does sue everyone
Is this variety being shit or are they scared that sex pest rowling will sue them?
Both of those things can be true
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Down with terf JK Rowling trash!
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