She doesn’t, and has never actually given a shit about women. I’m so tired of hearing “but but she donates to women’s shelters”. But then she hyper fixates on a random woman that she thinks is trans(completely unfounded), instead of convicted child molester Steven van de Velde.
She's been muddying the waters for the last couple of years in the UK generally too. There was a consistent drum beat of her escalating and frustrating the situation as the (Tory) government were trying to create laws around women's spaces.
It's a complex debate even for empathetic people who are educated on the subject, so to have her ignorance in the background constantly positioning herself as a person of important platform and necessary influence was unproductive at best and deeply harmful at worst.
Such was her footprint the new Prime Minister met with her before taking office a few months ago in order to get her perspctive and implicit sign-off on his positions on "women's issues", aka transphobic (in outcome it not implicit) legislation.
It's such a mess and I'm not sure what she feels she's gaining from it. Mental illness on display I suppose.
Its telling that in her last harry lotter book, nothing fundamentally changed about the racist and biggotrd system. It deeply reflects her views in real life as well. In the en, Voldemort (trans people), was the great evil and once they were defeated, its business as usual.
Forget the slave elves, wizard supremacy and racial tensions. The woman has always been deeply fucked
Yeah, transphobia and feminism simply can't coexist- it's like trying to argue you're simply a xenophobe but would NEVER support racism.
A core pillar of feminism is that women deserve the right to dress and behave however tf they want. Be vulgar, dress "unattractive", get tattoos, you're a person; not a wife for sale. Oh but- unless you dress manly, or have a deep voice, or bulky build, or want to go by other pronouns, or do anything we arbitrarily deem a sus- then you deserve corrective treatment you ill deviant.
It's because terfs, despite calling themselves feminists, typically don't actually care about women. It's just a vehicle for them to spread their hatred. Like when terfs were trying to prevent a trans woman from competing in a woman's chess tournament because they said she'd have an unfair advantage. It's misogyny (and often racism too, like in the case of Imane Khelif) dressed up in feminist language
All JK had to do post Harry Potter was stfu and enjoy being a multimillionaire. Imagine having the means to have anything you want, go anywhere, do anything, and spending your time being hateful on twitter
So she hates trans people more than she cares about everyone else? Usually with billionaires, the issue is them liking themselves more than they care about everyone else.
She appears to care more about hating trans people than anything else in her life.
She doesn't have a jetski, or an animal sanctuary, or a classic car collection or a podcast or whatever it is you'd do with your time if you became a billionaire. She just sits on Twitter all day, every day, searching for trans people with 5 followers to harass.
Her transphobia is definitely still narcissistic, she doesn't want to "share" her identity as a woman. At the end of the day it's just internalized misogyny (and racism) that made her mad that a ripped as fuck athlete didn't meet her beauty standards.
I will never understand this not wanting to "share" femininity. Is it a pie? Is there a sale? It's not running out, there's enough for everyone and then some that identifies as such.
I used to think that she was the exception to "there are no good billionaires," but it turns out that money really does break people's brains, no matter who they are
Yvon Chouinard might be the exception. He was the founder of Patagonia and recently structured the company so that essentially all of its profits go to environmental charities.
Apparently Forbes listed him as a billionaire because of Patagonia’s valuation and it pissed him off, so he found a way to give the company away without going public.
The whole thing is fascinating and worth a read if you have time.
no, she was basically choosing to make a cheaper salary so she could game assistance. like she met her husband on vacation in Porto. She didn't come from wealth but she had a solidly upper middle class background in the 70s
The way I would absolutely fall off the grid if I had her kind of wealth...
If I were a writer or entertainer of some sort, I'd pop up to promote my shit and then promptly go back underground and stay there until the next project.
With me you'd know I would still be alive because it'd become a game for me to post DJ Khalad-esque videos where the recording starts with me doing something like riding my jetski. The very next post I'm in a haunted house, still in my swim trunks and life preserver. Acting like I don't know how I got to this place between my past video and this. It abruptly ends with some babaduke crank noises and it cuts off. It goes 3 days then my next post is just me promoting my new wizards of hogfort book and I never address the the others again. This cycle repeats as I use more of my wealth to setup fantastical scenarios for me to show up in every 3 to 6 months on social, then my new plug, then back to silence.
The problem with having that kind of money is that you have "tell people what to do" money, which then makes you believe that you're infallible because everyone does as you tell them. That kind of power is hard to give up.
A quick Google search shows that there are over 3000 billionaires in the world. A decent majority of them aren't that media prominent. I could probably name about a dozen or so billionaires and they're just the ones that make a point of being in the news and/or being so overtly cuntish that it's impossible to not know who they are.
I'm with you. If I had that kind of wealth I'd just vanish and live my life.
She didn't even have to post anything. If I was her I would fuck off to a small island nation with attractive women and a rich national cuisine and no one would ever fucking hear from me again. With that much money you could live off of investments for the rest of your life and it would be very hard to spend even the percent you make a year. Somehow she decided that the best way to spend her money would be to live in a decaying Scottish castle and spend her time exactly like I do.
She could have gotten a VPN and posted under an alias FFs like if this is really that important to you and your even moderately intelligent how in the hell do you risk it all for shit that has no bearing on your life.
Even easier than that...all she had to do was nothing. Write the books, make the money then radio silence. Maybe some appearances here or there and die as a beloved author
At one point she was worth $1 billion. The whole fucking B.
She could have paid 500 people to pretend to be on social media full time in her own private corner of the internet and said whatever she wanted without consequence for the rest of her life with that kind of money. It's astronomical amounts of money. She could have paid a team to live only to make sure she never sees a piece of media that talks about trans folks.
She's just so full of hate and bullshit that she can't stop herself.
That's what I thought too for a while. Then I realized that if I had the platform and means, wouldn't I lobby and speak out for what I believed in and valued? And we do celebrate celebrities who speak out for values we agree with. She chose the wrong hill to die on, and she's using her platform to cause harm instead of good, but I can understand not just shutting up and enjoying your money and leaving the world to do what it wants. But again, she needs to reevaluate what she's using her platform for regardless of her intentions.
Like I’ve always said, if I had made Harry Potter, you’d never see me again. I’d assume a new life on some tourist trap island under a new name. Comfortable in the fact I’d never have to turn a profit in my nonsense store because I’m making bank on the side.
Billionaire, which makes this even sadder. Ain't no way I'm wasting my life like that with a billion dollar net worth. She needs some hobbies or something.
Her books have many examples of racial stereotyping and strange messages towards fascism (the story ending as a return to the status quo that led to wizard hitler in the first place, mocking hermione's fight against slavery, etc)
Yup. My young adult NB kid grew up on Harry Potter and it's been super difficult to figure out how to enjoy that property without it feeling icky.
Edit: Not sure why the downvotes. I'm just sad that a big part of my memories with my older kid from their childhood have been sullied because this author showed who she was.
She truly has a fascination with being a hateful bitch.
Even if you don’t like trans people keep that shit to yourself. Yet, she chooses to be fixated on them when she has millions upon millions to do literally anything she wants.
Got enough money to live any kind of life but choosing to be hateful is some clown shit 🤡🤡
She could literally have kept all of her shitty opinions and convictions and just been rich and quiet like a bunch of other shitty rich people are and she would be beloved today.
JK Rowlings is a victim of sexual assault who hates men so much, she will attack whoever SHE thinks is a man.
Her entire professional career (at least the successful part) she has been told what a wonderful and creative lens she views the world through... so you wonder now why she is incapable of seeing the world through any other?
People need to understand the success and praise she received for Harry Potter has directly led to a person so stubborn and hateful that she is incapable of separating her trauma and bigotry from an entire vulnerable minority.
The very idea that a (her words) biological male, could identify as someone more vulnerable than her, is an attack on the very fabric of her reality. This is a life or death fight for JK. It isn't some pass time, "Oh I will toss some hateful remarks out on social media". It is a fight for her most core beliefs. And that is what makes her particular level of ignorance and bigotry so dangerous. She legitimately believes herself to be the hero.
She could be spending her time online just liking fanfic and art, and she would be considered like a god by the millions of HP fans, but she wanted to be a bigot instead🤷♂️
There's so many rich assholes out there that we have no idea about because they have the sense to not air their baggage. But somebody always wants to be the figurehead of a culture war and ruin their reputation.
I do wonder if some of this is projection on her part because if we're being honest, Rowling has facial features that are objectively, not the softest, or stereotypically feminine-looking, even for a White woman.
If she weren't so loud with her hate, other transphobes would be quick to point this out.
I think a lot of transphobic women are insecure in their own femininity and decide to take their self-hatred out on others to make themselves feel better.
Yeah, it's pretty clear that even though Tolkien wasn't exactly a leftist by modern standards, he was certainly progressive for a privileged white guy living in his time.
He actively told fascists to pound sand in a time when fascism was frighteningly popular in England among men of his social class.
I feel like giving credit where credit is due, and from what I've read, the dude struggled. I mean, I believe I recall reading that he even struggled with the nature of parts of the world he created after realizing that some of his work was inherently problematic. Pretty cool if you ask me.
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
i mean, even here in the US, we have had lines for blocks full of fans camping out and waiting for days on end to see each film. i have so many friends who were obsessed with the series, reading every book. it's a travesty really, she would have gained icon status next to the top writers in history.
But did she really? She still has fans and has been a billionaire since 2004. I don't agree with the shit she says but I'm also not out here pretending she lost anything. She was still spouting off that shit and people were making and buying her games and having movies made, albeit those subsequent Fantastic Beats movies suck.
Like people still like Harry Potter and most aren't online seeing her crazy shit. That ten-year-old picking up the first Harry Potter book isn't scrolling twitter first trying to figure out if they should support the author or not.
Edit: You all are missing the point. Her twitter happiness has nothing to do with what I was talking about.
She's still rich, and she still has a lot of fans.
But if you see her presence on Twitter it's pretty obvious she's not happy. She's 100% making herself miserable through all of this.
And it absolutely will affect her legacy. Like how people can't really talk about H. P. Lovecraft anymore without at least one person pointing out he was a massive racist.
That doesn't matter. She had already been saying inflammatory shit by that point, they didn't care. The movies were abandoned because they were bad, not because Rowling didn't believe in trans people. They even made a game that sold really fucking well. Like Again this isn't me supporting her view but you all really gotta realize the real world is fifty shades of gray. People still buy iPhones and Nikes knowing they are made by child labor, all it took was those companies saying "we are against child labor and we check our suppliers, believe us." Even blood diamonds, the "organization"' that certifies diamonds aren't blood diamonds is literally just made up of the companies that ship the diamonds and works on a believe us system. The difference between those instances and Rowling is that they got press coverage, most you're getting on Rowling's tweets are some digital articles.
Does your Nestle chocolate bar taste any less sweet knowing child labor was involved in its sourcing?
Some of us stopped going to her movies and buying her games because she showed who she is, and even some of us actually don't buy Nestle or Nike. There's a reason 'fair trade' is worth printing on a chocolate bar, because for some people, the slavery does make the taste not worth it.
And that is good, that is really good, but you have to see that everything I listed is still incredibly profitable. Apple still has an active cultlike hivemind of a userbase, Nestle is one of the largest companies in the world despite poisoning babies and taking people's water, and Hogwarts Legacy sold 12 million copies in two weeks and broke a billion in sales its first year. I'm glad to see people standing on business but you are vastly outnumbered and that is the point of my comments.
The point of mine is that people like me aren't a tiny group of people, fair trade chocolatate is more than twice as large of a market as it was 5 years ago. Those large companies are actually losing money because of people taking moral opposition to them, and the damage they have already done to their brand will hurt them for a long time. Times are changing, and people are getting smarter about where there stuff comes from and what it costs the world. We're all going to have to change if we're going to have a world in the next century.
That still isn't exactly stopping Nestle. I believe in the cause, but I'm also not delusional to think Nestle won't ride out not negotiating fairly until it's less profitable to do so. The biggest reason these companies do this stuff is because it's cheaper. I'm not sure how that goes against what I said, though. These companies won't go down because of it and Rowling will keep making money regardless. They even are making a new Harry Potter TV series. 🤷🏿♂️
Except when she suddenly does a u turn in the HP books and ridicules her character for being anti slavery. According to Rowling the slaves in her books enjoy being slaves.
So there’s always been some massive red flags in her books.
Even in the books she's like "no not them tho." Her bigotry is on full display:
-banker goblins (Jewish coded)
-elves (love slavery/servitude, don't want freedom, the narrative treats Hermione condescendingly for trying to change the "natural order")
-Rita Skeeter (described with transphobic language, frequently allusions to her large hands and jaw, fake hair, and propensity to change into small creatures to spy on kids illegally)
Even if it's not deliberate, it's clear she holds disdain for a "mannish" looking woman who tries to feminize herself (fake hair and nails) without much success. Coincidentally, this suspiciously masculine woman is also the only adult to continually sneak into private areas in which the child protagonists are alone and vulnerable. It's hard for me to not see, at least, Master TERF's unconscious biases.
We can all live in a Barbie world and just stop giving a fuck about stranger's genitals. Also, Phelps is literally built to swim and no one has a problem with that.
By the Phelps thing they’re referring to the fact that he produces less lactic acid and so feels less tired than other swimmers, which is analogous to this boxer producing more testosterone (which is part of what led to incorrect accusations that she was a man). Both are biological advantages that nevertheless do not disqualify them from competition.
There were some other aspects of his physiology that were pretty wild too - he had really long arms and huge hands, a long torso, and short legs. If you were to design a human in a laboratory to be an awesome swimmer, you'd end up with Michael Phelps.
It's like I had to explain to a couple of folks recently. These are Olympic athletes. A lot of these folks are legit genetically geared towards what they can do, way beyond what you or me can do.
And what they can't naturally do, they've trained their entire lives to do the rest of it. 1v1, Khelif could more than likely beat the brakes off some grown men out there. Just like Michael Phelps can still probably lap the vast majority of us twice out there in a pool. Simone Biles is a foot and change shorter than me, I can't do no triple corkscrew. I'd die. 😃
Imagine having the incredible creativity to build a whole universe that deeply impacted millions yet somehow you can’t fathom that gender is a spectrum. She has earned her scorn.
Honestly if yall ever catch me blowing up I ain't saying shit about shit no more. My legacy gonna be purely revolving around whatever stupid shit I got famous for.
Watching people fumble their legacy is hilariously sad to watch.
All this gets worse when she isn't even a trans woman. Definitely not saying the hate would be justified if she was trans. But at this point these people are being bigoted at a fellow cis person lol.
I watched rugby sevens during the Olympics and 90% of them are more ‘masculine’ looking than Imane. What quality of her’s is making her such a target, hmm🤔
It's what she's worked so hard for. Kind of sad though. I wrote a report on her in high school saying I wanted to write a book as amazing as hers one day. Those books took me away from a pretty awful childhood & gave me a safe non-Jesus-related reason to leave the house at least 7 times! I was very appreciative of her work & idolized her as a child.
As an adult, I'm not interested in anything she does or says.
All she had to do is be quiet and enjoy her money and her MILF status, but Nooooo, let's be transphobic instead! Definitely is a frequent customer of Super Weenie Hut Jr's
I was talking with a group of friends about how it is nuts how much her reputation changed over 10 years,
She used to be considered respectable,
Progressive,
Unproblematic,
An inspiration towards women,
Now she is seen as
Racist,
Homophonic,
Pathetic in her middle age,
And now people have evaluated her books and now they are seen as less good than they used to be
The Harry Potter books meant a lot to me. Ron's entire story of being the absolute most normal, basic person within the wizarding world and ending up getting the girl and saving the day in a very important way is something I really held on to. In most "chosen one" stories the chosen one can get it done by himself and all of his friends are just along for the ride but Harry was actually useless if it wasn't for Ron and Hermione. The fact those two became a couple felt great.
And that's not even going in to the mistreatment of werewolves, minotaurs, house elves and all the other constant "it's okay to be yourself" stories that line the series. Over and over again self centered hateful adults ignore or abuse children and they repeatedly stood their ground that it was important to be yourself, to be free and to be kind.
And it was written by such a hatefilled bitch who is more obsessed with strangers genitals than the most porn addicted basement dweller in the world.
It hurt to let go of important stories but there's plenty of others out there for people to be inspired by. If she's going to ignore the lessons in her own story, she can't be helped.
When I was reading Harry Potter at the age of seven I never imagined it’s beloved writer would someday be sued by a female professional boxer for bullying. Heck back in 2004 no one would have thought it possible for a fantasy nerd to bully a real life professional fighter. Life is weird man.
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Rowling when Dutch rapist is allowed to sleep in the olympic village: I sleep
Rowling when english women face domestic violence after soccer games: I still sleep
Rowling when british soldiers rape women in Kenya: I still sleep
Rowling when Algerian woman wins boxing: Real shit