There comes a time when you have to decide what matters more: your integrity, or some silly book series you enjoyed as a kid. And quite frankly it should be a no-brainer. Anyone who picks the book has just shown you their true colours.
Unfortunately I have a family member who's been successfully fooled into thinking JKR has been unfairly treated and just has "perfectly reasonable concerns" and is motivated by "feminism". But that's the thing, isn't it? People like that always start out sounding perfectly rational, reasonable and concerned. That's how they sucker you in, just as with any cult. Scientology doesn't open immediately with all that BS about Lord Xenu and aliens in volcanoes. They start by offering you mental healthcare and stress tests, and once you've fallen for that they start slowly reeling you in. Now JKR has progressed to Holocaust denial and apparently doesn't tweet about anything other than that and other bigoted crap any more (I refuse to go and see for myself). It's just appalling.
I don't like these books anymore. I re-read them as an adult and I don't like what Rowling thinks is funny and I think her books are mean-spirited in general. I think the most egregious thing for me is how Rowling treats the use of love potions. How it's a silly ha-ha gag or whatever when it's in reality one of the most horrifying things she's ever written not on twitter.
Same here. If you read the series again with a more experienced eye there is some REALLY problematic stuff in there. Date rape drugs (why was Lavender Brown or whoever it was never punished for slipping a mickey to another kid??), blatant anti-Semitism (the goblins), heroes who stoop to torture and mind control which goes unpunished, racism, sexism (all women want BEBBES!), child abuse which is treated very casually, and you can make a case for homophobia as well in that there is no gay representation (retcons years after the fact don't count) and the werewolves as a metaphor for AIDs sufferers is horribly mishandled.
I really think it's beyond past time we put the franchise to bed (along with Twilight, which also refuses to go away) and move the fuck on already. It's had its time and so has the awful woman behind it.
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Unfortunately I have a family member who's been successfully fooled into thinking JKR has been unfairly treated and just has "perfectly reasonable concerns" and is motivated by "feminism". But that's the thing, isn't it? People like that always start out sounding perfectly rational, reasonable and concerned. That's how they sucker you in, just as with any cult. Scientology doesn't open immediately with all that BS about Lord Xenu and aliens in volcanoes. They start by offering you mental healthcare and stress tests, and once you've fallen for that they start slowly reeling you in. Now JKR has progressed to Holocaust denial and apparently doesn't tweet about anything other than that and other bigoted crap any more (I refuse to go and see for myself). It's just appalling.
Same here. If you read the series again with a more experienced eye there is some REALLY problematic stuff in there. Date rape drugs (why was Lavender Brown or whoever it was never punished for slipping a mickey to another kid??), blatant anti-Semitism (the goblins), heroes who stoop to torture and mind control which goes unpunished, racism, sexism (all women want BEBBES!), child abuse which is treated very casually, and you can make a case for homophobia as well in that there is no gay representation (retcons years after the fact don't count) and the werewolves as a metaphor for AIDs sufferers is horribly mishandled.
I really think it's beyond past time we put the franchise to bed (along with Twilight, which also refuses to go away) and move the fuck on already. It's had its time and so has the awful woman behind it.