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epistler ([personal profile] epistler) wrote in [community profile] antishurtugal_reborn 2024-04-16 11:08 am (UTC)

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I still can't get over that, in this metaphor, Fenrir Greyback is basically a sexually-active gay man who deliberately spreads AIDS to little boys, who are is preferred prey. I MEAN. WTF. That's so bad.

Oh yeah, it's the old gay = paedophile nonsense with fur on. She's not even trying to hide it.

That they casually sell at a joke shop.

And because Voldemort was conceived on the things Rowling said she had this idea that he couldn't feel love because he was made without love. So, yeah, if you were the result of a rape that makes you an evil psychopath! What sort of a message is that??

Hermione's only activism is trying to free some house elves.

And she's painted as foolish and misguided for doing it, and the house elves are shown to resent her for trying to set them free! Because, you know, slavery is just the natural order of things and they're better off that way.

This isn't to say you can't have injustices in your world, or characters who have bigoted beliefs, but neither those beliefs nor the injustices should be supported by the narrative, in a meta sense.

Yeah. They get rid of the bad guys but don't do anything to change the system that created them in the first place. I think it's pretty damn obvious it's all just going to happen again sooner or later. Just like how the Varden got rid of Galby but didn't do shit to make sure the next generation of Riders wouldn't be just as bad as the last lot and inevitably give rise to another Galby (which if you look at Eragon has arguably already happened).

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