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I found this linked to a thread on Twitter/X.

I don't know what to think about it, so I wanted to share it with you.

(I might end up deleting this post later)

I agree. People thought I was being a hard ass about Hogwarts Legacy, but I wasn't. I can't stop someone from continuing to engage with things that make Rowling stronger but I can sure as hell understand that to them my safety is not a priority.

If you don't stand for something then you stand for nothing, and it's not even just a matter of principle when it's your own life being actively endangered by that fool and her lies. With me I'm just doing it to be supportive. I can in theory walk away. But I'm not going to do that.

What gets me the most are the people who are vaguely aware that Rowling is trash but pretend that doesn't matter so they can have the thing they like. It's a level of cowardice I simply cannot respect.

SAME. 100% SAME. Grow a damn spine! People are being MURDERED! But a stupid video game is more important to you? Seriously?

I am comparing Rowling to Hitler to highlight that the tactics really are the same. I am not meaning to imply the personages are the same because they aren't.

They're both people who spread or are spreading bigotry, so of course there are parallels. Disturbing ones.

Harry uses these things that are forbidden for good reasons and then is just basically fine. Which is both morally bad and bad storytelling.

I can understand that the rest of the wizarding world lets him off the hook (the winners decide what the warcrimes were, after all), but yeah, he definitely shouldn't be at all comfortable with himself after what he did. One of my characters (mistakenly) believes he committed genocide and is so tormented that he voluntarily turns himself in and says he accepts whatever punishment is handed down to him. Harry just goes off and becomes a magical police officer. When the trauma he went through should quite frankly make him ineligible.

SAME. 100% SAME. Grow a damn spine! People are being MURDERED! But a stupid video game is more important to you? Seriously?

It's at the point where I can't actually say anything about it without murdering my social relationships and gaining a reputation as the stop having fun girl (Which is exactly the position I was in with Cyberpunk 2077 so it's not unfamiliar). The ability of reactionaries to reframe women of conscience as some kind of demon out to make everyone miserable really pisses me off.

The key takeaway here is that for Death of the Author to apply, the author must actually be dead.

Harry just goes off and becomes a magical police officer. When the trauma he went through should quite frankly make him ineligible.

In Rowling's little fantasy land where being a wizard cop or indeed any kind of cop is an okay thing to be, you're right. Harry's warcrimes and trauma should make him ineligible because they indicate he won't do the job with the strict rigor it requires. (Although I would argue that even within Harry Potter, wizard cops do not do good things and should not be idolized)

However I don't think cops are good. I think they're lazy at best and actively malicious more often. Under that view, the fact Harry tortures people and feels nothing about it makes him an ideal police officer precisely because police officers are bad and it's not okay to want to be one.

The ability of reactionaries to reframe women of conscience as some kind of demon out to make everyone miserable really pisses me off.

It's just gaslighting when all is said and done, not to mention misogynistic. Once when I made a stand about something objectionable the response I got (from another woman, no less) was being called "nasty" and "arrogant" and she hoped I would "learn to be kind". Ugh, it was eight years ago and thinking about it still enrages me.

I didn't even hit back; just blocked her. I don't like confrontations, and no doubt it's a learned behaviour. First they tell you to be quiet and polite and don't make a fuss, and then a few years later they complain that you're not assertive enough! Well maybe that's because I never really learned how? Ugh.

The key takeaway here is that for Death of the Author to apply, the author must actually be dead.

And therefore no longer making money off the work. Lovecraft was a vicious racist, but he's also been dead since 1937. Rowling is actively giving money to anti trans organisations.

Under that view, the fact Harry tortures people and feels nothing about it makes him an ideal police officer precisely because police officers are bad and it's not okay to want to be one.

And lest we forget, anyone he brings in alive gets sent to a nightmarish freezing cold dungeon and subjected to torture.

The ability of reactionaries to reframe women of conscience as some kind of demon out to make everyone miserable really pisses me off.

Women's anger is something to be ridiculed, men's anger is something to be feared. People like that, who dismiss valid concerns, don't want to learn. Many women have internalized misogyny, for their part, and don't care about women's problems because they see those things as a part of life, to be dealt with. For their part, many men just don't get what women face, how women have live their lives.

The key takeaway here is that for Death of the Author to apply, the author must actually be dead.

Rowling's done so much messed up stuff. I find it so interesting how Rowling talks about the violence that cis women face, and then doesn't care about the violence that trans women face. It just shows that this isn't just "defending women" or whatever she says. I genuinely do not know how someone could have so much hate for trans people.

or indeed any kind of cop is an okay thing to be, you're right

I disagree on this point. I do not think cops are inherently bad, and I do think we need police. Of course, there needs to be regulation and oversight, and a mandatory body cam law.

Edited 2024-04-19 02:46 (UTC)

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