Crybullying. Not even once. :disgost:
The Ink Black Heart
Normally I try to give writers a pass when they use the old “black = bad” because the intent is rarely racist and only sometimes unintentionally has subtext that implies that, but in Rowling’s case, she may not deserve that pass considering her laughably dated patronizing attitude toward Native Americans in her HP spinoff series where not a single tribe or its survivors had any meaningful input in what was supposed to be a magic school based upon old timey stereotypes that the author knew and made no further inquiry before appropriating them. She may as well made them pat their hands over their mouths while making war whoops.
There was also, of course, that horribly-named Chinese character, among other offenses.
I’m not saying the villain with the “black” heart is black in her book. I don’t know. But with what she’s put out so far, it’s more likely there’s no meaningful black people at all.
:soypoint-1: :lmayo: :us-foreign-policy: :soypoint-2:
The one prominent black wizard is named Kingsley Shacklebolt. Kingsley, as in Martin Luther King Jr, Shacklebolt, as in shackles that slaves wore.
She certainly has a way of naming characters :what-the-hell:
It’s like if that one scene from The Usual Suspects was a cumtown bit.
Meet Kim C. Rooftop, the first Korean wizard.
remember when JK Rowling had a huge LGBT following?
The first few books had all sorts of LGBT-coded characters, magic that literally let you change your gender, and a young group of alienated iconoclasts fighting against a moribund, sclerotic status quo that threatened to crush them for being different.
Then JK Rowling blew up, got personally famous, and partnered with Disney. Suddenly the stories were about defending the status quo, horny teenagers in painfully vanilla relationships, pro-sports, and big explosions.
Oh well…
The pro-sports was always there, none of them were really queer coded, she didn’t partner with Disney, they never really fought the status quo, just kinda complained sometimes, and magic never really changed anyone’s gender. We see women only look like men using magic in the last book, ever other transformation was in the same gender, because jkr can’t imagine gender changing. Thd books and author sucks but learn what you’re talking about before speaking.
The pro-sports was always there
The rec-league shit was there as a rhetorical device to build drama and advance the plot. Book 2’s use of Quidditch as this insanely dangerous sport that puts you in the hospital was good aktuly.
she didn’t partner with Disney
It was Warner Bros. My mistake.
they never really fought the status quo, just kinda complained sometimes
The first three books were genuinely anti-establishment in character. Book 3, in particular, did a great job of painting the institutional world as cruel, corrupt, incompetent, and plagued by bigotry.
magic never really changed anyone’s gender
The Polyjuice Potion does this on a number of occasions.
Thd books and author sucks but learn what you’re talking about before speaking.
:spiderman-pointing:
There was a time when JK Rowling was seen as an inspiration to aspiring writers everywhere with her rags to riches story. Then she became a meme for retconning every other detail about her series, and now she’s known as the Transphobe who never stops posting about being one. What a life.
Imagine an alternate reality where JK either moved on from transphobia or never had it: She would easily go down in history as one of the best writers of the modern era, and her Twitter could just be silly jokes about Hogwarts classes starting up, Harry Potter holidays, or just worldbuilding.
Harry Potter itself wasn’t for me and I read the whole series, but I at least had respect for her. Now she went full clout-chaser with the whole “DAE le trans people BAD!?!?! THANKS FOR THE CASH, TWITTER!”
there would be think pieces every few years about how fucked up the house elf slavery stuff was, or the anti-semitic goblins or whatever, but i don’t imagine any of that would ever stick without the author publicly doing her best to make the world a worse place
Why did she choose a male name for her pseudonym
So that she could use the name of the “inventor” of gay conversion therapy.
Robert Galbraith, son of a jackal
The first book in this series was about a man who dresses as a woman to kill women.
No joke here. How do I make this any more absurd than it already is?
and also it was published before she was an “out” transphobe – although i remember trans people were pointing out her transphobia for years before people started to notice and it became her entire identity
Robert Galbraith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath
Heath experimented with gay conversion therapy, and claimed to have successfully converted a homosexual patient, labeled in his paper as Patient B-19. The patient, who had been arrested for marijuana possession, was implanted with electrodes into the septal region (associated with feelings of pleasure), and many other parts of his brain. The septal electrodes were then stimulated while he was shown heterosexual pornographic material. The patient was later encouraged to have intercourse with a sex worker recruited for the study. As a result, Heath claimed the patient was successfully converted to heterosexuality. This research would be deemed unethical today for a variety of reasons. The patient was recruited for the study while under legal duress, and further implications for the patient’s well-being, including indications that electrode stimulation was addictive, were not considered
She chose to be this person. Incredible.
jk rowling seriously thinks she’s being persecuted lmao
