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I wish Joanne had gone the Enya route and finished Harry Potter and the Writing Quality of Diminishing Returns, disappeared with her wealth into the highlands, did some occasional projects, and just never spoke again. Maybe some occasional rumors would pop up about her having a panda ranch that she kept for demolition derbys or something weird. She can go suck a railroad spike.
Seriously. She has been such a massive disappointment. The fact that she feels like she has to be actively hateful, makes it all the worse. Just shut the help up and enjoy your gobs and gobs of money.
I'm sure I'll regret asking this, but what is it she has actually done? Every time I've asked people seem to spout off how she's pure evil, said evil things, and then backed it up with nothing. The only thing I think I've ever seen from her is that she wants to protect woman.
She's a gender critical feminist. But in a scale from 1 to 10 where 1 is a gender critical feminist that questions the validity of the concept of gender without ever wishing harm to people (actually trying to see what's helpful to all) and 10 is the raging transphobic lady that belittles and wishes harm to trans people, J. K. Rowling seemed to have moved from 2 to 6-7 (and she probably keeps moving).
This is a very controversial topic as many people think that all gender critical theorists or sympathizers are in the 10. I don't think so, but those who are transphobic are definitely louder.
No, that’s a totally fair question!
This article summarizes some of the transphobic shit she has said. Here’s another one. She likes to say that her beliefs are feminist and meant to protect women, but really what she does is denigrate trans women and meanly argues that they can never be “real” women. It’s bigoted, hateful, and not what most people would expect from a “lefty” author.
Thanks for the article(s). A lot to process and check there!
Here's a little primer: https://www.vox.com/culture/23622610/jk-rowling-transphobic-statements-timeline-history-controversy
The only thing I think I’ve ever seen from her is that she wants to protect woman.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're just ignorant, but the way you're framing the question makes me feel like an idiot for doing so. In short she's a transphobic piece of shit and not just in the usual right wing way, but posts about it constantly. She seems rather obsessed.
Thanks for the article. A lot to process and check there!