This joke hits harder since one of the most important potions they make, in multiple books, is the poly juice potion (or whatever it's called) that allows people to turn into someone else. I think it's used in at least 3 of the books.
I highly doubt JKR thought of the implications when she wrote that part, this is the woman who wrote in legal date-rape drugs. Must be kicking herself now though.
Want to add, Hans Zimmer, one of the greatest names in film music, didn’t have to accept this job for the money or the fame as he already wrote scores on huge blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean.
Yet he gladly took the job at an instant.
So I did some googling, and there are allegations against him for harassing an employee who, who would have guessed, is a transgender person.
Get the fuck over it. Who cares. Jk is one person. We will never stop loving Harry Potter as that's our childhood. Even I know many gay, queen and some Trans people still read it because we grew up on it. We just ignore JK rowling.
JK Rowling is one billionaire who puts incredible amounts of money from the HP franchise towards groups that are actively attacking trans people rights.
JK Rowling pledged that she will bankroll the legal fees of sueing Amnesty International after they released investigations in the hate practices of the groups JK Rowling donates her money to. A billionaire that wants to financially ruin a human rights organization because her hate is getting called out.
JK Rowling who takes up skirt pictures of a transgender person and post them online, and when confronted says “shouldn’t have worn a skirt then.” Once again hiding from the repercussions that come from such actions behind the billions that you and other people give her through buying harry potter merch and watching her movies.
Know where you spend your money, know that you are contributing towards the rules that are hurting a lot of transgender people, that your money is being used to bully human rights organizations into submission.
And I can’t judge you for not knowing where your money is ending up.
But now that you know that your money is directly financing a hate campaign against trans people and you don’t want to stop?
I will judge you for that. You are bankrolling hatred and the stripping of human rights because you want your “nostalgia”
Sincerely, someone who loved the Harry Potter franchise but stopped apending my money there because I care about human rights.
Jk through the numerous organizations she’s bankrolled has done more to help women than you have hundreds of thousands of times over.
You are completely misrepresenting what the Amnesty international thing is about.
I know you’ve made up your mind on hating her so this is for the rest of the fans reading this; you don’t have anything to be ashamed about. OP and the other terminally online ‘judging’ you is not worth any damn. Feel free to ignore these people online and be proudly unapologetic irl about it too. Tell these bullies off. They’re actually a very small minority.
“You made up your mind so I’m not going to name any actual arguments.”
Whatever makes you sleep at night hunny, the facts are all there to find on her own personal twitter page, she doesn’t care about women rights, she just hate the fact that trans people exist as you clearly can read on her own official twitter.
Then stop focusing on it and focus on your life. It's what I do. I ignore it all. She can fuck off. She can spend all the money She wants. It's not going to change anything.
Quit being judgemental. Get over it. You'll cause yourself unnecessary stress on your heart the more you make a big deal out of it. I ignore it all and am stress free because I have one life and I'm not going to spend all my hours like a raving lunatic like many of y'all are.
I’m telling people about how JK Rowling is attacking my basic rights and tell them that they are contributing to the erosion of my rights as a transgender person.
Or are you seriously telling me I should just roll over and let her attack my very being?
What rights have you lost in past few years? Exactly. That's why I ignore it all because she can spend however many millions she wants, it will do nothing. The world is too progressive at this point that going backwards is too late. Fortunately.
UK passed a bill that doesn’t allow transgender people to go to the toilet that corresponds with their gender, forcing transgender people to out themselves whenever they have to go for a wee.
That bill was introduced just a few weeks ago.
And that is the tip of the iceberg.
If you stick your head in the sand you don’t hear the danger coming.
"I ignore it all," "I just focus on my own life." Oh so thats what youre doing at 11 am on a weekend on reddit then? Completely minding your own business? Lol fuck off
Let’s see, trans people can be discriminated against by ‘gender criticals’ because their bullshit belief is protected. Trans people have lost the right to live and exist in peace as their acquired gender as they now have to risk outing themselves by using ‘gender neutral’ or male facilities, which also puts them at risk of harm, or they have to avoid ‘sex’ segregated facilities altogether which limits their public lives, if they decide to ignore the stupid guidelines and use women’s facilities they are also at risk of harm, along with cis women who don’t look feminine enough.
They are being excluded from groups and sports they’ve been involved in for decades and told to go to the men’s or ‘open’ versions, which again risks outing themselves, or just plain blocks them from the activity as there aren’t open versions, this also ignores any safety risks they may face, particularly in sport.
The rise in terf rhetoric has also lead to a rise in hate crimes against trans people as well as other LGBTQ+ people.
Actually, I agree with this. One look at Lia Thomas is all I needed to support trans women only playing in non women's sports. It's only fair. Please don't damage all the many years, decades, of women trying to get equality and recognized, even in sports.
You're part of the problem. You're insufferable. Sports are games we spend way too much money and attention on. I love the fun, competition, communion, and the best hard work they bring out of people but they are just games. They should not be regulated to exclude others by our institutions, they were meant to bring us together.
Brother you gotta realize that this is an incredibly privileged take, right?
Like great, trans bigotry and anti-trans activism doesn't affect you. Bully for you. Perhaps someday you'll come to the realization that other people have feelings and hopes and dreams and lives and human rights too.
But let's be real: the actual reason you "don't care" about Rowling's bigotry is that you agree with her. Just say that. Don't be a pussy.
Who cares? A lot of people. Just because you don't doesn't mean others don't.
And the Harry Pottet of most of our childhoods was a world where everyone was welcome and anything was possible.
That world is gone. It was replaced by a weird white supremacist, anti-gay/anti-trans, pro slavery, world. For many people it's just not worth it anymore.
Then stop focusing on it and focus on your life. It's what I do. I ignore it all. She can fuck off. She can spend all the money She wants. It's not going to change anything.
If she can fuck off, why would I give her my money?
The money she spends does change things. There are billions being spent to make people hate and fear trans people. It's working. Policy changes have been made. Bathroom bills have been fought over. People lose their lives because anti-trans hate is being normalized.
It has changed nothing. Ive researched it. She has caused no change. She can spend however much She wants, but the world is too progressive at this point to go backwards. Fortunately. So yeah, ignore that bitch.
Sorry, but I agree with the bathroom stuff. I'm all for equality, but some lines have to be drawn. I rely on common sense. I'm non partisan, old school libertarian leaning.
First of all you are a hypocrite, no libertarian would EVER accept government rules on the bathroom or bedroom. Libertarians care about less big brother intervention.
There is no common sense is policing who uses which bathrooms based on their appearance. Who will guard them? Who stops people from using the "wrong" one? Where does someone go to the bathroom if they appear the opposite gender of what their ID says?
There is nothing logical or rational about bathroom laws.
If anyone actually cared they would push for single stall only bathrooms. But you idiots don't actually care about a solution.
I've made 1 joke about it. She's made hundreds, possibly thousands of Tweets on the subject as well as posting a 4000 word essay on her website. She's the one who needs to let it go.
Acknowledging that only men can be trans women is not the same as gassing Jews. One discusses reality, the other is genocide. I know. You think both are genocide.
"In the 1930s, transgender people were called “transvestites,” which is rarely a preferred term for trans people today, but at the time approximated what’s now meant by “transgender.” The police permits were called “transvestite certificates,” and they exempted a person from the laws against cross-dressing. Under the republic, trans people could also change their names legally, though they had to pick from a short, preapproved list.
The rise of Nazi Germany destroyed this relatively open environment. The Nazis shut down the magazines, the Eldorado and Hirschfeld’s institute. Most people who held “transvestite certificates,” as Simon did, had them revoked or watched helplessly as police refused to honor them.
The author of a 1938 book on “the problem of transvestitism” wrote that before Hitler was in power, there was not much that could be done about transgender people, but that now, in Nazi Germany, they could be put in concentration camps or subjected to forced castration. That was good, he believed, because the “asocial mindset” of trans people and their supposedly frequent “criminal activity … justifies draconian measures by the state.”
I see the issue. You're mistaking people claiming a preferred SOCIAL gender, as them claiming they are biologically that sex. They're not. They're saying "treat me like a woman, I wasn't born with a uterus, but I want to be seen and live as a woman in society". They're not claiming they have a uterus. They just want to be called Tiffany and get to wear female clothing or whatever.
It just makes them happy to be seen how they want to be seen and feel validated in their chosen identity. I want people to compliment my suit and validate I look good and manly. This is the same thing.
It's like making a big deal that someone was born David and wants to be called Christopher now. I don't see the point in making a fuss lol just let them be happy whatever they want to be called. Let them be Tiffany. Who cares what their name was before? Life is too short for people to care about this. Happiness is hard enough to find for ourselves, why hamper anyone else finding theirs?
Sorry for swearing before but it's just infuriating that we've known the science for so many years, and then some pdfile psychologists like John Money dreamed an idea up and now everyone is pretending it replaces science.
I understand that if you're male with dysphoria, being "seen as" a woman, or having people play along that you're a woman will make you feel better. But it's different when people are told they must play along. Even worse, if they have to lie, to play along.
> Happiness is hard enough to find for ourselves, why hamper anyone else finding theirs?
There are people who would find happiness in stealing food. Why stand in their way?
Can a woman - say, Jo Rowling find out she is a trans woman or have her egg crack and discover she is a trans woman? Why not? There is something about the gametes her body wants/wanted to make - eggs, that stops her from ever being a trans woman. You are pretending not to understand me, but you do.
"Everyone who disagrees with me wants to murder trans people".
You sound like an 15 yo angsty teenager who has no fucking arguments. Disagreeing that a man is a woman cuz of a thought in his head doesn't mean I want to murder people.
Trans people don't think they grow a uterus when they say "I'm a woman"
They're saying "treat me like a woman please"
This isn't hard man. Do you get mad at bleached blondes because they're lying about their hair color? Or can someone choose to be blonde and we all just are cool about it
Hair colour matters very little at the societal and reproductive level. Knowing the difference between males and females is something our species depends on. Females have different needs from males. This includes acknowledging them as a distinct type of human because of their biology.
Also, wanting blonde hair isn't a mental condition like gender dysphoria is. You don't need to block puberty or cut healthy tissue off to dye your hair. It's reversible too.
These two things are not alike.
Also, if you dye your hair blond, it is blond. If you're a man and take estrogen and wear a skirt, your body doesn't start to facilitate the function of large gametes (eggs).
That's cuz when it comes down to it, most people still know the difference between males and females. In the bedroom, people stop pretending not to know the difference and stop virtue-signalling.
> Trans people existing doesn't do anything to change that.
Some people literally can't discuss anything to do with trans people unless it's full, unquestioning affirmation. Anything but complete submission means "you don't want trans people to exist". You're grown up enough to know that disagreeing that someone's gender identity disorder is based on material reality means I want them to stop existing. This is childish and strawmanning.
Trans people should dress how they want to. But we should pretend they are the opposite sex cuz they have gender identity disorder.
Yes it is, though we need to stop pretending that something being 'an opinion' is an absolute defense. People deserve to be treated with intolerance for having bad opinions.
A big part of the above is acknowledging that ideas that are actively harmful, or desiring harm towards others are still opinions.
Its one to have opinion. Its another to fund and activelly support organizations that would love to literally exterminate trans people. This isnt hyperbole, read about her donations.
By causing them to suicide. She campaigns to take away life saving therapies. Trans people are already much more likely to kill themselves because of constant hate and bigotry. Fueling those movements also increases the risk of a trans person being beaten by hateful part of society.
Just look at UK. Just recently they stripped institutions that were doing surgeries for trans people of their funding, I can easily imagine a person waiting 2 years for a surgery only to hear its not gonna happen just losing any hope.
JK Rowling always said that adults can transition if they so wish. Children shouldn't be allowed to make decision that will irreversibly altered their whole body when they're too young to understand the full consequences.
As the rise of suicides this has never been proven. On the contrary, the only serious study on the subject has concluded that people were more likely to be suicidal AFTER having medically transitionned.
She can say whatever the fuck she wants. Truth is her meddling in politics affects adults. Its surgeries that were meant for adults that were cancelled in UK, nobody considers transitioning for kids, only puberty blockers. But why even learn the topic when you can spout uninformed BS from JK herself.
You dont know a single trans person dont you? People are suicidal when they are hated by society, when they are beaten for who they are, and guess what trans people are more likely to be ostracised and hated especially in countries with strong rightwing policies. And people like JK Rowling activelly supports those rightwing policies.
I hope you never have to suffer such hate. And in time you learn to have some empathy for people who already suffer.
Ps. I can say exactly same sentence. "Have you listened to transitioners"?
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u/npquanh30402 3d ago
The new Harry Potter television series has more screen time, allowing it to adapt the source material more accurately.