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How does a person go this absolutely insane. Rowling's so deathly afraid she might ever interact with a person that thinks positively about transgender people she just spews her hate for all to see. It's absolutely hilarious that in all this she refuses to see her own privilege but accuses Emma Watson of being a privileged little snowflake.
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I didn't know she hates asexuals now as well. Why does she hate us? We're not making babies?
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GodFish posted:We're stealing oppression valor from cis straight women and also we aren't real. Huh. How? Genuinely. Like I'm an otherwise cis dude that just...really doesn't want anything to do with sex. But it's like, as long as people don't ask me about my preference, it's not something I talk about. The amount of weird looks I get from other dudes is enough hassle. I'm not looking to bother women about it...
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Air Skwirl posted:I can understand the mental illness that makes someone transphobic, women have been raped in women's bathrooms by men. Just the men who do that generally aren't taking hormone supplements or wearing women's clothing. The anti asexual thing I just don't get at all. They're going to go into the "wrong" bathroom and do absolutely nothing objectionable at all. Yeah this is what weirds me out about anti-trans stuff as well though. Someone who transitioned is going to use the bathroom to...use the bathroom. A man that wants to rape women is not going to go through a transition. The problem is men, not who's using the bathroom.
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Oct 2, 2025 15:35
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You think that that is also why she keeps trying to pull the ladder up behind her and try to deny poor people the same privilege she had access to?
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Oct 2, 2025 16:07
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Does Rowling still even write beyond Twitter screeds? I think I stopped the Harry Potter series at book 5 because I both aged out and got a lot more into Discworld so was too busy devouring anything sir Pratchett wrote to really pay attention to her stuff. The writing in the Potter books became a bit boring and nonsensical to me. Especially when suddenly things had to get dark and dreary (tm) which made the world she wrote feel slapdash. Why did sweet sir Terry have to exit so early ;-;
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Oct 3, 2025 15:38
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Yeah she releases one of Cormorant Strike crime novels every year or two. Huh. Any reason it's under a penname?
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Oct 3, 2025 15:55
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Are the books any good, I know my opinion of her writing might not come of terribly charitably but 20 million copies isn't bad and the series seems to have had good reviews? I'm just wondering if she managed to write this without inserting her personality.
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Oct 3, 2025 16:08
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Air Skwirl posted:No, they're lovely rip-offs of Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder series. Which weren't genre defining when they came out originally, just very well done examples of it. there are so many books that do what she tries to do in her Stryke series so much better. I am a huge fan of that genre and she's not good at it. I might have to read Matthew Scudder cause I love me a good crime novel. Zesty posted:She can't write Harry Potter without inserting her personality. The bigotry is all over that series. I always found the whole, the Dursleys are fat and ugly because they're mean and evil and not just them but their whole family! So tiresome. And when Hermione became cute when her hair was no longer frizzy and also she fixed her teeth. Like...what the hell. Hermione was awesome because she hated slavery and was loving smart and had to save dunce and duncer every time. But also actually the house elves need to be slaves. It's better for them. Wtf.
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Oct 3, 2025 19:39
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I thought Hermione was Rowling's self-insert so she could mary Ron? Wasn't that also why the Weasley's won a lot of money because she realised 'she' couldn't be married to a poor?
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Oct 4, 2025 09:39
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Or ve a tabloid news writer.
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Oct 5, 2025 14:32
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Didn't wizards not know about plumbing either? Which is just so so dumb.
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Oct 5, 2025 14:42
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Rowling accidentally creates the implicit canon that not only have Wizards not kept up with Muggle inventions over thousands of years, but indeed that Wizards have forgotten many of the Muggle technologies and practices they would have already known for hundreds if not thousands of years before they decided to Wizards Going Their Own Way into their own secret ethnostates. Hey! They poo poo on the floor and then apparated it to be someone else's problem. Like civilised beings. Also they don't know what belts are. No i will not explain why newt scamander wears a belt.
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Sure. But seeing as an 'official' arm of her world-building went with they poo poo on the floor I, personally, find it a lot funnier to go with they poo poo on the floor.
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Oct 5, 2025 23:09
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I don't think Hermione's parents matter ever beyond putting Hermione on the train to Hogwarts. Must have been weird for her to return to her dentist parents with perfect teeth all of a sudden when they never even thought to give her braces.
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Liquid Communism posted:Even if she's a self-insert, Rowling low-key hates Hermione. Think about how often she's set up to look like a dumbass 'smart kid' who's objectively wrong and won't admit it. Granger's a buck-toothed bushy haired insufferable know-it-all. Her whole plotline for a book is that it's unreasonable that she's upset by what she perceives to be making her complicit in slavery, while none of the wizards ever explain that attitude. I've always assumed the character was a take on some girl she went to school with and despised while playing nice to her face. Yeah you're right. Although I guess because I was also 'an insufferable know-it-all who likes books more than people' I always like Hermione, bossiness and all. Although in hindsight it is obvious that Rowling is basically going...women right? every time anyone gets set up to put Hermione down.
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Oct 6, 2025 16:33
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The problem with Snape is that he was in Evil House (tm) so by the rules of the hat that means he could not be good.
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Dumbledore liked to suck on candies, of course he was supposed to be gay representation jeez
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Buttchocks posted:Yes, that's all well and good, but did Tolkien ever describe the plumbing of Gondor? Dwarves are always constipated (their greed will make them hold onto what they should let go), Men poo poo where they stand, Elves are too cool to poop loving fight me you weenie - Tolkien
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I always disliked Ron, but that was mostly because of his constant bickering with Hermione which I guess was somehow supposed to show a deep love?
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Beachcomber posted:Hermione likes to argue, and Ron's the only one willing to put up with it because he enjoys it too. Oh ok. Arguing just makes me anxious so I was probably coloring it with my own experiences.
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Oct 8, 2025 16:24
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Liquid Communism posted:Rowling wasn't creative enough to consider it. Like the whole prophecy is about someone 'born as the 7th month dies', but what calendar is that referring to? Do the forces of Fate bow to the Catholic Church's decision on what the months should be? If they know what's good for them they will.
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If I was a wizard I would just use my powers to not have a slave class in my school and just...magic up the food.
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Dumbledore: "Welcome to the realistic opening ceremony of Hogwarts school of Magic. I hope everyone has had a chance to go to the loo, we'll be sorting the first years now going by a 0,1% magical population on the whole of Britain." Ravenclaw groans in despair.
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bobjr posted:The reboot will have Cho Chang be an exchange student who just says lore about Asian magic schools. She will, for no apparent reason, speak with a very thick accent.
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Oct 14, 2025 16:20
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I think it's just because truly communist wizards have split off even from the split off and just live utopic secret communities.
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'Street' taught Wizards using expletive laced spells to beat up the loving entitled nerds from hogwarts
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