“Rowling is a transphobe AND Gaiman is like a Weinstein sex pest”
Fixed it for you.
She’s actively pushing hard, with a large platform, against trans people and her product is not some necessary thing but rather just a book series. It is so easy to just drop her, especially if you’re now an adult/young adult with a higher reading level and can take in better content from better people.
People need to drop her, she’s a horrid lady with incredibly mid-to-decent books and there is no excuse for hanging onto her.
no need to play villain Olympics, they are both horrid in different ways.
but I think the differences is that more people will be grossed out by rapy acts, than being a bigot, because there are more bigots than rapists in the public
Except I’m the one saying “and”. They both suck, and it doesn’t matter who sucks worse since they’ve both crossed the threshold and people shouldn’t be giving either of them money. Where on earth did you get anything else from out of my comment?
The Google generation at it again. Everything can be replaced, except for what’s the most oppressive in things around. That’s an /s.
Those are very smart book series. They’ve taught me to think correctly about the real world and how it works. They are not ordinary at all in describing how people think. And also how the world looks where every person has tremendous power at the tips of their fingers, yet almost nobody uses it.
JKR also knows her classics. The books might seem nonsense for people who don’t, because they have many-many classical references, embedded in few layers sometimes.
I thought that HP and HP parodies are stupid once, now, remembering one Russian one I’ve read a lot, and one my sister advised me, I think that not only HP itself is very deep, but also most of the parodies are no less deep and their authors were intelligent enough to understand the references and subvert them and improve on them. When I was reading both HP and that parody, I saw nothing of the sort. It took some additional knowledge of Greek classics over many years.
Stupid kid I was thought they are fun to read, but not deep and even stupid compared to me. I’m still ashamed remembering that.
Just to repeat it again - this can’t be random interpretations Rowling didn’t intend, people claiming that don’t know what they are talking about.
How being against trans-people combines with those books I’m not sure too. Maybe association with some personal trauma. Maybe the fact that a man that changes their gender to a woman is still, in the sense of oppression, treated like a man a lot, and a woman changing their gender to a man is treated like a woman a lot. I would prefer to see the “actual discussion” part of the controversy about Rowling, yet many people take this alone as an insult - if I don’t believe what “everyone says”, then apparently it’s an offense.
I just know that JKR is a very intelligent person, much more than the average commenter.
Buddy, for starters I’m nearly 30 and I have read all the books(when I was young, before JKR showed us how fucked she is). Secondly, she ripped off so many people’s works and that wouldn’t even be a huge deal except she refuses to admit that she had any real inspiration and acts like she was the first person to come up with the theme or pretty much any of the details, either.
Here’s a video where even the first couple minutes proves that point in spades.
If you can’t figure out how transphobia works into it then you really are ignorant because it’s her as a person mostly, as she tweets incessently about just how much she hates trans folk. She’s a bad person, absolutely rotten to the core.
JKR is fucking thief and dumb as bricks, and you would do well to sit the fuck down and stop supporting her. There are so many better things to be doing with your time, including reading books from authors that are more creative, more original, and not gigantic pieces of shit on the side.
Bonus: Most of her characters are obvious racial steretypes. She literally couldn’t even be bothered to look up a Chinese name for one of them and just named them “Cho Chang” which isn’t even a possible name in the culture.
Bonus: Most of her characters are obvious racial steretypes. She literally couldn’t even be bothered to look up a Chinese name for one of them and just named them “Cho Chang” which isn’t even a possible name in the culture.
That could mean a few different things. Not only being racist.
And not just racist stereotypes, also regional, social layer, other stereotypes. That’s intentional.
Magic -> fairy tales -> romanticist stereotypes. Seems a natural path of association for me, but you do you.
Here’s a video
Would be better to link a text, to be honest. But I’ll watch it later.
JKR is fucking thief and dumb as bricks
I can’t agree. Since those references also combine into systems making sense inside her own worldbuilding, I can’t agree that they are “just a result of plagiarism”, or if they are, then at least she’s not dumb as bricks.
Also you have too high standards for a human. A human is that creature which is not in any way rational, rational thought is something humans stumbled upon on their free fall trajectory of history, driven by herd instincts, will to procreate and to survive. Sometimes rational thought was the best solution for those goals. Or maybe they served the wind for the appropriately formed proverbial sails.
I guarantee you that every human has an aspect in which they are disgusting and dumb as bricks, and also inconsistent. If you don’t know yours, then - better get busy with finding it and understanding that some things you can’t fix ever.
She’s a writer, as far as I’m interested. Not a politician or a public activist.
Buddy, for starters I’m nearly 30 and I have read all the books(when I was young, before JKR showed us how fucked she is).
Same here.
Secondly, she ripped off so many people’s works and that wouldn’t even be a huge deal except she refuses to admit that she had any real inspiration and acts like she was the first person to come up with the theme or pretty much any of the details, either.
That’s because nothing is truly original. She’s right to act this way about her own books.
OK, I’ll watch the linked video and then maybe write something else.
None of this is anything but increasing levels of proof that your capability of understanding nuance or simple context is incredibly limited. Either that or there is some other reason you are desperate to cling to this series and you should probably address that through therapy.
For the video, when you can get to it, really you only need the first couple minutes. It’s a well done list of all of the works she ripped off. Yes, “nothing is original” but she actively claims that is and her thefts are straight-up copy-pastes.
“Not unprecedented” is not an excuse you absolute ghoul. Murder is not unprecedented you don’t see a lawyer busting that one out in the courtroom.
I feel sorry for anyone who has the displeasure of having to talk to you in places where they cannot easily leave and forget about you as I am about to do. Well, that’s not wholy true, you certainly left a mark by being such an extreme example of someone with no media literacy going all-in to poorly defend a viscious transphobe because you have a problematic attachment to her mediocre children’s books.
She’s actively pushing hard, with a large platform, against trans people and her product is not some necessary thing but rather just a book series. It is so easy to just drop her, especially if you’re now an adult/young adult with a higher reading level and can take in better content from better people.
People need to drop her, she’s a horrid lady with incredibly mid-to-decent books and there is no excuse for hanging onto her.
ok.
no need to play villain Olympics, they are both horrid in different ways.
but I think the differences is that more people will be grossed out by rapy acts, than being a bigot, because there are more bigots than rapists in the public
Except I’m the one saying “and”. They both suck, and it doesn’t matter who sucks worse since they’ve both crossed the threshold and people shouldn’t be giving either of them money. Where on earth did you get anything else from out of my comment?
sorry if I read it wrong. my bad.
Fair enough.
The Google generation at it again. Everything can be replaced, except for what’s the most oppressive in things around. That’s an /s.
Those are very smart book series. They’ve taught me to think correctly about the real world and how it works. They are not ordinary at all in describing how people think. And also how the world looks where every person has tremendous power at the tips of their fingers, yet almost nobody uses it.
JKR also knows her classics. The books might seem nonsense for people who don’t, because they have many-many classical references, embedded in few layers sometimes.
I thought that HP and HP parodies are stupid once, now, remembering one Russian one I’ve read a lot, and one my sister advised me, I think that not only HP itself is very deep, but also most of the parodies are no less deep and their authors were intelligent enough to understand the references and subvert them and improve on them. When I was reading both HP and that parody, I saw nothing of the sort. It took some additional knowledge of Greek classics over many years.
Stupid kid I was thought they are fun to read, but not deep and even stupid compared to me. I’m still ashamed remembering that.
Just to repeat it again - this can’t be random interpretations Rowling didn’t intend, people claiming that don’t know what they are talking about.
How being against trans-people combines with those books I’m not sure too. Maybe association with some personal trauma. Maybe the fact that a man that changes their gender to a woman is still, in the sense of oppression, treated like a man a lot, and a woman changing their gender to a man is treated like a woman a lot. I would prefer to see the “actual discussion” part of the controversy about Rowling, yet many people take this alone as an insult - if I don’t believe what “everyone says”, then apparently it’s an offense.
I just know that JKR is a very intelligent person, much more than the average commenter.
Buddy, for starters I’m nearly 30 and I have read all the books(when I was young, before JKR showed us how fucked she is). Secondly, she ripped off so many people’s works and that wouldn’t even be a huge deal except she refuses to admit that she had any real inspiration and acts like she was the first person to come up with the theme or pretty much any of the details, either.
Here’s a video where even the first couple minutes proves that point in spades.
If you can’t figure out how transphobia works into it then you really are ignorant because it’s her as a person mostly, as she tweets incessently about just how much she hates trans folk. She’s a bad person, absolutely rotten to the core.
JKR is fucking thief and dumb as bricks, and you would do well to sit the fuck down and stop supporting her. There are so many better things to be doing with your time, including reading books from authors that are more creative, more original, and not gigantic pieces of shit on the side.
Bonus: Most of her characters are obvious racial steretypes. She literally couldn’t even be bothered to look up a Chinese name for one of them and just named them “Cho Chang” which isn’t even a possible name in the culture.
That could mean a few different things. Not only being racist.
And not just racist stereotypes, also regional, social layer, other stereotypes. That’s intentional.
Magic -> fairy tales -> romanticist stereotypes. Seems a natural path of association for me, but you do you.
Would be better to link a text, to be honest. But I’ll watch it later.
I can’t agree. Since those references also combine into systems making sense inside her own worldbuilding, I can’t agree that they are “just a result of plagiarism”, or if they are, then at least she’s not dumb as bricks.
Also you have too high standards for a human. A human is that creature which is not in any way rational, rational thought is something humans stumbled upon on their free fall trajectory of history, driven by herd instincts, will to procreate and to survive. Sometimes rational thought was the best solution for those goals. Or maybe they served the wind for the appropriately formed proverbial sails.
I guarantee you that every human has an aspect in which they are disgusting and dumb as bricks, and also inconsistent. If you don’t know yours, then - better get busy with finding it and understanding that some things you can’t fix ever.
She’s a writer, as far as I’m interested. Not a politician or a public activist.
Same here.
That’s because nothing is truly original. She’s right to act this way about her own books.
OK, I’ll watch the linked video and then maybe write something else.
None of this is anything but increasing levels of proof that your capability of understanding nuance or simple context is incredibly limited. Either that or there is some other reason you are desperate to cling to this series and you should probably address that through therapy.
For the video, when you can get to it, really you only need the first couple minutes. It’s a well done list of all of the works she ripped off. Yes, “nothing is original” but she actively claims that is and her thefts are straight-up copy-pastes.
Sorry, this comment of yours is full of what I’d consider worth addressing through therapy.
That’s not unprecedented.
“Not unprecedented” is not an excuse you absolute ghoul. Murder is not unprecedented you don’t see a lawyer busting that one out in the courtroom.
I feel sorry for anyone who has the displeasure of having to talk to you in places where they cannot easily leave and forget about you as I am about to do. Well, that’s not wholy true, you certainly left a mark by being such an extreme example of someone with no media literacy going all-in to poorly defend a viscious transphobe because you have a problematic attachment to her mediocre children’s books.
Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.
I’ve met real ghouls, they really like fools like you riding your whole lives on bullshit and emotions. Convenient.