#anti rowling

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i love Remus Lupin and his disaster bisexual ass so much

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Not banned books exactly, but can I get your opinion on people online who try to stop people from reading books by problamatic authors such as JKR or Neil Gaiman, please? Seems like a hot topic right now.

Is this not a form of censorship? Bullying and harassing people to stop a certain book from being read.

Personally, I think there are ethical ways to read works by problamatic living authors; buy secondhand books or pirate etc., and don't publicly promote their work. Shouldn't we kindly encourage fans to do that instead than the extreme left equivalent of book burning? I think it would be more productive and less like censorship.

Oof, that's important, but it's gonna be a bit painful for me to answer...

-not because I don't have an opinion, but because my opinion is probably going to upset a lot of people on here that I care about. 😮‍💨

Let me give a little background first:

So I originally tried espousing all my weird, radical Pro-Freedom-of-Expression and Anti-Censorship opinions in a number of different places online. And people were NOT receptive lol. Once I started discussing genuinely offensive, shocking content, everyone would change their minds on censorship REAL quick.

The one place where I found a lot of support was here on Tumblr. And that's clearly in large part because there are very active fandom communities here with lots of Pro-Ship / Profic people, who don't think others should be harassed because of what content they make or enjoy.

And I say all of that just to explain that I love them and I am REALLY not going to enjoy pissing them all off with the following opinion... 😓

My controversial opinion in question:

I sometimes worry that maybe, possibly... some Proship / Profic people might be acting a bit hypocritically.

I think if you're going to identify as being anti-harassment, you kind of need to be anti-harassment for everything.

I say this because I've seen a number of people who are allegedly "anti-harassment," but who start to get a bit... harassy (for lack of a better term) towards others under the right circumstances.

Some of them have been specifically related to what OP mentioned: fans of Neil Gaiman (sexual assault) and Harry Potter (major anti-trans activism) - those are both big ones right now. Another big one I see a lot is directed at anyone who shows any sort of interest in AI generated content - boy oh boy does that one get a negative reaction.

And I know that "harassment" is a very vague term, but I'm basically talking about things well beyond just pointing out why you think someone shouldn't support that stuff, or arguing with someone online - I mean it's the internet, the whole point is to argue with strangers.

What I'm talking about are things like spamming anonymous threats, making call-out posts to whip up hatred, jumping in when others are already dog-piling on someone, mass-reporting a person's posts so that Tumblr's stupid automated systems will take down the blog, digging through a person's posts / follows / likes to find anything negative you can use to smear them, doxxing someone, etc.

Basically I'd say that harassment, in my mind, boils down to: continuing to forcibly engage with a person when they clearly don't want you to.

And when a Proship / Profic person starts acting like this towards anyone for any reason I just want to be like... hey, remind me what your core rule is again? Ooooh right:

Here's the thing...

You know that feeling you get, when you go to harass someone online cuz they post about the new Harry Potter series or some shitty AI image they made? You know that righteous feeling where you know that what you're doing is Good, because you are a Good Person and the other person is a Bad Person? That feeling where you think "sure, what they like might not technically be directly harming a specific individual in a concrete way, but that doesn't matter because it might cause some sort of vaguely defined harm in the future - and besides, it just seems like such a gross thing to support"?

Yeah? You know that feeling?

THAT IS THE SAME FEELING THAT ANTI-SHIPPERS HAVE

And your feelings are just as valid as theirs (which is to say: not very).

Let me be clear: I fucking despise J.K. Rowling as a person. And I certainly don't want to line her pockets with any more money. And yeah, I do kind of look down on people who still buy Harry Potter shit.

But you can't actively harass someone over that. You just can't.

People have really complex reasons for why they like what they like - reasons which they may or may not fully understand themselves. We're all on a sort of personal journey - your own opinions and tastes have almost certainly evolved naturally in just the last few years. Maybe you should allow other people that same sort of opportunity for growth?

And if you want a more practical reason to not harass: it just doesn't work. In my personal experience, when someone feels surrounded and attacked, it feels like they don't actually tend change. They either A.) only superficially, temporarily change their outward, public behaviors in order to avoid further harassment, or B.) they really dig in and become defensive and belligerent, even when they may have originally been more open-minded.

Again, I know that no one wants to hear this. Sorry. I genuinely don't want to piss people off (even though I appear to be very good at it) 😮‍💨

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Rowling saying that Emma Watson’s beliefs aren’t valid because she’s had a cushy life and implying she didn’t have to fear sexualization, when Watson was literally harassed and sexualized since she was a teenager (including a literal count down to her 18th birthday and a guy who camped out to take pictures of below her skirt) is certainly a take that someone can have

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There is no redeeming Harry Potter

I have written on this a couple of times in a way, but also never quite in an explicit manner focusing just on this. So, let me try: there is no redeeming of Harry Potter as a franchise or a fandom. There no way to interact with Harry Potter as an IP that is not in one way or another doing harm. And I know this is hurting some people who are obsessed with this franchise in a neurodivergent way, but there is no way around it. Because Harry Potter is really the insanely rare case of media, where no matter how you turn it, there is no way to find something good or excusable about it.

The thing people do not seem to understand is this: no, Rowling does likely for the most part not actually get 0.005% of any HP product you buy. No. Her riches come from her OWNING the IP. For once, yes, she gets some money whenever someone (Lego, Universal, some candies, whatever) uses this IP. Whenever someone wants to use this IP they will have to deal with her and her lawyers and be like: "We will give you X money to put out HP branded chocolate." And she will get that money. But she will most likely not get a percentage of the actual sold merchandise.

More notably and more important though: Mrs. Fascist owns her part in HP as an asset. And like all billioniares what is actually important to her is not sales, but what a bank thinks this is worth. Because billionaires do not have money on bank accounts. Billionaires own things, and then go to banks and say: "You, gimme a couple millions please. I own all this stuff. If I do not play it back you can have some of that." And in the case of media IPs the amount banks think it is worth is very much tied to recognition. And you know what creates more recognition for a brand? Fanwork shit. Fanwork is advertisement for a brand.

Of course there is the main issue here: Rowling uses her money (or rather the money she borrows) to fund a hate campaign against trans people, intersex people, and let's fully honest here: non-white people, queer people in general, women, and children. And the poor. And fat people. And disabled people. Like, basically everyone who is marginalized in any way. Mainly trans people, but I cannot stress enough how Rowlings politics are not just transphobe but outright fascist.

And any interaction with the franchise of Harry Potter is giving Rowling more money and power. Yes, even if you only interact with it via fanwork. Yes, even if you only buy the stuff used. Or from some person on etsy. It does not matter. Because the billion to J. K. Rowling's name is not actual money. Once more: billionaires do not have a billion bucks on their bank account. No. The billion largely are how her assets are valued. So things that she owns and that are valued by banks and investors. It is her net value. And the biggest asset she has is the percentage she has from how much the Harry Potter brand is valued. And as long as this brand is recognizable and big, the IP has a lot of value. It does not matter if you do not pay for it. You talking about it. You keeping the fandom alive. It all still feeds the IP. And the IP value is what gives her money. Not just direct purchases. Her money comes from what banks and investors think the IP might be able to earn based on brand recognition. Yes, even if you are part of the Marauders fandom and delude yourself into you having nothing to do with actual Rowling. You are still adding to her brand. Even if you start out every fanfic you post by "actually I hate JK Rowling". It does not matter.

So, yes, even if you give no money to Rowling, she still profits from you liking HP and openly online talking about it. She still gets money from this. In a way. And the same also holds true even if you make negative online content on her. Which is the confounding factor. Because HP and Rowling herself are in a way on the level of "every kind of attention is good attention". And frankly, I do not even know what to do about that.

But also there is no way to deal with whatever kind of HP stuff you still have in a way that does not profit her - and is not harmful to overall society. Because even if you bring your own HP stuff to a second hand store, you do risk the factor of this then getting someone new into the franchise, again furthering the brand.

And that is even without going into the fact that the books themselves are very fascist. These are books that feature a pro-eugenics, pro-imperialist, misogynist, racist, queerphobic, ableist, fatphobic, classist narrative. If you read those books to kids you are a bad person. Sorry, not sorry. In fact, even with all understanding for nostalgia and neurodivergent fandom obsessions, I have genuinely reached the point where I do have little understanding for people who still cling to this franchise. Like, I was once quite autistic about this franchise and you know what? I have not consumed any HP media since Rowling decided to stand with fucking Depp as the entire story with him got started - which was notably before she came out as a TERF.

As long as there is a fandom for this - people who make fanwork, who talk about this, who make roleplays and whatever - this fandom will not only make sure that everyone remembers what Harry Potter. But it will also make sure that there is other new suckers being drawn constantly, who do not actually care and will buy whatever bullshit the Warner Brother marketing department throws at them. You and your friends keeping alive the Marauders fandom and just having your own little funny headcanons that you are openly posting about set in the fascist world of Harry Potter, will maybe not be the sole reason someone else decides to buy tickets to the Universal theme park and visit whatever bullshit stuff they have there. But do not make a mistake: it will likely add to someone's decision to do that. You cannot interact with this fandom without it benefiting Rowling. And hence you cannot interact with this fandom, without harming trans and intersex people.

And no, I do not call for censorship. I am just stating the obvious: if you still obsess about HP in the year of our lord 2026, you are harming trans people. And intersex people. And a bunch of other marginalized folks for that matter. No matter if you refuse to actually buy stuff. If you are part of this fandom, you are adding to Rowlings riches and influence. Even if you never spent a single dime on it. And if you value that fandom more than trans people, then I cannot do anything about that. But I think you are bad person. And you will have to live with that, just as I (and every other trans person) have to live (and die) with you valuing childhood nostalgia above our lives.

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my math teacher deadass tried to cite harry potter as evidence that dragons are real bc jkr is christian 😭😭😭😭

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could you explain the jk rowling post? im not that involved with uk politics

Féile an Phobail is a major annual community arts festival in west Belfast. The Women's Rights Network Northern Ireland (WRN NI) had proposed a panel discussion titled "Respect, Rights and Reality: Women's Voices from Ireland and Europe." It was accepted by Féile, included in the printed programme, and scheduled for August.

Criticism appeared online pointing out that the WRN are an anti-trans terf group, which they are. Féile subsequently cancelled the event. The festival said it had not appreciated when it accepted the application that the event would "promote campaigns against rights for the transgender community" and stated that it wished to stand with "those who are marginalised and attacked." Basically, the WRN would have had an anti-trans panel with only anti-trans speakers, promoting all of their dogshit talking points.

When WRN announced the cancellation, Rowling responded on Twitter, saying that her legal fund would help with legal costs. She linked to the legal support fund she established for cases involving "sex-based rights issues" (destroying trans rights through the courts, which has always been the approach of the far right anti-trans lobby).

It's a win. The terfs expected trans people to roll over under the Supreme Court judgement, and the EHRC and are infuriated that trans people are not, in fact, rolling over.

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LGBT and Leftist Feminists: They've Been Warning About TERFs for Years

Society: **Ignore it**

**Rowling is taking away the rights of transgender women, and Collective Shout is censoring games**

Society:

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Joanne.

Emma Watson is 35 goddamn years old. She has been sexualised and stalked since she was a preteen. She is more than entitled to her own opinions about women's rights, safety and bodily autonomy.

Because again, and I can not stress this enough, she is a fully grown adult in her mid thirties. Not a child.

Also, Joanne, the reason she and Dan have kept commenting on your opinions is because people keep asking them.

Because, Joanne, a very large community of queer young adults who grew up with Harry Potter and found great comfort in it, can longer look to you for that same comfort and acceptance. All you are offering them is hatred and bigotry.

So Emma and Dan, when asked about your latest horrible opinion everytime you spout it- which is often- provide that acceptance instead.

Because they are grown ups. With Empathy. Joanne.