Among everything else that’s cruel and wrong about this exchange, I just feel like imaginative empathy is basically the number one qualification I have for any novelist, and if you don’t have that…
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Funny story: this woman was considered a Satanic witch by the Conservative Christian leadership in the Southern USA because her books promoted witchcraft and homoeroticism, among other things and Harry Potter books were actually banned from schools in some places as a result. She IS a they/them.
She got called out for posting problematic things, and instead of being a decent person and improving herself, she doubled down on it because her feelings got hurt. And she's been doubling down since.
I can't believe I have to keep tapping the sign of "LGBTQIA takes in any non heteronormative sexuality/gender expression." So tired of infighting from people who are supposed to be allies and people who genuinely won't leave us the fuck alone.
I recently went on an ace ficton reading bender. To understand a different experience than my own. It was nice, actually, not to have everything be about sex. The romances were especially lovely. Much nicer to have living in my brain than her cruel books.
Ok so also "Cosy and Chill" by Jackie Keswick. "The Cybernetic Tea Shop" by Meredith Katz. "Loveless" by Alice Oseman. "One good turn" which is book 2 of the Meddle and Mend series by Sarah Wallace. The whole series is queer and sweet but that is the ace one.
Okay, but, like, they go so well together! Like, an assassin and an Agent of Death- she brings her work and she takes care of her injuries, it's so cute!
"Lumping everyone together" is for solidarity for a group of people who make up a small % of society and have a similar life experience. In this case, sexuality and/or gender that isn't part of the majority experience. And, you know, the overt hatred for those people by vile humans like these.
Novelist here
Empathy is, in fact, my primary reason for doing what I do. And I have NO idea how JK did those books with such a lacking of same. Someone should do a trans Potter parody. Harry Potter and the Pit of Pronouns.
Who knew that the creator of a book series about a little boy who was kept closeted under the stairs by an unloving aunt and uncle because he was different (until he was rescued by a woke half-giant) used herself as the basis for the aunt?
I went on Twatter to look at this and it's all so horrible and reductive and privileged and now I'm furious but I will not engage. Eaten up by self-importance and ego.
These two perfectly demonstrate why a day where knowledge about ace (and other identities, cultures, etc.) is needed. People can be cruel when they personally can't comprehend or empathize with what different life experiences feel like.
She’s an ultra-rich white woman who is so protected that she needs to make herself feel victimized to justify how much wealth she hoards instead of using her money to lift up people who are living in poverty like she once did.
It has always been clear to me that BGLTIQA2S+* . . . are all sexual minorities. But some incurious folks don't want to read about other people's perspectives, whether that's fiction or nonfiction.
*BTW . . .
B goes 1st, since there are more of us than all the rest combined. 😘😍🥰
“G is soooo much better than all of the other letters.” Marginalized groups need to band together, not be exclusionary: that’s why we are in the mess we are in. Trans rights are women’s rights are gay rights are Hispanic rights are black rights are human rights.
Make her broke. How is this sack of shit still relevant? She is old news and the sooner everyone ignores her and stops purchasing anything to do with her work, she goes away. Starve her of money and attention. It is that simple.☺️❤️☺️
But that's exactly what's lacking in her novels too. I do grudgingly respect the way she accessibly combined elements from various strands of fiction. But put her alongside, say, Jacqueline Wilson, and Rowling's characters are all lifeless ciphers. It's how she sees the world.
Transphobia is very much a “When You Give a Mouse a Cookie…” situation. It won’t be long before Joanne says that she never liked “the gays” or “the blacks” to begin with.
Wow. Aces definitely have a right to be in the mix, for exactly the reason posted on the image. Gays are not the gatekeepers of the rainbow flag.
The rainbow is a spectrum. It's anyone who isn't cishet, is marginalized, outcast. Aces still love. Have partners, kids.
Ah John Boyne, the man who made a holocaust novel so bad it got him in online arguments with the holocaust museum and so lazy he took the first recipe for red dye for his medieval book not realising it was from a Zelda game. If he agrees with you you’re probably wrong
He’s a terf too, wants to cut the T away from LGB because he doesn’t understand bigots are coming for anyone who doesn’t fit exactly what they think is acceptable
If she was still dirt poor, no one will care about her. Personally, I still couldn't give a fk about her, I never liked Harry Potter, stopped reading after the first page because there were far better children writers out there.
The dazzling glow of the fireworks display was so bright that I had to cover my eyes with my free hand, and so hot I felt like I might get burned. It would have helped if it didn't go off in the storage shed, but what kind of an idiot uses fire-based lighting in a wooden shed around fireworks?
Yeah, we’re not making up a disease to normalize our “sex sells” propaganda empire or anything. There’s something wrong with these people, it’s not our commercials
Heck, even redheads have faced oppression here and there over the years.
Left-handed people have faced tons of oppression- and still have shorter life expectancies because stuff isn't made for them.
And of course, people will punch at any group for any thing.
To this point, unlike the other characters in the series, Harry Potter is a character who grows older but never really evolves as a person. The world around him is well-imagined, too. Harry is Rowling.
JKR's demonstrated lack of empathy becomes more and more bizarre by the day. The Harry Potter series seemed to be built around the notions of judging people by their actions, by giving the downtrodden a helping hand and standing between the persecuted and the bullies.
What did I miss in there?
It was also full of racist overtones, fat shaming, a slave species that enjoyed being slaves and a torture prison that the 'hero' wanted to get a job putting people in when he grew up.
Ah, there it is. Thanks. I remember the house elves and Azhkhaban but hadn't truly made the connections. Definitely blocked out the fat-shaming on the initial pass but I'm recalling some relevant parts...
Ugh.
Yeah.
There's no way I'll live long enough to see it, but I wonder what will happen when the HP franchise goes into the public domain the appropriate number of years after JKR dies...
Don’t forget merciless mocking of somebody who tried to free the slaves, the genocide of the garden gnomes, which was meant to be terribly funny, because there’s really nothing funnier than genocide, the frighteningly heteronormative ending, and the Gringott goblins – antisemitic stereotypes.
My bigger question here is, why center this, with all the shit happening in the world? I mean, she’s wrong and wrong-headed - shout out to the asexuals, ICU - but THIS deserves her bigoted attention rn? Perhaps use your platform to denounce real probs like extrajudicial renditioning? Fuck her.
She's wealthy. That's why. I have to imagine she isn't impacted too much by things, so she's a combination of bored, insecure, privileged and a little broken by her past experiences.
Birds of a feather. Boyne is an awful person in his own right. Not only is he a terf, he also got into a public fight with the Holocaust museum because they politely criticized his book for historical inaccuracy & misrepresenting the Holocaust. he absolutely refused to take any valid criticism.
Fuck JK Rowling, genuinely. Such a spiteful, bigoted, evil bitch.
I dont throw around that word lightly but theres no better way to describe her. She just wants to complain about people and she wants to make sure everyone knows it, she just cant comprehend that some people dont give a shit abt her
I guess she feels like she's entitled to her views and should use her fame to put them out there to the masses, whether people want to hear them or not.
It's hard to believe that the woman who gave us gay Dumbledore (and defended it well) went down this road.
Every time she lashes out after bouts of silence, I guarantee it's because she got bad news from her publisher or booking agent. All we really need to to is stop engaging with this sad old bigoted woman. Stop letting her feed our out rage.
Also fuck whoever this guys is licking Joanne's boots.
I envy you for not knowing him. 😩 He wrote the hideous children's book Boy in Striped Pajamas which has been completely derided by most Jewish and Holocaust groups as terrible and yet he keeps digging down and insisting he's right, everyone else is wrong.
Wait...so John is commenting on a post that isn't about him, to bring up a whiny argument that he likes sex and shouldn't be grouped with other queer communities... ugh
Allosexual queer folks should care about our fellow Ace siblings because the homophobes do not care if you enjoy sex or don't. They're still coming after everyone regardless, so we might as well band together and support each other. Not to mention, plenty of allo queer folks date Ace folks.
She's a hateful bastard who is nothing more than a one trick pony. If all she wants is money and that's it. Mission accomplished. Seems she craving something else in life and can only lash out at other to get it. I mean I can happily shine my boots and give exactly what see needs.
What kind of a miserable piece of shit does someone have to be to go out of their way to be hurtful to someone else who isn't involved in their life at all? If I had that many millions of dollars I would be off someplace daring people to slap the smile off of my face from being so fucking happy.
That feels like some gay boomer ass dickhead that doesn't (want to) understand that not only can people feel both either romantic and/or sexual feelings for someone else but that it's also on a spectrum so everyone's experience is different.
Anyway, stay away from black mold kids. It will rot you.
It’s the pinnacle of “This thing doesn’t relate to me personally so I’m going to mock, dismiss and/or take offence at its existence”. Incomprehensible.
Oh it is comprehensive to them. Any attention taken away from them is unacceptable. The spotlight will not be shared. She’s an isolated, old millionaire basement dweller who has obviously never really known love in any form so she gets jealous it seems and takes it out on random internet people.
Well screw John too. He is like those conservative gay folk that think that the evil powers that be will spare them if they are dicks too. Turns out they were dicks to their actual allies
Just FYI to everyone, aside from being a disgusting TERF and general bellend, John Boyne also got into a very public fight with the Holocaust museum because they criticized one of his books for being historically inaccurate and misrepresenting Nazi crimes.
People don’t want to hear it, but those who seem to only focus on trans hate, really hate ALL lgbt+ people. They’ll come for the transgendered people first, make allies like this John idiot, then come for the rest. They just don’t see it.
Absolutely. Which makes it even harder to understand the number of alleged lesbians who are keen to claim that they hate trans people. Just stupid. It won’t make you safe to side with the right.
You'll always find some members of minority demographics with a history of persecution and oppression who don't smell the coffee. See POC people and Trump. Log Cabin Republicans...
Writing (increasingly voluminous) fiction doesn’t make one a brilliant polemicist, intellectual or comedian. Still, I suppose it is okay for JKR to keep trying.
I mean, this guy included a Legend of Zelda red dye recipe in his "serious historical" novel, so I'm afraid he's most likely just a self-absorbed idiot.
Can someone shut this bitch up so that I don't hate myself for the one thing I get joy out of?
I love the wizarding world, and I hate that she profits off of it. I don't even like her Canon HP.
This sucks.
Given how sexually aggressive complete strangers can be, one would assume even garbage people like Joanne would be able to understand why ace people would want to communicate their preferences.
Why does writing a commercially successful but poor man's LOTR knockoff fantasy series make someone's opinion on anything matter? And, who knew what a hot mess this woman was before?
I can never forgive the lack of imagination that foisted on us Hufflepuff and Slytherin. Poor linguist she.
That reply is bizarre. It's not a grouping of people with similar libido, it's a grouping of people who get persecuted and marginalised for "non-conforming" gender identities and orientations. An absence of sexual desire would appear to align very well with that.
She may as well say there's no stigma or disadvantage attached to people who are unable to drink alcohol but are constantly socially pressured to do so. It is as you say a lack of empathy, and one which she hasn't even attempted to provide a pretext for.
You'd think she'd at least leave asexual people the hell alone because of rape culture or some weird justification, but anyone who pays attention knows the Rowling brand of hate never stops with trans people.
The good news is that there are tons of better ones out there. You can read so many amazing books without having to touch anything with her name on it.
If you read her books and the stereotypes she engages in you'll know she was always a shit person. It's subtle in some cases, in others it'll be in your face!
Now that we agree Rowling sucks, can we FINALLY admit she just ripped off DC's "Books of Magic" for Harry Potter? Not that Gaiman is great people either, but is the world finally ready to hear these truths?
I can’t believe I’m being attacked for not having sex lol. What do they want from me?!? I’m not going to just start having sex because they don’t get it!!
That dude would work it down to just LG and be posting everywhere about “why am I lumped in with lesbians? I quite like men! It’s so dumb that LG organization”
Yep. Because when she was a nobody, there would have been consequences. Now, she’s wealthy and doesn’t really depend on anyone, so she can say whatever she wants. Even if she’s fined or sued for something, she can pay it and move on. This is what gives the rich so much power.
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-I say despite shipping most of my own characters together...
Empathy is, in fact, my primary reason for doing what I do. And I have NO idea how JK did those books with such a lacking of same. Someone should do a trans Potter parody. Harry Potter and the Pit of Pronouns.
*BTW . . .
B goes 1st, since there are more of us than all the rest combined. 😘😍🥰
Attention Whore be gone…
She is as imaginative as my 6 y.o cousin calling her Bratz doll " Elsa princess of the universe of the queens of everything".
My cousin idea is better actually.
Let's burry that hag so we can try to resignify her books into something positive for the kids.
The rainbow is a spectrum. It's anyone who isn't cishet, is marginalized, outcast. Aces still love. Have partners, kids.
And they're not broken! NOH8.
In fact I may just use that as reason to keep writing.
They're called Orcs.
If it's fake, why the concern? Why mention it?
It seems someone is desperate for attention now her books have dried up.
Left-handed people have faced tons of oppression- and still have shorter life expectancies because stuff isn't made for them.
And of course, people will punch at any group for any thing.
What did I miss in there?
Ugh.
Yeah.
I dont throw around that word lightly but theres no better way to describe her. She just wants to complain about people and she wants to make sure everyone knows it, she just cant comprehend that some people dont give a shit abt her
It's hard to believe that the woman who gave us gay Dumbledore (and defended it well) went down this road.
Also fuck whoever this guys is licking Joanne's boots.
Anyway, stay away from black mold kids. It will rot you.
There is no “victimhood” whatsoever implied in the notice. Just information.
Leave people alone and let them live their lives in peace.
These days she mostly the author of batshit crazy hate tweets
#cancelJKRowling
I love the wizarding world, and I hate that she profits off of it. I don't even like her Canon HP.
This sucks.
I can never forgive the lack of imagination that foisted on us Hufflepuff and Slytherin. Poor linguist she.
And there are asexuals or aromantics who do occasionally have sex with people. Including people of their own gender.