It's amazing how the more J.K. Rowling revealed about herself the more I went from "She's my idol!" to "Wow she picked her very worst opinion and made it her whole personality" to "Wow no, all those struggles I used to admire her for really just... made her heartless and terrible all the way down." - ThreadSky

mishellbaker.bsky.social • 2 days ago

It's amazing how the more J.K. Rowling revealed about herself the more I went from "She's my idol!" to "Wow she picked her very worst opinion and made it her whole personality" to "Wow no, all those struggles I used to admire her for really just... made her heartless and terrible all the way down."

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mishellbaker.bsky.social•2 days ago

She publicly just posted about being afraid of (or repulsed by? or both) someone who defaults to love. Most of the responses are gotcha-ing her for using singular "them" and I'm like uhhh guys that's not the salient point?

I don't even think she realizes how messed up she is. It's tough to watch.

mishellbaker.bsky.social•2 days ago

I believe there is hope for anyone, but if you have based your entire public persona on hate it does make the likelihood of nurturing any sort of actual goodness much, much slimmer without a level of courage that most regular humans fail to achieve.

mishellbaker.bsky.social•2 days ago

I have genuine sympathy for anyone whose hate or callousness comes from badly managed trauma.

But sympathy is not the same as excuse. It's just a matter of whether I feel sadness at your literal or figurative sentencing, as I witness the consequences you've earned, the life you've squandered.

mishellbaker.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sometimes people observe my tendency toward sympathy, toward interrogating/understanding the reasons behind people's bad actions and refusing to call them bad *people*. They think it means I will be soft on bad actions. To that I can only say:

Try one near me.

darovic.id.au•2 days ago

Yeah, people can't seem to grasp that understanding is not the same as excusing/approving. One can sympathise and denounce at the same time.

I don't know why it's such a hard concept to grasp for so many.

mishellbaker.bsky.social•1 day ago

Anything that involves feeling two contrasting emotions at once takes a type of training most don't get at home or at school - took me years of therapy, myself.

curryj.bsky.social•2 days ago

Damn, you are so right.

lordechoside.bsky.social•1 day ago

For several years, Harry Potter was a huge part of my life. I still have friends that I made through Fandom interactions. And it sucks that now every meme, cosplay or piece of merch I see disgusts me

mishellbaker.bsky.social•1 day ago

Just remember that YOU created all those good memories. She is not the boss of your imagination.

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