• ReCursing@feddit.uk
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    2 个月前

    “…with all due respect to the fabulous J K Rowling…”

    The amount of respect that godawful transphobic shitebag is due is none. She has done more to hurt women and foster inequality in the last few years than most people could manage in a lifetime (and she’s done it under a banner of championing women’s rights while actually doing the opposite).

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      With all due respect to your opinion, you should pay attention to the entire post, including the date-stamp of when it was posted.

      Because there is a chance the person who wrote it might well agree with you but might not have been able to see the future when they wrote it ELEVEN GORRAM YEARS AGO.

      • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
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        Wow, I really had the feeling Rowling already went down the shitter in mid 2010’s, but according to Wikipedia she started doing it 2018/9. Somehow it felt far older to me.

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          My guess is that the American election in 2016 triggered a much larger wave of anti-trans activity on the web, and she picked up on it, which is why it started then.

          Also the last book was released in 2007, and the last film in 2011, and while she is an insane, bigoted, batshit crazy horrible witch of a woman, she isn’t stupid. There’s no way she was going to start a crusade like this while people were still flocking to read the books and go to the cinema - she’s wait until the audiences had died down and the reading figures had dropped.

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          Yeah I too thought it was a lot longer ago than it was!

          edit: Also 2015 is much further back than it feels like!