the whole premise of HP is “what if an orphan living in an abusive household could become a spoiled nepobaby” so i’m not sure JK even thinks of those things as bad

Harry names one of his kids after Draco because Draco does one decent thing at the end of book 7 and that is enough to make him no longer be a reprehensible, racist fuckwad in the eyes of J.K. and a lot of her audience

why do they call it oven

Nah, her hate speech isn’t even good.

Eh, I think it’s a bit of both? The first books just generally where fairly whimsy and light-hearted and you don’t really need your demographics and societal structures to make sense when you are writing a whimsical, light-hearted story for kids.

The later books become darker and more serious so the artifacts of those earlier worldbuilding decisions become more and more obvious over time.

JKR is allowed to learn and grow! She just refuses to and her takes keep getting worse.

They tried expanding the world, it sucked and nobody liked it (also, the worldbuilding is so weak that it falls apart if you consider wider society outside of Hogwarts for five minutes, because the series started as books for grade schoolers)

She was already a TERF way before Covid.

she didn’t say it tho

“I’ve never heard of this woman” is perhaps the most scathing thing ever said about a former UK Prime Minister

I’m gonna be real, my ability to detect satire has been thoroughly eroded over the last decade

is this satire?

… because surely nobody would check.

If offering the same flexibility to everybody is viable: yes. sure. don’t restrict people just for shits and giggles.

But some businesses need people to be available at all times, and those businesses can handle letting some of their staff take time off on short notice or work during very specific hours only, but they can not handle giving the same consideration to everybody.

In those cases, preferential treatment for those who need it most is the right choice imo.

(Just abolishing work is, at this point in time, not viable.)

Also, maybe don’t make “show the rest of the world that we hate Trump” the primary goal of your resistance movement. Ugh.

I assume the term “bitch” got blocked because in one context, it is a sexist insult.

The thing is, it wasn’t used in that context here.

So to me, this is at least spiritually adjacent to the Scunthorpe problem.

As a trans woman, I agree! Being beholden to the whims of employers sucks for everybody, and everybody deserves a solution.

But also, give me $1000 right now so i can feed my crippling addiction to tailoring gadgets.

Everybody can run a Lemmy server. That includes people who do not know the Scunthorpe problem.

I can say “bitch” just fine btw

Good deg :)

Pretty sure it’s a dig at QAnon