Targeting / HarassmentJKR released The Ickabog in print today and the Goodreads reviews are a wild place.

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[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Don't want to sound like a radfem here but: I am about 85% certain that JKR is only being harassed and targeted consistently because she is female. I don't think people would be so quick to attack a man saying the exact same things.

Maybe part of it is because a lot of #woke types are Harry Potter fans and they feel "betrayed" too, but I don't know.

Also, those reviews from parents claiming they stopped reading the book with their children because JK is "transphobic" really depress me. I can't imagine living in a household like that, where your guardians control the media you consume based on belief, and ban you from certain "unclean" things even if they're actually child appropriate and- oh wait. Yes I can... I was raised Catholic by emotional abusers. Huh, that's weird, it's almost like... gender ideology and religion take the same form. Who would have thought?

Banning JK's books from your kids because she's "transphobic" is no different from not letting your kids play Pokemon because it's considered "satanic".

[–]julesburm1891[S] 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

She is. Richard K. Morgan, the author of Altered Carbon, made several public statements agreeing with JKR and critiquing trans ideology. He was then banned from Twitter for saying transwomen aren’t women. I know several woke people irl who are wringing their hands about how awful and bigoted JKR is. They never shut up about how Harry Potter is ruined for them. However, most of them are also fans of the Altered Carbon series. I have yet to hear any whining about Morgan from that lot. Likewise, when Stephen King made a tentative move to stand with JKR, he didn’t get any rape threats, didn’t get any porn on his Twitter replies, received very few death threats, and there was no #RIPStephenKing insanity.

Yeah. The irony is that it was the fundamentalist Christians demanding everyone boycott JKR and burning her books when I was a kid. There were several kids from über-religious families at my school that weren’t allowed to read HP. Heck, there was even a girl in my third grade class who immediately threw away the Valentine I gave her because it was Harry Potter themed and she was afraid she’d get in trouble at home.

We’ve just come a full circle, haven’t we?

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your point is proven even more by the fact that I didn't even know those two stood up for JKR - or that many people have, actually. People are genuinely acting like she's an evil witch doing it all by herself with no supporters.

Yep. I think I saw like, a small segment of a Harry Potter movie at someone else's home, but it was something I wasn't allowed to watch because it was deemed too dark/scary/against the religion or whatever.

I think it makes sense too because religion seems to be dying in younger generations, at least, religion as we know it. It's just being replaced by a new form of religion, one less about a God, but with still the controlling motives behind it.

[–]turtleduck23 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

there were a couple of male celebs who stood up for her and they didn't receive the same hate as her (mostly calling them transphobic pricks). when she was posting about her new children's book a couple of months ago and asking for parents to submit their kids drawing, there were comments of rape threats and threats of assault. I mean, people wrote that she deserved to be raped and hope she get's her teeth stomped out underneath a child's drawing. I also think like you that they believe JK "betrayed" them because she doesn't think exactly like they do. Two years ago JK rowling was seen as "woke" and now I have seen many commentators calling her a "right wing conservative"

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Closest male example I can think of is Graham Linehan. There were initial accusations of him being "transphobic" and people whining because they liked the shows he had made, but there were no mass boycotts and it died down pretty quick. I know Harry Potter is way larger, more popular than many things even, but I still think that being female is a big part of why they're targeting her specifically.

It's disgusting the lengths they go to, and I wish the law would include protections for this kind of aggressive cyberbullying, instead of trying to make "transphobia" and "homophobia" a fucking "hate crime" if you so much as say "I disagree."

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's not a crazy opinion. You actually need to look at their criticism from their perspective. They perceive women to be a social category which includes the generally "good" aspects of humanity. They expect that being a woman includes being on team woke to some degree so they go nuts when a woman criticizes them in any way.

[–]ChodeSandwichtender and moist 8 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. Men are allowed to misbehave sometimes because they were brainwashed by toxic masculinity and blinded by male privilege. If you're a woman or LGB, you're part of the suffering minority bloc whether you want to be or not, and it's your job to spend every waking second wondering how you can help everyone else. You should know better. Trans people don't have to do that though because they always have it the worst and it's unfair to expect these exhausted, suffering folx to do emotional labor for you. 😤

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And the same goes for non-white people. They go from "white guilt" to "literally just a racist" real fast once someone of a racial minority starts expressing "wrong" opinions