Using the word 'muggle' is now transphobic

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[–]8bitgay 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Frankly I have no opinion about JKR either way because I don't follow her, I didn't read everything she said, at best I read snippets of it. I can only say I agree with some opinions I've read in isolated tweets, like when she said "If sex isn't real, there's no same-sex attraction".

I'm not enlightened on the subject of JKR and I don't pretend to be.

But that's the difference. I've seen many people condemning her while they are even less aware of her ideas than me. People aren't criticizing her because they've personally read something offensive that she said, people are criticizing her because they were told second hand that she said something bad. Most people only heard others putting a label on her and started hating her based on that.

[–]GoValidateYourselfuseful lesbian 32 insightful - 1 fun32 insightful - 0 fun33 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Read her essay fully, I highly recommend it. She basically talks about all the stuff we talk about here, but far more polite and respectfully. She was actually extraordinarily respectful, logical, and fair in the essay, and any man who wrote the same thing would've been at best ignored by TRAs, or had like 3 cranky tweets against him. The only reason ppl say her words are "literal violence" and she's a "massive terf" and other hyperbolic bullshit, is because she's a woman. Every male comedian in the world has said worse, and less tactfully than she did.

[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Or is it because she's a (generally) beloved rags-to-ritches public figure who has brought millions of people joy through her work and subsequently her opinion carries weight?

[–]panderichthys 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Possibly. But why should it (in their view)? 999‰ of them have never and will never meet her or become a friend of hers. The outrage and bEtrAyaL is incomprehensible

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Betrayal, well, I guess Harry Potter, the character, is the story of the underdog, isn't it?