a harry potter fan's guide to navigating pride month
a harry potter fan's guide to navigating pride month
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I think all the attention y’all give to her is what’s keeping this in the cultural spotlight. I basically never think about her, or the books, until I see posts like these on the internet. We gotta separate the art from the artist.
Normally I’d agree, but Harry Potter is already huge.
And while I think this whole response is a bit extreme, it is a case of her source of wealth being way more famous than herself.
I can get behind being in spite of her & other wealthy elites but I can’t abandon what my time with those books meant to me despite of her spite. So, y’all can guillotine her, I’ll still keep the books. But it really is the case that when I hear about her it’s because of these kinds of posts nowadays.
Yeah I think that’s a perfectly reasonable sentiment, and I despise frying that as a political purity test. Rowling is probably being platformed by all this by some extent… Any attention is good attention these days.
Shit, I hope JK doesn’t use it to run for some kind of office.
The utter popularity of Harry Potter (and the royalties she rakes in) undoubtedly dwarfs any personal name recognition/brand she ever achieves though. Like, it’s insanely popular.
Yeah, I don’t think that the brand is insanely popular because of her hate. Like, most people don’t care about her or even hear anything about her anymore. It’s just about Harry Potter, because that’s what it’s always been about. I almost feel like the discussion about her is bot farms creating that discussion.
Agreed.
I almost feel like the discussion about her is bot farms creating that discussion.
Close. It’s chum. It’s rage bait. It’s an engagement farm that suck people in, which is exactly how influencers like Trump climbed to the top of the world. It’s true, but it doesn’t change that raging against Rowling online helps Rowling, when the best form of protest would be to turn her into “she who shall not be named”
Be wary attributing to bots what can be attributed to the failure of “don’t feed the trolls”
man what a stupid thing to say to a group of people advocating the boycott of someone who is tirelessly campaigning and actively spending more money than god to try to eradicate them for years on end now.
we're not upset that we had to think about her you colossal moron, we're upset because she is using her money and influence to do untold harm to trans people at large, meanwhile the public ignores us and continue giving her money anyway, telling themselves excuses about the art and the artist or whatever.
THE ART FUNDS THE ARTIST, AND THE ARTIST IS TRYING TO GENOCIDE US YOU FUCKING MOOK. and the only way to not realize that this is what it's about, is to be actively ignoring us about it.
this is exactly like the Chik-Fil-A people funding programs to mentally abuse queer kids into being "straight" and you assholes shrug and go "it's just a sandwich and i like it" as you continue to actively fund god damn child abuse. except it's at an even larger scale.
and here you are condescending to us about it, because you're comfortable sticking your fingers in your ears. walk into the sea please.
You may not hear about her much, but that doesn't mean Harry Potter isn't getting a new show on HBO next year. Clearly, JK Rowling is still "in the cultural spotlight" and making plenty of money off of the thing this post is asking you not to support.