I was a big fan throughout my child and teen years, but seeing her not only descend into bigotry, but use her large platform to push that bigotry really made it hard for me to enjoy HP going forward. I don’t blame myself for having enjoyed it in the past, but it puts a significant cloud over the series in my mind into the future; yeah, supporting her is a drop in the bucket, but a small share in the large harm she’s seeking to make with her platform is something that very much doesn’t appeal to me.
Her actions are much more visible, and much more impactful on the wider world than someone like William Shatner or Chevy Chase apparently being notorious jerks, and have soured me much more on her work than either of them have on theirs. And there are plenty of other things in the world worth enjoying that don’t have this kind of shadow cast over them.
I agree that enjoying her work doesn’t necessarily make you a biggot, but it does mean you aren’t an ally. Your money absolutely does make a difference. She sees continued support of her works as support of her anti-trans ideas.
Also, what I loved about HP has changed, what I see in the original source material can’t be unchanged. I loved the magic, the opportunity, the hope and the underlying messages of love and found family.
But I don’t see those things anymore when I re-engage with the source material. They’re still there on the surface, sure, but now I know more about the author I can’t unsee the racist undertones, the issues surrounding gender roles and the failed allegorys for homosexuality. It was there the whole time, and I was blissfully ignorant as a teenager reading these books, and that’s why okay, but as an adult, I can’t go back. What I loved about HP isn’t there anymore, and trying to read other again through the child like lens makes me feel uncomfortable because it’s like I’m closing my eyes, sticking my fingers in my ears and convincing myself that it’s okay to be complicit engaging with bigotry.
Very true. Like refueling your car probably help slavery in the middle east a tiny bit, buying any clothes funds sweatshops somewhere and eating chocolate also enables slavery where ever. Rowling is a tiny drop in the ocean of all the bad shit everyone are already passively funding.
There’s zero ethical consumption in capitalism and boycotts of massive global brands like this are as effective as trying to empty the ocean with a bucket. If you want to enact real change then join a union, volenteer at a soup kitchen or do work for a political party you believe in.
She actively and explicitly funds services to exclude trans people and she uses her ongoing popularity as vindication for her actions.
It doesn’t matter how you spin it, if you’re putting money in her pocket, you’re helping her hurt trans people. Anything you tell yourself otherwise is just lying to yourself…
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I was a big fan throughout my child and teen years, but seeing her not only descend into bigotry, but use her large platform to push that bigotry really made it hard for me to enjoy HP going forward. I don’t blame myself for having enjoyed it in the past, but it puts a significant cloud over the series in my mind into the future; yeah, supporting her is a drop in the bucket, but a small share in the large harm she’s seeking to make with her platform is something that very much doesn’t appeal to me.
Her actions are much more visible, and much more impactful on the wider world than someone like William Shatner or Chevy Chase apparently being notorious jerks, and have soured me much more on her work than either of them have on theirs. And there are plenty of other things in the world worth enjoying that don’t have this kind of shadow cast over them.
I agree that enjoying her work doesn’t necessarily make you a biggot, but it does mean you aren’t an ally. Your money absolutely does make a difference. She sees continued support of her works as support of her anti-trans ideas.
Also, what I loved about HP has changed, what I see in the original source material can’t be unchanged. I loved the magic, the opportunity, the hope and the underlying messages of love and found family.
But I don’t see those things anymore when I re-engage with the source material. They’re still there on the surface, sure, but now I know more about the author I can’t unsee the racist undertones, the issues surrounding gender roles and the failed allegorys for homosexuality. It was there the whole time, and I was blissfully ignorant as a teenager reading these books, and that’s why okay, but as an adult, I can’t go back. What I loved about HP isn’t there anymore, and trying to read other again through the child like lens makes me feel uncomfortable because it’s like I’m closing my eyes, sticking my fingers in my ears and convincing myself that it’s okay to be complicit engaging with bigotry.
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Very true. Like refueling your car probably help slavery in the middle east a tiny bit, buying any clothes funds sweatshops somewhere and eating chocolate also enables slavery where ever. Rowling is a tiny drop in the ocean of all the bad shit everyone are already passively funding.
There’s zero ethical consumption in capitalism and boycotts of massive global brands like this are as effective as trying to empty the ocean with a bucket. If you want to enact real change then join a union, volenteer at a soup kitchen or do work for a political party you believe in.
Can’t even use TempleOS.
She actively and explicitly funds services to exclude trans people and she uses her ongoing popularity as vindication for her actions.
It doesn’t matter how you spin it, if you’re putting money in her pocket, you’re helping her hurt trans people. Anything you tell yourself otherwise is just lying to yourself…