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I want JK Rowling to be happy rule (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

you didn't want her to be happy before she was a transphobe?

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Maybe they were only aware of Rowling once her transphobia came to light?

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

come on dude, everyone knows harry potter

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 18 points 3 months ago

Everyone knows a popular book series.

Not everyone knows, or even cares about the author.

[-] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lol, that might be me, almost. I knew the movies and books existed (I think I have watched one), but I kinda doubt I remembered the writer's name. Just few years ago I made a friend who critisized the writer about her transphobic views and that's kinda how I got to know her😅

(I have to admit, I'm bad at watching movies/series or reading literature and just few years ago I tried to start reading literature systematically.)

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Is that the guy who runs the ceramics shop down the road?

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, he sells great jars. Check them out sometime.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Harry who?

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 months ago

Considering whats in her books I always knew she was at least a tad bit bigoted

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

What's in there?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

There's the Gringotts bankers being a grotesque antisemitic stereotype straight out of Nazi propaganda, there's the racist caricature character names, there's the fact that only one character in the entire wizarding world is against slavery and she drops the subject forever after everyone makes fun of her for it, probably other shit I'm not remembering right now..

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

There’s the Gringotts bankers being a grotesque antisemitic stereotype straight out of Nazi propaganda

If it's like in the movies this sound like a stretch, pretty much every fantasy has something like this

there’s the fact that only one character in the entire wizarding world is against slavery

Isn't dobby being freed from his slavery and help herry one of the main event in the story?

[-] Hexbatch@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In my head canon: Dobby was killed by the author because he was the one elf to reject slavery.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

"uppity little fucker!" -- Rowling's internal monologue

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Why would you think that? Dobby is one of the best characters in the story, he was freed from slavery by Harry and he gave his life to save him

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Normal fantasy stuff like species representing racial stereotypes and slavery (yeah I don't get why it's "normal" in fantasy, she also did it worse then most others)

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

I would go so far as to say that most fantasy works that have slavery have either a "The world is an awful place everywhere, at all times, in all things" tone, or a "Slavery is BAD" tone. Whereas Rowling went for "Aktually, the slaves are happy and you shouldn't try to help them"