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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 113 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Harry Potter creator goes on rant about asexuals for some reason πŸ€·πŸ½β€β™‚οΈ

Because she is a homophobic piece of shit.

[–] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like Voldermor was inspired by her own persona

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More the Dursleys IMO. She hates the people who don't conform to her view of normality.

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[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Homophobic? I thought she was just anti-trans.

Either way, I'm very curious how the LGBT community views a wholly trans-phobic shit stain that simultaneously claims to support the gay community. I know just such a person and would like some insight from the community itself.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Homophobic? I thought she was just anti-trans.

Well she sure is not an ally, or even neutral.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

In the HP fanfiction community many/most despise her.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 68 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Getting too much money reaaaaally fucks with your head. Becoming a billionaire should count as a brain injury.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Eh. It's more that you hear a lot about the nuts ones. Number 5 on the richest list is currently a guy named Bernard Arnault, who mostly French people know about, while the infamous Peter Thiel is at 129.

Same story here. Rowling may or may not have a full billion, but she's famous and good at getting rage views like this one.

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[–] clarinet_estimator@lemm.ee 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

The reason is simple: she's a bigot. She has been successful at pushing her transphobic agenda into UK law, and she will continue to move across the spectrum because hate only knows how to hate even when they succeed.

This is exactly the reason I'm shifting from just warning people that buying her shit is immoral so outright calling them bigots for supporting bigotry. If they don't want to be bigots they can stop giving her their goddamn money.

[–] Coding4Fun@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I support and share most of your opinions. She is a huge bigot and should be accountable for her actions. My only point is that we have kids and teenagers still consuming her books and products that are completely unaware of what is happening and shouldn't be called out because of that.

[–] clarinet_estimator@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

While I don't disagree I think it's important to keep in mind that kids and teenagers aren't stupid - they are capable of understanding that you shouldn't allow a bad person to continue to be a bad person if you have a conversation about why what JKR is doing is bad. Most of the vocal pushback that I've experienced offline has actually come from teenagers.

The problem lies squarely with millennial parents who continue to buy books/movies/games/merch for themselves or their young children because of nostalgia. They are old enough to know better, and should be held responsible for their actions.

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I mean she has to be a troll at this point for attacking asexual people right? J.K. Trolling

Like, it's just people who don't like sex, I don't understand the hate? And I'm about as far from asexual as you can get.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

She hates asexual people for the same reason she hates transgender people, they're not conforming to her view of normality.

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There are a strange amount of people who seem to hate the idea of asexuality and this unfortunately includes people from all swaths of life like the LGBTQ+ community. I've seen too many gay people say hurtful, and frankly hypocritical, things along the lines of asexuality not existing and being more akin to a disease. It seems that while more people have become aware and accepting of homosexuality, they still don't understand asexuality and it scares them. Sad really. But luckily there are still lots of kind souls out there that will be accepting of anyone who's accepting in return. Maybe they can show everyone else the way...

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I've seen it from hypersexual people who seem to have unprocessed shame and need to believe their own behaviour is justified by being a universal human trait. The existence of asexuality threatens that.

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[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll steelman her POV because it seems people are (rightly) confused.

Asexuals are requesting a day of recognition for what she sees as a negative-identity. Keep in mind, conservatives are often meritocratic.

It's like if there were a day for "coffee refrainers", for everyone who doesn't like drinking coffee. I'm sure if someone dunked on that day and the coffee refrainers, it'd all be in good spirits.

But if someone dunked on asexuality, I'm sure it'd cause a lot of upset and defensive argument, which implies more "merit" to asexuality.

While progressives can go "who cares, just leave em be", conservatives see all "non-deserved" attention as an affront to meritocracy, that needs to be squashed.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

This actually really helps me understand her perspective. I think she's wrong of course, and even harmful, but I appreciate the steelman.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You’d think this dumb cunt could just fuck off and enjoy her fortune, but no

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

This is literally fun to these people. Foaming at the mouth gives them energy, it's all they can run on anymore. Vapid angst.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

What the hell does the bottom post even mean? Is she saying she prefers segregated bathrooms? I knew she is a TERF but she's apparently also racist?

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)

For a professional writer you'd think she would know that a quotation (even a fictional one) requires quotation marks around it to make it clear to the reader that it's not what you are saying but somebody else. Perhaps this makes more sense:

"Refusing to accept that people who don't like sex belong in the gay category is akin to wanting segregated bathrooms in the 1950s, John," as approximately a thousand gender activists will inform you once their hands stop literally shaking.

She's mocking the people who replied to her.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Wow she really isn’t very good.

How were we so starved for something that we latched onto her baloney?

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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not to defend her, but she's saying that the ""woke"" crowd is saying what she's saying is as bigoted as segregated bathrooms. She's racist for entirely independent reasons

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Irony is that the entire Harry Potter series is like discriminating against people for who they are is wrong.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, I'm pretty sure the slave race of house elves continue being slaves because "they love being slaves".

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[–] Ickabod@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago

What a hateful idiot lol that's all I can say

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm ace and JK can go fuck herself

[–] CaptainThor@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Well you’re not going to do it, what choice does she have?

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She wrote a whole series about how bigotry is bad but in retrospect, it feels like she didn't really understand why bigotry is bad. She just needed her children's books to have a moral message and she made a very surface level parallel to the holocaust. Then years later, she showed her ignorance about the holocaust by denying that transgender people were a target.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Her main protagonist is a rich jock who grows up to be a cop. What did you expect?

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 19 points 2 months ago

Did she get snubbed by someone who's ace or something? Asexuality is possibly the most inoffensive sexuality in existence.

Like, oh no.

They don't experience sexual attraction.

That means they're probably significantly less likely to objectify or assault you than someone who isn't ace. Isn't that a good thing for someone supposedly so concerned with being objectified and violated, Miss Rowling?

What a wildly brain-dead take from someone who loves claiming to be a feminist.

(Yes, I know she's not actually a feminist, but it's another piece of hypocrisy to throw on the pile)

[–] emberpunk@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

lol says the person who hid behind initials because having her real name on cover would hurt her sales due to sexism.

Her? Appropriating a gender? Wow never ever /s

What a fraud

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[–] dan00@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

There are very few people that can turn my stomach up like this bitch.

[–] match@pawb.social 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

what fucking gave her the right to weigh in

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Her money and her blind fans who continue to enable her and ignore the fact that she is a horrible person.

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[–] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

She's pathetic.

[–] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 11 points 2 months ago

Average JKR disaster of an opinion

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Why doesn’t she write a book about whatever unimaginable horrific childhood trauma turned her into such a vile adult?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

The reason is the billionaire TERF glitch.

[–] knighthawk0811@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

"fake oppression" as she does her best to oppress them

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

Man, she sees a jpeg and her head explodes.

[–] phil_dissonance@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Bigot says bigot things

[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

She's the Andrew Tate for old British women.

[–] teagrrl@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

I can't wait for her to die. It's why I as a trans person keep living.

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

Nowhere does it say fucking anything about oppression in the picture that she's losing her shit about here. It's something that she could've literally just scrolled past and gone on with her day. I'm so fucking sick of these people.

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