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Love! Love! Love!

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What should Emma, Daniel and Rupert apologize for??? For not sharing Joanne’s views??

No, they should be apologising for letting her get threatened with death and rape, witch hunted, diffamed and harrassed for years, all for expressing warranted concerns about women and children's rights, without ever even suggesting this attitude was going too far.

These people owe JK Rowling their life style, their millions and their career. Do you think Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, with their frankly average looks, would have gone on to be anyone in Hollywood or Broadway if it weren't for Harry Potter? Do you think Emma Watson, with her terrible acting skills, would have gotten to share a screen with Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh and Tomothée Chalamet? Of course not. It's hard out there, even for people born into privilege and who can afford to go to acting school and get great agents.

The least they could have done (which is something some people who owe her far less HAVE, like Eddie Redmayne) was to make it clear they disapproved of the treatment Rowling had to endure for her views. They could also have given her the benefit of the doubt and actually engaged with the points she was making in her essay regarding the trans issue. Rowling isn't some far-right fearmonger. Watson, Radcliffe and Grint didn't just say "i disagree with her views", they completely ignored her views and parrotted the mantra "trans women are women", and coldly went on with their lives as she received waves after waves of targeted, vitriolic abuse and attempts to make her sound deranged and demonic. They didn't say a peep as Pink News was publishing up to 50 incidiary and false articles about Rowling a month, didn't say a thing about her receiving threatening pictures of men showing off their penis, or posing in front of her house.

ALL FOR SAYING THAT RAPED AND/OR ABUSED WOMEN DESERVE SPACES AWAY FROM MALES IF THEY NEED IT TO FEEL SAFE/RECOVER, AND THAT MALE FEELINGS AREN'T THE ONE THING THAT SUPERSEEDES EVERY OTHER HUMAN'S NEEDS.

Yeah they should apologise for that, and fuck off my blog if you think otherwise.

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Divorce seems to radicalize american men in a way that needs to be studied

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Peter Pettigrew is an anti-trans allegory.

Peter's character is made up of two allegories for transitioning: 1. changing sides in the First Wizarding War, and 2. living as a rat instead of a person

Changing sides in the war is a metaphor for transitioning because he fundamentally changed who he was from his original identity to the exact opposite, but kept his new identity a secret even from his friends specifically in order to fool and harm them. This is just like how JKR believes trans women try to fool and harm cis women with their identities.

Peter's initial betrayal/transition ended in the ultimate effect of giving a man (Voldemort) access to a cis woman's (Lily's) private room (sound familiar?) which was framed as the ultimate evil by JKR. Here, Voldemort plays the role of JKR's trans woman when he forces his way into a cis woman's private space (Lily's bedroom) specifically to harm a cis woman (Lily) and a child (Harry). This scene ends with the cis woman brutally murdering the trans woman, which the narrative frames as very positive and the readers are supposed to agree with.

Notice how Peter then eventually also betrayed Voldemort, which is an allegory for detransitioning. JKR believes trans people's "true selves" are their original selves/assigned gender, and that everyone is always going to detransition. Peter ended up on the same side he started because JKR believes trans women are always still men deep down.

Peter living as a "Rat" is a metaphor for living as a "woman" after he transitioned. Notice how the narrative frames it as if Peter was never "truly" a rat, just a person pretending to be a rat (like how JKR believes trans women are not truly women just men pretending to be women).

Peter was never given the opportunity to tell the reader whether he was a rat or a human, the text decides for us that his "real" identity is always human no matter how long he lives as a rat and passes as a rat. The choice of a rat to represent a trans person shows how JKR believes trans people to be animals/inhuman. And also a rat represents sneakiness and dishonesty so that's obvious.

When Peter talks about being a rat in the Shrieking Shack in PoA, he is met with disgust and revulsion from Ron. We're supposed to read this as Ron being rightfully disgusted and distrusting of a person he just found out was trans.

Peter lived as a rat for 13 years (a notoriously evil number), concealing his "true" identity (which was seen negatively by the text because JKR is saying that Trans people's "true" identities are evil) in order to sleep in Ron's bed. This is meant to be read as a child molester allegory because JKR believes all trans women are child molesters.

Other evidence

Peter was barely taller than 13 year old Harry because he's not being a man properly (not a "Real man") according to JKR's bigoted and cisheterosexist worldviews. What other reason does JKR have for specifying how short Peter was?

He was also shown to be balding at a very young age as another reference to not being "man enough" for JKR.

He was ugly.

Since wands are used as a phallic symbol in the series, we can further see Peter doesn't have a penis anymore because in GoF he uses Voldemort's wand rather than one of his own.

Peter cut off his own finger, which is an allegory for gender reassignment surgery/vaginoplasty. Peter not having a finger anymore is a metaphor for a trans woman not having a penis.

He later cuts off his own hand, just furthering and cementing the reference to bottom surgery.

Peter then gets a human-made bodypart in place of his "biological" hand, a silver hand made by Voldemort. This is just like how trans people will get human-made bodyparts installed after they get their other ones removed. Of course JKR makes it the evil villain (Voldemort) who plays the role of the evil doctor who provides gender-affirming care. JKR believes gender-affirming surgeries are evil. And notice how Peter was coerced by Voldemort into getting the surgery when he really didn't want to deep down, which is very telling.

As we know, Peter's silver hand (his vagina) eventually killed him. And he died by suicide, which feels in very bad taste given the symbolism JKR is working with here, but knowing her that was probably intentional.

Anything I missed?

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An endless thank you to the radfem who commented on this idea that women could 'put up with' sex with a partner she's not attracted to, with the phrase 'and you could eat dog shit for dinner every day but why would you' - I think of that phrase every time I find myself thinking I could 'put up with' something when an opportunity to enjoy myself is available. feminism really does change your life.

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Imogen Heap is a TERF let’s fucking go

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how i see transwoman tbh

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i meannnnn

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"This post is suspiciously TERFy"

"OP is a TERF"

"TERFs aren't welcome on MY blog!"

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a fetus could literally look like

(hat included) and it would still not have the right to use its mother's body without her permission

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Are you like, stupid?