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georgies-ftts · 1 year
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As much as i hate JKR i will not tolerate any slander or hatred aimed towards the kids that get casted in the Harry Potter reboot.
If they get accurate aged kids then they’re gonna be between 10-12/13 years old to represent year 7’s (11-12.) Chances are they’re child actors aiming for a big break which shouldn’t be biased on who they author of the books are or they are being pushed by their parents which is something that happens more often than not.
I refuse. point blank refuse to fuckin ‘cancel’ any kids casted. They are children and they deserve a chance.
I won’t be watching it. But i will not obliterate a child’s chances to succeed based on a woman’s shitty view of human beings
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foolsgender · 2 years
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this is genuinely so embarrassing for her lmao can you imagine being this childish at 57 years old
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rhube · 12 days
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Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hated
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Someone recommended the documentary film, Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hated, from Netflix, in the notes to that post about JKR's holocaust denialism. It is so, so worth watching.
It's about the culture and people of the lgbtq+ communities in pre-WWII Germany - especially those who frequented the Eldorado club and/or were involved in the Institute for Sexology before the rise of Hitler - and what happened to them once the Nazis came to power.
It starts off as a really wonderful celebration of the sanctuary and sense of changing times and possibilities created by these wonderful, vibrant people. It includes footage of the first trans women to undergo gender-affirming surgery - three smiling trans women, in colour, from nearly 100 years ago. In some cases, there are even interviews with people who survived from that time.
Obviously, sadly, unforgiveably, it does not last. And the documentary tells you far more than I have ever heard before about what exactly happened to LGBTQ+ people over that period of time.
This includes not just gay men and trans women, but lesbians, poly, non-binary, and bisexual folk. And how this related to the Nazis' general philosophies.
It is crucial to understand that the reason terfism and fascism are such close buddies is that their gender ideology (hah! They actually have one) centres around a woman's role being to breed a pure, Aryan race. So they must only sleep with their husbands, they must not remove themselves from the breeding pool by sleeping with each other, and similarly men have a duty to sire children (if they are of good breeding stock), so sleeping with other men, spreading their 'seed' indescriminately, or taking on the characteristics associated with women - all that threatens the central Nazi thesis that they must create and protect the 'superior' race.
This is why transphobia is and always will be gender essentialism, sexism, and racism bundled up in a trench coat, waiting to spill out. Because of the Nazi roots.
But don't listen to me. If you have the spoons and it would not be too triggering for you, I really recommend watching it.
One of the interviewees, who was a teenager who was falling in love with another boy as the Nazis came to power, tells the story of how they became separated, and how he eventually learned his first love died of starvation in a concentration camp. I wanted to get the exact quote down, but Netflix started playing up when I paused it, so I will just say that he said the reason he wanted to be interviewed was for his lost love, Lumpi. So that Lumpi would be remembered.
For those of us who are able, I think we have a duty to learn about and remember those wonderful, lively people who went before us, and who were cruelly taken away.
The Nazis wanted to erase lgbtq+ people from history. And we can resist that. We can remember.
Obviously content warnings for Nazis, the holocaust, genocide, death, homophobia, transphobia, and footage from concentration camps. It is handled, in my opinion, very well, but may still be difficult to watch. And many of the interviews are in German, so disabled people like me who struggle with subtitles may find it quite draining. But you can pause and watch in chunks.
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marauderstars · 1 year
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Ways J.K Rowling did poc dirty in canon:
Making the last name of one of her most powerful black characters “Shacklebolt” - a crude af reference to slavery and just in very poor taste.
Naming her only east Asian character “Cho Chang” - a Korean surname as a first name for a Chinese character - proving she did no research whatsoever into Chinese naming traditions.
Cho’s characterization also leans in to the trope of tragic Asian female characters being defined by their romantic connections to white men, as in “Miss Saigon” or “A Quiet American.” Cho’s storyline centers on her romantic involvement with Cedric, Harry and Roger Davies. She gets no meaningful arc of her own.
The sidekick-ification of Lee Jordan.
Michael Corner being referred to as “the dark one” which is bad enough, and then him being whitewashed in the films.
Pansy Parkinson’s comment about Angelina Johnson’s braided hair looking like “worms” goes completely unpunished. Rowling treats this as standard bullying instead of a racially-charged comment. Rowling clearly didn’t understand the serious implications of this comment and its rooting in deeply-ingrained discrimination against black hairstyles, or she would have written a similar reaction to this as she did to that of Hermione being called a “Mudblood.”
House Elves as a metaphor for slaves is highly problematic because they are depicted as “liking” their enslavement and being complicit in it, much like the black slaves in “Gone With The Wind.” Despite Dobby being a beloved character, he is also seen as an anomaly for desiring freedom, and many other House Elves are depicted as grotesque, fawning, ridiculous or sinister. Pretty garbage metaphor for black slaves.
In Goblet of Fire Rowling describes a group of “African” wizards wearing “long white robes” and “roasting what looked like a rabbit on a bright purple fire.” This is just… *sigh* The way this is worded is very clearly just token exoticism and includes no genuine detail about their clothing, cultural food or nationality. It’s just “wow those zany rabbit-eating Africans and their purple fire.” Once again black characters are being used as examples of otherness rather than shown as human beings.
Rowling has openly admitted that she created a detailed backstory for Dean Thomas, one of the series’ few black characters, but did not include it in the books and included the backstory of Neville Longbottom, a white character, instead.
Approving the casting of a white actress in the role of Lavender Brown in the films, a character the majority of readers assumed was black.
The portrayal of Blaise Zabini’s “famously beautiful” black mother who was known for offing her husbands and taking their money. Like. Come on. Tbh she sounds like a queen but violent woc gold digger is still a shit trope.
Just the entire treatment of the Patil twins at the Yule Ball, the way Harry and Ron treated them and Rowling’s garbage attempt at describing their traditional clothing.
Padma Patil’s portrayal in Cursed Child as the stereotypical controlling Indian wife. The idea of ending up with her instead of Hermione being positioned as some kind of horrible alternate reality for Ron had very xenophobic undertones, and while Hermione is portrayed as black in the play, I don’t believe that Rowling originally intended her to be a black character nor that casting directors deliberately set out to cast a black actress as Hermione in Cursed Child initially.
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thirstghosting · 2 years
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marlinspirkhall · 1 year
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imrisah · 10 months
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Happy Pride from Edinburgh
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HBO NO: We Don't Want A HP TV Show
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A coalition of Harry Potter fan creators and organizers have released an open letter to HBO demanding that the network pull the plug on a TV adaptation of the series because of the harm Rowling’s transphobia is causing the LQBTQIA+ community. 
The letter from Harry Potter Fans Against Transphobia reads as follows:
Dear HBO Board of Directors,
We write to you as a collective of Harry Potter fandom leaders asking you to cancel the proposed television adaptation of the Harry Potter series.
Because of JK Rowling’s ongoing transphobic rhetoric, making a Harry Potter series at this time is an endorsement of transphobia. A TV show on a large network will not only give her a larger platform to speak against trans people, but the additional royalties from the show will further embolden her harmful behavior¹.
HBO CEO Casey Bloys has been quoted disregarding the conversation about Rowling’s transphobia², saying that their focus will be “what’s on the screen.” This ignores the fact that what is on the screen does not exist in a vacuum. For example, in the podcast “The Witch Trials of JK Rowling”, Rowling compares those working for trans rights to Death Eaters, the murderous villains of the Harry Potter series³. The proposed TV show would be inextricably linked to those words, no matter what the show itself contains.
Transgender people are among society’s most vulnerable, and trans rights are under attack as anti-trans bills further erode civil rights in both the US and UK⁴. Rowling’s transphobic statements and actions have been a huge influence on the anti-trans movement. In the past, she has used her money and influence to spread misinformation about trans people⁵, support various anti-LGBTQ individuals and causes⁶, and has spoken out against trans rights legislation in Scotland⁷. Oklahoma senator James Lankford even quoted one of Rowling’s essays when blocking the 2020 Equality Act⁸ ⁹. The publicity that Rowling receives from this TV show will be used to further support the anti-trans movement, endangering gender non-conforming people in the US, UK, and beyond¹⁰.
The organization GLAAD dedicates a whole page to Rowling’s transphobia as part of their Accountability Project¹¹, which aims “to monitor and document individual public figures and groups using their platforms to spread misinformation and false rhetoric against LGBTQ people, youth, and allies.”¹² HBO is a network that has received numerous accolades¹³ ¹⁴ from GLAAD for its above-average LGBTQ representation compared to other networks¹⁵ ¹⁶. To greenlight this project goes against what the public has come to expect from your organization.
Because of the real-world impact of Rowling’s statements and her clear intention to continue spreading transphobia, the Harry Potter Fans Against Transphobia coalition urges HBO not to go forward with this project. We are a group of people who love the series and have poured so much love into creating communities within this fandom. We are the people who grew up with Harry Potter, and who made the series the cultural artifact that it is. Yet, we see the real, immediate harm that J.K. Rowling’s behavior is causing to trans people everywhere, and for that reason we cannot support the creation of this show.
We stand with the trans community and everyone fighting for trans rights. We do not want this show. We will not watch this show. It’s time to pull the plug, both on this show and on platforming transphobia.You can sign the petition and voice your support at actionnetwork.org/petitions/nohptv
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Imagine being told in the early 2000s that upon completion of the Harry Potter franchise, JK Rowling would enter a flop era so extreme that she becomes a real-life supervillain out of pure desperation to stay relevant.
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shittysawtraps · 2 years
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Hello JK Rowling. Before you is a lesbian couple made up of a trans woman and a cis woman. They are happy. They are watching a movie together and doing cute couples things. Sit through the movie with them without accusing the trans woman of being a rapist and I won’t feed you to a pit of rabid field mice.
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boobie-fem-x · 1 year
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the fat characters who blew up and flew away were child abusers….
also not every fat character in hp is a villain, yall will grasp at any straw to accuse jkr of being an evil fascist nazi who wants to genocide anyone who is different
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thelittlestpika · 5 months
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You know what I've been thinking about recently? How funny it is that JK Rowling is just digging her little TERF hole deeper while Neil Gaiman is over here shouting from the rooftops how none of the Good Omens characters are cishet.
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omniwhore · 1 year
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This might be a hot take but I get so tired of the internets mentality of IT'S EITHER OR.
Either you buy the game nd u therefore don't give a shit about trans pple or you never touch the HP fandom w a ten foot pole again and you're ✨clensed✨
I understand both sides of this conflict so deeply.
As a nonbinary person born in a country where you still have to get sterilised in order to change your legal gender, I can come close to the outrage the trans community is feeling at people so easily compromising their principles and support for them over something like this.
But I also remember the toughest parts of my life as a neurodivergent person being stuck in depression nd anxiety and my fandoms being ny o ly reason to live and keep going. We can't control our hyperfixations and sometimes they're all we have.
All that being said I believe THERE IS A FUCKING MIDDLE GROUND.
You can absolutely, privately or publicly, consume or create HP related content without monetarily supporting JKR. JUST PIRATE THE GAME. Wait a while if you have to, you don't have to abandon your interests but you can do the bare minimum to make sure your consumption doesn't do more harm than it absolutely has to. PIRATE THE BOOKS. PIRATE THE GAMES. THE MOVIES. DON'T BUY OFFICIAL MERCH. DIY YOUR OWN MERCH. Buy stuff from fan artists whose wiews you know and support. CREATE FAN CONTENT THAT IMPROVES ON JKRS STEREOTYPE FILLED INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CHARACTERS.
The content is *yours*. Rip it from that bitch's hands and RUN WITH IT but for the love of god DON'T CONTINUE GIVING HER MONEY AND PUBLICITY
IT'S THE LEAST YOU CAN DO for your fellow trans folk out here.
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mistarover · 2 years
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no because idk why the harry potter fandom always thought they were superior to the pjo fandom when we had all the same things. successful books? check. movies? check. broadway show? check. like how were they acting superior
also can't lie the hp books have no life in them AND the author's a fucking piece of shit so...
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Things I've had people online tell me about the HP game outrage:
"Relax, It's just a game"
"Turn the other cheek"
"You can't cancel everyone who doesn't agree with you"
"I don't get it, but ok"
"I'm sorry you feel that way"
Do these people realize how wild this is to say about something so harmful and bigoted. They do not care about the lives and safety of Jewish people and trans people
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