At one point, Stephen King complimented her writing on Twitter and she thanked him. Someone then asked King to state if he felt trans women are woman and his answer was "Absolutely, trans women are women." She immediately blocked him.
And it's not like King's only hopped on the LGBT support bandwagon recently. One of the inciting acts of evil that reawakens Pennywise in "It" is an anti-gay hate crime. He was an early booster of his openly gay and proudly queer compatriot in horror writing Clive Barker, many of whose most notable works like "In The Hills, The Cities" and "Imajica" either center directly around gay protagonists or explore ideas of sexuality and gender in ways that would have Joey tweeting like the wind. His support of LGBT people is one of the Stephen Kingisms that have come to define him for better or worse, alongside things like his tendency to write about writers and his loved of the creepy child archetype. That Joey didn't expect it of him just shows how little she actually knows of him or his work. Honestly Joey strikes me as a Garth Marenghi type: if any author has written more books than they've read it's her.
@@Pastel_TJ Well, I've been back over my Twitter and deleted all the old tweets where I praised her. Back in the good old days. The days when she was a champion for the left, and not a holocaust-denying bigot on a years-long tirade against one of the most vulnerable and marginalised groups around.
Contrapoints said in a video that the reason people don't believe Rowling's transphobic is because people don't see transphobia as a valid concept and it makes sense as to why they're so dense when presented with evidence.
@@WolfgangDoWfor a lot of ppl, it's either attachment to the world they built up in their head or fear of being seen as wrong or ever being wrong. I know some transphobes who are not religious at all, and actually live science, but are still transfobic cuz that's the first thing they learned and they just don't wanna admit they believed in something wrong
@@aleksabanjevic8316 my mum is scientific but also religious but also transphobic And yeah it's often about ego and admitting you're wrong, which is vital for ANY kind of change tbh. Some people literally just can't do that though, and nothing anyone says or does will change that fact, until that person realises within themself that they do need to change at all
@arona6692 I honestly think, after reflecting as an adult that the lessons we thought were there just weren't. Good didn't prevail over evil. Harry potter prevailed over voldemort, and restored the status quo which wasn't anything good.
@@sannetts Harry became a slaveowning cop the end of the books. He went from one of mainstream society's downtrodden to one of Wizard society's downtrodders. If anything that's a negative character arc: he got power, but lost his soul. The major characters I can think of with a similar arc include the likes of Walter White from "Breaking Bad" and Michael Corleone in the first "Godfather" movie, and it's telling that both of them are antiheros/villain protagonists who's answer to the Wizarding world is the world of organized crime.
The irony that in her books she wrote about people fighting against Nazis who hated people for who they were whilst denying the damage the real life Nazis have done is absolutely wild.
@@mlucasGrindstoneEthnic purism was, and is, pretty central to the ideals of that crowd. The death eaters wanting to exterminate "mudbloods" and such is a huge driving point of the books. The issue is that she never really explores why those people believe those things or the systems that exist to teach them those things. It's just sorta an accepted fact that many magical creatures are exactly as intelligent as wizards, but they aren't entitled to the same rights and privileges for some reason. Everywhere you look is another human peer race (all of which have the same, or better, magical abilities as wizards) that is treated like absolute garbage by the systems in place. But, for some reason, even contemplating changing those systems is taboo such that even Hermione, who is the only person shown who has the ability to recognize oppression, doesn't even consider helping the centaurs, veela, goblins, or giants. A cynic might say that this was on purpose. That this is how Joan views the progressives of the world: taking up banners for those who don't want or need them while ignoring the real issues, or else that it's all just performance to show how kind and noble they are... It's me, I'm a cynic. That's literally 90 percent of all right wing talking points about sjws and activists.
She says that women spaces should be protected and men regardless of if they say they are women or no need to stay out of women’s spaces that’s it that’s what she is saying
Obviously people are allowed to be wrong but you, just like JKR shift the goalpost. The person just criticize JKR unwillingness to admit wrongdoing, but instead say other thing to try to still win the argument. Even a simple deletion of tweet is enough to show it.@@mlucasGrindstone
@@mlucasGrindstonenot about this. Here's the thing I'm an actual trans person and JK Rowling is some stupid a****** who doesn't know anything about medicine or psychology so absolutely she is always wrong about this.
Dont feel bad. It hasn’t ruined my childhood memories at all. Im trans and still love Harry Potter and watch the movies and have my HP stuff. Separate art from the artist.
@@xBloodxFangxwhat home says but it’s worse than that as she’s directly taking that money and influence and using it to contribute to trans genocide There is no separating that her work from her. Her work is anti-Semitic and anti-overweight people also
People deny it because they dont actually know what shes said. For most people, their only exposure to rowlings transphobia is through news that severely downplays what it is she actually said and paints her critics as ridiculous
I feel like this is why people I know still side with her at times and doesn’t call her transphobic when they are tyemselves trans inclusive and not herself transphobic!
@@strawberrypenclall of the things jaimie pointed out in the short you’re on… and also is trying to fundraise scotland (she’s british) to take away trans rights im pretty sure.
not to mention her skill in using dog whistles. cis people who are out of touch won’t see any problem with what she said, and likely won’t really care if you do explain the problem to them
It doesn't help that she's so goddamn litigious that the media has to tone down their reporting of her or else they risk a lawsuit. (I'm not defending the media here, just pointing out how easy they are to manipulate.)
I had to read an article about the danger of fake news in school recently and the article said that “jk rowling allegedly said something transphobic” and I was sitting there the rest of the lesson absolutely fuming
@@tjenadonn6158 apparently there is a branch of “super” Catholics who think he (the pope) isn’t because he said something about the separation of church and government and individual morality.
@@lilli4222 No need to get triggered, respectfully. People can feel angry when it involves hypocrisy of a class teaching about the dangers of fake news. Using an event that very much happened, and saying that it was fake news. Also, They were off the internet. They went to class. What's your excuse?
It’s the sheer audacity to write a book series about a child who’s always felt outcast and different and is literally kept in a closet by his family and then it turns out he’s special has magical powers and meets a group of eccentric friends who care for him more than his family ever did AND IS THEN TRANSPHOBIC! YOUR EXCLUDING YOUR OWN DAMN AUDIENCE
@@rinkuraku5251 She just might be the most incredibly cishet woman in the history of womanhood, and has had the absolute temerity, audacity, and gall to appoint herself the defender and definer of True Lesbianism™.
Exactly my first pride shirt ever was an HP reference saying “Nobody deserves to live in a closet” there was also one that said cupboard instead of closet but it was obviously a Harry Potter reference. I was too sickened by JKR’s vitriol to even look at it again, I had to ball it up and toss it just so I wouldn’t get extremely angry every time I saw it.
@@tjenadonn6158 same with Target and Budlight lol. Had no trouble exploiting our fights for profit, and then turned tail and ran when shit hit the fan. Many called it then and i freely admit that i was actually starting to believe Target cared.
She also invented a character who was born a witch despite not coming from a magic family. The character is then bullied for being "not a real witch" just because she was not born into the right family, in particular refusing to use the correct terminology and calling her a slur instead. By the end of the story she proves that despite not knowing she was magic, she is still a witch and proves her abilities. Sound familiar?
@officialpigeons9921 I just don't understand how she became like this. There is the whole sorting thing, but even then Dumbledore comments perhaps they sort too early at the end with Snape
Imagine being one of the most successful writers in the 21st century, making MILLIONS out of a single franchise about a wizard fighting against the literal embodiment of evil, and then spitting out downright ignorant things like these...
Imagine being a beloved author who is now referred to with the nearly the exact same phrase they used to describe a character who was the epitome of evil. I’ve seen a ton of people refer to Rowling as “she who must not be named”. Also her queer allyship has always been sus. Making Dumbledore gay the way she did is just like a massive movie studio adding a queer character to a movie, but only mentioning it once in a non-essential scene that they can conveniently cut out. And Rowling also tried to use the werewolves as a metaphor for AIDS and I don’t think it takes an expert to point out the *massive* issues with that.
@@poyitjdr yeah, her carreer really has been rowling down a hill. In fact, right now I'm giving away all of my HP-related books and merch. I just can't stand the thought of constantly being near the name of a hypocritical liar who now has also turned out to be a N@zi when her entire franchise is supposed to be a rethoric for "N@zis are bad". I already started hating her when the whole transphobia thing sparked, but the H0l0c@ust Denial is where I draw the line
@@poyitjdr yeah, in fact, I've recently started giving away all of my HP-related merch. I just can't stand constantly being near the name of a hypocritical liar who's now turned out to be a supporter of the mustached man when the whole franchise that brought her fame in the first place is supposed to be a giant rethoric for "The mustached man was bad". I have been despising her since the whole transphobia thing sparked, but the Hollow Cause Denial is where I draw the line. P.S. I censored the words because YT deleted my previous comment where I said them
If you look at the bigotry evident in the books she wrote, her bigotry is not a new thing for her. She has always been racist, homophobic, antisemetic, fatphobic, etc. She has reached a point where her financial situation is secure regardless, so she can now be open about it. Before, she needed the money.
@@pjaypender1009been telling people all along those books are a manual for child abuse she is a nasty mean person she would like to see kids suffer and be hurt and she wrote a whole book where she fantasized about it
@delarkaBCN lol, you probably made that up. Plus, no one really cares what trans people do, aslong as they dont mess with children. Also your still the same biologically.
J.K. Rowling makes me so unbearably sad and worried for my family. My little sister adores that series. One day she's going to find out about the things Rowling says, and I don't know what scares me more: the idea of my younger sister coming to realize that the author of one of her favorite series is a complete ass or that my sister loves the story and the author so much that she agrees with Rowling.
It might soften the blow if you introduce her to similar series? Or just different creators and writers who are more diversity accepting or more nuanced. Percy Jackson was s very popular recommendation for HP fans and Discworld tends to be very popular too among Fantasy fans. I've also heard Earthsea is very good. All three are some form of fantasy fiction. Anyway I wish you good luck. I've got a cousin and mother who will find out one day, so I kinda get your fears.
Neither of those is necessary. You can like a series while acknowledging problems with the author. I mean, just look at the amount of Lovecraft fans, many of whom are apparently leftist. Maybe try to gradually introduce your sister to the problem? she could learn to dissociate the books from Rowling.
My recommendation would be to introduce the idea of criticism to the books, valid ones. The easiest is over the "voluntary" house elf slavery. It's introduced (fairly unproblematically) in book 2. But by the fourth, there is actual slavery apologia happening. Bring up questions like, "Why would Hermione's friends make fun of her for supporting basic rights? Is there ever a good excuse for slavery?" Etc. Children tend to see the good of books and not really see the bad. Start gently pointing out the inconsistencies so that when she hears the negative crap about Rowling, it's not completely alien that the author who wrote stories with such issues might have some issues of her own.
@@chanterelle483Lovecraft is long gone. JK Umbridge is directly influential in her time and going out of her way to be a self-righteous monster. Not the same thing.
A trans woman living in my area was stabbed two days ago in broad daylight. She's in hospital and has had to have emergency surgery. The fact that people are still claiming we aren't being discriminated against is insane.
when i saw that the BBC apologized for calling her transphobic i felt like i was living in a dystopia. in what world is what she's done and said not considered transphobia? granted, BBC has posted transphobic articles before, so it shouldn't come as a shock, but still
@@SeaBreeze-w9998 but anyways if you want an answer it might be in the thousand word book she wrote where she got murdered by someone she wrote as a cross dresser who killed as an allegory for trans folk (very explicitly)and then wrote the person being murdered as a direct allegory to herself directly indicating she literally thinks trans people and people who don’t like her are going to murder her. Or when she thought trans protestors were doxxing her at her house. Her house which has it’s address easily available online. And made it out as if these people were a threat by being in the vicinity of her house. Seems irrational idk
@@uni8514 I'm sorry, but even if the address is online, she probably did not want it there. I'd still call it doxxing just like I still see what Sssniperwolf did as doxxing.
My brain cannot comprehend how you go from retconning inclusivity and diversity into your work to denying the evils of the Nazis. How? Just how? (Also first)
„Denying the evils of the nazis“ is a really terrible accusation. I definitely don’t support jk rowling, but you can’t compare her to holocaust deniers. That makes you a horrible person too
BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS???? So changing your gender is as important as not starving to death?? Have you lost your mind? Can you explain to me how pretending to be a gender you aren’t is a basic human right???
@acidp0p freedom has limitations. If it didn’t have limitations, i could kill everyone around me. Nature also sets boundaries for humans. One of them is that you can’t choose your gender. Now, technology has progressed and we are able to change the gender of humans. However, i don’t think that you can compare changing your gender to not being a slave. Being unable to change your gender is a natural boundary. That doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be allowed.
It always amazes me how those that are only here to be transphobic are the first to view and comment. Which boosts the algorithm so more people will see the content. If they are so against it, why are they the first to engage and boost. Honestly. So much time on their hands and yet they do nothing productive with it. Smh. If you’re that confused about what JK Rowling has been doing and saying, look it up. And before you go defending her because you don’t know the PROVEN history about what books and research was lost from the burnings, again, look it up. It’s really not that difficult.
Completely agree, would like to say that i read quite a few comments on this short and only saw 2-3 transphobes so that's a nice change for a jamie short
In my experience, these types are convinced that there are "evil forces" supporting "the trans agenda," and they absolutely must put out their rhetoric wherever they see anything that has the slightest whiff of maybe not absolutely hating people who feel different about gender than they do.
The reason they're often the first to these posts is because they're bots - both propagandists who this is their full-time job from some group and literal robots designed to sway the narrative.
I KNOW that JKR ain't talking about checking sources when her whole "essay" she wrote defending herself after the Maya Forester debacle was source-free and WRONG. The hypocrisy is astounding
@@angelainamarie9656 PS: You can learn to be that big of a jerk without having a mental condition, also. Quit beating up on people with real problems using people who could stop if they wanted but don't as your weapon of hatred.
@@roundhouse2616 I think she believes we're the baddies. Consider the usual claims by the bigoted hordes that the queer community and people of color are trying to force everyone to tolerate and accept them. How we're all trying to brainwash the children. Rewrite the language. Etc. Etc. Etc. What she wrote makes more sense when you realize her pet people are cishet whites with enough outsiders who kiss their butts to make them look accepting. They won't even use the magic people who grew up in the muggle world as a source of information on it. Clearly, they're tainted at some core level a true wizard or witch has no need to concern themselves with. Just don't ask questions of the slave elves and keep your money with the Jewish goblins since it's obviously their only job in this life. You've earned them by right of birth.
@roundhouse2616 well, saying nothing while the TERF movement allied itself with Neonazis and other ultra-conservitive groups(because if they rejected those groups no one would stand with them... one might call that a wake up call) probably didn't help anything
ok I just want to say this because I was at a child behavioral hospital and there was a trans gal who was nice we were roommates she told me how her dad would say some hurtful things about her since she was trans and it feels like we’re so close to a more accepting world yet so far I hate that there are people like this who make life unbearable for trans people
If you are Tans, gay or anything else Listen you are amazing and it doesn't or NEVER matter what a mom and dad or grandparent uncle, or anyone else thinks about you just don't hurt yourself because I promise there is someone who cares and love you or there will be someone please
She always was this way. I found out that a forum I used to haunt* had a visit from her. She mentioned it in an interview a year or two ago...and the details matched up. No one believed her. No one. At all. She leaked half of the first chapter of her own book, and then added in this rant about how the author hated everyone and everything in her life and didnt want to write anymore. The community raged that this "fake jk" was making the real one look bad. And she went berserk on the forum for a week before she GOT BANNED. She mentioned this in passing, pretending that she'd "hinted at spoilers" and that the community was cruel and toxic to her. But...yeah. She is a narcissist. And she hates most everyone and everything. So don't worry. She's always been trash, and that trash is EXACTLY where the bigotry comes from. *schnoogle. It doesn't exist anymore.
@@DembaiVT Perhaps I should rephrase my point. I don't doubt that, per your story, she was always somewhat shitty, but her more overt bigotry appears to have been eroding what other aspects of her personality she once had to the point where, if she continues down this route, all that's going to be left is an angry, bigoted shell.
Great storyteller, awful human being. I still enjoy the books. Of course, I love Tortall more, as those are just more Real, in a way. And Mrs Pierce is an amazing woman.
@@pjaypender1009I never finished them because it really wasn't something for me, I were extremely surprised when I understood just how many people love it
I would say don’t engage the trolls on here, but just remember the more they comment the more youtube will decide Jamie’s channel is their absolute jam. And the best way to help build empathy is exposure to others’ lives. So engage those trolls all you like (as long as it doesn’t impact your own mental health; it’s not worth it)
My disabled (cis) brother’s transphobe teacher verbally abused him for days over ‘JK Rowling not being transphobic’. All he wanted to do was show off his Harry Potter top trumps (which he’d gotten before she outed herself as a terf). He’s hyperempathetic autistic and literally physically incapable of being mean to anyone. He was sent home bawling and blaming himself.
I was a harry potter girly when I was little. I had posters, clothes, stickers, and pillows all with spells and harry potter characters on them. It broke my heart to get rid of a big part of my life because the author was discriminatory, but I did it because I will stand by my belifes and friends.
The conclusion I came to is this. I'll still read the books I already own. When the mood strikes, I will read fanfiction. I'll watch RU-vid videos about the series. But I won't do anything that will put money in her pockets that she can use to hurt people.
The thing that gets me about her denying that the Nazis burned books on trans people is that she does so by basically saying, "source?" As if she's remotely willing to be swayed by any of the abundance of sources that exist on the topic.
What's funny is that the famous photo of the book burnings that's used in history books and articles is that THOSE ARE THE BOOKS ABOUT TRANS HEALTHCARE.
I do not see how she was denying the evil of Nazis. She just said no and when people do that they are usually disagreeing with the statement, not the fact in the statement. What she said can be taken in multiply ways, but maybe you should try thinking a bit more positively? If you always see the glass as half empty rather than half full, you'll always be depressed. I feel like if she was real denying the evils of Nazis, she would've actually said it in a way where there would be no wiggle room.
@@Ohno1111-y9h Did anyone here say she was denying the Nazis were evil? The exact phrase I used was "her denying that the Nazis burned books on trans people," which is more specific. In fact, I think the reason she's denying that specific point is because she does agree the Nazis were evil, and she wants to avoid being put in the position where she has to admit she agrees with the Nazis on anything.
@@Cae_the_Kitsune I meant to say she wasn't denying Nazis burning books on trans people. She was denying the claim that she is like the Nazis. And I agree with that. comparing here opinions with Nazis is one hell of a stretch.
I'm a Second World War historian, I have done countless hours of research on the Second World War (full disclosure, I focus on the main conflict mostly, but the atmosphere of the time, and the policies of Nazi Germany always comes through into research). She is practicing genocide denialism. I do not say that lightly, that is exactly what it is. I have quite literally been to the place where the books were burnt in Berlin (the memorial there is haunting, being a room of empty bookshelves underground with a glass panel in the middle of the ground, unfortunately the glass was foggy when I went, but it was still striking). The only way she can possibly believe she is right is if she is reading Nazi sources. By that, I mean official documentation from the German State in World War 2. Germany classified trans people with the same classification as homosexuals, as it was thought at the time that they were linked (the main people fighting against that idea had their books on the subject burned in 1933). Trans people in Concentration Camps had the pink triangle, just as any homosexual would. What she is saying is not only disgusting, and an insult to trans people, but an insult to the subject of history. Like I said, I have seen the sight of the book burnings, and I have gone to many of the memorials in Berlin, so I find this behaviour particularly abhorrent.
Wtf are you talking about? Linking bisexuals and transsexuals with homosexuals was the norm at the time. It wasn't just the Nazis doing this. Heck, hardly anybody at that time even understood the concept of "transgenderism". Also, I guess I should remind you that many of the people who are so quick to denounce her either deny or justify the crimes of people like Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong (who for the record killed a lot more people than Adolf Hitler did).
@@justsayin4017 Denying that trans people were targetted by the Nazis is genocide denialism. That is a fact that you cannot dispute. If you are seriously going to parot the same things she says to someone who dedicates basically their life to researching the Second World War, it's buildup, and it's consequences, I'd suggest you rethink what you're doing. Like I said, I have been to the places where it happened. I have seen the exact spot where the books were burnt, and if you are about to tell me that it just didn't happen, I have nothing to say to you.
"sorry, I didn't mean to do it, I just clicked the button by mistake!" "You released a thirty page essay on why the holocaust didn't exist" "It was a mistake! My finger slipped!"
Well that is what is going on. All these transactivists here keep saying that basic logic is transphobia. They don't want to see the logic. They want to see the hate towards trans people so they can fight something that isn't there together
@@SeaBreeze-w9998 “Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity” by the National Institution of Health Now, can you show me a piece of evidence that’s AGAINST trans people? And no, PragerU and the Daily Wire don’t count
@@SeaBreeze-w9998I would suggest looking in the medical and sociological databases of Johns Hopkins University, Mayo Clinic, and the World Health Organization as a starting point. They all have information about the psychological reasoning for transness, the benefits of medical and social transition, and how neither gender nor biological sex are binary or interchangeable. I would also suggest looking into the history of gender presentation in indigenous communities around the world and famous indigenous trans/gender diverse people. One famous example is the late indigenous rights activist We:wa, who was a Lhamana, a person in Zuni culture who took on combined roles and aspects of gender expression from men and women. They had an audience with then president Calvin Coolidge to discuss citizenship and sovereignty rights for indigenous Americans, and Coolidge thought they were a cisgender woman despite being biologically male. In all seriousness, it's really quite fascinating and I hope you find it as interesting as I did.
@@Cecilpedia Sex is binary. Any biologist will tell you that. There is only male and female and nothing in between. Female = a body configured to produce large gametes. Male = a body configured to produce small gametes.
And because of her (I was a huge HP fan as a kid, but now I’m a genderfluid adult) all I am able to perceive from people who are HP fans is that they care more about giving money to an antisemitic islamaphobic transphobe than they do about if I am permitted to live
I think you mean Rowling fans. Most of the HP fandom (especially those that are also the Marauders Fandom) hate her. I still _like_ HP even if it’s not as much as before despite the author being a horrendous person because those books meant a lot to me. Doesn’t mean I’m actively encouraging her to try and make people remove my rights
I'm the complete opposite. I never read harry potter but I was impressed by her willingness to stand up for woman's rights. Glad she's doing what she's doing. 👏👏
In a weird way, I have to thank her for getting me more educated. I never would have known about the trans science destroyed by N*zis if she hadn't denied it!
@@SeaBreeze-w9998 can I ask what you understood for it? I'm curious to see what you understood because my English sucks. She said she wanted source, implying she doesn't believe op tho, no?
They already are. There were literal Neo-Nazis marching at anti-trans parades. If ten people sit down at a table and one of them is a Nazi, there are ten Nazis.
Love how she writes books about wizard school and somehow she thinks that makes her a scholar of German economic and societal history, an endocrinologist, and a psychologist. Amazing. One day I’ll get my Star Wars fanfic published and I will also be merited the same rights.
The irony of JK Rowling creating an imagery fantasy world with a rogues gallery of bizarre, unsavory, and insane characters. Then, she rejected the source material she based her success on in the real world. 😄
@justbe6387 Cornell University, Columbia University, National Institutes of Health, Stanford Medicine, and HealthNews. Science is supportive of trans people. You deny reality
She used to live next door to me in about 2010-2016. Seemed to have a massive issue remembering which day was bin day; the pavement was constantly blocked by recycling crates of empty gin bottles, although weirdly never any tonic so she was either mainlining it or maybe was some kind of maniac who preferred the litre plastic bottle Schweppes to Fevertree. I kept sending her notes saying "Bin day is Wednesday morning" but might as well have talked to a brick wall.
I'm skipping the eclipse next week because I can't feel safe in the state of Texas and I can't begin to express my contempt and rage for conservatives and transphobes over this.
My mom Vs me. I kid you not my mom has said that JK is not transphobic, like ma'am or wait actually let's do what you do... Sir you have said multiple things that are false and a lot of things that are just transphobic, I know you are bi but that doesn't make you any less transphobic.
No she isn't. we have so much evidence about the Nazis burning trans books and JKR denied we were hurt when we were forced to work gruelling hours in concentration camps and were gassed to death when we were rendered disposable and useless.
Im not going to filter by new, but for any trans friend has, firstly, you're braver than I. Secondly, you deserve love and appreciation, and you deserve to be seen and I appreciate you as an individual
@@FoxAnimations-tn7tlim gonna be honest i think the idea of seperating art from artist is kinda dumb, especially if the artist is still alive. 1; the art and artist are inherently intertwined. 2; who wants to promote or give money to someone who is actively causing harm to people? i do think you can respect actual good art even if it came from a horrible person, but it doesn't need to go beyond that. edit: wait did you reply to my reply that i deleted in favour of this version of my reply lol
@@KitKitsuneVixen You're right of course. I haven't given any money to that monster since I heard she was liking transphobic posts. It still breaks my heart though because the series was such an important part of my childhood.
Here's something I read on Reddit: yeah. This is actually the main issue with trying explain to people she’s a problem. Her initial statement, way back when, that actually caused the controversy wasn't awful. It was a little old fashioned, and missed the point, but from a place of ignorance. The idea of “We need safe spaces for women and safe spaces for trans people” isn't automatically a problem. (You could argue transwomen need their own safe space because of the hate and exclusion they can receive in the presence of cis women.) The problem was what came next. Clear JK was not longer used to anyone questioning her so rather than taking a second to wonder what she might have missed, she doubled down and got worse and worse and worse. Only, the people who “don't think she is that bad” don't follow the troubles of trans people, don't see the reports of her latest nonsense, they only remember the original tweet and assume this is a case of something being blown out of proportion.
The first thing I recall was her defending a vile transphobe who lost their job. The story was misrepresented in various media where it gave the impression the bigot was the victim so it made sence the she might have just misunderstood. Then she doubled down. If she fell down the hate rabbit hole at that point or was just showing us her true self for the first time I don't know.
Yeah I remember reading her entire message on the bathroom situation. And while it was clear it was transphobic I mostly felt bad for her because she was talking about her own experience feeling unsafe due to being a survivor of assault. Myself being a survivor of assault as well I sympathized and still do with her fear. There was no doubt it was still rooted in transphobia because only a transphobe would make the parrallel between trans women and male sexual abusers but it screamed as "scared, old and confused". I do think she deserved the backlash and I think most people tried to genuinely explain to her why it was harmful and while it wasn't "i want trans people to die" it was still transphobia. And then she lost it. Which has been a pattern of hers forever. That woman has always been incapable of admitting that she's wrong about anything or to think that criticism aren't personal attack. So she lost it. And I think some people blame trans people for her reaction because the way she whined about everything made them think the situation must have been bigger than it was. Instead of seeing it for what it is which is that she really took it to heart and decided to dismiss an entire community of people rather than try to educate herself on something she clearly knew nothing about. They assumed we were wrong because they don't know us due to lack of visibility, don't understand either how what she said was transphobic and I think mostly because it's not very intuitive to assume that someone would do what she did and build a goddamn self-righteous crusade based on like nothing. They really think we've been gunning for her. Which is crazy to me because the pattern of her making a big deal out of criticism is very visible and has been a thing for as long as she's been on social media. But acknowledging how this is just an exaggeration of that pattern would probably retroactively make them realize all the clapbacks that she ever did even before that were kinda all insane and punching down because she's a billionaire with a huge following and acts and attacks people like randos on the internet are actively throwing her in deathmatch where she has to fight for her life. But they've never been able to see that as concerning behaviour and still saw it in good faith. And people will always struggle to change their minds if it actually involves a reflection of themselves. I think it's why it's as hard. They're trying to give her and themselves the benefit of the doubt but you can't do that without also denying how she impacts us.
Transphobia is an easy inroad into other bigotries. Especially with the antisemitic stereotypes in Harry Potter, it’s no surprise that she went down the Nazi route.
She has broken my heart. She lied. She told us millennials that it was ok to be ourselves. That there was a place in the world for all of us. What she didn't say was that you had to fit in to her very narrow view of the world. I will never support her again.
@@SeaBreeze-w9998 That's so true. I agree. I don't think cis people should try to be a gender they're not, there are proof it can make them feel dysphoric. So that would really suck for them.
What exactly is transphobic? She doesn't show hatred or fear towards trans people. We just live in the age where it's typical to label someone who states facts as a bigot because it makes PC people fell better about themselves.
The way a public figure just like says this shit and on their public account too. Like bro, believe whatever BS you want but you’re not allowed to be surprised when you’re getting cancelled 💀
“If you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans” sis _you_ literally _are_ discriminating against trans people on the basis of them being trans
j k rowling ironically helped me realize that im gender nonconforming. when i was 7 fantastic beasts came out and i wanted to be newt. jk rowling helped me shape my gender identity. and now she hates my trans and enby cousins???
JK Rowling has said on many many occasions she doesn't care about gender. She even said gender is irrelevant. She only talks about sex and sex based rights.
I used to not know that much and I used to hear transphobic takes and think "hmm... well maybe they have a point". after watching more of your videos, they helped me. I could be faced with millions of transphobic things but NONE of them will ever have a point. They all say the same things anyway.
Percy Jackson came from love for Riordan's son. Harry Potter came from the ability to make those big bucks. Rick wants to create characters for people. JK will create characters just to push the story.
I read HP when I was 10 and started pjo right after when I was 10-11. I'll turn 17 this year and am still obsessed with pjo/riordanverse and I barely remember the plot line of hp. Percy Jackson>>>>>Harry Potter
Yesss I loved HP but then started Percy Jackson and I absolutely love it more that any other book!! I’ve been a fan for years now and HP was a phase that lastet like half a year or smth
I think the fact that Hogwarts legacy ended up being a success made her think that she can say what she wants without any kick back. Which unfortunately seems to be true. I just wish she would stop sicking her attack terfs on people through her tweets.
@@paulwilliammonks1 success in terms of the games quality. gamers don’t care if a game sells a lot of copies, they care if it’s fun to play. like i said, for such big hype to die so quickly after release is very telling. and did you mean 2023?
@@babs_babs yes i meant 2023. my point still stands though. She sees it as a success because she made millions of pounds from it and it made more money than any other game. Do you really think she cares about whether it was a good game? No of course not. So her taking that success, as a go ahead for saying what she wants, isnt affected by whether ppl kept playing. Because it had already sold and she had already gotten the money. That was my point. If id wanted to make a comment that HL was the best received game of 2023 then i would have said that it was the best received game. :)
That woman is the inspiration for the novel I'm working on. Seven characters, only 2 of which are white, two trans characters, (a young man and a little girl) an intersex character and an NB character. All of the characters have ethnically appropriate names that do not reference being enslaved. She is a living example of what not to do.
But how are people supposed to know that someone's black if you don't reference slavery? Since that's obviously the only thing black people are known for. Well, that and Martin Luther King Jr. If you don't reference either of those things then your character might as well be white. What's next? Letting trans people pee in public bathrooms? How far we have fallen (This is a joke by the way)
This was such a weirdly unnecessary escalation that speaks to the company she’s keeping these days. This book burning is a well documented event. And I realize in an attempt cover herself she tried to hedge later, but her first instinct was to be super wrong, super loud with her whole chest.
Appreciate the fact that you always try to present a nuanced point of view when it comes to these things. She wasn't that bad to begin with, but denying nazi book burnings, that's a whole new low.
@@rosieg6989 JK Rowling is winning. Most people are saying "trans women aren't women". That's why many sporting bodies are banning transwomen from competing in women's sports.
Lord Blåhaj shall preside upon the Day of Wrath. Beside him shall sit his archangels, Madeline from Celeste and Viktor from Umbrella Academy. With a motion of his blue fin, he shall condemn J.K. Umbridge to the deepest depths of Hell, where she'll be subjected to eternal punishment from The Click's Emotional Support Demon. (Even though he's a support demon, he has no support for transphobes.)
@@LoremIpsum-dp1li yes. YES. FIRE AND SULPHUR WILL BURN AT HER FEET. She will rue the day she misnomered us. The day she rebuked us. The day she made the worst mistake of her life: to hate us. Hell hath much fury. And we are it's conduits.
@LoremIpsum-dp1li *Note: She'll have to go through Click's Cerberus Duck first and possibly a landshark named after a tropical fruit waiting in the wings for whatever's left before facing the ESD for her FINAL FINAL judgement.
Sorry I'm bad at explaining I mean like he'll be scrolling on tiktok or smth and laugh and ill ask him what's funny or to send me they vid and he's like no its trans or gay jokes and he thinks ill get offended. I'm also a transmasc that's shoved in the very back of the closet so I asked him another time what his opinion of trans people was and he said no comment, which he usually says when he thinks ill get offended. Sorry I'm terrible at explaining
Her doing this really sucks because I used to be a huge potter head I loved the books and movies but now it’s hard to read them and to watch the movies because all I can think about is how transphobic the series feels now because she’s transphobic
I don't want to believe that she's transphobic but I know she is, it just hurts to know that she's transphobic when she also made one my favorite book series
@@pietjewaanman3506you are stupid. Phobia: an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something. Transphobia: an extreme AND irrational aversion to trans people.
"How did you type this out and press send without thinking 'I should maybe check my source for this'" We've been asking that question about you for YEARS, J.K.
No clue, maybe because the whole "trans women attack cis women in bathrooms" and all that, and I guess that doesn't happen with trans men?? Idk she's something else.
ContraPoints talked about the difference between transphobia against trans women and men. One thing that happens is that, while trans women are seen either as dangerous predators who dress as women to prey on them, or as tricksters who want to get with straight men, trans men are instead infantilized and portrayed as confused girls who became indoctrinated into the "gender cult". Notice that, at its core, the ones perceived as male are seen as predatory, while the ones perceived as female are confused in their heads. It all comes down to misogyny.
And it's worse than this as she is actively lobbying AGAINST trans people with campaign backings and support for polititians and laws in England against trans people. Also, isn’t she against Scotland freeing itself from British rule?
It depends how far back you go. A couple of years ago, yes, I could see this coming. Back in the days when she appeared to be a champion of the left… holocaust denial wasn't on my top 10 of things I expected from her.
@@alexross394 She would use her Twitter platform to take down right-wing voices. The emphasis on “appeared to be”. I didn’t follow her that closely, I just thought she was an ally. A lot of people are tearing me down in the comments for not knowing so maybe I’m a bit dumb for not spotting it early on.
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@@pietjewaanman3506Transphobia is explicit hatred against trans people. And "woman" is anyone that identifies and express their identities related to femininity. And now why do you ask to define what's a woman and not what's a man, huh? It's almost like it was never about trans people at all ;)
Did anyone else notice that all the male characters in the POTTER series had their flaws, while all of the squeaky clean and perfect characters were female: Hermione, McGonigal, Mrs. Weasley; Bellatrix was the only truly evil female; Umbridge wasn't a death eater; Mrs. Malfoy saved HARRY, and none of the other females showed any real flaws at all.
And with the exceptionof Bellatrix she usually assigns masculine physical traits to women you are supposed to view as evil, annoying, or otherwise worthy of scorn.
Umbridge tortured children. I don't think "not a death eater" cancels that out. Romilda Vane was trying to date rape Harry, essentially, and Rita Skeeter was a pot full of nightmares. Petunia was abusive to her nephew, Lily chose a toxic bullying asshole who never made it up to the kid he terrorised, Madame Maxime was cruel to Hagrid because of her self image issues, Pansy Parkinson sucks. But those are all side characters. Her femme main characters in Hermione, McGonagall, Ginny and Mrs Weasley are pretty agreeable, noting that Hermione has to learn to get over her academic superiority and Ginny has to develop confidence so she isn't the squeaking little Harry stan. Cho's whole character development is based around Cedric and Harry and another masc character, which is disappointing. If anything I'd say they're bland rather than squeaky clean.
Hermione is only "squeaky clean" in the movies. Many people before the movies didn't like her, or at the very least she was the least favorite of the trio
Reading this just made me loose faith in humanity a little more. One of the smartest things I've ever heard is that a society can be measured by how they treat their weakest... not saying that's trans people necessarily... just saying that the sentence "don't blame others if they despise you for your abnormality" is an incredibly f-ed up thing to say even under the best of circumstances. Makes you sound like a straight up n*zi, and I don't say that lightly.
my niece is obsessed with Harry potter, I let her watch it but it makes me feel miserable that I gave a transphobe money. I am just gonna start pirating now lol
I feel like when she has reached the point of trying to say "the nazis didnt discriminate against you" it should be pretty clear what kind of person she is Its just hate
I'm trans and my mom is saying "I have a hard time believing she said that" when she has a pretty open history of discrimination. It's easy to deny the transphobia when you're not trans.
Jamie I have a question, if a straight cis person dates a non binary person, are they still straight and is that a straight relationship or a queer relationship
i think in that situation it really comes down to how you personally identify the relationship. my partner and i are both nb, but in terms of biological parts we’re heterosexual, so we usually call it a straight relationship. there are also cishet people who date trans people and still consider themselves straight. it just comes down to your own perception
It's complicated lol. I think by definition a non-binary person in a relationship with a binary man or a woman should be straight (it's another gender) and two enbies is gay (same gender), but personally I don't think I'm able to like any gender in the straight way honestly :D
I'm nonbinary but bisexual, and my partner is a gay man. Our relationship is both gay and queer. Him being gay doesn't invalidate my nonbinary life, and me being nonbinary doesn't suddenly force him to be bisexual. The relationship you describe is technically queer, since it breaks the mold of heteronormativity, but if the people in the relationship don't want to use that term then they don't have to. Labels are to help describe things to ourselves and to others, but the labels are secondary to the actual lived experiences of each person. imo any relationship involving a queer person is inherently queer. I'm bisexual and I stay bisexual no matter who i'm dating.
@@russp1870 thank you for sharing your experience that helps to answer question a lot since it comes from someone who actually has been in that situation
She's implying neither trans men or trans women are defined as women and treated as such. Does she believe misogynists respect any of us more than her?
It's time people. Let's bring all our power together and get jkr on this channel so our sister in christ can get some actual learning from someone who actually is educated and well researched on trans ppl and trans rights. LET'S GET HER HERE AND HELP HER IGNORANCE VANISH!!!!
The xx, xy, xxy, xxx, etc chromosomes dictate hormone washes a person receives. These hormone washes give a person hormones such as testosterone and estrogen. These hormones are what dictate sex; however, they can be changed using HRT, effectively changing a person's sex. If we go by the right's definition as "Man is adult human male" and "Woman is adult human female", trans men would still be men (because trans men are adults, humans, and males) and trans women would still be women (because trans women are adults, humans, and females). Some cis women have xy and some cis men have xx. This also applies to xxy and xxx. Some people are intersex. The hormone washes can give a person the "wrong" hormones, hence why cis women with xy, cis men with xx, and intersex people exist. All of that information is also just about sex. Sex is very complicated. Sex and gender are infact different and you do not NEED to be a specific sex to be a certain gender. Gender is ALSO very complicated.
This is very true for many people. Confirmation bias. I think it's vital to take a post-structuralist approach to media precisely because of this. We need to be ok with liking media from problematic people. I'm with Roland Barthes on this one. The audience make the meaning, not the author. (Although it's interesting how much she believes she owns the franchise and can invent new canon for it).
@@ihateunicorns867yes! sometimes someone will ask me how i can possibly still consume anything hp related anymore and i have to explain that this deathly hallows necklace off etsy does not support rowling, this fan media im watching does not support rowling. if we boycott the things that other people have done then sure it’ll bring some attention away from her, but it will also just do harm to the innocent people who worked so hard on these projects just to get torn apart for not denouncing the entire series over the creator’s political views
Nothing of what she says is transphobic. The only one here telling outright lies is the woman in the video. Jkr said on many occasions that she wants trans people to live their best lives y’all just have a problem comprehending words cuz of your feelings
