JK Rowling Concerns — Page 2

No, I know exactly what you’re saying and I don’t disagree. But I’m saying as for Broadway i went to see it twice last year to see a friend in it and I had no problem doing that. And as for the new series, I’m not canceling my MAX subscription for seven years to make sure she doesn’t get a few bucks from me.

I don’t judge you for that, Jordan. I started this thread with a genuine question. I fully expect everyone to agree that she is entirely wrong, I just struggle to find a way to combat it. Probably avoiding the show is not as important as supporting trans rights organisations and other LGBT umbrella groups.

Still, I hope the show closes and Jack Thorne gets everyone a new job when the Stranger Things play comes over.

Zeppie, I only did that briefly after MY thread was inexplicably locked. Anyway, that’s unimportant. Old news.

Of course people on here will be concerned, throw books away, hate her for her opposing views and disavow their love for Harry Potter.

How pathetic can you be when you completely erase a person because their opinion differs from yours.

WhoCouldBeBlue said: "Of course people on here will be concerned, throw books away, hate her for her opposing views and disavow their love for Harry Potter.

How pathetic can you be when you completely erase a person because their opiniondiffers fromyours.

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If that is pathetic, call me that. I refuse to allow someone filled with hate of others to have one cent of my money or time. I have never been a HP fan, but I have seen the Cursed Child both in its original 2 part form and the one part version. Do I wish I never gave her a penny of my money. Yep. But you do you.

WhoCouldBeBlue said: "Of course people on here will be concerned, throw books away, hate her for her opposing views and disavow their love for Harry Potter.

How pathetic can you be when you completely erase a person because their opiniondiffers fromyours."

"differing opinion".... pfft imagine if it were only that. since when do we mix debate club participant and playground bully up? she's beyond her "i'd march with you if you were discriminated against" days. she is quite literally harassing an entire group of people at this point, and then complaining about others using illiberal methods, as if any civil rights battle was ever won via parlor-polite tactics. it's bizarre and obnoxious.

she seems to have lost the plot, for lack of a better term. her initial posts (which still triggered the usual screaming and hyperventilating from the usual folks) seemed genuine, not-PC and at least based in good faith argument over "what is a woman" and how inclusion of trans people (which, relax, I fully support) impacts women and womens' events. she was wrong but the hysterical reaction was wronger.

but that seems to have radicalized her, or maybe she just dropped the mask, and is now taunting, and desperately TRYING to create buzz, and NOT just in the space of "please acknowledge biological women" but in the harsher more delusional space about denying trans history full stop. its sad and i get why people would not want to associate with her work. and this most recent snipe at actors who have been nothing but respectful of her- again, shes lost the plot.

"Zeppie, I only did that briefly after MY thread was inexplicably locked. Anyway, that’s unimportant. Old news."

You are the one who brought up the old news not me, just responded to your statement. Moving on -lol

TotallyEffed said: "A lot of us wanted to believe that her original statements about trans people were perhaps misguided but still genuine and innocent, but if you go back and read them you will see they were blatant dog whistles from the beginning. I encourage everyone to listen to the J.K. Rowlingepisode of the podcast titledA Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein. He has Natalie Wynn aka ContraPoints as a guest and they break the whole saga down. If you haven’t seen any of ContraPoints YouTube essays I very strongly recommend, she’s quite brilliant."

I agree-since she was so loved way back when, I think we maybe hoped her comments were uneducated and misguided. But then it just went out of control and now I won't support her. I won't get rid of my books, and no one will know I keep them, but she also doesn't get any money from me having them.

I had been collecting the beautiful new illustrated hardbacks, but I was finished with her by the time the third one came out.

Contrapoint is great. Alas, there is that other pro-Rowling podcast which claims to be neutral. Avoid!