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you know, i totally forgot about that definition and it wasn’t even on my mind that this was reclaiming. “Gay panic” is for when a hot person who you’re gay for flirts with you and you get all shy about it. I guess it doesn’t really feel reclaimed, just like another use of the word “panic”

We’re not gonna rake you over hot coals for it, but we’re also not gonna lie and say that it’s ok.

I don’t like this speculation. While it’s fair to say she has issues with her own relationship to femininity, claiming she’s a closeted man is going too far. It reeks too much of the whole “homophobes are closeted gays” trope, which is a kinda homophobic in how it blames queer people for their own oppression.

On top of all that, nobody can decide other people’s gender for them. It doesn’t matter if the person is a suspected egg or a transphobe who spites their own gender; do not invalidate the gender of others.

Like I said, it was a good idea before her toxic movement infiltrated the highest levels of governance and instituted policies. When Amnesty international revealed that her TERF orgs are funded by anti-choice Christian fascists, she sued them into silence. The policies she’s pushed have gotten countless people killed and made life incredibly difficult for so many people. And it’s not like the bigotry stays local; she exports it wherever it can take hold like a good hate activist.

She has done so much damage and hurt so many people that engaging in any way with her brand feels distasteful. HP will be tied to that evil woman forever, no matter how much we try and co-opt it. It doesn’t deserve to be made fun of anyone, it deserves to be left behind as a source of joy. There are other wonderful series that are more deserving of our respect.

That’s true. In Rowlings case, she is documented as having hung out with notorious transphobes for a while before she went full mask off. That’s why I say that she was beyond the internet’s reach by the time she became vocal

It might’ve been fun at first, but at this point the damage has been too extensive for that light hearted trolling

I wasn’t a fan, but still really liked the books and movies growing up. It was a phenomenon. However, all of those memories are tainted irrevocably by what she’s done

Even not giving her money is still supporting her. Piracy has a less oppositional relationship with promoting media than you might think. The best thing is to always just move on to less evil stuff

I imagine that a lot of the Nazi views influenced her, so she became more ok with being their friend. She basically allowed them into her “acceptable allies” club and became more sympathetic to them from there. Needless to say, she’s lost the plot and only really cares about transphobia anymore.

Nah, she was already in too deep to rescue by the time she got pushback. She was too socially entrenched with bigots for anyone reasonable to reach her. Twitter drama is not responsible; her wealth, power, and how that impacted her social circle were.

People often think these descents into fascism are ideological, but it’s been mostly interpersonal in every case I’ve witnessed. If someone is a rich white “feminist” with conservative tendencies, they can easily find friendship with people already deep in the brainrot. They then become so reliant on that social group that leaving becomes costly, and decide “Fuck those minorities anyways. They aren’t my friends, so why should I care?”

Don’t think of the detached internet as a space for recuperating fascists. Deprogramming cannot realistically happen there, not without more personal influence. It’s parasocial to think otherwise.

edit: grammar

Exactly. If Rowling was willing to own up the problematic stuff in her books and grow from it, it wouldn’t be a big issue. If she even disappeared into her castle and lived her life quietly releasing bad additions to the universe, it’d just blend into the background and only be occasionally brought up. Instead, JK became a Nazi who reinforces patriarchy, strengthens fascism, and made life hell for so many trans people.

They probably just misunderstood the title

I feel like I’ve seen this before, but I forgot

shit

yes

and don’t forget about cannon breaking bad, where an 18th century engineer turns to building weaponry for pirates

Yup. He’s probably a big fan of niche stuff

She falls asleep face down in her water dish, and Walt refuses to save her