Unkind Thoughts about that Author

[pennswoods]

I want to write this down somewhere and I'm not putting it on Twitter. Things I am seeing online now suggest that Rowling is embracing and sharing talking points from Holocaust deniers particularly as relates to queer and trans victims and the destruction of texts and research.

I wonder what her children think of her. They are all adults now. I wonder if any of them are embarrassed or disgusted or hurt by her bigotry. I wonder if there is any conflict at home because of this, and I wonder if this underlies in any way her fervency.

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[mundungus42]

Yeah. My dad swallowed the old white dude grievance narrative hook, line, and sinker, and even when he was dying, he occasionally still tried to bait me and my sister with culture war BS, though he eventually got too tired to bother with it. We largely sidestepped his traps (it helped that it was all asinine and ill-informed) and managed to stay on task with making sure he knew he was loved and trying to share the joyful parts of my life with him. But yeah, there was no convincing him and it really, really sucked.

At least with him it was mostly chain emails and RL kvetching sessions with his brother (a huge Rush Limbaugh fan) and not, y'know having an enormous social media platform, fortune, and outsize influence on the broader culture. I really feel for her kids, especially if any of them are queer. Especially since, well, they're human, but they were also raised in considerable privilege an probably don't want to be disinherited.

I know it's probably wishful thinking to hope that she can drag herself out of this abyss because I see the way that Graham Linehan completely torpedoed his career and all the goodwill that came from it because he's so obsessed with and claims to be disgusted by trans people.

My pet theory is that JKR is actually trans and hates trans people so much because they're living authentically and she refuses to. JKR's screeds, e.g., "if girls are told they can become boys ALL girls will want to become boys because it's so much harder to be a girl!" make my gaydar ping decisively.