Opinion of J.K. Rowling

[John Dule]

My views are my views. You deal with it. When Trump wins again, maybe he'll do something about it. See, I really don't care about it one way or another beyond about sticking it to people like you, that's about it. Really, at this point, my political views boil down to anything that upsets or causes a Communist pain or sadness is a good thing; The enemy of my enemy is my friend, basically. I watch the fireworks and eat my proverbial popcorn as the tears roll.

Ah, yes. I believe it was Socrates who invented the "You're all just brainwashed cucks" method of argumentation.

[Higgins]

Maybe I'm just some radical tranny, a mentally ill degenerate, or even just a triggered lib, but I find it weird how Higgins floats "some form of medication" to treat gender dysphoria, but when some form of medication is used to treat gender dysphoria, it's "indulging" my "delusions". And I'm not even unpacking the whole implications behind claiming being trans is a delusion.

I take sympathy on you and your struggles as a fellow person seeing as I've suffered with at times crippling anxiety and depression, but the people that happen to be on your side are my enemies. It's not really personal, to be honest. It's more that, like the environment, like healthcare, like civil rights, and everything else since 2016, transgender rights have just become another political football between two sides of the spectrum.

On an individual level no one should suffer or be made to feel differently, but I didn't start this cold civil war we've been in for four years.

[Higgins]

My views are my views. You deal with it. When Trump wins again, maybe he'll do something about it. See, I really don't care about it one way or another beyond about sticking it to people like you, that's about it. Really, at this point, my political views boil down to anything that upsets or causes a Communist pain or sadness is a good thing; The enemy of my enemy is my friend, basically. I watch the fireworks and eat my proverbial popcorn as the tears roll.

Higgins, mate, really suggest you try calling the Samaritans or something right about now. Engaging in these kinds of sinister threats against people on the internet isn't a good sign. Maybe just talking to someone willing to open an ear might put you on the right sort of path to getting the help you need.

Not sinister or a threat, more a statement of callous disregard at this point. At this point it's become a form of entertainment, like WWE, all fake. When election night happens, whoever wins, I'll enjoy the ensuing chaos. Maybe I'd care more if I wasn't told nonstop since approximately 2014 that I am a bad person simply for existing by the same side that preaches tolerance, love and peace for everyone else. You dig?

[Dr. MB]

HP. Rick Riordan has always been better.

[Ferguson97]

My views are my views. You deal with it. When Trump wins again, maybe he'll do something about it. See, I really don't care about it one way or another beyond about sticking it to people like you, that's about it. Really, at this point, my political views boil down to anything that upsets or causes a Communist pain or sadness is a good thing; The enemy of my enemy is my friend, basically. I watch the fireworks and eat my proverbial popcorn as the tears roll.

Higgins, mate, really suggest you try calling the Samaritans or something right about now. Engaging in these kinds of sinister threats against people on the internet isn't a good sign. Maybe just talking to someone willing to open an ear might put you on the right sort of path to getting the help you need.

Not sinister or a threat, more a statement of callous disregard at this point. At this point it's become a form of entertainment, like WWE, all fake. When election night happens, whoever wins, I'll enjoy the ensuing chaos. Maybe I'd care more if I wasn't told nonstop since approximately 2014 that I am a bad person simply for existing by the same side that preaches tolerance, love and peace for everyone else. You dig?

Don't cut yourself on that edge.

[John Dule]

HP. Rick Riordan has always been better.

This is the most offensive post in this thread.

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

Sane woman in an insane world.

[Cassius]

I’m liking the bifurcated nature of this thread. Sturm und drang over the trans question in one lane and civilized discussion of school literature courses in the other. A magical atlas experience.

Anyway, if they have to put a post-1950 author of potboilers on English Literature courses, then it should obviously be Bernard Cornwell as opposed to JK Rowling.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I’m liking the bifurcated nature of this thread. Sturm und drang over the trans question in one lane and civilized discussion of school literature courses in the other. A magical atlas experience.

Anyway, if they have to put a post-1950 author of potboilers on English Literature courses, then it should obviously be Bernard Cornwell as opposed to JK Rowling.

That's why one can only love Atlas.



By the way, I just realized you have a Giulio Andreotti quote in the signature, which is cool.

[Cassius]

I’m liking the bifurcated nature of this thread. Sturm und drang over the trans question in one lane and civilized discussion of school literature courses in the other. A magical atlas experience.

Anyway, if they have to put a post-1950 author of potboilers on English Literature courses, then it should obviously be Bernard Cornwell as opposed to JK Rowling.

That's why one can only love Atlas.



By the way, I just realized you have a Giulio Andreotti quote in the signature, which is cool.

I have a great affection (or affliction?) for Andreotti, for which you can blame the combined efforts of Paolo Sorrentino, Tony Servillo and Teho Teardo (with some unwitting help from Trio).

Also, let’s be honest, Andreotti was completely right on that particular issue.

[SWE]

Maybe I'm just some radical tranny, a mentally ill degenerate, or even just a triggered lib, but I find it weird how Higgins floats "some form of medication" to treat gender dysphoria, but when some form of medication is used to treat gender dysphoria, it's "indulging" my "delusions". And I'm not even unpacking the whole implications behind claiming being trans is a delusion.

I take sympathy on you and your struggles as a fellow person seeing as I've suffered with at times crippling anxiety and depression, but the people that happen to be on your side are my enemies. It's not really personal, to be honest. It's more that, like the environment, like healthcare, like civil rights, and everything else since 2016, transgender rights have just become another political football between two sides of the spectrum.

On an individual level no one should suffer or be made to feel differently, but I didn't start this cold civil war we've been in for four years.

Sorry trans people but because communists believe that trans people should have rights now I have to oppose it.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I’m liking the bifurcated nature of this thread. Sturm und drang over the trans question in one lane and civilized discussion of school literature courses in the other. A magical atlas experience.

Anyway, if they have to put a post-1950 author of potboilers on English Literature courses, then it should obviously be Bernard Cornwell as opposed to JK Rowling.

That's why one can only love Atlas.



By the way, I just realized you have a Giulio Andreotti quote in the signature, which is cool.

I have a great affection (or affliction?) for Andreotti, for which you can blame the combined efforts of Paolo Sorrentino, Tony Servillo and Teho Teardo (with some unwitting help from Trio).

Also, let’s be honest, Andreotti was completely right on that particular issue.

Yeah, I highly suspected Il Divo had a lot do with that.

And, yes, Andreotti was right on that one. He's also the first about whom it should be applied.

[Beet]

My views are my views. You deal with it. When Trump wins again, maybe he'll do something about it. See, I really don't care about it one way or another beyond about sticking it to people like you, that's about it. Really, at this point, my political views boil down to anything that upsets or causes a Communist pain or sadness is a good thing; The enemy of my enemy is my friend, basically. I watch the fireworks and eat my proverbial popcorn as the tears roll.

Higgins, mate, really suggest you try calling the Samaritans or something right about now. Engaging in these kinds of sinister threats against people on the internet isn't a good sign. Maybe just talking to someone willing to open an ear might put you on the right sort of path to getting the help you need.

Not sinister or a threat, more a statement of callous disregard at this point. At this point it's become a form of entertainment, like WWE, all fake. When election night happens, whoever wins, I'll enjoy the ensuing chaos. Maybe I'd care more if I wasn't told nonstop since approximately 2014 that I am a bad person simply for existing by the same side that preaches tolerance, love and peace for everyone else. You dig?

Higgins, you always have the option to adopt your views on the basis of your own conscience, rather than what other people are saying. That is my suggestion for everyone, in fact. It will ultimately allow you to be more independent and happier.

Believe it or not, not all of us who preach tolerance, love and peace think you are a bad person simply for existing. We may think you are a bad person based on your actions-- the content of your character. Or a good person. But if you use the words of a select minority of agitators to dictate your politics, it does not allow you to escape responsibility. If everyone does that, it is a race to the bottom, a race that can only be won by evil. The real distinction today is between those who engage in the race and those who do not.

[Ferguson97]

My views are my views. You deal with it. When Trump wins again, maybe he'll do something about it. See, I really don't care about it one way or another beyond about sticking it to people like you, that's about it. Really, at this point, my political views boil down to anything that upsets or causes a Communist pain or sadness is a good thing; The enemy of my enemy is my friend, basically. I watch the fireworks and eat my proverbial popcorn as the tears roll.

Higgins, mate, really suggest you try calling the Samaritans or something right about now. Engaging in these kinds of sinister threats against people on the internet isn't a good sign. Maybe just talking to someone willing to open an ear might put you on the right sort of path to getting the help you need.

Not sinister or a threat, more a statement of callous disregard at this point. At this point it's become a form of entertainment, like WWE, all fake. When election night happens, whoever wins, I'll enjoy the ensuing chaos. Maybe I'd care more if I wasn't told nonstop since approximately 2014 that I am a bad person simply for existing by the same side that preaches tolerance, love and peace for everyone else. You dig?

You’re not a bad person for existing, you’re a bad person because of the hate you have in your heart and the way you treat other people.

[Ferguson97]

Also, a lot of people telling on themselves calling her a FF.

You can either be a trans ally or think she's a good person. Not both.

[John Dule]

Also, a lot of people telling on themselves calling her a FF.

You can either be a trans ally or think she's a good person. Not both.

I fight for the trans axis, not the trans allies.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Also, a lot of people telling on themselves calling her a FF.

You can either be a trans ally or think she's a good person. Not both.

Did you just unironically say "a trans ally"

[Ferguson97]

Also, a lot of people telling on themselves calling her a FF.

You can either be a trans ally or think she's a good person. Not both.

Did you just unironically say "a trans ally"

Yes?

[HillGoose]

HP, here's why:

Think about how quickly the entire WWWIII (Wizarding-World War III) would have ended if all of the good guys had simply armed up with good ol' American hot lead.

Basilisk? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a .470 Nitro Express. Worried about its Medusa-gaze? Wear night vision goggles. The image is light-amplified and re-transmitted to your eyes. You aren't looking at it--you're looking at a picture of it.

Imagine how epic the first movie would be if Harry had put a breeching charge on the bathroom wall, flash-banged the hole, and then went in wearing NVGs and a Kevlar-weave stab-vest, carrying a SPAS-12.

And have you noticed that only Europe seems to a problem with Deatheaters? Maybe it's because Americans have spent the last 200 years shooting deer, playing GTA: Vice City, and keeping an eye out for black helicopters over their compounds. Meanwhile, Brits have been cutting their steaks with spoons. Remember: gun-control means that Voldemort wins. God made wizards and God made muggles, but Samuel Colt made them equal.

Now I know what you're going to say: "But a wizard could just disarm someone with a gun!" Yeah, well they can also disarm someone with a wand (as they do many times throughout the books/movies). But which is faster: saying a spell or pulling a trigger?

Avada Kedavra, meet Avtomat Kalashnikova.

[Bakersfield Uber Alles]

I thought that Rowling tragically passed away in 2007, shortly after submitting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to her publisher.

The animated meat puppet that currently calls herself J.K. Rowling is a poor imitation.

[Alben Barkley]

So wait, what I've read now is that this new character -- who was never even trans, just a crosdressing man -- isn't even a main character or focal point of the book. Just briefly discussed almost as an aside.

This makes the whole "controversy" even dumber.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

To expand on my earlier thoughts, I definitely think she's a HP for her recent comments. Her new Cormoran Strike book, which is a series I've enjoyed in the past, isn't necessarily transphobic in a vacuum, but given her stance it makes it seem that was certainly her intent.
So I probably won't partake in it, or in the fourth book which is apparently written from an anti-Palestinian point of view.

Now as for cancelling Harry Potter, I don't think that's necessary. Lots of people, including LGBT, have been inspired by the books to be advocates and stand up for themselves. The author being a TERF later doesn't change that. Just think how many great book series had problematic authors. I highly doubt C.S. Lewis or rad-trad J.R.R. Tolkien would have been in favor of trans-positivity. But kids still read those books.

[It’s so Joever]

HP.
She basically glamorized a society built on elf slavery.
A book about not discriminating over blood seems to be strangely okay with the backwards society that is the Wizarding World. A happy ending would have had the Muggles absolutely slaughtering all the wizards with the power of technology.

[Ferguson97]

I'm a straight white, nominally Christian American male. In your worldview, I am what's wrong with the world. I am responsible for every travesty that has befallen mankind. In the eyes of people like yourself, I have a "blood guilt" on my hands because of the actions undertaken by dead people who truly had hate (or more often, greed) in their hearts and who actually mistreated people, and I should not only "recognize" and "understand" this guilt 24/7, but live with and work into every aspect of my life.

Viewed through the lens of people like yourself, I should look at the entire history of my race, or even of all individual ethnic groups within that race, and see nothing but evil. I should hold no pride in anything, or else, somehow, I am a supremacist who would support slavery and things of that nature. I am personally responsible, as straight white male, for Jim Crow.

This point has been hammered home, or attempted to be hammered home, for many years now. The fact that it hasn't taken and that I do not feel guilt for things I am not guilty of, is your problem with me.

The co-founder of the Toronto chapter of the Black Lives Matter protest movement has come under scrutiny in recent days for an old Facebook post that declared white people were genetically inferior to their black peers.

“Whiteness is not humxness,” wrote Yusra Khogali, in a now-deleted post (using gender-neutral alternative spelling). “In fact, white skin is sub-humxn. All phenotypes exist within the black family and white [people] are a genetic defect of blackness.”

Stop with this victim complex.

Nobody considers you individually responsible for the ills of the world. As a member of an extremely privileged group, you benefit from these advantages.

All that's really being asked to simply acknowledge the massive advantage that you have for factors mostly out of your control, and to what you can to help lift others up and reduce this privilege gap.

Is that really so hard?

And one person's crazy Facebook post doesn't mean anything, so I don't know why you brought it up.

As for that Salon headline compilation that you have for some reason, most of those headlines are 100% correct, while some are admittedly inflammatory to grab attention.

Nobody hates you for existing (it would be strange for me to do that, considering I'm a straight white guy too), and I think you know that, so stop playing the victim.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

oh my God why are people unironically replying to Higgins?