#i hope that clears things up
fullyfunctionalminiaturebeehive:
it’s really disappointing how people’s critique of jkr starts and ends with her transphobia, and they completely ignore her blatant antisemitism, racism, homophobia, slavery apologism, sympathy for the wizard nazis, (the wizard nazi incel) snape’s redemption, the villain of fantastic beasts trying to stop the holocaust, and the new game literally being a rehash of the blood libel myth.
&her ableism, fatphobia, classism, and general naked imperialism(look at things like the “thunderbird” in fantastic beasts, or anything and everything she’s ever said or done about Scotland, for example)
This ass-hat has actually lobbied against things like “letting disabled people survive” and “the colonised nation I live in taking steps toward independence.”
Oh, and you already mentioned it, but - antisemitism, again. Cannot stress the antisemitism enough because, holy fuck she’s so antisemitic!
as a trans person this is is so important to look at and spread bc us trans people are not the only people affected, and we need to band together to spread awareness about the full extent of JKRs bigotry.
JKR is the example of why death of the author needs to be a thing sometimes.
Butch Hartman is another.
Hartman and rowling are very different. I made the same example in a different post comparing jkr to Markus Pearson, but jkr is still incredibly connected to the hairy potty franchise, makes money off of every single sale for any piece of media or merch, and her bigotry is inside the books and movies and games at full force.
Hartman on the other hand, while he is transphobic and annoying as shit, he hasn’t made any money on anything relating to Danny Phantom in years. sure there are those shitty fairly odd parents movie and new cartoon, but honestly they look like shit and most fans of the original show probably don’t give as shit. at the same time, there’s no real transphobia in Danny Phantom, and actually a lot of unintentional subtext the hints that Danny is trans. compare that with Hermione being seen as annoying and crazy for wanting to free slaves, the only Chinese characters name being two Korean surnames, lycanthropy is supposed to be an allegory for hiv and one of the characters literally infects children with it, and all the extreme antisemitism in the books movies and games. you cannot separate that shit from the creator because her bigotry is intertwined with the work.
Oh i totally agree that they’re in different leagues of shitty people, no doubt.
And that’s why my tags said “We take aspects of their works“ not their entirety.
A magical world with a secret society of wizards and a school where kids learn magic is a cool concept, you gotta admit. Of course, the pro slavery (house elves) antisemitism (the goblins), misogyny (i mean, just look at the schools besides hogwarts in goblet of fire, like come on) and many other things detract from the execution; but we’re taking the basic concept and some names and writing cool fanfics anyway, fuck the author.
