It’s funny how activism and allyship go out the window at the first sign of personal inconvenience, huh? The trailer for JK Rowling’s newest cinematic bowel movement dropped yesterday and a baffling number of people with pronouns in their bios are losing their freaking minds with excitement over it.
If you confront them about it, they’ll be the first to tell you that they absolutely do not support Rowling’s Problematic Views, but they just have to see their favorite middle aged men waving sticks around for two hours. It’s not their fault, really.
Well what if I told you that by still appearing in these movies, your favorite middle aged men are being part of the problem and you shouldn’t support them either? That includes Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law and especially Mads Mikkelsen, because he signed up to this franchise after Rowling started sharing her transphobic views. Maybe you should consider why that is.
And before you start with any “But the contract…!” nonsense:
Katherine plays Tina, one of the main characters in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. After she took a firm stance against Rowling’s bigotry last year, she’s rumoured to have been more or less written out of the franchise, she isn’t in any of the promo material and leaks indicate that she only has a few scenes in the new movie. Your faves have no excuse, they’re more famous and wealthy than Katherine, their careers wouldn’t be in danger for doing this, they simply don’t want to.
At the end of the day, pirate the movie if you’re curious to see it, but don’t go to the cinema, don’t post about it and stop pretending like if you ignore the problem, it’ll go away. Trans people feeling safe and welcome in online spaces is more important than your nostalgia or daddy issues. JK Rowling writes these new movies, she produces them, she’s got full control and she gets all the profit. Grow a fucking spine for once and stop supporting a bigot.
