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We lost nice people during the COVID waves instead of her. It isn't right. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/gvkjz2/can_we_just_acknowledge_that_the_main_irish/fsqlrh8/

It's not so much that he's INTO blowing things up, more so that his spell work is often atrocious enough that things just explode.

I actually have a headcanon to explain this. We can sort of weakly infer that magic is influenced by the caster as well as just the incantation. Lily did a lot of stuff with flowers (even before she could control it properly), Hermione's magic is always particularly detailed, Ginny seems to have a penchant for nasty hexes, Lockhart is inexplicably good at memory charms. Maybe something about Seamus' magic just naturally gravitates towards exploding?

Never have I identified with Seamus as much as I do now

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/09/jk-rowling-under-fire-for-appropriating-navajo-tradition-history-of-magic-in-north-america-pottermore

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That all seems very weak.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've avoided the Rowling stuff for a long time, but lemmy's hated of her is just so vitriolic I decided to look into it. It's ALL very weak. I don't agree with Rowling, but I don't think she's a bigot. I do think she's having a natural reaction to being viciously attacked online. And I think her initial comments were an illogical fear brought about by her own sexual trauma. In a sane world, we would react by saying "I understand you're scared but that's just not rational, I suggest you work on it with your therapist" instead of death threats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

J.K.'s initial comment was perfectly fine. She simply said that being born a woman and transitioning are different life experiences, and pretending they are the same does a disservice to both. The backlash to that was irrational. And for someone who'd spent years being told by the vast majority that she's the greatest thing for child literacy since the printing press - her ego just couldn't handle it. So we set her up to fail with a one-two punch. All that said, she did take that bait quick, and at this point she just acts like another billionaire internet troll.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I meant her concern about bathrooms. Realistically, having separate bathrooms for men and women at all is a weird cultural vestige. Being worried about assaults specifically in bathrooms is a product of Rowlings trauma.

But yes, similar deal with her comments about cis women and trans women having different life experiences. Trans women are women, but there are many different kinds of women, and it's perfectly fine to acknowledge differences.

that said, she did take that bait quick,

Yeah and that's unfortunate. I kind of get it, if you're being viciously attacked online unjustly, there's a desire to say "well fuck it, you lot suck but there's a different ideology who loves me". But you have to resist that comfortable feeling of finding an in-group. Sometimes you have to be okay just being hated by everyone, if the people on "your side" decide for whatever reason to ostracize you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I kinda see all of the online JK drama as stemming from her change in attitude since the cis/trans women comments. But I did totally miss the context of the bathrooms, replying from the new comment roll - thanks for catching me up!