Rowling Derangement Syndrome - "TERF/Woke Author Bad!!1"

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LimeRikki said:
Things with staying power:
  • A decently written children's book series about magic and stuff.
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Probably debatable. Please see the works of Ursula LeGuinn, Susan Cooper, Diane Duane, Tamora Pierce, I could go but I'm getting sad.

Not that any of the still living authors have stopped writing and not that any of them ever achieved the cultural familiarity as the Potter series.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Probably debatable. Please see the works of Ursula LeGuinn, Susan Cooper, Diane Duane, Tamora Pierce, I could go but I'm getting sad.

Not that any of the still living authors have stopped writing and not that any of them ever achieved the cultural familiarity as the Potter series.
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I think the HP series achieved that cultural familiarity because of timing. The internet made it possible to talk to many, many more people than just your friends, and literally any time of the day. can't overlook the desire to know what happens next, either.


The only thing I can compare it to is the "Who Shot J.R.?" phenomena.
 
TruffleSpark said:
Eliza Mondegreen's conclusion on this was that they go from being Nazi's to being trans because they want to be part of a hate movement, but don't want to be unpopular. There's a high social price to pay for being a public facing Neo-Nazi, but you can sling around the same sort of rhetoric under the guise of trans rights and be publicly celebrated for it.
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I dunno. These guys (and a lot of this end of the left) seem authoritarian and fixated on hierarchies first, and the outlet for that is just what is most convenient or what they found first. Yes, they want to be celebrated while they indulge in their worst tendencies against acceptable targets, but if helping the homeless would make them heroes for screaming at women and jews then they'd be at soup kitchens every Sunday. It's why the only thing surprising about Queers for Palestine is how it hasn't caught on more.
 
In case anyone thought JK was ignoring the paralympics.


Valentina Petrillo, the Italian father-of-two who qualified on Friday for a second semi-final of these Paris Paralympics in women’s sprinting, has hit back at being called an “out-and-proud cheat” by author JK Rowling, saying: “I’ve never even read Harry Potter.”
The 51-year-old, who has sparked ferocious controversy by running as a woman at these Games despite competing until the age of 45 as a man, was savaged by Rowling after winning a 400 metres heat for visually-impaired female athletes. “Why all the anger about the inspirational Petrillo?” she wrote, sarcastically. “The cheat community has never had this kind of visibility! Out-and-proud cheats like Petrillo prove the era of cheat-shaming is over. What a role model. I say we give Lance Armstrong his medals back and move on.”

When these remarks were put to Petrillo on reaching the semi-finals of the 200m, the self-declared “trans dad” replied: “I’m flattered that Rowling is talking about me – I’ve never even read Harry Potter. I’m told she wrote it but I didn’t read it. By the way, I was told that she in her own book wrote about a sport where there is no gender. So I was expecting different behaviour from Rowling.”

While Quidditch, the imaginary game played in the Harry Potter novels by witches and wizards riding flying broomsticks, did indeed feature participants of both sexes, it hardly seemed a legitimate point of comparison with the highest level of para-sport.
But the athlete remained defiant. Petrillo missed out on the final by nearly a second, despite running a personal best of 25.92sec, beaten into third place in the semi-finals by Katrin Mueller-Rottgardt, who had previously described the Italian’s involvement in her races as “difficult”. “She lived and trained for a man for a long time,” the German had said. “The physical requirements are different to those of someone who was born a woman. This could give an advantage.”

Despite the backlash, Petrillo claimed: “There is so much transphobia in all this. The most important word in Olympic and Paralympic sports is inclusion. We have to find solutions to include everyone, because everyone needs to feel joy in sports, so that’s why we are here. I think that if we want to, we can find a solution. I would like to live in the Paralympic Village all my life because, honestly, I feel protected here.”
Petrillo’s progress to the semi-finals deprived Spain’s Nagore Folgado Garcia, the fastest loser in the T12 200m heats, of the chance to advance, with the governing body of para-athletics choosing to deviate from World Athletics by deciding that womanhood could be defined solely by passport status.
Folgado, 20, is 31 years younger than Petrillo, a staggering age disparity for a 200m race at the elite international level. Born in Valencia, she suffered bilateral retinoblastoma at two years old, leaving her blind in her left eye and with only very limited vision in her right. Irene Aguiar, a Spanish lawyer who has led the campaign in the country for fairness for women in sports, castigated the injustice in the strongest terms.
“Our Paralympic athlete has been left out of the semi-finals because Valentina Petrillo has qualified instead,” she said. “Nagore should be in that semi-final. Female athletes are being discriminated against.”
Fiona McAnena, director of campaigns at Sex Matters, said: “It’s clear that for Petrillo, sport is extremely validating. That’s true for anyone who gets to compete at the Paralympics. Only a few athletes ever will, so allowing places in women’s sport to be taken by men is not progressive or inclusive. Petrillo wasn’t good enough and is now stopping a young disabled woman from progressing to the semi-final, and another one from being here at all.”
The Petrillo scandal was, McAnena explained, emblematic of a far wider problem. “What’s happening at the Paralympics is just the tip of the iceberg. Across many sports at all levels, men with transgender identities are pushing women and girls out. But those who object are afraid to speak out. People like Petrillo are welcome in sport, but in the right sex category – and not at the expense of women.”
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Marvin said:
I mean, by the same token, why can't transabled people compete in the paralympics? Like an able bodied person who identifies as a cripple?
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I see no issue with trannies competing at the Paralympics considering they are all literally dribbling retards.
 
Biff.

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Marvin said:
I mean, by the same token, why can't transabled people compete in the paralympics? Like an able bodied person who identifies as a cripple?
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Petrillo's disability is, he can't see very well. So he's already doing that.
www.bbc.com

Valentina Petrillo: 'Better to be a slow happy woman than a fast unhappy man'

If Valentina Petrillo is selected for Italy's squad in Tokyo this year, she will be the first trans woman Paralympian.
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Until recently Petrillo was running in the Paralympic T12 category, where T stands for Track and 12 is one of three groups of visual impairment
In April she was reclassified as T13 - the group for runners with the least serious visual impairment - and has been competing this week at the European Para Athletics championship in the T13 400m event
Petrillo sometimes finds it hard to see painted lines on the track, especially after rain - her preference is for white lines on a blue track
When running against non-disabled runners, it's a disadvantage being unable to see the finishing line, she says, as she doesn't know when to make a final lunge
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Professional athlethes are massive autists (the hyperfocused kind) who'd literally give their arm to win and as extreme as these things are nowadays in some disciplines they also only have a relatively small window age-wise until biology naturally washes them out giving everything a sense of urgency so them cheating in such ways can't seriously surprise anybody. If this shit flies, expect more athletes to suddenly discover their feminine side/disability.
 
Argos said:
I think the HP series achieved that cultural familiarity because of timing. The internet made it possible to talk to many, many more people than just your friends, and literally any time of the day. can't overlook the desire to know what happens next, either.
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Yeah but honestly those books are good (at least, like, the first 4, there's diminishing returns) I read a lot of fantasy, a lot of Harry Potter-like and some YA stuff that came after (HP is responsible for Hunger Games and all that wave) and she is not great at everything but she is good at humor, she is pretty good at tying up loose plotlines together, and establishing characters in a few sentences. That wold is colorful, you wanted to live in it.

Or at least she was when she wrote HP, honestly her other works i never read.

It also arrived when internet was coming up but not social media, so bored children had to read books to get that sweet sweet boost of serotonin instead of scrolling.
 
AmpleApricots said:
Professional athlethes are massive autists (the hyperfocused kind) who'd literally give their arm to win and as extreme as these things are nowadays in some disciplines they also only have a relatively small window age-wise until biology naturally washes them out giving everything a sense of urgency so them cheating in such ways can't seriously surprise anybody. If this shit flies, expect more athletes to suddenly discover their feminine side/disability.
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Every athlete at the elite level is going to cheat in some way, in my opinion. It's just inevitable given the stakes and their psychological makeup.

Cheating by being a man competing against women is more than most people can stomach. We used to make fun of the Soviet Union for these sorts of shenanigans but now we are the Soviet Union.
 
Inspirational amount of seething from the Independent


Isn’t it weird how everything from our childhoods is so much better than the things that come out today, in the despicable present? Ask anybody, no matter their age, and they’ll tell you how much better things were in the past: films were better, kids were more respectful, and Istanbul was still called Constantinople.
It’s why Hollywood can’t help but remake, reboot, and reimagine the same few franchises over and over again, hoping to capture the magic of the original and somehow failing every single time.

Next up on the nostalgic chopping block? The Harry Potter series, which HBO plans to reboot as a television series.

The company recently put out an open casting call for the roles of Harry, Ron and Hermione, and while I’m sure that pushy parents the world over are ready to experience the ultimate vicarious theatre kid high, I have terrible news for them: our penchant for romanticising the past means that the kids they cast in those roles are already doomed.
While the franchise hasn’t really aged the best – for reasons we don’t have to get into here – for some people the original adaptations of the Harry Potter books are sacrosanct. Did you see that video of people counting down the arrival of the Hogwarts Express at King’s Cross, only for them to go ballistic when it didn’t arrive? I’d call their devotion cult-like, but cult manifestos tend to be better written.
It’s the fourth highest grossing film series of all time, despite only having 11 instalments to its name (the MCU, which takes the number one spot, has 34). The leads all managed to avoid the typical pitfalls of child stardom, and went on to become well-adjusted role models. They’re so well regarded that they’ve managed to weather the controversies surrounding their author, and by some miracle have maintained their reputation as a family-friendly Christmas staple.

This reboot, by contrast, is already starting on the back foot. Several stars of the original series have distanced themselves from the project, and a few have distanced themselves from the franchise altogether, speaking out against JK Rowling’s views on transgender people.
Warner Bros Discovery, the company producing the series, has found itself in dire financial straits, with shares falling 70 per cent in the past two years. The company has also drawn the ire of both consumers and creatives, by shelving anticipated projects such as Batgirl and Coyote vs Acme after they had already been completed and ready to release.

If you think all of that sounds like the perfect recipe for a boycott from the socially conscious left, you’d be wrong, because there’s a good chance their ideological opponents will be swearing off a trip to Hogwarts right along with them. The casting call says that it will consider, for every role, “qualified performers, without regard to ethnicity, sex, disability, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis protected by law unless otherwise specifically indicated”.
Does that mean we’ll finally get the Black, disabled, LGBT+ Ron Weasley of my wildest Tumblr dreams? Probably not, but the series isn’t expected to release until 2026, which gives the anti-woke brigade plenty of time to do their favourite thing: get mad about something that probably isn’t even happening.

As the faces of this new series, these kids are going to have to deal with every parasocial interaction from an entitled fanbase, every screeching millennial accusation that they aren’t as good as their predecessors, and every culture war nightmare that comes their way. I wish I could say the fans are better than all those, but if the constant harassment of Star Wars and Marvel actors tells us anything, it’s that we just can’t have nice things.
All that being said, I really do wish them all the best. I remember when the original trio was announced way back in August 2000, and being immediately suspicious that the actors wouldn’t live up to the versions of the characters I’d built up in my head (I was 10, give me a break).
They assuaged those fears almost immediately, and went on to have the kinds of careers that keep Disney kids up at night. Far from being another Hollywood casualty, they defied expectations and used their platforms to speak out against intolerance and support worthy causes.
Of all the magic this reboot is going to try and recapture from the original films, that’s the thing I hope they get right most of all. The world doesn’t need another Harry Potter adaptation – but it could use another Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.
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That's the most effeminate thing the Independent has posted since their seething limp-wristed takedown of The Grand Tour as a “motoring, travel, and heterosexual banter-themed series” which was “regressive, unedifying… racist… ableist… reactionary" and leaves “a legacy of bigotry and stunted masculinity.”
 
Just a reminder that whoever wrote this trash that would get called pointless if it was a forum post, is almost definitely getting paid better than most average people.

"Nostalgia, something something JK Rowling bad, troons good, maybe some people will get mad, maybe they won't, who knows, parasociality/entitlement bad, throw something that sounds a little profound at the end there and bam done, next."
They even acknowledge wanting a black, disabled, LGBT character would be the territory of tumblrites as if to acknowledge it's silly.

These idiots are getting paid to write absolutely nothing so long as they toe the line. Journalism.
 
Fabio Socialist said:
That's the most effeminate thing the Independent has posted since their seething limp-wristed takedown of The Grand Tour as a “motoring, travel, and heterosexual banter-themed series” which was “regressive, unedifying… racist… ableist… reactionary" and leaves “a legacy of bigotry and stunted masculinity.”
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I ended up posting that one too elsewhere. If memory serves it's the same journo who dropped a long rant about how the Minecraft movie was the end of Jack Black's career which made it into the general A&N stuff.
Ultrapenguin said:
Just a reminder that whoever wrote this trash that would get called pointless if it was a forum post, is almost definitely getting paid better than most average people.
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You are not wrong. I think some of it comes back to Trump when screaming incoherently became acceptable journalism standards. Not least because many of the worst examples I've seen tend to have a Trump one in the last 6 months too.
 
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