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

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Random Internet Person said:
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The would appear to be this (I used the most stupid explanation of it I could find within a few seconds).
JK Rowling has a new enemy to add to her roster, thanks to a recent Duolingo glitch that saw the beloved lil’ owl describe the controversial author as “mean”.


That’s right, a bunch of budding language learners during a recent German lesson, when intermediate-level students, users were posed with the question: “Do you like books with Harry Potter as a character?”

While the most straightforward answer for anyone who coveted an invisibility cloak or pined for Hagrid (just me?) would be a simple “yes”, users were instead presented with a correct answer that read (translated from German) “Yes, but in my opinion the author is mean”.


If there’s anything more embarrassing than being called out by a social media famous owl, it’s being called out in the notoriously guttural and cutting German accent. Guten tag, I guess?

It’s not yet known how many users were affected by the glitch, but Duolingo — which is the world’s most popular language app — has since released a statement apologising for “any offence caused” and vowing to “remove this content from the app”.

It didn’t say this, but wouldn’t it be great if Duolingo signed off with a “hoot hoot”?

User Gaby Koppel was among those to bring the glitch to the internet’s attention, claiming Rowling was the “first and only real life person” that had been “picked out for criticism” during Koppel’s five-month German studies.


While we don’t know for sure what prompted Duolingo to call Rowling “mean”, you only need to look at her spate of controversial transphobic antics in recent years to see that perhaps the insult was actually rather light.

From celebrating the UK Supreme Court’s passage of anti-trans laws to slamming the South Australian government for its allowance of preferred pronouns in courtrooms, Rowling has made a convincing case for the creation of a Harry Potter spell that makes TERFs magically STFU.

How do you say “transphobe” in German owl? Hoöt hôöt?

Duolingo is notoriously as social media (and unbrand safe) sensation, whether it’s undergoing a BBL procedure or controversially changing its default in-app voice.


This most recent glitch has me thinking that perhaps the Duolingo owl is somehow behind all that black mould on Rowling’s walls.
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Given the company's shift to AI I think it's most likely that they train it on idiot sites like this one rather than some ass-blasted Spanish speaking sex worker is doing Duolingo work in their spare time.
 
pursuitsnail said:
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Aidan Comerford has been having a weird moment about bras, and I'd like to remind him that Vexxed is where Gender Critical women discuss things. I'd bet dollars to Harry Potter donuts that most of the posts relating to bras on Mumsnet are about nursing bras or training bras for girls starting to develop. Since it's a forum for mothers. What's being posted on Twitter by crossdressing men, however, is a subject for the social media sideshow thread.

He's also whinging (archive) that JK Rowling is looking over her shoulder and calling out the misbehavior and rancid bullshit of her own side, rather than being a good ally and treating politics like a team sport. Please stop paying attention to our attempts at redefining a woman into a feeling that a man has, and yell at the people we're mad at! (Besides you)
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I think his children have trooned out ?

His posts are unreal, screeds of pontificating drivel.
 
So the H3H3 Podcast, safe space of Millennial wine moms, that had fucking Keffals on a few years back, that had fans who yass queen'd Bowblax when his "Mr. Miss Mansheehe" AGP Onlyfans was leaked, has been discussing doing a review series of Harry Potter, much like they did the Lord of the Rings and Twilight movies.

Some people are not taking the idea well:

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This is just one of many "FUCK JK ROWLING!" or "If you do this please do a fundraiser for an LGBT charity!!!" posts getting virtually no support on the sub. Note the zero upvotes. Lots of "they'll make fun of it like Twilight" cope and "separate the art from the artist"-type comments. This is the closest to TERFy defense one can manage in that community without getting heckin scolded.

Maybe nature really is healing :)
 
Troon Meet Noose said:
Nah, I'd buy something like these shoes https://sneakernews.com/2025/02/27/harry-potter-puma-hogwarts-march-2025/ which are subtly HP so they look good.
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Honestly, the best piece of Harry Potter merch are the official sweaters:

You can get this very subtle one.
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Or one that's a bit more obvious
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And there's even a cardigan.
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I have the Slytherin version of the first one and it's literally just a grey sweater with a green stripe, and it's 100% wool. It's thin enough to be very good for layering, but is still very warm on its own.
 
AnOminous said:
I'll note that Polari is the name of a certain cant or argot mainly used by English gay males in London and other urban environments back when just being gay was a crime. It was the G.

The rest of the alphabet people were invaders.
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"Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy. We've got a criminal practice that takes up all our time."

Or as Terry Wogan puts it in his introduction.
"Our tribute to the grand days of steam radio when it was called a wireless and not a tranny"


Himdia's been running a poll. I don't think it's going his way
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EXPOSED: J.K. Rowling has been totally silent about [political issue] that [activist] thinks everyone is obliged to comment on.
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Neither @HalaHanina nor @Shrouqail have tweeted anything about any of the following topics that Rowling has commented on: trannies, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the taliban, Afghan women, Mahsa Amini, women being forced to wear the hijab in Iran, anti-government protests in Iran, the Rohingya, the war in Syria, Scottish independence, Catalan independence, the Pakistani grooming gangs in Rotherham, pedophiles/pedophilia, and the orphaned otter Luna. #silenceisviolence
 
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CTR Operative said:
She doesn't give a fuck about Palestine either, on top of it all? God I love this woman more with every new thing I learn about her.
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She’s mostly been silent about it, but on the rare occasions she’s commented it’s been to call out Hamas and Iran supporters for being reactionary freaks who care more about their anti-western bonafides than the actual people, especially women, who are oppressed (violently… actual violence) by these regimes
 
Silence of the Troons said:
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I may be wrong, and correct me if I am, but I think the only time she's explicitly said anything about the current conflict was in the very early days after October 7th: she first retweeted a call to help locate 12-year-old Noya Dan, an autistic Harry Potter fan who was still missing after the attack, condemning the taking of child hostages, and then tweeted again a few days later when Noya's body had been discovered.
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In any case, none of this should be surprising to anyone who's read her Strike novel Lethal White, where she makes it abundantly clear how she feels about Westerners who parrot the slogans of Revolutionary Cause of the Day™ and shill for terrorist organizations openly hostile to Western civilization (e.g.: the one that literally runs Gaza and these two women no doubt support).
They are overwhelmingly upper-middle class to upper-class people supporting these causes for their own feelings of self-importance, oftentimes doing so to appear contrarian and rebellious and/or mask or legitimize their own deeply held (but unacknowledged) prejudices. And all at the expense of the working class and the most vulnerable members of society, while they themselves are largely unaffected by the consequences and realities of what they call for due to their own privilege.

Even if you're not into her writing, I'd recommend this book if only to see just how much spite she holds for these people.
 
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