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

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AnOminous said:
Oh wow a book about wizards uses one of the oldest tropes in wizard fiction, the love potion. These people are pathetic. And cowboy movies sometimes have cowboys use guns. O NOOOOOEZ!
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Cowboys having guns?

Why, that’s so ridiculous!

Next you will be trying to convince people that women don’t have cocks.
 
The Snape/Neville's grandmother's outfit stuff is objectively hilarious. Let's do it with their current boogymen.

This is Donald Trump.

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This is JK Rowling
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Objectively just swapping the heads on those two images would be hilarious. In the books both Snape and Neville's grandmother have much more unique aesthetics, making it closer to putting Donald Trump into the outfit of the childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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No sane human would not crease up seeing Trump dressed like that. But instead, much like the "actually those goblins are hate crimes" arguments they will argue against reality.
 
AnOminous said:
Oh wow a book about wizards uses one of the oldest tropes in wizard fiction, the love potion. These people are pathetic. And cowboy movies sometimes have cowboys use guns. O NOOOOOEZ!
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I was far more surprised to see the wizard cocaine scene in one of the later films. Harry does wizard coke and goes to see a big dead spider, or something? Ron does the other half and aces his exam? I'm too lazy to look this up.
 
And much earlier than that, many fundies accused JK Rowling of supporting moral relativism because Voldemort, the MAIN FUCKING VILLAIN, openly professed a belief in moral relativism, at least in the movie adaption of the first book.
 
Dr. Butt said:
I was far more surprised to see the wizard cocaine scene in one of the later films. Harry does wizard coke and goes to see a big dead spider, or something? Ron does the other half and aces his exam? I'm too lazy to look this up.
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It would probably be more equivalent to MDMA? You drink it not snort it though. idk it's a luck potion and makes you feel good crack heads have crack head luck though so maybe it works. With the amount of substances they had to crush and powder in potions though there were definitely horny old wizards in HP world who swore that snorting dragon horns turned you into a sexual dragon.
 
Aero the Alcoholic Bat said:
And much earlier than that, many fundies accused JK Rowling of supporting moral relativism because Voldemort, the MAIN FUCKING VILLAIN, openly professed a belief in moral relativism, at least in the movie adaption of the first book.
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Holy fuck really? These people are getting extremely up their own asses and forgetting that Harry Potter was just an awesome book because it made it acceptable for little boys to read books for fun instead of only for homework.
 
holyhandgrenade said:
It would probably be more equivalent to MDMA? You drink it not snort it though. idk it's a luck potion and makes you feel good crack heads have crack head luck though so maybe it works. With the amount of substances they had to crush and powder in potions though there were definitely horny old wizards in HP world who swore that snorting dragon horns turned you into a sexual dragon.
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Stimulants, especially medium-high concentration versions of amphetamines, make people feel more “switched on” and alert.
Plus they do improve reaction time, hence why a lot of truckers do them not just to stay awake but to be able to swerve if they see a kid in the road/unexpected car.
Plus kids who use adhd meds to cram for studying or to get through an exam often do perform better.

Coke and presumably crack can have a similar effect, but not for as long.

So the magic potion in question could be a kind of “wizard whizz”.

Whizz is an old school British term for speed/amphetamine if the joke lands flat.
 
Aero the Alcoholic Bat said:
In the same book, it's also revealed that Voldemort was born because his mother drugged and raped a muggle man, and that backstory is a big part of the reason why Tom Riddle is the way he is.

Fanfic writers do take it seriously too, like one where Sirius Black is exonerated in an alternative timeline, briefly becomes a history of magic teacher, and gives a lecture on the life of Voldermort, with many students taking the moral of the story as, "DON'T USE LOVE POTIONS."
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Rape is non consensual penetration.
 
Wuornos said:
Rape is non consensual penetration.
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Rape is non consensual sex, often under threat of injury or death. Having a penis isn't necessary.

If you want to get really super picky, rape is the violent seizure and abduction of a person by force. The Rape of the Sabine Women was their abduction by Roman men as brides. Unwanted sex may have been involved, but sex wasn't why it was called rape.

Or to put it another way: fuck off with your semantic bullshit.
 
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Squid Bitch said:
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.
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This is an example of something you can observe all the way back in the Harry Potter books: Rowling has an extremely keen eye and in depth understanding how humans in general and groups/social systems in particular function (or not).

  1. Good example is Hermione with her save the house elves-crusade. While her intentions actually came from a good place (different from most modern activists) and she turned out to be somewhat right in the end, her activism was off-putting and annoying, because 1. She never bothered to meet the other students where they are or go the route of convincing them. Instead, she was abrasive and aggressive. Which leads to
  2. She never even bothered to ask the elves what they want or need. Instead she just decided what was best for them (going with a sample size of 2 with only one actually wanting to be free)
With the way modern activism is and how proponents of any given cause conduct themselves, this was almost prophetic.
 
Sangria Nigger said:
Brazil is by far the biggest country by size an population, it makes way more sense for the school to have a Portuguese name.
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Sorry for the late reply, I've been busy but still wanted to respond to this. Brazil being the largest single country in the region doesn't mean that Brazilian Portuguese speakers are the largest language demographic. There are more than twice as many Spanish speakers in Latin America as people who speak Portuguese (450 million compared to 200 million). Assuming Brazil doesn't have a special wizard gene that other countries lack, fewer than one out of every three wizard children on the continent would speak Portuguese, so that means that either 2/3 of wizards need to become bilingual to attend school, or that's just the school for Brazil and there are other schools in LATAM for Spanish speakers.

If there were only one school for the whole region, it would make more sense for the school name and curricula to be in Spanish, and for 1/3 of wizard kids to learn another language, rather than the reverse. But I guess Brazilian wizards (and non-wizards) would disagree with me on the basis that PT-BR is the best language and Brazil is the best country.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
The Rape of the Sabine Women was their abduction by Roman men as brides. Unwanted sex may have been involved, but sex wasn't why it was called rape.
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If you're going to be semantic, then the rape of the sabine women is just an English mistranslation. The Latin word used is raptio which means theft. So the event is named "the theft of the sabine women" and retarded Englishmen translated it as rape (they did the same with the social war)
 
Waffle Iron said:
If you're going to be semantic, then the rape of the sabine women is just an English mistranslation. The Latin word used is raptio which means theft. So the event is named "the theft of the sabine women" and retarded Englishmen translated it as rape (they did the same with the social war)
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If you're going to correct my semantic autism, then please be right. "Rape" in English has its root in the latin rapere, the verb from which the word raptio is formed. Until the 19th century, it only had the same formal and literary meaning as the latin: The act of carrying off a person (see also rapture, or having someone's rapt attention), generally by force , or more broadly the act of looting and kidnap. The modern connotation of "rape" as purely sexual violation is very recent.
 
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