This "I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous" line really sums up the egotistical, ridiculous view she has on the entire situation. She clearly thinks these successful 30+ year old actors should just shut the fuck up and be grateful to her forever because she wrote the books that movies they were cast in as children were based on, as if she came down from the heavens and gifted them with millions of unearned dollars and now they're stabbing her in the back by saying they don't agree with her unhinged half-decade meltdown when asked about it.
Is it at all inaccurate, though? No one would give a shit about these actors had they not received a golden ticket from Rowling signing off on their inclusion into the Potterverse, especially Emma Watson, who made it clear in her terrible performance in Beauty and the Beast that she wasn't playing a character with Hermoine, she was just naturally an insufferable know-it-all. Rowling even says the notion that they should agree with her on everything because she made their careers is stupid, but there is something to be said about spitting in the face of someone who is directly responsible for your position as a millionaire celebrity who will never want for anything, ever.
No it doesn't, you autist.
The expression is 'change of tack'. There is no such expression as 'change of tact' - if you're saying 'change of tact', you're saying it wrong.
Christ, mistakes like this must be a diamond dozen where you come from.
I'll admit it, you had me in the first half.
I am firmly, decidedly against the trans dumpster fire that has plagued our country, but we all need to be honest about one thing:
The feminist + race rhetoric from somewhere around the 90's and onward is undeniably a huge component the trans movement. Rowling herself has been complicit in promoting it, leading to the very thing she's been fighting now for years.
That's why I think it's important to remind Rowling of the "Emma finds it easy to defend sexpests because she'll never have to live around them," argument she made the next time she defends the UK jeet in chief's decision to import infinity Indians.
Look, I agree that Rowling has no obligation to forgive Watson, but can we not refer to a former child actress as "Weinstein's little fleshlight?"
Why not? It's what she decided to become. This was a decision she made when she was of age and already filthy rich from making millions as a Potter star. It wasn't good enough for her, so she whored herself out to Hollywood in exchange for accolades and access. "Yes, Mr. Weinstein, you can ram your probably-egg-shaped cock down my throat, if I get to be Belle in the Disney remake of Beauty and the Beast." Women are morally-capable agents who can choose to act in whatever manner they choose according to their desires, and Emma Watson desired fame and fortune in excess of the already considerable fame and fortune of her current station more than she wanted to not be the cocksleeve of a notorious Hollywood sexpest. She is Hermoine Granger, any time she needs to scare up some cash for bauble that catches her eye, she can quite easily find a local convention, ask the organizers if they want Emma-fucking-Watson at their con, and make an easy 20k in a weekend as people trip over themselves to throw money at her for gracing them with her presence while she swishes and flicks a toy wand around. No normal person in her position would willingly allow themselves to be the latest piece of meat for
Harvey Weinstein. It's really easy to look at a gross Hollywood goblin like Weinstein and say, "how reprehensible of him to exchange sex for stardom!" But no one ever seems to consider how disgusting it is for Emma Watson to use her body as a bargaining chip to get things out of the disgusting sweaty Hollywood goblin, not just because of how gross it is to imagine Weinstein flopping on top of Emma Watson like a beached whale trying to get back to the ocean, but because it says to all the other gross goblins out in the industry, "Yes, this is normal and even acceptable behavior. Gorgeous women
will have sex with you if you can make their career. They'll even put your penis in their mouth!"