Post #917242

2026-04-03 23:02 UTC

“But adequately stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable.” https://defector.com/its-time-to-grow-up-hbo-harry-potter

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@harris@social.coop 2026-04-04 21:16

I also want to add that for anyone out there who *does* consider themselves a trans ally but can’t quite wrap their brain around what’s so bad about JKR, feel free to message me and I’ll be happy to discuss with you with minimal judgment. Though she’s gradually gotten more explicitly transphobic, I think her writing does have a veneer of reasonableness that sometimes fools people and I’d be happy to do my best to uncloak that for you. Or, you can watch Natalie Wynn’s excellent and entertaining (though long) videos on the subject: https://youtu.be/7gDKbT_l2us https://youtu.be/EmT0i0xG6zg

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@snowyfox@deadinsi.de 2026-04-04 00:58

"Most trans people, everywhere they go, have to be the outnumbered loser who cares about the anti-trans movement, and who notices how that movement lodges itself in “safe” territory, in order to make calling it out look crazy and unreasonable."

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@bstacey@icosahedron.website 2026-04-04 02:58

@harris@social.coop "it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable" (Extremely vegan voice) "While you were partying, I studied the blade"

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@Giliell@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 04:56

@harris@social.coop Hand them some Pratchett. Tiffany Aching is a better female role model anyway.

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@PossumPartyGlider@mastodon.au 2026-04-04 05:31

@harris@social.coop I am pleased to say that neither I nor anyone I care for gives a crap about stupid H Potter.

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@daarin@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 06:34

@harris@social.coop For once, do as the racist uncle does!

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@xinit@mastodon.coffee 2026-04-04 06:59

@harris@social.coop The four faces in the article image look like they were photoshopped into place, ignoring lighting and perspective. Uncanny. @reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.art

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@skua@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 14:04

@harris@social.coop I'm seeing a Rings of Power-type debacle coming. Those of you who were accused of being Tolkien "purists" by that show's spin-quacks may have fond memories of the very thorough, and months long, bagging that Bezoz's Tolkien perversion show received. A lot of fun was had at a nasty billionaire's great expense. A repeat with this production would cost HBO a lot of money and move JKR's works to the "financially risky, or even disastrous" category. #RingsOfPower #Tolkien #HarryPotter

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@Noortjevee@mstdn.social 2026-04-04 19:53

@harris@social.coop I saw someoneclaim her books would still be read long after the true classics got forgotten... and thats just sad, and not true. All the clasics did not need constant marketing shoving the books into people faces to be remembered

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@foundseed@spore.social 2026-04-04 20:39

@harris@social.coop i for one am so excited that everyone else is starting to take up the art of "make them as uncomfortable as they've made you," is so useful in determining who can really hang.

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