Current Events > Can you still enjoy Harry Potter despite Rowling's transphobia?

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SocialistGamer 12/26/22 3:40:46 PM #1:	Hmm?? Looking forward to Hogwarts Legacy? --- Capcom is the best developer ever! Steam ID: SocialistGamer92 <cite>SocialistGamer posted [p:970421325] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Hmm?? Looking forward to Hogwarts Legacy?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
VeggetaX 12/26/22 3:41:11 PM #2:	Yes --- Don't like it? Don't watch it. It's that simple Dictator of Nice Guys <cite>VeggetaX posted [p:970421333] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Yes</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Gobstoppers12 12/26/22 3:41:38 PM #3:	I never cared much for Harry Potter to begin with, but that wouldn't have stopped me if I did. --- I write Naruto Fanfiction. But I am definitely not a furry. <cite>Gobstoppers12 posted [p:970421343] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>I never cared much for Harry Potter to begin with, but that wouldn't have stopped me if I did. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Hayame_Zero 12/26/22 3:42:21 PM #4:	For the most part. But I didn't read the books until some years ago, so I'm not hugely into it. I still like it more than LotR. Hogwarts Legacy looks promising. --- ...I think I'm done here... <cite>Hayame_Zero posted [p:970421352] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>For the most part. But I didn't read the books until some years ago, so I'm not hugely into it. I still like it more than LotR.Hogwarts Legacy looks promising.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
VampireCoyote 12/26/22 3:42:28 PM #5:	VeggetaX posted... Yes --- She/her <cite>VampireCoyote posted [p:970421356] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>VeggetaX posted... </cite><quote>Yes</quote></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Vampire_Chicken 12/26/22 3:43:03 PM #6:	If writers manage to keep their politics out of their work, it's easier to separate the two. <cite>Vampire_Chicken posted [p:970421366] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>If writers manage to keep their politics out of their work, it's easier to separate the two.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
NeonTentacles 12/26/22 3:47:25 PM #7:	Yeah, Harry Potter is still fun --- https://imgur.com/aMaI3hj https://imgur.com/7PsdJNc https://imgur.com/eK8vZVn https://imgur.com/u2HR4nG https://imgur.com/nQGM5cZ <cite>NeonTentacles posted [p:970421457] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Yeah, Harry Potter is still fun</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
BloodMoon7 12/26/22 3:47:42 PM #8:	I read the books and watched some of the movies but I consider it part of my literature phase, which I abandoned. --- My maid will hear about this. <cite>BloodMoon7 posted [p:970421464] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>I read the books and watched some of the movies but I consider it part of my literature phase, which I abandoned.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
frozenstar 12/26/22 3:49:26 PM #9:	I stopped enjoying them long before the transphobia bit happened. --- Just a dead, cold, round ball in the middle of nowhere. <cite>frozenstar posted [p:970421496] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>I stopped enjoying them long before the transphobia bit happened.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
samsungsalt 12/26/22 3:49:55 PM #10:	Gobstoppers12 posted... I never cared much for Harry Potter to begin with, but that wouldn't have stopped me if I did. --- my old computer died and i didn't feel like resetting the password to my original account, so i created this one instead. yeah, i know, what a shocker >_> <cite>samsungsalt posted [p:970421505] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Gobstoppers12 posted... </cite><quote>I never cared much for Harry Potter to begin with, but that wouldn't have stopped me if I did.</quote></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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David1988 12/26/22 3:50:20 PM #12:	I knew reading the books something was up with the author --- "Let's be honest...I'm everybody's type. I just gotta highlight the parts that appeal to her the most" - No_U_L7 <cite>David1988 posted [p:970421515] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>I knew reading the books something was up with the author </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
pfh1001 12/26/22 3:54:33 PM #13:	Sure. Hogwarts Legacy is definitely something I'm going to buy. <cite>pfh1001 posted [p:970421591] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Sure. Hogwarts Legacy is definitely something I'm going to buy.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
darkprince45 12/26/22 3:55:59 PM #14:	Yep and Im gonna play the hell out of the game too --- https://s6.gifyu.com/images/FAA2F70E-9A97-44BC-A273-317FBB843AE2.gif <cite>darkprince45 posted [p:970421609] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Yep and Im gonna play the hell out of the game too </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MrToothHasYou 12/26/22 3:56:29 PM #15:	Current transphobic spiral aside, the further left I have moved politically, the less I find myself enjoying the Harry Potter series, because despite it nominally being a childrens/young adult fantasy series, it definitely has a very strong and very particular political point of view that I just dont really identify with any longer. --- An Injury to One is an Injury to All https://iww.org/ <cite>MrToothHasYou posted [p:970421621] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Current transphobic spiral aside, the further left I have moved politically, the less I find myself enjoying the Harry Potter series, because despite it nominally being a childrens/young adult fantasy series, it definitely has a very strong and very particular political point of view that I just dont really identify with any longer.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
gunplagirl 12/26/22 4:03:11 PM #16:	No, I'm not gonna support a bigot who is actively harming my community and trying to have us purged from society. --- tfw no big tiddy goth vampire gf who lactates blood - viewmaster_pi <cite>gunplagirl posted [p:970421733] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>No, I'm not gonna support a bigot who is actively harming my community and trying to have us purged from society.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
IShall_Run_Amok 12/26/22 4:04:16 PM #17:	I like the movies well enough, I couldn't care less about the books. They don't sound very good at all. --- Your mom Sherlock. Sherlock deez nuts <cite>IShall_Run_Amok posted [p:970421751] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>I like the movies well enough, I couldn't care less about the books. They don't sound very good at all.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Dakimakura 12/26/22 4:04:51 PM #18:	no --- This is signature Not waste of data at all <cite>Dakimakura posted [p:970421760] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>no</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zikten 12/26/22 4:05:09 PM #19:	I don't know. I haven't tried to experience any HP media since I found out about her. I am interested in the video game. But I heard the people making it are actively defying Rowling's mission. You can even make your character trans <cite>Zikten posted [p:970421763] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>I don't know. I haven't tried to experience any HP media since I found out about her. I am interested in the video game. But I heard the people making it are actively defying Rowling's mission. You can even make your character trans</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ParanoidObsessive 12/26/22 4:05:43 PM #20:	Gobstoppers12 posted... I never cared much for Harry Potter to begin with, but that wouldn't have stopped me if I did. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:970421772] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote><cite>Gobstoppers12 posted...</cite><quote>I never cared much for Harry Potter to begin with, but that wouldn't have stopped me if I did.</quote></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Jiggy101011 12/26/22 4:05:49 PM #21:	Yes --- XBL: F1RE v2 PSN: F1REx <cite>Jiggy101011 posted [p:970421774] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Yes</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ToadallyAwesome 12/26/22 4:05:59 PM #22:	I loved the books when I was a kid but I really grew out of them once I got older. Knew a few people that were just super into it at various times which also turned me off. Like Im not tying my identity to a book series and which house I get sorted into. As of now, I wont go back and watch or read them. They just feel tainted --- http://imgur.com/QKdxwuI <cite>ToadallyAwesome posted [p:970421780] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>I loved the books when I was a kid but I really grew out of them once I got older. Knew a few people that were just super into it at various times which also turned me off. Like Im not tying my identity to a book series and which house I get sorted into. As of now, I wont go back and watch or read them. They just feel tainted </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
justaguy3492 12/26/22 4:06:01 PM #23:	The new game looks cool, be cooler if she didn't get any money from it, but I don't plan on boycotting because of it. --- Gt: justaguy3492 <cite>justaguy3492 posted [p:970421781] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>The new game looks cool, be cooler if she didn't get any money from it, but I don't plan on boycotting because of it.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zikten 12/26/22 4:06:14 PM #24:	[LFAQs-redacted-quote] Cause she never gave a fuck about any non British wizards. <cite>Zikten posted [p:970421782] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote><cite>[LFAQs-redacted-quote]</cite> Cause she never gave a fuck about any non British wizards. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
The_Korey 12/26/22 4:06:44 PM #25:	Vampire_Chicken posted... If writers manage to keep their politics out of their work, it's easier to separate the two. --- https://i.imgur.com/PpxZDof.png \| https://i.imgur.com/xMGLcGE.png https://i.imgur.com/nsBw6Sy.png \| https://imgtc.com/i/sBYBaew.png <cite>The_Korey posted [p:970421790] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Vampire_Chicken posted... </cite><quote>If writers manage to keep their politics out of their work, it's easier to separate the two.</quote></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Irony 12/26/22 4:06:52 PM #26:	I didn't enjoy it before it --- I am Mogar, God of Irony and The Devourer of Topics. <cite>Irony posted [p:970421792] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>I didn't enjoy it before it</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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pinky0926 12/26/22 4:08:30 PM #28:	I still enjoy Lovecraft despite him being a thousand times worse than Rowling. Extend that to however many authors in history who were fucked up. I don't believe in separating the politics from the author, either. That never made sense to me. If (bizarre hypothetical) Hitler wrote a book about human empathy you wouldn't say "now now guys, let's just hear what he has to say and take the message at face value", because clearly Hitler had...views. I just think you need to take their context as a fact and then make your own mind up about what you read. Now that doesn't mean I want to go out of my way to throw her money, at the same time. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. http://i.imgur.com/ILz2ZbV.jpg <cite>pinky0926 posted [p:970421824] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>I still enjoy Lovecraft despite him being a thousand times worse than Rowling. Extend that to however many authors in history who were fucked up. I don't believe in separating the politics from the author, either. That never made sense to me. If (bizarre hypothetical) Hitler wrote a book about human empathy you wouldn't say "now now guys, let's just hear what he has to say and take the message at face value", because clearly Hitler had...views.I just think you need to take their context as a fact and then make your own mind up about what you read. Now that doesn't mean I want to go out of my way to throw her money, at the same time. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Cheater87 12/26/22 4:08:52 PM #29:	Yes, I am going to start the book series again. Always a fun listen. --- Doom, the game with unlimited ways to play. <cite>Cheater87 posted [p:970421830] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Yes, I am going to start the book series again. Always a fun listen. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
pinky0926 12/26/22 4:09:12 PM #30:	[LFAQs-redacted-quote] The love potion thing being played for laughs was big yikes too --- CE's Resident Scotsman. http://i.imgur.com/ILz2ZbV.jpg <cite>pinky0926 posted [p:970421838] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote><cite>[LFAQs-redacted-quote]</cite> The love potion thing being played for laughs was big yikes too </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
DrizztLink 12/26/22 4:09:33 PM #31:	pinky0926 posted... I still enjoy Lovecraft despite him being a thousand times worse than Rowling. Extend that to however many authors in history who were fucked him. Now that doesn't mean I want to go out of my way to throw her money, at the same time. It's slightly different when the author has been dead since like WWII. --- http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/9846/images/slowpoke.gif https://i.imgur.com/M8h2ATe.png https://i.imgur.com/6ezFwG1.png <cite>DrizztLink posted [p:970421846] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>pinky0926 posted... </cite><quote>I still enjoy Lovecraft despite him being a thousand times worse than Rowling. Extend that to however many authors in history who were fucked him.Now that doesn't mean I want to go out of my way to throw her money, at the same time.</quote>It's slightly different when the author has been dead since like WWII.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
pinky0926 12/26/22 4:11:32 PM #32:	DrizztLink posted... It's slightly different when the author has been dead since like WWII. To me, only on whether I want to subsidise her income or support her position. As far as whether i like the story about the chosen boy vanquishing evil, meh. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. http://i.imgur.com/ILz2ZbV.jpg <cite>pinky0926 posted [p:970421877] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>DrizztLink posted... </cite><quote>It's slightly different when the author has been dead since like WWII.</quote>To me, only on whether I want to subsidise her income or support her position. As far as whether i like the story about the chosen boy vanquishing evil, meh. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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DrizztLink 12/26/22 4:16:15 PM #34:	[LFAQs-redacted-quote] I'm not defending him by any means, fuck Lovecraft and we should nix his name from the genre. I just understand people who are more concerned about not supporting living artists over dead ones. --- http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/9846/images/slowpoke.gif https://i.imgur.com/M8h2ATe.png https://i.imgur.com/6ezFwG1.png <cite>DrizztLink posted [p:970421945] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote><cite>[LFAQs-redacted-quote]</cite> I'm not defending him by any means, fuck Lovecraft and we should nix his name from the genre.I just understand people who are more concerned about not supporting living artists over dead ones.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Dan_Haren- 12/26/22 4:16:45 PM #35:	Yes doesn't bother me even slightly <cite>Dan_Haren- posted [p:970421959] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Yes doesn't bother me even slightly </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Savoots 12/26/22 4:17:36 PM #37:	I can still enjoy it regardless of what Rowling as said. I love the universe and the characters and can't wait for the game. If you don't like it anymore, fine. Just don't be one of those people who forces others to hate what they hate. --- Nirvana <cite>Savoots posted [p:970421971] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>I can still enjoy it regardless of what Rowling as said.I love the universe and the characters and can't wait for the game.If you don't like it anymore, fine. Just don't be one of those people who forces others to hate what they hate.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
frozenstar 12/26/22 4:19:06 PM #38:	[LFAQs-redacted-quote] Brief rundown of what non-Euclidean geometry is? I checked the wikipedia page, but it's too hard for me to get a quick grasp on what it means. --- Just a dead, cold, round ball in the middle of nowhere. <cite>frozenstar posted [p:970421994] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote><cite>[LFAQs-redacted-quote]</cite> Brief rundown of what non-Euclidean geometry is? I checked the wikipedia page, but it's too hard for me to get a quick grasp on what it means.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
DrizztLink 12/26/22 4:20:35 PM #39:	frozenstar posted... Brief rundown of what non-Euclidean geometry is? I checked the wikipedia page, but it's too hard for me to get a quick grasp on what it means. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/3/0/AABUaRAAEB5K.jpg It's not exactly crossdimensional magic, just curves and complex shapes instead of lines and angles. --- http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/9846/images/slowpoke.gif https://i.imgur.com/M8h2ATe.png https://i.imgur.com/6ezFwG1.png <cite>DrizztLink posted [p:970422019] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>frozenstar posted... </cite><quote>Brief rundown of what non-Euclidean geometry is? I checked the wikipedia page, but it's too hard for me to get a quick grasp on what it means.</quote>https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/3/0/AABUaRAAEB5K.jpg It's not exactly crossdimensional magic, just curves and complex shapes instead of lines and angles.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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frozenstar 12/26/22 4:22:50 PM #41:	ohhh, I thought it was something like 4th dimensional or something weird that's why I was confused. not anywhere near as complicated as I was making it out to be. --- Just a dead, cold, round ball in the middle of nowhere. <cite>frozenstar posted [p:970422067] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>ohhh, I thought it was something like 4th dimensional or something weird that's why I was confused. not anywhere near as complicated as I was making it out to be.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Jeff_AKA_Snoopy 12/26/22 4:23:08 PM #42:	Separate the art from the artist. --- https://i.imgur.com/GWG5c3r.gif <cite>Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted [p:970422080] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Separate the art from the artist.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PMarth2002 12/26/22 4:39:46 PM #43:	Yeah, but I have no interest in the game. --- When money talks for the very last time, and nobody walks a step behind When there's only one race, and that's mankind, then we shall be free <cite>PMarth2002 posted [p:970422364] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Yeah, but I have no interest in the game.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
BlueBoy675 12/26/22 4:44:09 PM #44:	Ive never given a fuck about Harry Potter --- Hope rides alone <cite>BlueBoy675 posted [p:970422441] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Ive never given a fuck about Harry Potter</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PlantBased 12/26/22 4:46:16 PM #45:	JK Rowling being a huge piece of shit has no impact on my complete lack of interest in the Harry Potter franchise. <cite>PlantBased posted [p:970422476] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>JK Rowling being a huge piece of shit has no impact on my complete lack of interest in the Harry Potter franchise.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
AloneIBreak 12/26/22 4:50:49 PM #46:	I never got into Harry Potter because I was too cool for that shit. Does her TERF-ness come through in the stories? --- "If a society can in all conscience permit the cruel treatment of any man, ultimately it will allow it for all." -Bertrand Russell <cite>AloneIBreak posted [p:970422563] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>I never got into Harry Potter because I was too cool for that shit. Does her TERF-ness come through in the stories? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Uta 12/26/22 4:51:30 PM #47:	MrToothHasYou posted... Current transphobic spiral aside, the further left I have moved politically, the less I find myself enjoying the Harry Potter series, because despite it nominally being a childrens/young adult fantasy series, it definitely has a very strong and very particular political point of view that I just dont really identify with any longer. Even before that, you could tell something was up when they had like, a huge side story about Hermione wanting to set the slaves free and everyone treated her like a dumb busy body who needs to mind her own business. --- Others don't get to dictate what's normal and what isn't. It's something we decide for ourselves. <cite>Uta posted [p:970422583] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>MrToothHasYou posted... </cite><quote>Current transphobic spiral aside, the further left I have moved politically, the less I find myself enjoying the Harry Potter series, because despite it nominally being a childrens/young adult fantasy series, it definitely has a very strong and very particular political point of view that I just dont really identify with any longer.</quote>Even before that, you could tell something was up when they had like, a huge side story about Hermione wanting to set the slaves free and everyone treated her like a dumb busy body who needs to mind her own business. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ElleRagu 12/26/22 4:56:31 PM #48:	no but i didn't really care for them before she outed herself as a terf tbh --- MARTIAL ARTS LANGUAGE COMMENCES <cite>ElleRagu posted [p:970422675] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>no but i didn't really care for them before she outed herself as a terf tbh</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Antifar 12/26/22 4:58:04 PM #49:	I'm almost 30, I read books for adults now --- kin to all that throbs <cite>Antifar posted [p:970422699] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>I'm almost 30, I read books for adults now</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
CyricZ 12/26/22 4:59:01 PM #50:	Me personally? No, I don't intend to. And I'm not even going to front: I did enjoy HP a lot as I was reading it. I thought it was a quirky cute world written for children. I kinda liked the idea of examining the "adult" side of HP in the FB movies. But... shrug Savoots posted... Just don't be one of those people who forces others to hate what they hate. What do those people do to "force" you? --- CyricZ He/him <cite>CyricZ posted [p:970422716] in Can you st... [t:80290650]...</cite> <quote>Me personally? No, I don't intend to.And I'm not even going to front: I did enjoy HP a lot as I was reading it. I thought it was a quirky cute world written for children. I kinda liked the idea of examining the "adult" side of HP in the FB movies.But... shrugSavoots posted... </cite><quote>Just don't be one of those people who forces others to hate what they hate.</quote>What do those people do to "force" you?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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