a harry potter fan's guide to navigating pride month

Fuck stopping. Steal it all. Take it and enjoy it without her getting anything. Reclaim the art. Make it your own. Piss her off with fanfic and fan art based on things stolen from her.
- This is how you do it. Hermione Grainger? More like HENRY GRINDER!! And he's PEGGING HARRY!
  
  Finally, someone else who understands. Reject the canon, embrace the ship
- Yes. Can we get a trans Harry fan fic where he defeats an evil trans hater? Make it a kids book to for extra points!
  
  Chuck's already got ya!
  https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/trans-wizard-harriet-porber/200695/
  
  I got the recommendation for Kaleidoscopic Grangers from a similar thread a few months ago and really enjoyed reading it. It's about a trans and blind HP navigating her adolescense while having the backing of the Granger family and was written explicitely to spite Rowling. And she certainly wont get royalties from you reading that :)

You don't need to stop doing any of this.
Just pirate all of it.
That's what I did.
- Even better: pirate it, and whatever it would have cost, donate that amount to an LGBTQ+ charity.
- That's still boosting the cultural impact of her work. In some cases piracy increases total sales.
  
  It’s basically impossible to be perfect, pirating the work stops the money from going to jk Rowling which therefore stops it from going to anti trans groups.
  Shopping at Home Depot hurts trans people Using Amazon hurts trans people Shopping at basically any big box store hurts trans people
  They are a heavily oppressed group and you aren’t able to live your life perfectly so don’t sweat pirating a game
- Aye. I still have all my first edition books from when I was in 6th grade on and I sure ain't giving those up, but all the movies live on my server that were obtained from the high seas. I never bought their merch anyway, I'd rather have my band merch.
- I would agree, but the wizard game where the good guys put down a slave uprising isnt just antisemitic and transphobic, even worse, its mid.
- That's what I told a friend who asked if she should read enders game. Get it from the library or steal it. Orson Scott Card doesn't deserve your money because he's a shitty person.
- Just pirate all of it.
  how can you enjoy it though? like, don't you get disgusted knowing you're consuming the product of a transphobe? fuckin gross
  
  The old conundrum of separating the art from the artist. Personally, I think as long as you aren't giving them any money, have at it.
  a painting by a very famous Austrian
  
  No, frankly viewing anything I try to do for leisure through that lens sounds exhausting and depressing. Just do what you can to avoid financially supporting it, stealing it is fine.
  I don't even particularly like Harry Potter either

I think these hard line stances do more harm than good.
My wife and I are active in not supporting any new things, but to talk about how you think it's morally wrong to even talk about the franchise is going to alienate a ton of people.
I feel fine talking about it, and the memories I had with it. Because everyone I surround myself with is completely aligned that Harry Potter was meaningful when we were kids and also JK Rowling is a complete fucking asshat.
This sort of purity testing has got to stop. If mentioning the name of Harry Potter marks someone as a transphobe who is equally as bad as politicians actively stripping them of their rights... The movement will never build a coalition.
Saying that financially supporting JK Rowling is actively harming the trans community is a reasonable argument. Saying that talking about Harry Potter, even if you note that JK Rowling sucks, makes you an outright transphobe is not reasonable to me.
- it does seem extremist as a perspective, but that extremist might think talking about the franchise is akin to marketing or a more passive or subtle way of the franchise receiving funding.
  Probably a better argument is that JK Rowling is not as influential as some anti-trans activists, and our behavior and norms should ideally be rational and reflect those priorities.
  I agree with you that coalition building is important, and in this particular case probably more important to trans rights than strict adherence to rules like never speaking of Harry Potter.
  
  JK Rowling is probably the most influential anti-trans activist.
- If you see an oppressed people protesting against their opression, and your first instinct is to lecture them on the optics of their protest, you're not really an ally. You're just using "optics" as an excuse to not do anything to help out but still think of yourself as a good person. I don't think anyone falls for it.
  
  Sorry for the shift in tone here but this is absurd...
  I will continue to show up when it matters and do things like actively promote a great documentary on the day trans people's rights were stripped away from Iowans because of our dumbass legislature, because I cried watching friends of mine in that room being actively hurt by a government that should protect them. And continue to do the hard work to change the minds of bigoted people in my community, but yes let's pretend I'm just virtue signaling on an anonymous forum for "optics". I am actually doing real work and I won't apologize for not having patience for people saying I don't do enough because I say mentioning maybe Harry Potter in the proper context is probably fine. It's not the thing we need people paying attention to right now.
  There's so much more hurt out there. If we boycotted Harry Potter entirely and wiped it from existence in an instant, the average trans persons life doesn't get suddenly get better.
  It's fucking irritating. We're wasting breath talking about one stupid fucking lady and an imaginary wizard pretending it's a leading issue for the trans movement. You can hate me for saying it, but I'm fighting for bigger change than trying to make JK Rowling irrelevant. I would rather raise awareness about the systemic harm that I'm actively witnessing in laws being passed removing trans people's protected status. That's a FAR bigger issue.
- Too bad, trans people are more important than your pottertreats. If trans people say something is hurting them just stop doing it. Don't get into the nitty gritty of "how much harm does it do really?" make as wide a distance as you can to it.
  As for this specific instance its not even hard to see how it is harming trans people: talking about hp keeps it in the spotlight which generats more sales.
  Why wouldn't you purge the franchise that funds trans genocide from your life??
  
  Amazing how you people can't even read a full post before having your aneurysm about trans allys not being pure enough for you
  
  I want to be respectful here, but this has a lot of issues embedded in it.
  This kind of rhetoric rises from what I've called the Authoritarian Left, which is an immensely detrimental wing. It's a group where there is no nuance.
  You say that if a trans person says it's hurting them I should stop doing it. OK, but what if a republican says it? Now suddenly I should ignore them? You can't base your entire ideology on what members of groups say or demand that others adhere to yours simply because you think you're right.
  I love trans people, and I actively fight for them and their rights. But why? I'll tell you, it's not because Democrats told me to love them, or a religious leader, or anyone in politics. I looked at the world critically and found their cause worthy.
  I'm a durable ally. I'll stick with it when it's not cool or trendy, or when it comes at a cost. But that's because I arrived at those truths myself.
  To loop all the way back to the premise - if talking about Harry Potter at all hurts Trans people, then this post hurts trans people. If you disagree with that, then nuance exists. And I'm saying in the nuance of how and who I talk about any topic with, I know and understand that those people understand the situation.
  I don't make public posts about Harry Potter. I often talk about how JK Rowling is a garbage person. My friends have a Harry Potter party that they've been hosting for years, and every person there is of a similar mindset that trans people deserve so much more than they are getting.
  You have to allow more than one idea in your head at the same time. If you're making the rule "talking about Harry Potter in any way, at any time, makes you an active enemy of the trans movement", then that's not a place I want to be associated with.
  If you want advice - focus on how JK Rowling is harming people. Elevate that as much as you can. When you make these purity tests, you make people not give a shit because it makes it impossible to adhere to the strict and narrow path you say is OK.
  This authoritarian left wing of democrats is what got Trump elected. They are so hard nosed on every issue they completely isolate people and make these issues harder to fight for, not easier. You're heart is in the right place, but we live in a world full of nuance, and the real trick is not scolding people into adherence, but it's coalition building and asking people to think critically about their choices. They have to find their beliefs, you can't just demand them.
  
  This kind of hysteria is amusing.

I stopped the moment she showed herself to be a terf.
Never looked back.
- Me as well, and I stopped watching anything with Dave Chappell too. TERFS can take a flying leap for all I care.

says to stop reading the books and watching the movies with the reasoning of giving a bad actor more money but... I already own them all from before it was known she was an asshat. I'm pretty sure she doesn't get money when I pop the DVDs in my player or decide to re-read the books on my shelf.
- That it doesn't disgust you to consume the media of an open fascist using her money to attempt a genocide is highly suspect
  
  This may be hard to understand, but many people are totally capable of separating the art from the artist.
  
  List your favorite actors, authors, musicians, products, services etc. I dare you. I'll absolutely find and point out how something you like is actively harming someone. Where'd the lithium in your phone battery come from? The electronic components? The meat you likely eat?
  
  I don't think it's terribly suspect. What are you even suspicious of? People experience disgust in different ways. I can watch Kevin Spacey and not be disgusted, even if he's a piece of shit. And I like Tarantino movies too, even though he's also, ah, suspect.
  As far as I'm concerned, the old J.K. Rowling was murdered and replaced by a bodysnatcher who gets the royalties from her work. Engaging with the fandom and paying for new HP stuff is bad, but otherwise let's not police people who just want to enjoy their childhood favourite thing.
  
  To me this reads like one of those bad jokes on the expense of trans people in 90's media. Like how Ace Ventura has sex with a trans woman, then only after he learns it, he starts gagging and washing his teeth religiously and like pumping his face with a plumber; it's hypocritical. You already enjoyed it, now you've learned something about it, it's suddenly shit and retroactively changes your previous enjoyment to disgust?
  Perhaps you never liked HP, but practically the entire world did, before we knew how JKR will turn out. I'm not gonna give her a cent and previously used money for any HP related things like... 20 years ago, but I'm also not going to pretend they weren't meaningful to me or that her politics will retroactively change those feelings.
  
  oh my god. get off your high horse.
  they read a fucking book in their own Library
  the books dont even feature any of those views
  touch grass
  
  lol

I’ll never. Ever. Understand being rich enough to enjoy the rest of your life and choosing to spend that wealth harming innocent people.
- Hmm so I have 51.397.624.942 dollars, lets get that to 52BN, right?
  It's so stupid.
  In my humble opinion it also breaks the social contract; where money is used as a substitute for labour, no one should have hundreds(or wayore ofc) of lifetimes of labour sitting in an account, it doesn't even make sense.
  How on earth can this be changed/reformed? Having the ability to gift someone a lifetime of labour is a very powerful incentive, one that we did not vote for when it comes to the billonaires.
  Am I making sense?

STOP fucking talking about it
Proceeds to post it everywhere

I would love to understand why saying "Don't support cunts" is such a non-controversial statement.
Until it comes to Harry Potter.
Especially considering how simple it is to do.
- Same thing for nintendo
  
  There is a huge difference between a company being very protective about their intellectual property and somebody actively working on destroying lives on humans.
  
  Nintendo just has a weird concept of protecting their property. Rowling instead is an arsehole
- They're basically swifties ffs.
- it is interesting how JK Rowling hasn't had the same boycott pressure than Elon Musk and Tesla, I think trans rights are just not as motivating to most people, unfortunately
- because it's Don't support assholes,
  but what if it affects me personally?

If you wanna play the game, pirate it and then play it offline.
- I wasn't interested in playing it, but now I'm gonna do this out of spite.
  
  The game is alright, just go to the trans person and go and see the burning JK rowling picture

Yeah that's fucking stupid. Most fans of a franchise care about the franchise, and especially with one this old, they treat it as a part of their identity and deeply like it.
Stupid statements like this will only alienate them and make them give Rowling money anyways. Instead, you could easily get some people to avoid paying Rowling for stuff (e.g. buy third-party Merch or second-hand stuff) and reclaim it (e.g. supporting the actors' views instead).
- While I do agree that some go a bit hard on this it is true that buying the movies, the games, or official merch is directly harmful as the money is used to fund anti-trans lobbies. I don't think it's reasonable to expect anyone to stop engaging with fanfiction or other things that doesn't give Rowling cash, but I do understand why me and other trans people are upset when others cling to harry potter. It's a sore point for us because we know what she stands for and are keenly aware of the bigotry even within the HP book series, not just Rowlings later statements. We are also aware that many simply do not care. Even if you tell them what the money is being used for people often don't believe us, or choose to prioritize their indulgence into the fandom over preventing harm. Talking about HP does contribute to the popularity of the franchise and can therefore arguably indirectly hurt us. So I do ask that you have some understanding for why people are upset.
- https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/27342058/14854908

Unpopular opinion coming, but fuck it. Harry Potter was never great, besides being set in the modern day it's very generic and the movies were mid. some people will worship whatever JK Rowling breathes on
- It's alright but it's definitely got more popular than literally all the other coming of age teen fictions through sheer luck. And I read a lot of these as a kid so I know what I'm talking about.
  I've also heard that she was immensely helped by translation because when her shit was translated she was already starting to get famous, so the publishers contracted their best, and apparently the originals are a lot less "well written" than e.g the french version. I personally never bothered to check because I have more interesting things to read.
  Fun fact about this one : when my librarian mom brought the first volume of Harry Potter home, I remember she told me that it must be good because she had never heard of the author (and she was specoalized in kids literature so she knew a thing or two about children and teens book authors) but she knew the translator

And if you want a magical world fix that is from someone that supports trans people, look into the Young Wizard series by Diane Duane.
She as an author is also on Blue Sky and is one of the most positive, friendly, upbeat, likable people I've met there.
- Ooo now I wanna read the Feline Wizard trilogy again.
- Thank you for the recommendation

Go read Le Guin's Earthsea books instead, which are genuinely better written, and LeGuin was a great person who wrote a lot of socially progressive literature. Not to mention that it hasn't been turned into a fucking corporate media franchise like LOTR.
- Her books are timeless
- JK Rowling:
  We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
  Proceeds to fund fascists
  Ursula K. Le Guin :
  Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.
  (Apparently frequently misattributed to Tolkien. I love his writings but the man was not nearly as based as Ursula Le Guin)
  I know this has
  energy, but I did try to look for a Rowling quote that wasn't some uninspired one-liner that she unconsciously copied from some Disney movie
  
  Wait what was that about the hydrogen bomb and the baby thing
- I mean there is a a terrible TV adaptation starring Iceman and Lana Lang as well as a beautiful but boring Ghibli movie, but I agree that Earthsea is amazing.

This isn’t a meme
- Commtitle is slightly misleading, any microblog screenshots are allowed as per the sidebar.

I know this is going to generate hate but, I just cant care anymore. She's a genuine POS who won't be missed but its my one single escape from reality. Im far to exhausted trying to tiptoe around everyone who's a POS. I'd say I'll stay at home but my builders were probably a POS too and I gotta go sell my house to make SOMEONE happy. If others wanna get her canceled and by some magic remove everything shes ever done from existence I'll make sure not to get upset but Im done being asked to be a soldier in every battle against a bad person.
- I understand the sentiment. But then I'd say: buy used media.
  As long as she doesn't get any money
  
  Or ..... Sail the high seas.
- my builders were probably a POS too and I gotta go sell my house to make SOMEONE happy
  Your builders don't continue to receive payment for your house after it is built, right?
  but Im done being asked to be a soldier in every battle against a bad person.
  I think that is sorta overselling what a boycott is.
- …its sic my one single escape from reality.
  What, have you become incapable of reading another book or something since HP dropped? Sounds like a rough existence tbh.
- Did the rest of your books, local library and internet connection burn in a freak accident? Why couldn't you just read anything else, which would also likely be better?
  
  Harry Potter fans unfortunately equals "the people of one book". They have read nothing but Harry Potter, so they will never know how subpar it is compared to so much other engaging young adult fantasy.

But I'm a Huffledore and that's my whole personality!! 😭
- Huffle deez nuts, lmao
  
  I'll slytherin to your ravenclaw

I've had the first four books in the study at my mom's house since I was a kid. My nephew and nieces will read them. We have the box set of DVDs from forever ago. Same deal. I wouldn't consider myself a die-hard fan. I still don't understand why die-hard fans could still be spending so much money on the franchise. Did they add to the books?
- The short answer is it's not books. It's mostly licencing deals in the form of video games and merchandise... However HBO is about to put forward a new series that JKR will have executive control and an executive sized pay check for.
  It's the "well it already exists and licencing deals are already paid, might as well watch it/play it/own it" that keeps the whole engine rolling on. Every time there's a little bit of advocacy to disengage from the fandom it is always spun as "too late" or focuses on the books or death of the author... But all that's really required is ambivalence.
  Inevitably the new HP thing will come out and whether or not trans people mention anything people will drag up the controversy, use the reminder to brigade the spaces trans people connect online, try and goad their trans coworker for a commentary and set off yet another flurry of right wing backlash that makes elevating the franchise a patriotic duty to "stick it to the moralizing trans people to show them who is boss". All of this causes more cultural pressure on a population already underwater with being chased out of the public sphere but it will be framed as a just retaliation for a perceived slight.
  It's a song and dance that will continue ad infinitum as long as it's profitable because appearantly nostalgia is worth turning a blind eye to the where the money goes.

I made the same decision with Brandon Sanderson and his fuckin fanclub takes it extremely personally when I point out how problematic he is as an author.
Yes, his writing is good. Yes, his writing is remarkably inclusive with regards to sexual orientation, disability, and mental illness.
However, Brandon is a Mormon first and foremost, and actively tithes to his church. That means a significant percentage of ALL Dragonsteel profits go directly towards the suppression and disenfranchisement of LGBTQ+ programs, sex education, and effective mental health services.
He might write a good story, but his IRL politics are repugnant.
- Oh, when you brought him up I was worried he had actively done something bad. But no, you just don't like that he's Mormon, that's literally your only gripe.
  
  Financially supporting the harming and oppression of others is a problem, no matter how it's labelled. I think it's completely fair to call that out.
  
  No different than Rowling in that regard. Giving money for others to actively do something bad is also bad. You don't get to launder your shit politics by paying someone to do the dirty work and it doesn't absolve you of those politics.
  
  Every time he tithes to that house of abuse and oppression, he IS actively doing something bad. Is that not enough for you?
- Neat, gotta start reading this guy books then
- I read the Mistborn books, and wasn't terribly impressed. Anyone that repeatedly and unrepentantly uses the phrase "decked him in the face" is not a good writer. :)
  
  Mistborn were his first books, the first trilogy is definitely a bit rough around the edges.

Some of the most ludicrous people I used to know are... very queer and proud, self describe as 'leftists', and are also mega Potterheads, all at the same time.
Everytime I'd mention that Rowling is a POS, I would literally be shushed, and mean mugged.
Ironically (or perhaps not?) one of these people would later be fired from their job for racial insensitivity.
???????
Cognitive dissonance is really something else.
- So weird considering they are literally novels for children lol...
  
  These are the kind of people who are in their 30s and still make instagram posts, and frequently say in real life, 'I'm done adulting today.'
  Oh right, even crazier, one of them was also a nurse and a covid skeptic... again all at the same time.
- Have you considered Redwall. BJ is dead so he can't be pressured by the Anglican Church. I'm not excusing RJ, but the Anglican church is pretty fucking brutal in the UK anytime they get remotely threatened.
  Also Redwall is fire as fuck.
  
  Personally, I read the entire Redwall series as a kid.
  Well, maybe not all of it, I think some books in the series were still being written at the time ... not 100% sure.
  I found them much more compelling than Harry Potter.
  I also read everything Animorphs, most of them as they came out.
  ... I also read all of LotR, other than the Silmarillion, before I got out of high school, as well as most of the Tom Clancy books, Jurassic Park / Lost World Andromeda Strain, 1984, Brave New World, Farenheit 451...
  Man, I even read most of the Boxcar Children before I got out of elementary school.
  I read a lot as a kid.
  So much so that when I was in 2nd grade, I would routinely finish school work so quickly, that I would be matched up with 4th and 5th graders who were behind their grade in reading ability, and go out into the hallway and help them read aloud books, help them with pronounciation, explain word meanings they didn't know.
  ...
  But the group of people I am describing?
  Best I remember, they only read Harry Potter... and I do remember having to explain to them that the LotR movies (the first 3) diverge from the plot of the books in several key points... Saruman's plot arc and everything directly connected to him diverge significantly... perhaps most notably by totally removing the Shire being 'scoured' near the end of the story.
  These people did not believe me when I told them this, which lead me to conclude they either didn't actually read LotR, or at best, skim-read it or didn't remember it well at all.

i don't consume any of it but mostly because they're bad and she's a bad writer, but being a transphobe certainly didn't help her case either

Mid ass books anyway. It was literally so easy to not engage with them and I fucking loved them as a kid.
- Frfr… people who can't move on from HP are so fucking pathetic because they're climbing over each other to tell you how they're obsessed with some totally mid books written for a primary school reading level. It'd be weird even if the author weren't an insane fascist.

I think all the attention y’all give to her is what’s keeping this in the cultural spotlight. I basically never think about her, or the books, until I see posts like these on the internet. We gotta separate the art from the artist.
- Normally I’d agree, but Harry Potter is already huge.
  And while I think this whole response is a bit extreme, it is a case of her source of wealth being way more famous than herself.
  
  I can get behind being in spite of her & other wealthy elites but I can’t abandon what my time with those books meant to me despite of her spite. So, y’all can guillotine her, I’ll still keep the books. But it really is the case that when I hear about her it’s because of these kinds of posts nowadays.
- You may not hear about her much, but that doesn't mean Harry Potter isn't getting a new show on HBO next year. Clearly, JK Rowling is still "in the cultural spotlight" and making plenty of money off of the thing this post is asking you not to support.

Well buying used book does not give jkr one penny, watching dvd does not give and algorithm engagement, amd any old offline game will not either.

STOP writing Harry Potter fanfic.
START writing 2 Rats fanfic.
Origin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDvKuxAIXMg

what are some fun trans-inclusive universes? doesn't have to be fantasy
- Discworld explores gender a few times in a way that I like.
  Monstrous Regiment is about a bunch of women who pretend to be men to join their military. For the most part - these aren’t trans characters, they identify as female. The funny is the characters slowly discovering that everyone else in their group is doing the same thing. One character though, explicitly identifies as male after the “reveal” and has male pronouns used for them.
  Discworld as a series tends to be irreverent without punching down. Comedy is a weapon in Pratchett’s hands, but his targets are capitalism and oppressive systems.
  LeGuin has a lot of interesting takes on gender. The Hainnish cycle is about a race of humans who had previously colonized a bunch of planets and did lots of experimentation on those populations - kinda Vault Tec vibes. The civilization collapses/gets better, and the POV character is usually some type of researcher/anthropologist looking at how those planets develop The Left Hand of Darkness is a sci fi classic: a planet where people stay sexless until they go into “heat” and will develop the opposite genitals of the person who they are attracted to. There’s lots of switching back and forth. It’s a big deal when the king gets pregnant, because only children the king carries can inherit the throne.
  Any LeGuin is good. Earthsea is a far superior children’s series compared to Harry Potter. Nothing that really makes it explicitly trans but the process of finding your true name and accepting yourself is something that resonated very much with me. (Also props to LeGuin for being very forceful with insisting that the characters not be depicted as white. None of this pussyfooting retroactive “I never said Hermione was white!”)
  Anne Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy is also more gender bending sci fi. Everyone is “she.” The first book was part of the Sad Puppies drama, because it won Hugo’s and absolutely pissed a bunch of a bunch of chuds.
  
  Pratchett did indeed inspect gender quite a bit in the Discworld books.
  It's never quite explicitly explained where Nobby Nobbs' peg fits, but it turns out he certainly prefers to wear women's clothing and is reluctant enough to change back into his male uniform at the end of Jingo that he has to be explicitly ordered to do so.
  There's also Equal Rites, the very second story (and third book), which explores the notion of, "Just why can't a woman be a wizard, anyway?" (It turns out she can. And quite a powerful one, too.)
  Gender is a pretty big deal to the dwarfs on the Disc, too. It's a recurring theme ever since Cheery Littlebottom is introduced in Feet of Clay.
  
  I read her catwings when I was very young and it made me cry. the ending is so happy. i love her

I feel the same way. I don't understand why someone cant talk about Harry potter and still show support for pride month. I understand not buying things as cancel culture is logical if you are into that.

Why are Harry Potter fans so uniquely unable to let go and find a better franchise to support? I know TRANS people that Joanne could apparently deadname them and spit in their face and they'd still spend every disposable dollar they have to buy HP games, merch, and go to the amusement park again.
Keep taking those tests to affirm you're still a Hufflepuff, I guess.

Guess I am glad I never liked Harry Potter growing up

At first I was like "not this shit again, let people enjoy stuff even if you don't like it's creator, stop being bitter about some dickhead's wellbeing"
But then I saw what they're referring to. Fucking hell.

- “There is no ethical consumption under capitalism”
  That's not a blank check to not bother with ethics though.
  “Learn to separate the art from the artist”
  You know Death of the Author is just a literary analysis tool, right?
  Stop villainizing them for their interest in the franchise just because JK turned out to be a bigoted removed and is using her royalties to bankroll bigoted organizations.
  They aren't being villainized for their interest in the franchise, they're being villainized for for contributing to the bigoted organizations fund.
  Want to removed about something? removed about the overarching systems that make interacting with your interests tangentially associated with funding bigotry and hate due to a convoluted system of ownership.
  I can removed about more than one thing at a time, it's not either/or.
  
  Jesus Christ you missed the entire point.
  No, it isn't just a literary analysis tool, it is also a statement making social commentary about how someone can consume a piece of media without being supportive of the author and their actions as a private individual.
  It absolutely is either/or, because if you understand the point of the latter one then it invalidates the reasoning behind the previous assumptions.
  It isn't the consumer's fault that the product they enjoy is tangentially used to fund oppressive organizations. Literally every single thing you consume under capitalism contributes to the oppression of a marginalized person. That's kinda the fault of the system we are forced to live under. Blame the system, not the individual.
  You can removed about the individual all you want, and I'll continue to call everyone who does a shortsighted, myopic fool.
- Nah, even if you try to separate the art from the artist, her worldview still comes through, from the racist naming to Harry becoming a cop to the complete lack of examination of why magical fascism rose. The most telling part is that Magic Hitler was defeated by a quirk of nature, completely unrelated to the battles the rest of wizardkind were fighting or any actions taken by any characters during the time of the books.
  
  By that logic, no one can enjoy anything but Andor. Every piece of entertainment is liberal or flawed in some way. Doesn't stop people from enjoying them.
  
  Yea it's children's media. It's never been touted as a literary masterpiece. That doesn't change that people love the setting and wish to enjoy the media that takes place within it. I'm not here to criticize the works themselves on their literary merits for being copaganda and liberal hogwash.
  The problem people have is that it is tangentially funding her, through the royalties she receives from how our system has structured ownership that entitles her to reimbursement. Yet, I guarantee, if all these people looked behind the curtains of the things they buy, then they will find they routinely "support" similar people through that same system of convoluted ownership funneling funds into their bank accounts.
  So anyone trying to villainize people for enjoying a media franchise that they hold dear to them is a straight up hypocrite whose opinion I give zero shits about, unless the person laying that criticism literally has never engaged with the capitalist markets in any capacity.
- Guess I pissed off some reactionary liberals.
  While I disagree with the rest of your take, I could at least respect your opinion right up until your edit with this at the end. I can't see your downvotes from my instance, but calling everyone that disagrees with your unpopular opinion "reactionary liberals" is a pretty weak effort on your part.
  
  Cool. I don't respect the opinion of those who disagree with this take. Those who blame the individual for systemic issues that are beyond their control are by definition reactionary. They react to the individual action and assign them blame for something that is not their fault rather than take into account the system factors that surround these choices.
  So I really don't give a shit if you don't respect my opinion. I don't respect yours.

lol, yeah, that'll teach her.
- If there's two things billionaires don't care about, it's money and popularity.
  
  Remember the Howarts Legacy situation?
  Did the boycott really hurt them?
  Also there is an old saying that goes by "there is no such thing as bad publicity".

Yeah, I'm gonna stop enjoying fun books or movies because somebody else is upset about the author...
- If you are fine with suppression of LGBTQ+ programs etc, like, not upset about it, sure! I guess this post is not meant for you then.
- Tbf there were likely people saying the same thing about meine kampf when Jewish people were going missing.
  I've never really been a HP fan, so it doesn't bother me. And as a straight white male, pride has fuck all to do with me... Buuuut I'm capable of seeing why trans communities would take issue with her inflammatory statements, and funding of discrimination against them.
  Her latest venture is entirely funded by her, and aims to provide legal support for fighting against trans inclusion; Regardless of whether you agree with trans people, surely you can understand why they wouldn't want to fund that?
  
  You're comparing a book about wizards and magic to... Mein Kampf?
- If you are not upset at the author then it is really no surprise you are not going to stop consuming their content. But it does say more about you than anybody else.
- If Your Important Thing was publicly maligned you would want us to support you. And we would. Because we're good people. Please do the same for us now.
  We understand that you don't instantly change attitudes when an author betrays her readers. We're not asking you to do that. We're asking you to show support with a kind word, the way your parents taught you when you learned the golden rule. Please.

Honestly I only got the urge to watch the movies again because people on Lemmy wouldn't shut up about her
- The books are good and the movies are good. Young people of the internet forget the kind of childish shit we had before Harry Potter.
  Also the movies have fucking Hans Gruber who tries to kill John McPotter and that was awesome.

Trans people: "this is doing harm to us please stop!"
Cis: "Is it really though? Asking people to quit their pottertreats is just alienating stop being so dramatic!"

Whatever happened to separating art and artist? I swear to God no one is more on someone's dick than an HP fan scorned. I get it jk is a fucking removed but I'm not giving up good stories I grew up with because the twat who wrote it needs a good face punching.
If we did this with everything basically all entertainment would be fucked completely. But no we just have a hard-on for potter fans apparently. Easy targets I guess. Easier at least than sorting through all the media you love, to see if it stars Uncle touchy or the Weinsteins
- It's because she's still alive and donating to transphobic organizations, not merely because she's a removed. Your H.P. Lovecraft book from the library isn't hurting black people.

My kids love the books and the movies. We buy them the illustrated versions when they arrive in stores. We semi-frequently watch the movies together and enjoy them.

Sure, Karen.
I liked the (first four) movies. Honestly awesome if short Alan Rickman screentime. I pirated them. I watch hem whenever I want, not when you think I have to be a soldier for your cause, and that removed still don't get a cent from me.
Like, sure, conveniently I won't have any spare time to rewatch them this month, but that's because life is busy not becuse you think you're right.
- Or you could just... watch better movies.
  
  But ... Then I won't understand the memes. 😕
- You're really giving off "you can't tell me what to do" vibes on par with angsty teenagers and black conservatives. But good on you for pirating.
- My wife's name is Karen. We have multiracial friends, gay and trans friends, and we don't demand to speak to the manager. But she has to put up with the name she received at birth being used as a lazy slang term for horribleness - which to me is one of the most hypocritical behaviors a trans person or ally can engage in. But that's just like, my opinion, man.
  edit: Just checking back... yep, predictable burst of douchvotes. There are over 1.5 million people named Karen in the US alone, and you haven't met most of them, but go ahead and defend demonizing their names to object to bad behavior - how fucking enlightened!
  
  just call her K-dawg

I sorta get this, but sorta don’t. Do you have any idea how many celebrities are abhorrent people? Movie execs? Team owners? Record company execs? Game studio execs?
I’m guessing that MOST of what we enjoy involves someone or something that’s morally wrong. Hell, most of us can live the most responsible life possible, but we’re still participating in a capitalist system. Capitalism is responsible for all kinds of horrible things, like starvation and homelessness.
Why deny myself something fun when Evil Megacorp or Reprehensible Rich Person won’t notice or care, and the boycotts seem so randomly applied?
- Because she actively funnels money to hate groups using money she receives from this intellectual property, and boasts about doing so.
  
  Oh, I know why Rowling is on the shit list. She belongs there. I was just wondering about everything else I mentioned. I don’t expect an answer from anyone, either. It’s an impossible question. Just thinking out loud.

JK doesn’t get money for all of the items. She sold off rights or partial rights to things like the games and movies and representation in theme parks.
- Do you have citations for that? Do you know what she does get money for and how much? From what little I'm capable of googling, she seems to get royalties for just about everything.
- That is a very short sighted perspective.
  Jk sells for rights for x. buyer uses rights to create products, because buyer thinks it will boost sales. People buy products because of HP and sales are boosted. Buyer is happy.
  Time passes.
  Bought rights expire, buyer made a lot of money. Buyer wants to buy the rights again.
  Alternatively
  Buyer 2 sees success, wants a piece of the pie, buys rights from jk.
  If you boycott HP, buyer wasted a lot of money and will not pay for an extension of the rights.

Oh no! A boycott coming from people who doesn't consume the product. What a loss!