Did you stop liking Harry Potter after Rowling terfed out or do you separate the author from the work?
>>43685144Well, you see - you read it, and realize that the text is fundamentally unkind and is kind of not good. Even authors of the past like Tolkien and Lewis thought that Harry Potter was fucking drivel.
>>43685158What the fuck is this bot saying
>>43685144No but I also finished reading the series and moved on instead of still obsessing over it, especially since nothing in it past the fourth book was any good anyway.
>>43685144I don’t think Harry Potter is the problem, imo I was the target age for both movies and books as they were released and desu I wasn’t that into it, I was more into reading books on animals, like heroic animals, kids who’s only friends are animals, animals thinking like people etc but like jk being another rich mean person doesn’t change the importance that people project on it
>>43685182Sorry I used big words. I’ll dumb it down for your retarded ass.Harry Potter, is a boring story and has a boring world. Even when it was new, people were saying it was bad.
>>43685202Retarded bot
>>43685144I never read much of it, so I didn't care about it in the first place, even before J.K. Rowling became a staunch anti-trans feminist
I grew up on harry potter, the books hit right when i came of age, me and my brother would buy and read them every time there was a new one. i remember reading the last one, and when i finished i just had an empty feeling.As for rowling, i find her veering into becoming a terf odd, since she was always such a libtard
>>43685158Both of those authors were dead long before Harry Potter existed
>>43685221It's a bot
>>43685158Yeah, even as a kid I remember being put off by just how nasty she writes about the characters that are supposed to be evil, you can see it right away with the Dursleys in the first book. She hates people for being fat, women who are manly, etc, rather than merely being of bad character.
harry potter hit like a nuke, i remember the books school would teach us before harry potter. Where the red fern grows, hatchet, lots of outdoorsy type of shit. I remember one of my teachers would read the book white fang to us.then harry potter mania hit, and it was over
I wasn't a harry potter fan except this one videogame I played on my pc in either 2002 or 2003 and you played the quidditch game. I only saw the first movie and didn't read the books, I mainly read warhammer novels growing up like a true male brain
>>43685144I was alt-right when she retconned dumbledore gay and half the supporting cast from the first movie were quietly replaced with browns. I never fell for the terf-right alliance thing tho. A feminist is a feminist.
>>43685313>terf-right allianceThis only exists in the minds of troons
>>43685158What. They were dead. Do you mean LeGuin?
>>43685360Maybe. I’m not the smartest. Point it contemporaries hated it
>>43685182>>43685221>>43685360have you autists ever heard of humour
>>43685384Cope
>>43685351It also exists to US Republicans and the Women's Liberation Front, among others. And to feminists in the UK and their conservatives. For that matter, it also exists to the bigoted conservatives who suddenly spout stuff about womanface and women's rights in their harassment of troons.
>>43685384Please be kind I am neurodivergent:((
>>43685144I liked it as a small child and her TERFing out prevented me from going back as an adult. I don’t really hold a grudge against people who separate the art from the artist, though. There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, workers in every industry are necessarily exploited, profits from unrelated companies go to war, anti-union hit squads, transphobic and homophobic lobbying, etc. Boycotting is not a practical or effective solution for this, it only works in very particular circumstances, and random people refusing to buy something without a concrete list of demands is not even an actual boycott.
Loving her work and pretending like she doesn't exist is the sweetest fucking troll ever.
>>43685144I stopped liking harry potter long before Rowling said anything about trannies because there isn't really much to latch on to outside of the core book series. It's a self contained story that was entertaining the first time I read it and each re-read had rapidly diminishing returns. The prequels and sequels she tried to add were shit because they didn't really expand the world in interesting ways and they had messy boring plots.
>>43685144i dont care for it but my country unironically shoves it down my throat like all the time so im thinking of like chimping out and making an angry facebook post and putting flags up or something, maybe kicking over a wheelie bin or two idkalso my family keep trying to take me to harry potter wurl but i think it might be a secret conversion therapy facility, or like a set actor might push me into one of picrel and turn me into tranny biofuel
>>43686936You will be sent to Azkaban
>>43685144i never liked it
>>43685158>fundamentally unkindit did feel like that british mumsnet cattiness sneaking in there iirc, good ol toxic femininity
>>43685351most feminists have been useful idiots for various interest groups that have fucked over the middle and lower classes pretty consistently. now it's the terfs helping the rightoids distract the plebs with the tranny bogeyman, after the sjw thing got too old, ironically, and since the rich fucks want to import more jeets, so immigrant rhetoric had to be toned down a smidge
>>43685144The Wizarding World was a big, but not key, part of my childhood, it had a huge influence on me (I naturally default to witch and spell metaphors even now), and I feel very warmly towards itThat said, for years I’ve had no desire to reread one of the books
>>43685237Now that you say it, every villain aside of Lucius Malfoy and young Voldy were some kind of uglies.
>>43687250i thought i was already there
>>43686786Same. It was important to me in my childhood / teenage years, but after the final book, it was over for me either way as I’m not big on perma-fanboying anything.So, Rowling going all TERF was surprising and somewhat disappointing to see, but I didn’t ever idolize her so much that I would have gone all>noooooo my childhood heroineneither was I so emotionally invested with the book series anymore that I would go all>noooooo my childhood memories are now ruinedDunno how it would have gone if she had started that shit while the series was underway, then it could have potentially made it a lot harder to separate the work from the author.
>>43685144No I never liked it, generally speaking I like GOOD books, not dogshit awful ones.
I liked the books as a kid but even before she revealed being a terf i realized theyre retarded childrens books that cant compete within the same genre as a series of unfortunate events or percy jackson. even random goosebumps books are better on average.
>>43685144I can proudly say that I always thought Harry Potter was lame, even as a kid who loved fantasy books
>>43685144I tried to watch the movies, but they were British. I thought that was disgusting, and never engaged with the media every again.
