David Tennant Pissing Off J K Rowling Was Not On My 2024 Bingo Card
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- David Tennant has and always will be one of my favorite actors but he just put himself even higher on my list late last month when he pissed off UK government officials and Miss J.K. Rowling herself. His speech at the British LGBT Awards had many transphobic terfy people in an uproar and I am so here for it. He has been a wonderful ally to the queer and trans communities and this just makes me love him even more!
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Honestly her saying Lolita is a "tragic love story" should burn her career completely. Makes her "think of the children/girls" comments a million times worse.
When did she say that!
@@lynnsaga1397 In a 2000 BBC Radio 4 interview she praised the novel, saying,
There are two books whose final lines make me cry without fail, irrespective of how many times I read them, and one is Lolita" and “A plot that could have been the most worthless p---ography becomes, in Nabokov's hands, a great and tragic love story.""
A bunch of lefty youtubers covered it this week.
THAT should burn her career down?????
not the holocaust denial?
not the trans-hatred?
not the willing Slave-elves or greedy bank goblins???
@@HotDogTimeMachine385 So . . . .it took lefties 24 years to dig up that (very icky) tidbit? Interesting. I thought she said that very recently.
@@HotDogTimeMachine385 And she doubled down on her pedo supportiveness by openly supporting Matt Walsh who stated that he is for non-consensual arranged marriage of minors and have no issues with the impregnations of underage girls as long as they are married.
“What did he say that’s got everyone so worked up?”
“Be kind to each other.”
“Oh yeah, that’ll do it.”
"And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything." - Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Haha PERFECT response
He said ALOT more than that and you know it
@@maxoreilly2698Apparently you are not recognizing the quote from "Good Omens". No need to get all accusatory.
@@maxoreilly2698 all of the law and the prophets rest on this...
I love how Rowling basically said she would never accept an apology from Watson, Grint, and Radcliffe. They're not offering one, and Rowling is not owed one.
It’s also pretty creepy how she acts entitled about their careers. Like just because they starred in movies based on her books that means that she gets a say in what they can believe or say.
Reads a lot like a narcissistic parent.
@@animeotaku307 yes!! and they got the roles bc of their hard work and talent, not because of her directly. she's not entitled to their lives, opinions and stances. its grosssssssss (my dad is conservative and feels this way about my beliefs. he cut me out of his life but sent me a happy bday text to prove a point that i didnt wish him happy bday earlier this year (bc he cut me out of his life but i guess im supposed to wish him happy bday anyways wtf). he didnt say anything else. didnt like that i didnt come crying back to him with an apology and that his hateful, racist views were right all along. he just wanted to have control over my feelings. its pathetic. conservatives are so hateful.)
@@animeotaku307 movies she already made milions of.
@@animeotaku307She honestly just sounds like a beauty pageant mom, y'know?
@@hotwaterisspicyit’s arguable that they would have starred in other movies if they hadn’t been cast in the Harry Potter movies. She’s just a trashy person.
Not-so-fun fact about Rowling’s “gender Taliban” tweet: she liked a tweet praising the _actual_ Taliban for “at least knowing what a woman is”.
It's sad how that doesn't surprise me
Omg. Disgusting
that's how you know it was never about women or feminism. it's about her having a position of power and being able to gatekeep people from living their lives. it's 100% karen
@@erfanashkan5925 I mean that was obvious from the fact she's spent 5 years ranting about trans people and done basically nothing for women. She opened one transphobic shelter for women. She's spent wayyy more money funding anti trans organisations than she ever did on that shelter and weekly throws cis women under the bus to fuel her hate.
@@erfanashkan5925exactly. Thats why I try not to refer to them as terfs, because they’re definitely not feminists. Theyre feminism appropriating fascists.
As an SA survivor who, like JK, is cisgender… ever time she uses that in her harassment of trans folk, it makes me so angry. She’s living a charmed life if she honestly thinks men have to go to the effort of dressing up as women to attack us.
She’s also blithely ignoring the statistics that show just how likely trans people are to suffer SA… but let’s face it, she doesn’t care about the facts. She’s using her survivor status as a “you can’t argue with me” card and she doesn’t seem to see (or care) how much damage that does.
She also is ignoring the amount of men, CIS men, who also suffer SA
@@aynDRAWS it's at least twice as likely for a cis woman to get SA'ed than for a cis man. And the statistics I'm talking about are for grown women, for men it's both for grown men and little boys. So it's still far more pertinent to shed more light on sexual violence against women and children than grown men, even though of course they happen to be victims as well, but drastically less often.
@@Mia199603 it is harder for cis men to reach out for help. I'm not saying one is more likely than the other or that one needs more focus than the other. That's the point. SA victims should not be dependent on gender, but their experience
This is why bathroom laws make no sense. Like, for one thing, a public bathroom is a pretty bad place to try and attack someone, but also, there's no magical force field that keeps out people in masculine clothes, if a dude wants to walk in he does not have to go to the trouble of buying a dress. If he wanted to buy anything, janitor's coveralls would be a much smarter option.
for real. no man EVER is gonna go to all the trouble of transitioning to attack women or even children. why? because they don't have to. the whole bathroom bill BS here in the states? like does anyone actually believe that if we let trans people use bathrooms that align with their gender identity that it will cause a rise in assaults? because no. just no.
no predator has ever been like "you know, i was gonna go in there and do unspeakable things to that woman, but it is a ladies room after all, so i guess i just won't" fucking what?
Never underestimate Conservatives' ability to hate on people for suggesting everybody should just get along and be kind to each other. They attacked Dolly Parton for crying out loud. There was a time where such a thing would have been considered sacrilegious. I mean, its Dolly frikkin Parton!
They’ve attacked MISTER ROGERS!
Nothing is sacred to them
@@phastinemoon There has never been a man who truly embodied Christ more than Mister Rogers.
@@phastinemoon Not really. There is a video of Mr. Rogers saying something to the effect of only boys can be fathers and only girls can be mothers. I have no idea of the context of the video, but there were transphobes holding it up as proof that Mr. Rogers was "their" kind of guy.
Their fear and stupidity knows no bounds. It's pathetic. And if so many people weren't being harmed, I could almost feel sorry for them for being so blind and so afraid.
@@k1productions87 According to the bible there was at least one other guy who did a pretty good job... :)
It's unsettling how quickly and enthusiastically she burned through all the good will she'd gained since Harry Potter was published.
She really speed runned it. She went from beloved children’s author to hate figure quicker than it takes to read any of her books (mind, some of those books are so bloated for no particular reason).
If what I hear is true, she’s also been openly treating pro-Nazi and Holocaust denial crap. The pipeline is real. On Twitter, you start off a bit prejudiced, and in a couple years you’re the goddamned KKK.
I think she started believing her own PR and her ego grew beyond all measure. You can see it with her views of editors, as if they shouldn't touch her brilliance (everyone can benefit from outsiders reading a work and giving constructive feedback). Then she decided she was a screenwriter and could do Fantastic Beasts herself. The critics of her mistakes as a screenwriter were many yet she didn't let Steve Kloves do much even when Warner Bros wanted him to help her with film 3. That's the main reason why the series is dead.
Especially since her views and actions are so contrary to those of her famous books. Sure, there are some moral failings there (the house-elf slavery subplot, the moral implications of modifying the minds of non-magic people) but it mostly amounted to our heroes trying to stop a fascist takeover by fanatics, many of whom are part of the aristocracy. Did Rowling just not understand what she wrote?
@@lisakaz35 She was also just never a good writer to begin with.
And with such gusto. Like she just KNEW everyone would agree with her, of course.
There's way more people that regret their Harry Potter tattoos than there are people who regret transition surgeries. 🤷🏻
Facts tho😅😅😅
wait you're so right 😭😭😭
Saving this!!!
This is a fabulous comment.
@tinkergnomad Tattoos, in general, have a higher regret rate. Same with getting married and having children, which both have wayyyyyy higher regret rates than transition
"Beloved actor David Tennant vs. disgraced former author JK Rowling" is a very funny dichotomy which proves that bigotry rots your soul.
not former author, though. Still an author.
@@Snowshowslow No one is reading her weird transphobic fanfictions.
@@Snowshowslow perhaps, "former author of children's literature" would be more correct.
Rowling hasn't written anything other than under a suspicious pseudonym for quite some time.
@@user-df5nb8zy7e Why is the pseudonym suspicious? I think the last children's book was from 2021 so it's debatable whether that's in the past for her. GRRM would be very happy with such a recent book out but she tended to have a higher pace 😉
@@Snowshowslow Her pseudonym is a name of a fairly famous American "doctor" associated with "conversion therapy". If you Google just that name, you'll likely find the doctor among the first results (which, I assume, is something you do when picking a pseudonym - to check if it's not yet taken).
Speaking of awesome ally shirts. I saw one that said
“Respect my trans homies,
Or I’m going to identify as a fucking problem.”
Wait I need the link to that😭😭😭
Holy crap I need this shirt viscerally
I did post the link, but it’s gone for some reason
RUclips doesn't like links, you'll have to put a space in
OMG that is brilliant. Big love to allies putting themselves on the front line.
Rowling's argument that there shouldn't be sex offenders in women's prisons is ridiculous, where should female sex offenders be imprisoned?
In segregation.
this! it's more likely to be a cis-lesbian being an issue to other woman over a trans woman.....not trying to slag off any one here but JK-rotten forgetting lesbian violence is insane!
@@Gothymothmoth mind you the question of female sex offenders really pales in the face of female murderers! Aren’t they kept in general population too?
@@smkh2890I think so, but in max security… so they’re kept with other violent offenders.
The real question is how to actively prevent sexual assault in ANY prison but WEIRDLY ENOUGH when it's not about trans people the subject doesn't interest terfs..
Actually, most of them joke about it, especially if the victims are men.... They're so desgusting.
It hurts so much watching her bigotry after feeling empowered by her books. I remember shortly after the last one dropped she posted “if Harry Potter has taught us anything it’s that no one deserves to live in a closet.” ….except transgender people apparently
And Dumbledore for seven books and more than eight movies 😂
@@emdove I am willing to give her leniency on that only cause Dumbledores past in book 7 definitely implies he was abnormally close with another boy… and before that there wasn’t really a narrative reason to explore a teachers sexuality in a children’s book. Though with that many students it’s a bit odd none of them ever came out as gay. Statistically speaking some of them definitely would have been.
@@forestgrump4723 Well, Harry wasn't really that close with anyone other than Ron and Hermione and he wasn't the most likeable guy, makes sense that as far as he knew nobody came out, especially in the 90s.
@@alftuvik3820 That’s true. Though she did outline after the fact like literally every side characters pairings and they were all cis het. Except maybe Dean and Seamus, I don’t think she paired them off… they could be gay and bi maybe. Dean dated Ginny but that doesn’t mean he’s not bi, that’s a possibility maybe.
What always makes me especially upset with Rowling is the fact that Dumbledore is gay.
Him and I think Grindelwald were in a relationship as teenagers and swore to never hurt each other with a special spell.
I used too love harry potter and I honestly still do. I just despise Rowling with the passion of a thousand burning suns. I don't understand how such a genius woman, one that praised people to be themselves and do what they feel is right, could be so hateful at people that are basically following her advice.
I am an asexual transgender woman living in the UK, and I love seeing David Tennant prove him self more of a hero than any of the characters that he has played, and that is saying something, as I have loved him in everything that he has done, particularly in Dr Who and Good Omens.
Meanwhile, "she who must not be named", has shown us all where the idea for the death eaters came from.
On the plus side, the general election last week has ousted the Conservative Party, which means that Keni Badenoch and Rishi Sunak are now out.
@Diablo_Himself the video gets very quickly into it.
She refuses to accept the expert opinions of doctors on the matter and also refuses the lived experience of trans people.
She believes transwomen are evil men and she wants them to not exist in our society.
@Diablo_Himself i forgot the original tweet she made, but she has made multiple references to threatening trans women including using a pen name that is the same name as a doctor who lobotomized people when she wrote her transphobic book. it's now public knowledge that it was her who wrote it cause she wasn't making any sales on the book until her publisher revealed who the author of the book was
@@Diablo_Himselfon top of all that which has been said she's been saying everything shown in the video and trying to... Shall we say, quite badly 'white knight' 'REAL women'? And spread the bad words about us?
@@Diablo_Himselfback in 2018 it was still a debate on whether joanne was truly transphobic, but over this past half decade she tweets worse and worse messages about trans people every day. initially she acknowledged the existence of trans women, although in a not-so-subtle dismissive way, saying 'i would mark alongside you *if* you were oppressed', quite the strong 'if'. it is now years later, and joanne replied to a photo of a projection that said 'trans women are women' with 'no'.
that alone is enough evidence, but sadly it gets worse, as every day is filled with tweets about trans people, now deep in the conservative/right-wing mindset that all men are predators, therefore trans women are predators, and all women are biologically weaker, and victims of wanting to escape womanhood by transitioning into a man. this fundamentally extreme and anti-autonomy ideology is what ironically has become a branch of feminism, known as 'radical feminism' or being 'gender critical', though most folks know them as 'trans exclusionary radical feminists' or TERFS. they believe that gender is oppressive, that only biological sex matters, and that trans existence reinforces oppression. 'terfism' does not recognise any of the studies on tens of thousands of trans people's satisfaction with gender affirming care (the regret rate consistently over decades being 1%), and fails to acknowledge the extensive history of trans people throughout history and cultures across the world. **this branch of 'feminism' has recently been labelled as an anti-rights group by the United Nations Women, naming them alongside 'mens rights' activists.**
in one famous recent instance, joanne committed holocaust denial, by denying that trans people were ever victims in the holocaust, and doubling down on it despite folks attempting to point out this is horribly incorrect. she has since sued people from the uk for calling out her blatant falsehood. basically, you know the book burnings done by the nazis? well, the famous photos we have of those burnings are of nazis burning books from the institute for sexuality, mainly run by magnus hirschfeld, a jewish gay man. this institute was revolutionary in trans healthcare, performing some of the first gender affirming surgeries. there is also evidence of transgender people taken and marked under the same categories as gay and and 'anti-social' people when taken to camps.
joanne referred to david tennant's support of the lgbtq+ community as the 'gender taliban' which.. is something so insane i cannot put into words
there is a very good video by 'shaun' called 'jkrs new friends' which goes into depth about her close ties to anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-trans naturally, and far-right figures, who she routinely expresses support for. i also strongly recommend watching 'contrapoints' video 'jk rowling' to get a complete and probably much better explanation of joannes process of becoming how she is today
i write this as someone who grew up loving harry potter, and idolised joanne. the first big books i read were harry potter, i watched the films every time i was sick and could quote the lines as they were spoken. i remember planning to get a hp tattoo when i was an adult. i had harry potter stickers galore! for a while, i ignored what she was initially saying about the trans community, because i had that much love for her work. however i have watched her fall deeper and deeper, and as someone with probably more trans friends than cis, i fully reject her and her work
@@Diablo_HimselfIt is a little ridiculous to ask someone to summarize years of controversey in one comment thread. If you really are interested, I'd suggest looking up some videos or articles that can describe this in a more long-form venue. Otherwise, you won't possibly get anything close to a full understanding of the events.
“acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they wanna be and live their life how they wanna live it, as long as they’re not hurting anyone else, should merit any kind of special award. That’s just common sense, isn’t it? It’s human decency,” - it's depressing that this even needs to be said. However, David Tennant is the perfect example of a decent human being. If we had more people, especially those in power, like David, the world would be a significantly better place to live.
"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
-JKR... somehow.
David Tennant is a gem!
it really is depressing
The fact that he was/is the doctor makes him more amazing.
Women sre not safe if they cannot have sex based spaces so it does hurt women and will not be accepted suck it up
@@user-jy8bt9uz7f You are more likely to be hit by a car than meet a trans person.
Stop seething over them and delete your TERF twitter and cancel GB news.
I think David could end this situation at any time by tweeting „Don‘t you think they look tired?“
If only he had twitter... hey maybe his wife can do it for him 😅
Oh, *that* was a throwback! :D
Georgia did go there on 5th July - google Georgia Tennant #turnsouthedidlooktired, and you'll get a slew of news stories
His wife did make a reference to this in her stories after voting in the UK general elections last week! Just love their whole family
I don't get it
David Tennant is doing what transphobic parents of dysphoric kids should be doing, support his child.
There are a lot of very supportive parents of trans kids too, but I agree, the transphobic parents need to get their act together for the good of their children.
lol as a 13 year old trans kid, who still hasn’t come out to my parents due to them being extremely transphobic, i want David tennant to adopt me lol.
@@_lexxxxxx_ meeee too!
JKR is baffling as a person. She's so rich she never has to be anywhere near another human being for five lifetimes, and she's still on about trans women in bathrooms and jail and sports like it affects her.
But David Tenant is a treasure! You go, my dude
The time she spends online is INSANE
I'm glad that she supports women's rights.
@@frishter She doesn’t, she supports men abusing women by spreading BS ideals and bigotry. She’s a pick me, and she should be ashamed of her awful behavior
@@frishterthat’s not what she’s doing though
@@alisonpurser4457 Sure she is. She's protecting her own classification as a woman, and the right to her own spaces as well as protecting the speech of women and opposing the discrimination that real women face.
Oh look a preacher’s kid who’s actually demonstrating love thy neighbor as thyself.
right?! 🥰
Love to see religious folk who actually read their bibles and take it to heart.
REAL
@@HenryGray-sy4pu funny enough, David Tennant has said numerous times that he is not religious and doesn't really consider himself Christian. However, he has also said that he respects and loves both his parents and feels that he internalized many of their values growing up in there home. So make of that what you will. He's speaking as a preacher's kid who is a non-Christian.
_"if youre calling on women to shut up..."_
He called for WOMAN to shut up. 1 woman. Saying that criticizing 1 woman is like criticizing all women is the characture of the kind of "woke garbage" the right has railed against online for 15 years now. They sure didnt like "believe all women", but they yypocritically then say this.
He called on a government official to shut up in her official capacity. The PM then said that violated the concept of free speech. Free speech is supposed to work the other way around-the authorities can’t tell the common folk to shut up. Criticizing a government official is an expression of free speech, not a violation.
For real, I am very invested in feminism and attacking sexism where it exists, but one dude saying he'd like a government official to shut up (while making clear he doesn't wish ill on said official) doesn't become sexist just because the official is a woman. Telling government officials to shut up is a time-honored tradition and screaming sexism when it's done to a woman is SUPER paternalistic, and therefore much more sexist than the original comment lol.
All of this. Being part of a group that experiences oppression doesn't mean you can't be party to the oppression of others when you are in a position of power.
@@MorganChaos exactly! him saying that she should shut up had nothing to do with the fact that she was a woman, it was her ideas and actions that were the problem. it's way more sexist that some people decided to make it about the fact that she's a woman when that's irrelevant to the issue at hand
@@cbrewitt Exactly! He wasn't stopping her from freely speaking at all. Telling someone that they need to shut up doesn't make it impossible for them to keep speaking. Like, what he was doing is the definition of free speech? He was expressing his right to speak freely about how stupid and bigoted her opinions were? Both of them were free-speech-ing, the PM (I think he's no longer the PM, idk any folks from across the pond can correct me?) is just being a butt.
(Sorry if this was ramble-y. Have a great day!)
I love that David Tennant is angry. most allies, in my experience, have been pretty quiet and polite. They tend to be really careful about pissing anyone off, to a degree that ends up making them seem pretty weak and ineffective. But Tennant is so full of real anger at these people trying to silence us, which makes me so happy. If only more cishet men could be like him
He's an angry Dad. There are probably a lot of other angry dads out there, but they're mostly scared of showing their rage because society frowns on men who are angry. David Tennant has enough actor experience to know how to express anger in ways that society can process, accept, and respect.
He is Scottish too.
Because in America, anger leads nowhere even when it's justified. In the UK though the culture is different, you can call each other names and not be offended, the American right wing is just WAAAAY too offended at everything to be rational or angry, hence why they use violence.
I loved David Tennant before I was trans/non binary from Doctor who and now I love him even more
Yeah, as a trans masc enby, one of my favourite inspirations is his version of Crowley from Good Omens. With slightly looser pants though. ;)
@@thing_under_the_stairshello there fellow trans masc enby David Tennent fan, I hope you’re having a great day 😄
@@OxPolya Good day to you too!
Don't we all kind of want to look like some version of David Tennant?
@@thing_under_the_stairs yes that would just be amazing 🤩
Me exactly
Everyone sick of hate and prejudice needs to support David Tennant. He is so kind and any Shakespeare he does is astounding and heartbreaking. He is truly made for the stage.
In a world of JK Rowlings, be a David Tennant. I love that man so much.
David Tennant out here being the masculine ideal.
@@Wimikkthat or Chris Evans (actor, not the radio guy)
I'm almost certain that Tennant regrets appearing in that one Harry Potter film that he was in right about now.
At least it was just like, what, a 10 minute role? No longer than that, I believe.
If i get the timeline right, the movie may have paved the way to him playing the doctor in Doctor Who. Emphasis on the „may“ as i believe having a big movie under your belt may make the BBC more likely to consider him as the next doctor in the first place.
@@juliawolf156 Actually it was Tennant's performance as Casanova in Davies's Casanova miniseries that got him cast as the 10th Doctor.
I'm also certain Tennant regrets doing that one Doctor Who episode where the Doctor says he loves Harry Potter and "Good old JK!"
@@marcgravatt1051 Especially since that episode's writer ended up being a transphobe.
I guess you can say she casted “Avada kadavra” on her career and legacy 😂
she really did!
and casted Crucio on anyone who just wants to enjoy a magical world without drama from irl seeping into it-
Bruh, you guys tried to boycott Hogwarts Legacy despite no involvement from her and couldn't even do that. Just a shame that you need a mod to fix sirona.
You'd wish but people still support her. I'm hoping she gets the Linehan treatment and loses everything because of her hatred
I almost would like to ask David Tennant as the 14th doctor if he could take his tardis and take all of us to a time where all this stuff is done with and everyone’s accepted for who they are
That's kinda the plot of Dot and Bubble.
@PlatinumAltaria you think Racistville would be accepting of trans people?
@@clovercurator7997 I mean the Doctor offering to save a whole bunch of people.
@@PlatinumAltaria oh I gotcha. I hope we'd better receive the help than the assholes in Finetime
Why not the 10th Doctor? Out of curiosity
Id like to point out that Kemi Badenoch isn't the minister for women and equality... any more, we kicked the tories out just a few days ago, so Sunak isn't the PM either 🎉
Rowling is seething over a pro trans, women's equality minister.
love from ireland 🩷
Thank christ
🎉
Congrats on dealing with them (as far as a short internet inquiry tells me the tories are generally really unpleasant, probably an understatement actually, they sound downright f**king awful) so good for you guys! Love and well-wishes from the states!
Edit: I accidentally did a strikethrough on part of the reply (I didn't know I could do that??!?), so I edited it to remove it :)
"What do monsters have nightmares about?"
The Doctor: "Me!"
Live, Laugh, David Tennant
Stealing this😂 I want it as a bumper sticker
@@beetlebob4675 I want it as a T-Shirt!
Good to hear David employing the great Scottish ballistic profanity when mentioning those "f---ers".
David Tennant was also involved with a Critical Role project, while Rowling has not been, so he gets my vote all the way! But seriously, he seems like such a good guy and I am happy that the trans community has someone standing up for them.
Dormant critter here. Which project?
@@mossripalextechno6450 He voice acted General Krieg in The Legend of Vox Machina Amazon series.
@VerticalBlank I thinking I knew rhat
I was soooooo excited to hear him in that!
Lets be incredibly honest... JKR would never be accepted onto any kind of project like that. Its not a fair competition. She wrote 1 viral book series poorly enough an entire generation learned the opposite lesson she wanted and thought the moral was to be kind, champion love over fear, fight inequality, and "not live in a closet"
I have a nine year old daughter who has friends that are huge Potter fans, she is not. We read through the first four books and we had to constantly stop and talk about intense body shaming (anytime the Dursley’s were mentioned), sexist attitudes towards Hermione (remember her doing the boy’s homework for them?), racism (i.e. Dobby), and flat out bad writing. On top of that she’s a terf. I had to explain that when Rita Skeeter’s “mannish hands” were described. Not cool! I didn’t want to have to tell my kid about terf ideology but the story went there. We no longer own any Harry Potter books and my daughter is better off for it.
out of curiosity, was she the one stopping or did you ask her to
@@imawaffle148 We both felt like stopping. It was mutual.
Oh god - I forgot about the “mannish hands”
So many of my friend talked up her writing so much that it was the biggest letdown with how terrible her writing was.
@@Diablo_Himselfthe wizarding world treats slavery as morally ok through house elves and say the slaves like it
This reminded me that I need to finish Good Omens
finish it IMMEDIATELY, it’s my favorite Tv show I’ve watched 😊
If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend Staged. It makes a great companion piece to Good Omens
And season 3 is going to be on the way!!!
Oh sweet summer child please be prepared
Where have you been?? 😭😭
David Tennant dropping in from the top rope🔥🔥🔥
The guy who played a villain in one of the _Harry Potter_ movies defending the Trans community against the transphobic hate of the _Harry Potter_ author is both awesome and hilarious.
David was also one of my favorite Doctors in _Doctor Who,_ and one of his episodes had Lady Cassandra (who debuted in the second episode of the revival) reveal that she was trans.
Oh David Tennant is fantastic. He’s not afraid to support queer folks in the slightest and that makes me so happy :)
Oh FFS. The garbage from Rowling about nurses and such at the 8:01 makes my blood boil. Rape survivors can certainly be given the care from whatever gender health care professional they prefer. I'm quite sure no one is going to argue against that. But seriously, honey, ever been in the ICU? I've had variety and every gender of human wipe my bum for me, deal with the grossest and most intimate of tasks for me when I was so ill that I was not physically capable of handling them myself, and for that (and more) I am eternally grateful for their dedication, professionalism, training, compassion and expertise. JKR needs to get over herself. Also, David Tennent is a gift to humanity. No doubt in my mind.
True but I don't understand what your experience with healthcare providers has to do with the topic? I may just not be processing what I'm reading properly.
What JK said about some nurses and I do say some, suing their employer is true. They were told they had to share changing rooms with a trans woman and it made them feel uncomfortable and unsafe. So "the garbage " is actually factual. She was stating something that was happening
"Gender Taliban". Hilarious given that more accurately describes the side JKR is on.
This comes after her denying crimes the Nazis committed against Queer people, especially those who were not gender conforming. Historians ate her up in the replies
Almost like projection is a speciality for bigots.
David Tennant is such a wonderful human being. We're blessed to have him as an ally.
Sometimes, I think he's just too good for this world.
Love how it’s about a “white man” telling a “black female” to shut up, and not what is should really be about an ally calling out a transphob,
EXACTLY
i think it's absolutely disgusting that they used racism as an excuse for being transphobic, while he wasn't even being racist! it just proves that they don't actually care about minorities and only do when it's to sh*t on another minority
We should not be judging them based on the colour of their skin but on the content of their character and she's completely evil and he is a good person.
why did you put white man and black female in quotes
David and Georgia are wonderful and I am cheered by everything I hear about them. If there is ever an official ambassador from the cis to to trans, he should be it.
i still dont get the issue, honestly. "oh no, you might or might not have the genitals i expect. oh the humanity!"
and i am convinced that nothing they do will end grape or end the need for women shelters. but yay, the politicians did something i guess.
The worst part is that 99.99999% of the time... why do the genitals of the person you're interacting with even matter? "It's about the Agenda!!!" The Agenda that is... "what's in my pants shouldn't matter to what makes me who I am as a person"?
@@doomsdayrabbit4398 i dont know. like sure, if you want to like, start your own family i guess. but even then - you could just like, be with the person you love and adopt some poor children who deserve parents but unfortunately dont have any.
@@brglbrmft Yeah, but what I'm saying is with regards to the loons afraid of trans people. Like they're constantly looking to get laid or something, so they're *always* thinking of what's going on below the belt.
Re: Rowling. She's just a bully, tripping the "weird" kid in the hallway and telling herself she's the hero.
It's bizarre how often bullies will convince themselves they're the victims and they're just "defending themselves".
The entire US Republican Party now…
I noticed Rowling’s horrible tweet about gender taliban was a reply to Billy Bragg - Billy Bragg is also a lovely person who is a trans ally.
It doesn't look like it from their tweet
That's not Billy Bragg, that's done transphobe trying to tarnish his name
@@AbteilungsleiterinBeiAntifaEV well, he is.
the tweet she's responding to seems to be from a different person who just has the display name "billy bragg" (ie not the singer with that name)
It's not actually him. I saw it, panicked, and googled it lol
Imagine making hate, prejudice and transphobia your entire personality...or being awesome, loving and inclusive. It ought to be an easy choice, i guess JK just has too much invested in this to even entertain the idea that she's wrong. Tennant is awesome tho, he's doing amazing work 👏
I love the idea that JK Rowling will d!e mad, bitter, and hated by her most devoted former fans. She did it to herself.
I don't think I'll ever understand why some folks can't just let trans folks live their lives.
Because they want to "pRoTeCt ThE cHiLdReN", while simultaneously pretending that their transphobia is protecting anything but their own fragile sense of pathetic moral "superiority". (sorry for the aggressiveness if I came across too strong)
When I told my mother about what happened with David Tennet she basically said “he’s saying what every parent of a trans person is saying. I wish I could do that”
J.K. Rowling beeing homophobic hurts... I loved Harry Potter, but it feels bitter now
honestly same. It's hard cause i use to reread the books so much and I can't now
@@lynnsaga1397 Jup ^^" Im still im a Harry Potter Community, but mostly for the people there xD
@@lynnsaga1397So I'm old and don't have any Harry Potter childhood memories, and if you want to get over potter very quickly then know that she's writing about a society built on pure fascism with a literal master race, and that she deliberately doubled down on it during the last book. Also her 'I was poor' backstory is pure bullshit. I was actually poor at the same time as she claimed to be, and she said she wrote Potter while on benefits on a train. If this is true than a single ticket for the journey she was talking was, and still is, more than UK unemployment benefits for a whole week. She may have been talking about the child benefits and tax breaks that everyone at that time got, **however** only extreme right wing people think that's a bad or shameful thing and would ever bring it up. Red flag count: 4 in that one paragraph by my count.
This is what people mean by saying you can't separate the art from the artist. Sometimes the art is so associated with the person who created it, that when that person behaves horribly, you can only ever associate the art with how awful they are, and it becomes impossible to enjoy it.
@@lkeke35 Agree
Whatever happened to just wanting there to be good people and wishing everyone the best? I truly do not understand the hate towards the trans community. Every single trans person I have met has been a wonderful person that I would be glad to have as a friend. Can't say the same about the right wingers. I am wishing hugs to any of the trans community that needs and wants them. And anyone who needs to hear this: "Hon, you are a beautiful person. Keep on shining your light, for the world would be a dim place without it" Stay safe and happy out there
Depending on the person, it's either patriarchy or political misandry. A trans woman specifically is a kick in the teeth to their whole worldview - for patriarchy, that maleness is the ideal state of humanity and anything else is inferior, and for political misandry, that all (cis) men are innately evil and all (cis) women are innately pure and saintly and innately victimised any time they're even near a man.
Since both sorts can't process someone with a male body rejecting that identity for any honest reason (ie wanting to live the truth of their own neurological gender identity), they have to assume that a trans woman is actually a man and is merely masquerading as a woman for nefarious purposes. Therefore they assume that every trans woman is either a sports cheat wanting to win in women's sport in order to steal that opportunity from "real" women, or a rapist manipulating the system to get easier access to victims, or in some other way a fraud seeking an unfair advantage.
The frequency with which trans women are raped is completely off their radar. They don't believe such an event can occur, so they don't register how often it happens. Likewise, the fact that most trans women in sport perform no better than the average cis woman competitor cannot register for them.
The corollary is how much less vitriol they have for trans men. They regard a "woman wanting to live as a man" as a perfectly understandable desire - one to be stamped out as uppity and stolen privilege wherever they see it, but not an existential threat to society the way they react to trans women.
I mean, I've met assholes who are trans before. But they weren't assholes because they were trans.
It's in character for the English with a Conservative ideology to loathe the Scottish.
But Rowling is Scottish too, and is not the only Scottish terf, there’s at least one SNP former MP whose name I forget but who is GHASTLY.
@@ilanarhian Her mentality is English though. The whole "you should be grateful because of me" and other things she's said is WAY more common in the English Conservative ideology than in the Scottish one because Scotland has a history of being oppressed by the English.
I said "common" as some people in Scotland still think similarly to the DUP.
@@nielsjensen4185 funny, as a red blooded american (because i'm human and our blood oxidizes in oxygen), she sounds like a republican. like she would have burnt her tennis shoes in the back yard grill because colin football guy took a knee. style republican (like she immolated her trainers in the garden barbecue. translated for the british).
@@ilanarhian She lives in Scotland, not from there.
She has a 2nd home in Edinburgh but is English. I was told she bought the Scottish home in order to vote in the independence referendum to keep the UK united, it wouldn't surprise me with the way she does business. She's a bit underhand, I think.
I find it so strange that so many actors who were in Harry Potter are trans allies yet the creator is the queen of terfs
I have a lot of fond memories growing up with Harry Potter, my dad worked away from home a lot and whenever he was home we would read the books together - unfortunately those memories feel tainted now for me as a non binary individual
Its the sweet irony that her books were so meaningful to trans people and now she turns out to be a terf
I wouldn't say it's that weird. acting/performance media communities are usually made up of all sorts and accepting of all sorts.
its so important that he calls jk rowling out. british trans people cant attack her because she will just threaten to sue and theyll be forced to back down. british celebrities are really the only ones with the same amount of power that she has and its shameful so few other celebrities stand up for us
Sounds like you guys need to change your libel/slander laws. Maybe try getting that far more representative legislature of yours on that?
How can she sue? It's not libel.
In British law, that a statement is true is sufficient defence against a libel charge. Of course, what JKR does is like posts by terrible people and make 'am I though?' defences when called out on it. She plays on her SA survivorhood although it has no relevance to the topic on hand, but because it's like a talisman that she thinks makes her uncriticisable. Criticise away; the courts wouldn't entertain it.
@markwynne725 I didn't know she was a survivor but that doesn't make her bigotry OK
@@markwynne725 maybe if it got to court she would get shut down but middle class people just cant afford losing a lawsuit and she knows that. that is why her legal threats are so effective
David Tennant is genuinely the GOAT
I just started the video, and I’d like to say, David Tennant is one of my favorite actors and he’s such a good person tbh. He genuinely cares about people, and that’s not too common to see with famous people!
I‘m not one of the LGBTQ+ community, but all my support to you! I don‘t want to live in a world, where people get hate, because they belong to a minority. And the world is so much better with all of you, we need this colourful diversity in our society for being human.
And David Tennant does an amazing job, he‘s a wonderful actor and such a kind person, I really love, what he‘s doing.
It's an honour to call you a friend! 😊 🫶😘
Same! I'm not from the community but I'm a staunch ally. People have the right to live as they are.
Honestly she needs to leave others alone and stop trying to make life miserable for others life is hard enough for others
Let me introduce you to another British MP; Diane Abbott was the first black woman elected to Parliament (she is now the longest serving female MP) and is one of the few left wing MPs not purged from the Labour Party. She has received massive negative reporting in the press, abusive mail and actual death threats but never had the same level of fuss made in her support as Badenoch in this case.
That's because the media decided that Diane Abbotts association with Jezza Corbyn was heresy.
That's... disturbingly telling
Only loosely related, but if you haven't watched the series "Staged" with David Tennant and Michael Sheen playing "themselves" during the early part of the pandemic, trying to keep their careers, their friendship, and their sanity afloat during lockdown. It's really clever and excellent comfort content.
This makes me think what HP is actually about? Diversity, but in certain limitations?
Thanks a lot for this summary. It made my gut drop a bit, but getting to know Tennant's actions made my spirit lift more than anything in a loong time.
Conserving the status quo for the privileged class that stays in the background so the commoners won't notice how much power the ruling ones wield. It's about how you should accept slavery, racial inequality and just stay in your lane.
Oh, and the best job you can have as a wizard is a magical cop who puts other wizards in prison.
She's got unresolved trauma that needs serious therapy, but instead, she decided to pass that trauma on to a group even more disadvantaged than the group she belongs to.
She's a small woman with a small mind and an outsized media presence.
It's about re-inforcing the Just World Fallacy.
I used to be almost an exclusively Harry Potter fan artist for about 4 years before dropping out of Hogwarts because of JK.. I wish I spent those few thousand hours on much better things like other fan art and original projects.
Even if we just look at HP objectively without the author, we'll see that it's a deeply conservative, heteronormative, and authoritarian story. People will argue that it's all the opposite, but it's just simply false once you look any closer. Some of the most amazing people I met online were from the queer side of the fan art / fanfiction community who hate JK, I remember there was a joke at one point that we should just start saying that Emma Watson wrote HP, but I just felt so burned out of ignoring JK by the start of this year that I'm done with HP.
I'll might finish some of the fan art projects I started and never finished through the years, I won't delete my existing HP fan art pieces and art tube videos about them because I'm proud of how they turned out, but it was just time to drop out of Hogwarts and start advocating for homeschooling wizard kids.
Yeah. There's sometimes when you can't remove the art from the artist because it's so ingrained with their beliefs/ideology, or awful refrences to themself. (For example, all of D__ S______'s shows having his "quirks" throughout them. 🤢)
And the horrible part is you only see them once the creator reveals their true self. I'm glad that people were able to get happiness from them before, (especially with you appreciating your old art!) but still rejecting it because nostalgia can only go so far.
@@raindeer9787 I'm really glad I actually never paid for anything HP related beyond buying 2 games years ago (Order of the Phoenix for PC and Lego Harry Potter), no merch, no novels, no movies, I saw them on TV as a kid, then pirated all of them later.
Really the community was what carried it for me. There are just so much queer fanart and fanfictions out there, and the sad part is it's partially because the world was a safe space for so many people to express themselves... I suppose until the "Death Eaters took over Hogwarts" if I may say so.
Idk if this will make you feel better but news came out that Warner Brothers is trying to buy the rights from JK and buy her out of the franchise completely. This is in response to her anti trans rhetoric. She’s hurt the brand that much they don’t want to associate with her.
I dislike and criticize so many things about the HP series. But I criticize it because I wanted it to be better. I wish that it was better. It was too important to me and I can't give it up entirely. It's one of those things where you just accept something is deeply flawed but you can't stop that you still love it slightly.
As a straight bloke in his 60s I just want to wish you and the trans community all the best. It sickens me to see the way folks like yourself (and allies like David Tennant) get abused by the media and people in positions of power.
One of the things I try to do is if something comes up on my feed here or on social media that tries to hit out at the trans community in the name of "protecting cis women", I will post the reported rape and sexual assault figures from the previous year (I have the numbers for England and Wales, the numbers from Scotland and the USA). I then ask how many of these were committed by trans folks, let them know I struggle to find any cases at all attached to the trans community. I then point out that basically all these horrific crimes were committed by straight cis males (my own gender and sexuality) so why is no one screaming about "protecting cis women" from them? The hypocrisy stinks.
As I said, I am not trans but I see the bullying of trans folks and it angers me as I hate bullies. I also hate bigotry!
All the best.
Good on you, madjock! If only these newly minted "woman protectors" would spend a tenth of their energy on issues like SA prosecution or income equality.
Interestingly JK Rowling has another masculine pen name under which she wrote the Cormoran Strike series, an Adult crime fiction series
Yep, and that masculine pen name is actually named after the guy who invented gay conversion therapy
JK could write so many stories about Hogwarts, magic and all that not revolving around Harry Potter himself, but she chose to be a Voldemort and become an ahole. 🙄
I work at the parks and let me just say she doesn’t realize how many Trans and non-binary people are working in the Wizarding World. Behind the scenes she is affectionately called “she-who-must-not-be-named.”
@eksassy901 I mean that's the funny thing innit
@@eksassy901for someone who hates trans people, JKR wrote a world where it's ironically pretty easy for people to swap gender and live as another gender (poly juice potion + transfiguration).
Dementors don't really get to have an opinion.
1:42 - "...the more I wonder whether, if I'd been born 30 years later, I too might have tried transitioning."
It's never too late, J.K..
You can do it.
We believe in you.
Personally, I don't think it's true, but _should_ Rowling come out and admit that all of this came from a place of self-hatred, a twisted coping mechanism for internalised phobia, etc., that would, at this point, be the only understandable/acceptable (for lack of a better word) starting off point on the road for atonement.
I’m cis/straight so I’ve tried to keep my mouth shut about this. I’m purely speaking from a writer’s perspective when I say this. I’ve always been a little confused when she came out with her post-Harry potter books. They are written from a masculine point of view (like as in how a man would write). Most cis-women writers I know, mainly write from a woman’s point of view because it’s easier to write characters that share your perspective. I have yet to see anything that she has written from a woman’s point of view… which is strange considering she says she’s a feminist. Doesn’t she want to explore feminine characters? I read her first Robert Galbraith book and I genuinely thought it was written by a man because of how the woman assistant character was written. (It was very r/menwritingwomen)
@@KindredKaye very good point
@@KindredKaye Interesting. As a male writer, I can confirm. I essentially can't write female POVs.
@@KindredKaye I am a woman and I write only from a male point of view, often 1st person. I cannot write from a female point of view. I do not know why that is. Might have something to do with me being very dissimilar to women in my family of origin. Anyway, you should not think that a female writer should only be able to write from a female point of view. Honestly that is offensive. Writers are allowed to be different. Writing is a complicated process and it cannot be reduced to "writer is a woman therefore she should only write from a female point of view". I know many other female writers that are exactly like me.
I'm a 60yo transgender, some of this isn't new however I think that being able to be a transphobe online is easy and a bit sh/t, it's really easy for these transphobes like Rowling to sit in their mansions and never actually have to know or meaningfully interact with a transgender person or two. I also think how sad must her life be that she is reduced to hate filled comments on twitter or whatever it's called these days, instead of basking in the glory of her first books and maybe writing something worthy of her talents.
..I think that she knows that compared to Terry Prachett, she has no talent.
The more I hear about Rowling the more I think that her self-insert in the Harry Potter books, was Umbridge😅.
It's really just became sad now...
Oh it started well before 2017, Rowling wrote transphobic murder mysteries before she wrote Harry Potter.
Yeah, whether it was her Cormoran Strike books, or social media, or what have you, there have been trans folks clocking her transphobia since the 00s and early '10s. Hell, I remember discussions about it back in 2011, and I've had friends who were 100% convinced Rita Skeeter was a transmisogynistic character since they first read Harry Potter.
She's been shitty for a long time. 2017 was just when some allies started listening, and her social media shitstorms in 2019 and 2020 made it very obvious to anyone who mattered.
Coming back into the main thread to say for the love of god please give up on Potter and the associated guilt, it's not the book or story you liked it's the world building, making up spells and pretending to fly brooms. You want amazing world building without anything problematic? Earthsea saga by Ursula Le Guin. This lady was so ahead of her time she was doing thought experiments in the 1950s where she removed all pronouns from some of her works so children could imagine themselves as any character they wished. The other thing is you'll very quickly find out that all the cool dragon backstory stuff from GOT was directly lifted from these books.
I read Wizard of Earthsea last year and it scratched an itch I had been having. Need more introspective fantasy stories!
Also, the Owl House is a fun show that’s the anti-Harry Potter, with an openly queer cast, world building and a magic system that isn’t just slapped together, and anti-authoritarian themes (instead of “the system works, we just have to put the right people in charge” it’s “the system is bad and needs to be demolished.”). It also mocks parts of Harry Potter like the Golden Snitch.
The children of the red king! An amazing group of gifted children and teens fight against the evil parts of their family. Its a wonderful series
Le guin was dope
Gonna disagree here. I dislike HP world building a lot. It's the characters that I loved. I understand JKR is awful but you do a disservice to claim you speak for everyone about what fans liked best in HP series.
@@l.n.3372 Characters are part of world building, it's the plots which had enormous holes in them. For example, when you scratch the surface with just a tiny bit of political understanding then it's obvious from book one that it's a fascist society and not just because of the 'muggles' slurs. The fans of these books are children, read another book.
David Tennant was my "Doctor" (im 37 but started who very late, sue me) and he was always based af but that shirt took him to another level and the speech made him my personal Hero ^^
I think Dr Who being an ally is the emotional reverse of finding out Hairy Pooter's creator is a terf. Proud of him like he was a family member, ya know?
David Tennant seems like such an awesome, loving person. Obviously I don't actually know him as a person, but from what I can see, only a complete freak would have a problem with him. Joanne is a complete freak is what I'm saying
It's my birthday and as a non-binary person this was the best gift lol. This man is a gift to humanity, and I hope more people follow his words.
Happy late birthday!
*Mother Terfresa, they both liked hurting people for what they thought was a higher purpose so, they have that in common.
Leeja Miller did a really good piece on why the Conservative and Alt-Right are targeting the Trans Communities specifically now. And I kind of low key LOVE her over simplification before she gets into the real discussion "We've already gone after the L and the G... the B is too close to home for our swing voters... so T it is!"
I'm not British so I never understood why JKR bullied trans people so vehemently. Is that a simplification or is it truly that simple and obvious?
Tenant barely even uses the internet, if at all, so she really is just screaming into the void
David was always my favourite Doctor, and this just makes me love him even more.
What an awesome dude
He also pissed off that cabinet minister from the olden days.
Dad of the century 👏 I’m happy that David Tennant is being a mother bear to trans kids, his own included. I genuinely feel so comforted seeing a famous man I’ve looked up to since I was a child being so supportive of my community
The more I know about David Tennant the more I love him. Also is that a tardis pride pin? Casue.. I need 10.
It is! You can still get them I believe from the original creator of the pin!
My bingo card has jk Rowling gets annoyed at a trans person
That’s the free square in the middle, isn’t it?
If you see the comments that she receives, you'd understand why.
I also had the initial thought of her being a trans man, especially given how almost all of her books are written following a male protagonist, and her pen name for her adult books is a man's. I know she's not trans, but it's funny to think about
Rowling herself, in her own words, on her own website, said that she might have sought transition if this was more popular when she was young. No lie. She laments this as a tragedy, however, because of course she does.
Honestly women write as male heroes and protagonists a lot. But this really isn't a sign about anything. Usually it just means that they're trying to appeal to a male audience who likely wouldn't read a book with a female hero. Unfortunately.
@@l.n.3372 or it could also mean that some women have a lot of masculine traits, and like stuff that is traditionally seen as more masc....but that doesn't make them any less of a woman. This stereotyping is one of the problems.
I find it completely strange that transphobic people have an issue with people just living their lives but no issue with being hateful. Such weird priorities.
I love that David Tennant is giving allies a blueprint for how to ally.
I love David Tennant for all of this, so much. I see where he's coming from and I know it's all from a place of love and support. I do think he slipped up with the whole "doesn't exist" thing though. If a TERF said they wanted a world where a prominent trans activist didn't exist, we'd be livid
I'm sure he meant "doesn't exist as a political force", but then I'm already on his side of the argument, so of course I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. To me, there isn't even any doubt in the first place. But for the TERFs? He's just handed them some easy ammunition to attack him with, and an easy excuse to ignore him
Still, it's just one slip, he walked it back in the very next sentence, and he's a wonderful ally, and I'm so glad he's on our side
also her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith (the name she writes her adult crime novels under) is not just a fake name she made up. he was a real person who was a gay conversion therapist. so she’s been against our community for a long time.
yikes one billion percent
Really?
Her official response is that it is a coincidence. I genuinely don't know if I buy it. Who doesn't check before they use a pseudonym to make sure it's not being used by someone in your field, or worse someone horrible from history? If it's an actual genuine coincidence it's f'ing kismet and a giant warning sign from all the deities.
@@wierdalien1 no, not really - his name was Robert Galbraith Heath. So if he had been her inspiration, she'd have gone for Robert Heath. Plus, apart from the fact that she has talked about how her pseudonym came to be, there are several historical figures whose actual name was Robert Galbraith, but they conveniently get ignored.
@medea4828 I mean, I know subtly isn't quite her strong suit, but if I was picking a name from a person that maybe controversial I'd go for the middle name
IM MEETING HIM ON MY BDAY
If it comes down to JK vs Tennant, she's going down. He's one of the most beloved people in the UK - He's the doctor for god's sake. She doesn't stand a chance.
F JK - Tennant rules!
Another good thing that came out of this is Scott Frierichs (KaiserNeko of TeamFourStar fame) absolutely demolishing Joanne on twitter.
He woke up, grabbed all the receipts, and took her to the court of public opinion.
I could almost hear the bells and chants "SHAME, SHAME!"
I agree with all of this, but keep in mind women authors have traditionally had to adopt masculine sounding names and acronyms to be published at all.
JK picked on the f*cking Doctor... I mean first, awesome having the doctor in our corner cause Transition=Regeneration. But that she thought this would go well..... Just makes me giggle.
On a literary note. I don't understand how Rowling wrote Grindelwald. Because fundamentally they(Grindelwald and Rowling) use the same logic. Grindelwald is not Voldemort. While he's absolutely a wizard supremacist, he doesn't want to kill non-wizards. No, he thinks they're fools who are easily led to destruction, so he has to take control and do what's best for them because they lack the capacity to know what's good for them. But isn't that exactly what Rowling believes about trans people? She thinks they've been brainwashed by the woke agenda so politicians should limit transitioning because trans people don't know what's best for themselves. I don't understand how these two positions are particularly different. But he's a villain so you'd think she has to understand on some level the logic of "I'm better than you so I know what's best for you" is hateful.
Cognitive Dissonance is a helluva thing (it's also fascinating and frightening).
As a huge HP Dan, I'd say JKR is more like Lucius Malfoy (and I say this as a fan of Lucius). She's rich and uses her money as a cushion to say awful things and expect to avoid consequences. She would use her money and influence to pass awful laws she favors or to dismiss laws she disliked. She also expects to never be criticized by anyone.
To anyone that needs more Tenantin their life, watch the new(er). Ducktales show.
He portrays Scrooge McDuck and gets to be aggressively scottish in the best way.
I propose we upgrade David Tenant to David Landlord. He earned it. What a guy.
Who'd have thought her self insertion character would be the Dark Lord herself?
See, the only part of the video I disagree with is 8:25 - I believe telling people to "look it up themselves" is the wrong mentality when we approach education on LGBT+ rights. I can look up a study that says vaccines cause autism. There is plenty of false information on the Internet, and those opposed and hesitant will likely not verify their sources and pick the study that fits the narrative. This is why whenever activists and advocates of those topics say "It's not my job to educate you" - yes, yes it is. You are the one advocating the subject, you need to be prepared with the materials supporting your statements.
I second this.
Sadly, you're in the minority
Honestly this should be the norm for all topics. "Its not my job to educate you" is something born from being tired of having to engage with people you are worried won't engage fairly back but unfortunately, it doesn't actually help to refuse.
'You can google for yourself' is a statement that's true but doesn't take into account all the nuances of just what kinds of things people might find. Or if they'll even do a deep dive for multiple sources or just go with the first one they can find.
Maybe they will change their minds, but its never going to come from someone refusing to actually help facilitate them changing their mind. Plus showing you've done your research can often help prove you know what your talking about, which gives you more credit.
Then again, as an aside, I think this should be a general rule of thumb especially for things people hate. If you hate something, it should be standard practice to learn as much about it as possible. It would help prevent so many unnecessary forms of hate, and if it is justified (Just as an example, Guns, not falling on either side just giving an example where the latter could applu), you'll have actual ground to stand on for hating them because you know what you're talking about instead of coming across as reactionary.
Sorry, that was way longer than I meant it to be.
Absolutely, my wife still says, " I'm supportive, BUT bathrooms and scholarships, so, uh yeah, hard to talk about.
As a straight white sis male, I want to be supportive, but sometimes life is complicated.
Rowling literally just takes the word “gender” and adds a bad word afterwards and thinks “that’ll show them” XD
I can't remember which comedian said it but the whole "JK Rowling didnt have an opinion on trans people when she was on the dole" joke rings so true. It the worst people who get into a position of privilege and then use that to punch down :/
David Tennant is amazing. And even though I'm only a casual Harry Potter fan, I'm second-guessing everything I ever knew about JKR due to her going completely mask-off and off the rails.
The biggest problem (to me) with Rowling bringing up "rape survivors" as an argument against trans people existing is that she is weaponising their trauma for her own gain, which is fuuuuuucked.