Should You Throw Away Your Harry Potter Books and Movies?
The Decision Is Ultimately Yours
For whatever reason, author JK Rowling has decided to focus a lot of her time and energy on questioning the rights, agency, and believability of people in the transgender community. It’s a weird hill to die on, but it is where she has placed herself. It is clear that she wants to be an ambassador for trolling trans people. Her Twitter feed is a never-ending circus attempting to sound as though it supports women but is actually demeaning in every possible sense.
It’s odd that the famous Harry Potter author has gone this route instead of, you know, writing more fantasy best-sellers for children and young adults. Her vehement ongoing commentary toward a minority group is unsettling, and it has made her fanbase question whether they want to continue their adoration of her works or use the books as cat litter.
Isn’t it a little weird that Rowling is picking on the transgender community when her pen name is Robert Galbraith? It reminds me of the old saying back in the early 2000s that “people who are homophobic are often the ones who are actually gay.” That’s not always the case — some people are just bigoted, and there isn’t a reason behind it. In Rowling’s case, there is something that rings a note close to one of Shakespeare’s most famous lines…
