It’s possible to enjoy a piece of media and still dislike the creator. We’d have a pretty dull world if we just discarded everything made by bad people.
I am a trans woman and am disgusted by what Rowling has become, but HP was the first novel I read as a child, and I read it maybe 7 times before all this bullshit with Rowling begun. I know HP is not objectively great, there are a lot of plot holes, and stuff, but it is still a story that made me dream and still enjoy discussing and humour about this universe. Should I really abandon all this in spite of the author?
Go ahead and separate the art from the artist. You’re still a fan of a book that demeans women for having masculine traits, engages in pro-slavery myths, doesn’t bother to represent Asian people authentically and uses an asian girl as an object for a white boy to fall in love with, engages in homophobic allegory about AIDS, uses insensitive names for black people, uses racist Irish stereotypes for comedy, plays off rape trauma as funny, mocks anti-slavery political movements, and villifies aro/ace/apla people.
Yeah, those things are in the book, and it is good that people talk about it, and we can even even make memes/jokes about it on this community!
It doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be a community to make fun of dumbledore’s favouritism or a tiramisu that looks like a sorting hat…
It’s possible to enjoy a piece of media and still dislike the creator. We’d have a pretty dull world if we just discarded everything made by bad people.
Regardless of your feelings on separating art and artist, that’s just nonsense.
Have you read Dostoevsky?
How much of the Criterion Collection have you watched?
Ever read Pratchett?
Been to a local theater company’s play in the past year?
There are quite literally too many games on Steam to play in a lifetime.
Etc etc etc.
I am a trans woman and am disgusted by what Rowling has become, but HP was the first novel I read as a child, and I read it maybe 7 times before all this bullshit with Rowling begun. I know HP is not objectively great, there are a lot of plot holes, and stuff, but it is still a story that made me dream and still enjoy discussing and humour about this universe. Should I really abandon all this in spite of the author?
Go ahead and separate the art from the artist. You’re still a fan of a book that demeans women for having masculine traits, engages in pro-slavery myths, doesn’t bother to represent Asian people authentically and uses an asian girl as an object for a white boy to fall in love with, engages in homophobic allegory about AIDS, uses insensitive names for black people, uses racist Irish stereotypes for comedy, plays off rape trauma as funny, mocks anti-slavery political movements, and villifies aro/ace/apla people.
Yeah, those things are in the book, and it is good that people talk about it, and we can even even make memes/jokes about it on this community! It doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be a community to make fun of dumbledore’s favouritism or a tiramisu that looks like a sorting hat…
Yes there shouldn’t be. Harry Potter should be forgotten.