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.
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.