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Alfie Award-Winning Author/Commentator She/Her Nonfiction: http://alexandraerin.substack.com  Fiction: http://patreon.com/alexandraerin  Query: blueauthor@alexandraerin.com

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    Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin Mar 2

    Alexandra Erin Retweeted Jason Schreier

    I love how this includes what always struck me as the weirdest thing in Harry Potter's world-building, which is that "witchcraft" and "wizardry" are the exact same thing except one is being done by a woman and the other by a man.https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1366743065663266828 …

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    Jason SchreierVerified account @jasonschreier
    NEWS: Hogwarts Legacy will have trans-inclusive character creation, with body, voice, and gender ("witch/wizard") all separated, sources say. This news follows JK Rowling's transphobic comments and the recent discovery that a producer supports Gamergate https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/harry-potter-video-game-will-allow-for-transgender-characters …
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      2. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin Mar 2

        "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry" is "Hogwarts School of Magic (by Ladies) and the Exact Same Magic (by Gentlemen)."

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      3. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin Mar 2

        The idea that "witch" and "wizard" are gendered terms aren't something she invented or codified in fantasy or popular conception, but she just built it into the world-building at such a fundamental level.

        3 replies 12 retweets 181 likes
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      4. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin Mar 2

        There's Witch Weekly, which is very clearly the magical version of a woman's magazine (articles about fashion, housekeeping, rating the best smiles of handsome wizards, etc.)

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      5. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin Mar 2

        Alexandra Erin Retweeted Iron Joe - Ashley and Red for Smash

        I mean, you definitely could, but she definitely doesn't. She genders things relentlessly and it never pays off, goes anywhere, or means anything.https://twitter.com/IronJoeBro/status/1366793230650589185 …

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        Iron Joe - Ashley and Red for Smash @IronJoeBro
        Replying to @AlexandraErin
        idk I feel like you could make a point with that
        7 replies 7 retweets 185 likes
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      6. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin Mar 2

        Used to be when I would rant about this I'd get people replying to tell me where they thought the division between witchcraft and wizardry was because surely if it's a school of witchcraft AND wizardry then those must be two different things, right?

        3 replies 2 retweets 117 likes
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      7. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin Mar 2

        But in the whole of the series, nothing ever implies that witchcraft means this thing and wizardry means this other thing, and the whole gender system where "witch" means "female magical human" and "wizard" means "male magical human" cuts against that idea.

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      8. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin Mar 2

        As I said: she didn't create this idea. I think like so many other things that showed up in the early books she just didn't think that much about it before incorporating it into her world. "OF COURSE wizards are male and witches are female, everyone knows that."

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      9. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin Mar 2

        And having decided to gender it, she then has to make sure her co-ed school isn't called a wizard school because that would be sexist, so we get Hogwarts School for Lady-Magic and Dude-Magic, where Lady-Magic and Dude-Magic are the same magic, but we have to know who's doing it.

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      1. Iron Joe - Ashley and Red for Smash‏ @IronJoeBro Mar 2
        Replying to @AlexandraErin

        idk I feel like you could make a point with that

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      1. Benjamin‏ @Philosopher_Dad Mar 2
        Replying to @AlexandraErin

        Also, nothing says "trans-inclusive" like enforcing the gender binary (maybe they cover that in the article, but I am not reading bloomberg lol).

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