"I can't think clearly because I'm overrun with emotions at the horror of seeing a woman who thinks biology should be acknowledged in discussions of women's oppression", basically.
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Replying to @riverhills_xx @jkfecke
Nah my opinion of her writing, her success and the political/commercial circumstances of that success had been souring for years I mean Alan Moore made Harry Potter the Antichrist in his comic in 2012 and I basically came around to thinking he had a point
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jkfecke
At least admit that this pile-on is largely politically motivated, dude. If JKR was a good girl, submissive to the political desires of the most left-wing activists, no one would be insulting her now.
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Replying to @riverhills_xx @jkfecke
I just told you Alan Moore made Harry Potter into the Antichrist in his comic in 2012
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jkfecke
The last really big backlash on JKR before this was over her retconning Nagini into always having been a human, and the one before that was saying that wizards used to poop on the floor before toilets were invented I wouldn't call those "political", exactly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jkfecke
(Although making Nagini into an *Asian* human in particular was kinda racist) But no, there's been a steady buildup of annoyance at JKR for a while now, and an ongoing backlash to the books' outsize popularity ("Read another book!" is a meme about it)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jkfecke
Amelia Bloody Rose Retweeted Amelia Bloody Rose
For me it started with Goblet of Fire, when Hermione being appalled at the treatment of house elves was treated as a joke, and it just got worse from there as the characters continued to be unlikable people making bad decisions and never changed. Also:https://twitter.com/AmeliaRoseWrite/status/1280353342560956416?s=20 …
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Amelia Bloody Rose @AmeliaRoseWriteReplying to @UrsulaV @ZREllorI have a special resentment for the way bookstores slapped "Like Harry Potter? Try these!" onto authors like Tamora Pierce, Diane Duane, Jane Yolen, etc. I know, I know, most kids weren't like me and were new to this, but HOW DARE THEY IMPLY THE GRANDES DAMES ARE CHEAP KNOCKOFFS3 replies 6 retweets 65 likes -
Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @jkfecke
Yes, I don't think people appreciate that the backlash to JKR from *within the fantasy genre* is very old and has been there a long time A backlash that exists precisely because most mainstream commentators just ignore the genre community and see Harry Potter as sui generis
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I mean this happens all the time Margaret Atwood caught a lot of shit for basically refusing to acknowledge that The Handmaid's Tale does, in fact, "count" as a science fiction book
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Yes, I'm very aware that women, generally, catch a lot of shit for stupid and petty reasons.
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You understand I'm talking about other women authors of feminist science fiction right
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