I think this is unfortunately normal - it's how the concept of the "genre ghetto" works, and it's not really Atwood's fault, and it's kind of a waste of time to get mad about it But Rowling really was a particularly bad case
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As someone who really benefited from people thinking she somehow invented the concept of "wizard school", who almost certainly did in fact crib ideas from previous "wizard school" books, and yet resolutely pretended on interviews that she'd only ever read Shakespeare and Austen
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Pfffft what? She seriously did that? That's like... 16 year old not wanting to admit they cribbed ideas for their fanfics from popular TV shows level of pathetic omg. Like... you heard of 'The Worst Witch' before JK, you aren't fooling anyone.
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As I recall the diplomatic way Le Guin responded was "I don't think her books are very similar to mine at all and I don't need the help But it is a fact I wrote the first modern wizard school stories and not her"
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"And I don't think she owes me anything but I wish she'd lift up other working writers in her own field more often" (It is very hard to find JKR publicly praising or naming as an influence another author who isn't dead)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RogoSprout and
Rowling’s disinterest in lifting up other voices is a long-running critique. Imagine how much cooler Pottermore, with all those racist backstories of the other “ethnic” wizard schools, could have been if she’d Rick Riordan’d it and hired
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I've never once heard someone complain that a male public figure doesn't spend enough time "lifting up other voices".
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you don’t listen to a lot of women then I guess!
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No seriously, I and many others have noticed a pattern in liberal activism where women's labor and time is seen as a public resource that must be given up to everyone's needs and feelings but her own. Yet men can do the bare minimum and be praised. This needs fixing.
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Replying to @riverhills_xx @clairewillett
Okay well maybe start this call for reform somewhere other than the literal very top of the ladder with the literal wealthiest woman in the UK
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Just as an example, Emma Watson and Jameela Jamil, neither of whom I think are perfect, catch heat on the Internet constantly, for exactly the reason you mentioned
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Replying to @arthur_affect @clairewillett
The fact that they're known for activism means they get people constantly judging them and calling their work phony, demanding why they're amplifying this cause but not another one, prying into their personal lives to judge whether they're hypocrites, etc
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I don't see TERFs defending them from this behavior I see TERFs DOING this I see TERFs being the MAIN people who do this Because as cis "handmaidens" who stand up for trans rights they are completely fair game
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