1/The problem JK Rowling has is she's a woman in a man's world (fantasy fiction). This whole thread is laughable. Popular culture is full of people lightly referencing and changing ancient & other other cultures (hello Star Wars? ROTLA? etc etc). What she did though was this..
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Replying to @hotplinth @arthur_affect
2/She completely blew up that entire genre of fiction. Her books were spellbinding for her audience, and never has an author has so much pressure & negativity on them whilst writing a series. Has she lost it? Does she have writers block? Is she weak and inferior? ...
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3/The patriarchy have always hated her (see how many of the comments on this thread are men). I'm only 25% English and don't give a toss that parts of my culture are used as an influence on the stories ...
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4/As for her 'million pound advances'. Her first book she basically got nothing. An advance is a forward payment on royalties. She came out about £750million in profit and owed nothing ...
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5/It's like the Cho Chang thing. Chang is a hugely popular surname and god forbid anyone who dares come up with a fictitious name that that fits with that. I mean it's not as if she ever did that with loads of the English people in the series, Jesus.
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6/Go and do something positive with your life instead of dragging a successful woman who has made huge, positive change to tens of millions of peoples' lives.
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This ridiculous defensive rant is actually helping radicalize me against the whole idea of liberation-through-representation Like the simple fact that JK Rowling is a woman, and JK Rowling is successful, means JK Rowling's success is all women's success
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The fact you are against liberation through representation is the least surprising thing I've heard in all of this.
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Well yeah because it's not liberation JK Rowling has a billion dollars, whoop-de-fucking-doo I'm sure all the other women in the world benefit greatly from her giant castle with a literal electric fence around it
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I swear to God, where are all of these aggrieved elf-like bougie Brits in your timeline coming from?
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They've all got notifications for "JK Rowling" and "Harry Potter" set up in Tweetdeck and they're all working as her tireless volunteer PR team
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VintMedia
I did some JavaScript work for Tweetdeck. Sadly it's not my bag
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