Like imagine if I looked over a chart of the Western Zodiac and fixated on one bizarre random thing -- "Pisces are especially known for their love of music" And then I went and made my wizard book where the Pisces Potion specifically gave you the ability to play the guitar
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And when I was asked what the origin of the Pisces Potion was I totally misremembered the details and just said "Well, in the Northern European dialect of Zociad, the word Pisces means 'good at music'" And then all the Asian people in the world thought that's what it meant
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It's just a huge pile of Wrong in one single Fun Fact from the Harry Potter-verse
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Misremembering Madagascar as being in "West Africa" Confusing the Malagasy language with the divination practice of Sikidy Misspelling Sikidy "Sidiki" And then thinking one aspect of the sign was the sign's whole meaning
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It's just... really fucking lazy and disrespectful It would not be a big deal -- it would be depressingly par for the course -- if it were just some random fantasy book But of course it's a big deal now because the books became a big deal And she never raised her standards
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This is the same shitty level of research she put into bloviating about skinwalkers in Navajo culture or naga in Hindu culture Hell, it's the same shitty level of research she put into talking about boggarts and brownies and other elements of *English* culture
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This is what I mean when I say she's not just a bad writer and a bigoted person but profoundly lazy Her worldview is shaped by this amazingly self-confident willingness to just glance at something once or twice and be sure she understands as much of it as she needs to
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this is what ive been saying is the root of her queerphobia- sheer narcissistic laziness. its like her entire picture of queer / trans ppl is shaped by the laziest, most boring stereotypes imaginable that shes never thought to reconsider in DECADES of writing, (1/2)
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(2/2) like she read a shitty 1950s pulp novel once decades ago and lifted her entire perception of queer / trans characters from that.
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The fact that she just lifted this well-worn queerphobic cliche -- Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs, Norman Bates from Psycho -- and thinks that by thoughtlessly reproducing it she's doing something *important*, that it makes her an incisive social critic
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And there's all these talking heads nodding along with her that this regressive bigotry -- this "natural" revulsion to a girly swishy man who's probably a giant pervert who will strangle you and jerk off with your underwear, because That's What They All Do -- is "feminism"
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word, her laziness and bigotry- basically a fundamental lack of desire to empathize, or imagine any worldview outside these stock tropes- or investigate any culture beyond a mere surface glance for useful bits- it all goes hand in hand. and that's... incisive feminism... somehow?
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