JK Rowling is one of the most popular authors on the planet. She created the incredible HarryPotter series that gave children everywhere a magical world in which to immerse themselves. However, over the last year or so, she has created some very vocal enemies who have insisted that she be tossed from public life.
Rowling is very much a creature of the political left. She has been a Labour Party supporter, spoken
out loudly regarding the UK’s social safety net, and even decided to retcon
Dumbledore into being gay despite it never being mentioned in the series. However, she has refused to play along with
the latest political craze, and that is that men can become women simply by
declaring it so. She justifies this on
several grounds, from the belief that androgenizing society removes the
uniqueness of women to the understanding that if sex is malleable, then same
sex attraction has no meaning.
Well, you’d have thought she made Harry Potter a pedophile
who went around using the avada kadavra curse to kill puppies.
Activists from the trans community have been screeching to
the skies about how Rowling is a TERF(Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist…their
term…I couldn’t come up with something so PC and so insane) and wants to erase
transgenders. Sorry, but no. Just no.
Rowling expressed a pretty mainstream opinion that men are men, women
are women, and men can’t just become women because they say so. That was totally non-controversial until
about five minutes ago. But since
Rowling has strayed in this one trendy social stricture, she should, according
to activists, now be sent to the cornfield, her work to never be seen again.
Unlike the rest of us, however, Rowling has the resources to
fight back. She has what I like to call
Fuck-You Money. As a billionaire and
proven draw, she doesn’t have to care what these shrieking harpies say. My favorite response of hers when people
started on the woke bandwagon and trying to cancel her was when she tweeted “I
shall file your admiration carefully in the box where I keep the rest of my
missing fucks.” It was a ballsy tweet(no
pun or allusion intended) that clapped back at these activists, whose volume
makes you think there are many more of them than there actually are, in a way
most of us would like to.
These activists and shrill sirens have called for boycotts
of her books, the video game derived from her books, and even her upcoming HBO
Max series. Luckily, her books are still
beloved, her series is moving forward, and her video game just set records for sales
in the first month of release.
You see, most of us just want to read good stories. We don’t give a shit about the politics of
the person behind the story, and we simply wish to be left alone by the asylum
full of mental patients that insist we celebrate everything the way they want
us to. Yes, a few folks who are buying
her video game are anti-trans activists who get satisfaction out of watching
the other side go apoplectic, but the vast majority of us just want to be left
in peace to enjoy talented work. What
annoys us is when the harpies can’t just not buy it themselves, but rather
insist the rest of us share in their outrage.
Sorry, but you don’t get to dictate my outrage, especially when so many
of us agree with Rowling. Moreover, even
if we didn’t, we know people can have differing opinions, and that should be
okay. And before any of you want to try
telling me this is akin to racism, understand that human sexuality is the
single most defining of our traits, and it’s just biological reality…a reality
we don’t want you to try and upend just because you think that reality is mean. Go throw away your books(that you already
paid for and have already read) and be pissy by yourselves – the rest of us
want to enjoy what we enjoy, and we get that Rowling doesn’t have to bend the
knee to you just because you believe you can out-anger people.
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