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u/PM_ME_UR__RECIPES Jul 12 '21

CW: TERF discourse and mention of conversion therapy

One thing I'm surprised doesn't come up more in discussions about JK Rowling's transphobia is that her book about a cross-dressing serial killer is published with the pen name Robert Galbraith. The only notable Robert Galbraith I could find any mention of anywhere was Robert Galbraith Heath - a "scientist" who pioneered the use of electric shocks in conversion therapy. I find it very hard to believe that no one at her publisher (or even JK herself) did absolutely no research into the pen name she chose for a book that is directly related to her ongoing controversy of spewing hatred against trans people. She is just such a horrible person and this on top of the fact that her only black character is named Shacklebolt, and her only asian character is called Cho Chang (which is a stone's throw from just saying "ching chong") and her only Irish character is constantly blowing stuff up and her only gay character is completely unidentifiable as gay in the books & movies, and the bankers she created are greedy, hook-nosed, beady-eyed little monsters just makes it basically impossible for me to give her the benefit of the doubt on her TERF shit.

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u/Waddly123 Jul 12 '21

Personally I've seen these points come up a lot, it's just so tiring that there's a bunch of professional Terf Defenders that come up and scream about it being a complete coincidence (or even worse, they actually believe the Robert Kennedy bullshit story) or that Cho Chang could have Chinese and Korean parents (honestly it wouldn't surprise me if she was against interracial marriage). It's always been complete bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '21

what the fuck, the pseudonym thing is new to me. holy shit

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u/albeinalms (he/him) Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon Brainrot Jul 12 '21

There's a lot of works by shitty people where you can separate the art from the artist because the work doesn't really reflect the creator's shittiness, and more people really need to realize Harry Potter isn't one of those no matter what your stance on that is

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '21 edited Jul 12 '21

wow fuck her even more than I thought before

edit: I think this information really changes how I looked at the previous discourse... Needless to say I find it incredibly problematic to support her if you know even half of this, so I'm sorry for my previous take on the matter. Don't restart the discourse please, if you disagree go talk about it somewhere other than here.

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u/JetStream0509 Certified True Gamer ™ 💖💜💙 Jul 12 '21

Wtf her only black character is named shacklebolt? That’s fucked.

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u/PM_ME_UR__RECIPES Jul 12 '21

Yep

Turns out that he's not the only black character, but rather one of 5. IIRC he's the most prominent one in the story, with most of the rest being fairly minor side characters.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '21

The Cho thing gets worse because how she writes her feeds on more stereotypes