The problem I keep having re: Hogwarts Legacy discourse is that I am addicted to reading insane opinions about it but also people are now posting spoilers all over the place, and I haven’t even decided if I want to eventually play the game or not (I have a lot of other games I want to play already and I’m currently in a long-term polyamo…
The problem I keep having re: Hogwarts Legacy discourse is that I am addicted to reading insane opinions about it but also people are now posting spoilers all over the place, and I haven’t even decided if I want to eventually play the game or not (I have a lot of other games I want to play already and I’m currently in a long-term polyamorous relationship with both Fortnite and Final Fantasy XIV).
Anyway, there’s a YouTuber named Jessie Earl (https://twitter.com/jessiegender) who has made several bad faith videos about J.K. Rowling (including a recent one that clocks in at 3.5 hours), and she has been tweeting a bunch about how playing the game means that you’re not an ally to the trans community. She has hypothesized that the game’s enormous financial success is evidence of transphobia as opposed to, I dunno, people wanting to play a game based on one of the most popular franchises in the world. J.K. Rowling actually mentioned Jessie in a tweet back in December responding to some of her criticisms, which has only served to further Jessie’s victimhood narrative (https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1604180531155017731?s=20&t=3_OyAa97goaVgBpQJ_B6lg). I just find her to be a good example of the toxicity and lack of self-awareness present in this discourse.
I think ultimately the real dilemma with the J.K. Situation is that you have an entire community of people who have come to believe (under somewhat dubious pretenses) that Rowling represents an existential threat and there is nothing that can be done to convince them otherwise, because if you dare to suggest that she’s not evil, you are then also viewed as a bigot and will no longer be listened to. That being said, I did talk to a normie friend the other day who is not very online, and he too has noticed a lot of the insanity regarding “woke” stuff. I mentioned to him that I don’t think J.K. Rowling is really as bad as some make her out to be and he agreed with me. So it’s just important to remember that people on the Internet are insane, and that the best thing you can do is interact with people who are not extremely online.
I'm convinced that only about 10% of the anger at Rowling is over what she has actually said and the other 90% is impotent rage over the fact that she was marked for destruction, but is still beloved and powerful, and no amount of cringy NY Times ads or YouTube auto-da-fés can change that.
It's about using her as an example to show others the cost of speaking out. It teaches people to self-censor, to automatically not even expose themselves to information that goes against what their peer environment believes lest their opinion start to change, because the consequences would be too severe.
I wish I could give you an additional like for using auto-da-fés in a sentence. So rarely see it used these days and it should really be more common parlance, all things considered.
Since two people have said it so far, I feel obliged to remind everyone that the plural of "auto-da-fé" is "autos-da-fé," like attorneys general or courts martial.
J.K. Rowling literally murdered my entire family. Your comment downplaying her evil has caused me irreparable psychic harm, and will lead to countless black trans deaths, probably.
The problem I keep having re: Hogwarts Legacy discourse is that I am addicted to reading insane opinions about it but also people are now posting spoilers all over the place, and I haven’t even decided if I want to eventually play the game or not (I have a lot of other games I want to play already and I’m currently in a long-term polyamorous relationship with both Fortnite and Final Fantasy XIV).
Anyway, there’s a YouTuber named Jessie Earl (https://twitter.com/jessiegender) who has made several bad faith videos about J.K. Rowling (including a recent one that clocks in at 3.5 hours), and she has been tweeting a bunch about how playing the game means that you’re not an ally to the trans community. She has hypothesized that the game’s enormous financial success is evidence of transphobia as opposed to, I dunno, people wanting to play a game based on one of the most popular franchises in the world. J.K. Rowling actually mentioned Jessie in a tweet back in December responding to some of her criticisms, which has only served to further Jessie’s victimhood narrative (https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1604180531155017731?s=20&t=3_OyAa97goaVgBpQJ_B6lg). I just find her to be a good example of the toxicity and lack of self-awareness present in this discourse.
I think ultimately the real dilemma with the J.K. Situation is that you have an entire community of people who have come to believe (under somewhat dubious pretenses) that Rowling represents an existential threat and there is nothing that can be done to convince them otherwise, because if you dare to suggest that she’s not evil, you are then also viewed as a bigot and will no longer be listened to. That being said, I did talk to a normie friend the other day who is not very online, and he too has noticed a lot of the insanity regarding “woke” stuff. I mentioned to him that I don’t think J.K. Rowling is really as bad as some make her out to be and he agreed with me. So it’s just important to remember that people on the Internet are insane, and that the best thing you can do is interact with people who are not extremely online.
I'm convinced that only about 10% of the anger at Rowling is over what she has actually said and the other 90% is impotent rage over the fact that she was marked for destruction, but is still beloved and powerful, and no amount of cringy NY Times ads or YouTube auto-da-fés can change that.
It's about using her as an example to show others the cost of speaking out. It teaches people to self-censor, to automatically not even expose themselves to information that goes against what their peer environment believes lest their opinion start to change, because the consequences would be too severe.
I wish I could give you an additional like for using auto-da-fés in a sentence. So rarely see it used these days and it should really be more common parlance, all things considered.
Since two people have said it so far, I feel obliged to remind everyone that the plural of "auto-da-fé" is "autos-da-fé," like attorneys general or courts martial.
J.K. Rowling literally murdered my entire family. Your comment downplaying her evil has caused me irreparable psychic harm, and will lead to countless black trans deaths, probably.
Well she did write those dull books that inspired even duller films. Everything she’s done since has been spot-on, to be fair.
That literally murdered me.