Does JK Rowling's Transphobia Ruin Harry Potter?
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If only we lived in a world where a sign saying “women’s washroom” stopped men in their tracks from assaulting a woman.
Right?! Like theres a rapist on a hunt and all the women just run into their bathrooms and it's like a garlic forcefield to a vampire. The rapist snaps his fingers like Swiper. "Awh man!" And walks home in defeat.
Obsidia I know this topic is supposed to be serious but the way you described it is funny as hell. 😂
*puts a female symbol on bathroom door*
We did it, boys. Rape is no more.
@@billysinge8977 what's wrong with people changing their gender? as long as they are working with a therapist and doing everything safely then it doesn't really matter.
THIS 🤭😶
the bathroom argument is horrible. what's stopping cis men from just walking into a woman's bathroom and assaulting them? a woman's bathroom isn't some "forbidden place" that people need to "fake being trans" to get into.
Seriously how is this still an argument??
As someone who is non-binary and look very androgynous, I absolutely hate going to gender specific public bathrooms.
Mainly because I don’t feel safe in either.
No matter where I go people stare, comment and sometimes if drunk are physically threatening like “what the fuck are you doing in here!”. Doesn’t matter to what bathroom I go to.
I just want to pee, leave me alone.
In my experience the people who have reason for feeling unsafe with trans people in gendered bathrooms, is trans people.
"We have to protect the children from 'men' walking into the 'girl's bathrooms!'"
Oh, right the old "If we give (insert sexual, gender or racial minority here) rights, what's to stop them from hurting our children?!" The law, actually. The law is kinda meant to stop that.
Nobody tell Terfs about janitors. Janitors even have the ability to easily prevent people from coming into the bathroom
My dad took me into women's public bathrooms as a little kid and waited by the sinks because I was scared to be alone, no one actually cares, at most a woman would be worried she walked into the wrong one and he'd mention me and she wouldn't mind.
The women's only sign didn't stop Tom Riddle from murdering Myrtle
oh snap
didnt stop myrtle from creeping on harry, either. who was 14 at the time. (shudder)
@@Laeiryn to be fair in the books she helps him and looks away whilst he’s changing. Also she died at 14 and is therefore stuck at that age.
Sorry for the info dump, I’m a bit of a potter head (don’t like JKR tho).
@@Laeiryn she was also 14 though, hosts don’t age
@@carmelmulroy6459this is not an argument for taking away a safe space for trans women by denying them entry to womens restrooms, but great to hear that we are all united in the fight against predators!
Remember when Stephen King said “Trans Women are Women” and JK Rowling blocked him?
You're kidding! Wow!
He’s no saint either though. the way he speaks of underage women in all his books are pretty problematic.
@@biancadesousa ??
Stephen King is a fucking creep tho. That orgy in IT is a dead give away.
@@Isaaxz123 you know that it's not supposed to be arousing, right? You can call the scene problematic, which it is, but I think there is a difference between writing something creepy and actually being creepy. And King himself regrets writing it. I'll also ask, have you read the book? It's a pretty obvious metaphor for the transition from childhood to adulthood.
we've got wine instead of tea. this is serious.
She's evolving into Lindsay Ellis, i support
@@user-nw1je1ur6t Lindsay Ellis or Natalie Wynn, take your pick. Though hopefully she never drinks *that* much.
👀 Yup.
That's not wine. Its vodka. I'm just glad that Daniel Radcliffe wrote Harry Potter. Or at least now I'm acting like he did.
@@zeroslash2050 Can Emma Watson co-author it?
"Acknowledging trans people erases LGBT people."
Anyone wanna tell JK what the T stands for?
Right?!
T in LGBT actually stands for Transformers
LBG
she thought it was for terfs she felt included 😭
i am a ballsack lmaoooo 🔥
A little fact about H.P Lovecraft.
He was so racist at his time that racists told him to "tone it down a bit"
Another little-known fact: despite popular belief, Lovecraft was not a product of his time. The late 20's through early 30's were really darn progressive. More women choosing to remain single and find employment, the beginnings of an LGBT movement (Marlene Dietrich in particular has the honor of "first onscreen lesbian kiss," and anyone who watches her films can tell it's not for pandering), even rumbles of racial equality were in the balance (although I think despite his intentions at employing more black people in the entertainment industry, Al Jolson is now the poster child of blackface).
Lovecraft's writings were arguably more of a "THIS IS WHERE SOCIETY IS HEADING" warning.
Ironically, three years before his death, Hollywood enacted the Hayes-Code, which put a stop to positive LGBT portrayals in film, ditto for interracial relationships, and women being able to strive for anything other than marriage with kids.
dont look up the name of his cat 👀
@@KetsubanSolo The 20's-30's were also the times where The KKK was at it's Zenith and actual fascism was becoming dominant in central Europe and East Asia. This was a time of great contradiction, but compared to early 20th century racism, Lovecraft wasn't bad. I don't get where people get the notion that he was particularly bad from, when Mein Kampf was one of the most sold books of the 20's.
@@KetsubanSolo so Lovecraft was literally just the "this is the future liberals want" of the 20s and 30s?
@@GormTheElder he was bad for the time. Yes, there were racists around, but there’s also a huge amount of fascists and move towards racism around now if you hadn’t noticed. It doesn’t mean being racist now is the norm or not bad. Even in the 20s being THAT racist wasn’t the norm.
JK Rowling thinking Trans friendship groups are suspicious is like people being surprised that gay and bi people tend to also group together lol.
I think I have 3 cishet friends, most of my friend group is bi, les and/or trans
@@funkydude8196 same like my main friend group in high school was pretty much all LGBT
Rowling is angry that trans women would call themselves women because they don't have the experiences that cis women have, and is then suspicious when trans experiences bond trans people together.
I haven't seen a straight person in weeks that wasn't from work.
The same could be said of white people sticking together yet we get labelled istaphobes if we do lol
Harry Potter fans: J.K. Rowling is transphobic
Harry Potter fans: Noooooooo
Cthulhu fans: H.P. Lovecraft is racist
Cthulhu fans: Yes we know
TO BE FAIR (a very careful to be fair, to be fair) I recently heard from an associate that good ole' Howard apparently did travel and come to regret his racist views late in life. Apparently it's all in the letters he wrote. Doesn't excuse his former racism, of course.
I do love it when people go "Oh, but it was a different time! They didn't know any better then!"
Um, yeah...in Lovecraft's time, even his contemporaries were like "Yo, Howard. Turn it down a notch."
@@ShadofofaMermaid Yeah, when you write "Shadow over Innsmouth" (a story about the "danger" of miscegenation) after discovering your grandma was *Welsh* you know you are in a whole other level of racism.
@@ShadofofaMermaid "Turn it down a NOTCH". Get it? Because Notch is also an all-access bigot.
@@ShadofofaMermaid well that doesnt change his racist views that influenced his stories while he was writing them.
@@jazzycat8917 didnt mean to suggest that his work was nothing but racist but wanted to make the point that it doesnt matter that he changed after he wrote those stories
it's so clear that jkr thinks she's hermione when in reality she's umbridge
Very true
I recently reread Harry Potter and it's surprising how she typecasts women in the books. I also found it interesting that Umbridge isn't just bad and stupid, but she is Unattractive and short, which is a trope she uses where anyone who is powerful and clever is default Handsome and Tall, and the short and unattractive for the opposite. Just to clarify I am only referring to there power lever not if they are bad, for example Tom Riddle is handsome and tall even though he is bad.
@@Alex-cw3rz isn't petunia also pretty tall? (Been a long time since I read it. I know horse-faced)
AgentSteffi yeah but that’s to make a funny image next to Vernon, who’s ugly, short, and fat
@@AgentSteffi I think she's meant to be very skinny and tall in an unattractive way. Umbridge is short and fat and looks like a horrid toad. Whereas the good characters are mostly proportionate (not necessarily stunning- for example Molly Weasley is chubby, Hermione has frizzy hair and buck teeth, many of the characters are awkward or gangly, etc.- but the good characters are more 'pleasantly homely').
If a cis man wants to assault and harass women in their bathrooms, he'll just do it. I doubt they'd go through the expensive and painful process of fully transitioning, or risk their safety/life by trying to make people believe they were trans
This. I remember my bully walked into the girls bathroom and wouldn't leave when I told him this is this girl's bathroom. Luckily I could and did leave.
I don't have to fully transition, I don't even have to change my clothes, I cam just say I'm a woman, walk in, watch and be weird.
Want me to go? You can't because that's being transphobic.
@@bobdrooples bathroom policing already exists and it's based on how you look. Even butch women gets kicked out off the bathroom, So they'd probably kick you out and scream for help. your argument has no basis
that's not being transphobic since you use a male name and is probably a alt-right troll.
You clearly never heard of Jessica Yaniv 😂
oh so the "lets name the only Chinese character Cho Chang" wants to preach to us?
How do you know Cho was Chinese?
@@silverstarlight9395 We actually don’t! ‘Chang’ is a name of Chinese origin, but ‘Cho’ is Korean, since the same sound would be spelled as ‘Qiu’ in Chinese.
So basically, Rowling smashed two vaguely Asian-sounding words together and called it a day, which is a pretty scummy way of naming one of the few Asian characters in the books.
Maybe Cho was a British character, whose parents decided to give her an edgy name. You don't get to see many real British people named Albus and Sirius. But that doesn't mean Dumbledore and Sirius were Asian.
@@silverstarlight9395 I mean, that’s not super relevant. Albus and Sirius still both have latin origins (albus = white , Sirius = a star). Cho Chang is a very stereotypical attempt at an ‘Asian name’.
The way AVPM deals with this is hilarious
it’s awful that she tried to say that trans women were hurting lesbians or whatever. i’m a lesbian and trans women are some of the nicest most wonderful people i’ve ever met.
I'm a 38-year-old, cis gender lesbian. The only lesbians who have truly ever accepted me are trans. For some 20+ years I just called myself "queer" because other lesbians wanted nothing to do with me. They insisted that I was bi because I could look at a dude with a nice face and go "wow, what a nice face that dude has." I do not want to sleep with, date, or have relationships with men. I am only attracted romantically etc to women. I am 5.5 at the least on the Kinsey scale, but I was never lesbian enough for my fellow cis lesbians. I HAD to be bi... and it meant they wanted nothing to do with me. But trans lesbians have been nothing but welcoming, affirming, and kind to me. The very least I can do is stand with them in turn and advocate for their rights.
Right? And extremely cheeky of her to claim that she is on the side of cis lesbians and in the same breath shout over us and claim to speak for us over issues that are purely in the ballcourt of the LGBT+ community. During pride month, a pandemic and anti racism marches. Pure seething nobody was paying attention to her during this time seems like.
I’m a cis lesbian and my s/o is a trans lesbian. She can gtfo with that. She is the only trans girl I’ve dated but we have a wonderful relationship and I can’t say that about a few of my cis lesbian ex’s.
@@yarnpenguin the fact that everyone rejects someone because theyre bissexual or because they "seem" bisexual makes me really sad, especially when bi people are in the same community as lesbian and gay people
This is such a lovely comment. I've seen too many terf lesbians say that trans women are going to force them to have sex with them.
A wise man once told me: "appreciate the art, not the artist"
The guy was a H.P. Lovecraft fan.
They go after Lovecraft because he is a man, and therefor, fair game. J K is going to get a lot of these ''question'' videos because she is a woman. ''Should we allow transphobia because the famous artist is a woman?''
''How do we let JK off the hook while demonizing Lovecraft?''
@@citycrusher9308 well, I mean, Lovecraft died a hundred years ago, and JK is alive and on twitter right now. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you; Lovecraft may be a poor comparison, that's all. There are transphobic male artists out there currently, I'm sure. What's that guy's name--Graham Lineham? He got cancelled recently for his super transphobic stuff. Banned from twitter, even(lol). A fellow british writer, he's the guy behind that show The I.T. Crowd.
I feel like lovecraft's racist beliefs just make the books even spookier
I am very glad that the left eats each other in these lunatic times.
Thats what she gets for saying something like
_"black Hermione"_ hahahaha!
And now look at Rowling!
.
Karma got her fast, hahahaha!
*NEVER ' EVER* start to c°ck before the ever insane leftist, globalist ideologies which are constantly at war with reality.
Only suffering comes from it.
@@crappozappo by a hundred years ago you mean less than 1 hundred years ago , and lived long enough to state his support for hitler along with a ton of anti semitic bullshit and was openly hateful of black folks, yeah you are kind of right. and he is having his likeness removed from some libraries lately .
"natal women"
"biological woman"
Man people will really just say anything to avoid saying cis
@@Xehanort10 lol, no
@@Xehanort10 No people don't think that.
@@Xehanort10 nobody uses cithet as an insult. people complain about stuff cishet people do, if you're offended by that, you should probably think about whether you're doing those things
That's because that's not what being cis is. Being cis is when your gender identity aligns with your biological sex. And you'll notice that this is already a ridiculous term/classification because *sex does not inherently decide one's gender*! Also gender classifications seems pretty defunct to me at this point.
@@Xehanort10 Stop implying that the only two options are "cis" or "trans"; you are excluding a ton of people.
"Because as we all know, censorship is when you criticise someone for what they say, and in a truly uncensored society, no one is allowed to express criticism of another person's ideas."
This sarcastic quote is so amazing oh my god
u will never be a woman OMG !
@@Wtahc And you will never be relevant. Go away.
@@Wtahc The only reason you people say things like this is because you enjoy the idea of other people feeling bad because of you. Maybe you should reflect on that?
@@UnreasonableOpinions i dont care about "relevance", cuz im not a woman, honey ))
@@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou na its actually cuz ppl like u are ruining the world but thanks for ur opinion
That *"I know trans people"* sounds alot like *"I'm not racist I have black friends"*
Some people who claim that they are not racists only know the black and white races...
Never understood why that is wrong. Someone motivated by racial animus towards black people would not want to have black friends.
@@derekpederson1952 it in itself is not wrong, but the phrase is often insisted by people with black *acquaintances* and friends of friends, merely tolerating their existence but not forming a bond. or they're just dumb and ignorant, believing that somebody quietly tolerating your casual racism makes you friends with them.
@@derekpederson1952 More than simply having acquaintances or friends of friends, some people who say that have actual black friends, but think *they're the good ones*, implying that most of the ones they don't know aren't. Racism isn't simple.
GuerillaBunny Fine, but if you expand the definition of racism enough it ceases to be abhorrent. We react to the charge of calling someone a racist because we associate that with things like slavery and Jim Crow or even the Nazis. If racism is reduced to just having some implicit racial biases then it is ultimately something that applies to everyone, and is a meaningless accusation to throw at people. In other words, if everything is outrageous, nothing is outrageous.
"People have made amazing works from Harry Potter"
Don't beat around the bush, we all know you mean My Immortal
Edit: yes, Harry Potter puppet pals and the very Potter musical series amazing as well and everyone one should watch them
😂
I'm not familiar with the HP fandom, what is My Immortal?
please share "amazing works from HP"
Mina Gray it's a fanfic from around 2006-2007, so poorly written people still wonder if it was real or just a troll. either way, it's absolutely hilarious. Caleb Joseph made a great video on it, reading some parts of it and also diving into the whole "investigation" into who the author actually is, i highly recommend watching it lol
Long story short, everyone is a Satanist. It's a trip and I highly recommend looking into it for the lulz.
Rowling using the abuse she suffered at the hands of cis men to justify abuse of trans people is like kicking every cat you ever encounter because of that one time a dog bit you.
No. Se's just saying that its important for some services like rape shelters and prisons to remain single sex. She has had the need to go to a women's shelter in the past and understands that those shelters need to stay single sex. Are you gonna ask female that have been victim of sexual violence from a male person to disregard the triggers they have against males and their body? Most transwomen never have surgeries and many don't take any hormones and it rare that trans women pass enought not to be clocked. Are you gonna ask a woman that has been traumatised and raped by a person w a penis that she's a bigot when she has a panic attack because a person with a penis is in her private place?
The Vancouvert Rape Relief shelter had no way of accomodating trans women inside their building while keeping privacy and separation for trans women and cis women. It was the only remaining sex specific shelter in the city. Instead of petitionning for the opening of a trans shelter, transwoman politician Morgan Oger had Vancouver Rape Relief shelter defunded and trans activists wrote threats on the doors of a shelter and NAILED a dead rat to the door.
Why can't we have trans shelters? Why can't we have protected trans wings in prison? Why is the disconfort of trans women more important that the disconfort of cis women?
this is a super common thing with cis lesbians. as a trans woman i can say i’ve been threatened by many cis lesbians even after they’ve harassed me and hypersexualized me when they “thought i was a cute cis girl”. then, finding out i’m trans, they’ll say they have trauma from men and what those men have done and it just sucks to be equated w that when i have also dealt w gross shit from men. just so many double standards. like how am i the dangerous person in these situations yknow? pretty much i don’t hang out w cis ppl anymore lol.... just sum thoughts from a tired trans girl
Did you just assume their gender, transphobe?
Men are men....no matter what clothes they wear
What is a woman?
18:15 I really hate the "changing rooms" argument most out of all of them. In my nearly 40 years of life on this planet, every woman who has been attacked in or near changing rooms or public toilets (that I am aware of in my city of 1.5 million people) has had it happen by a male presenting cis-man.
These rapists and murders aren't even bothering to put on balaclavas, they aren't about to dress up as a woman. That doesn't happen outside Hollywood.
"I could just commit this horrible crime, but I'd rather subject myself to years of deeply invasive therapy and medical procedures first because then when I do commit that horrible crime I'll have an incredibly flimsy alibi somehow! I mean, I'll still be guilty of assaulting someone in a locker room, but nobody can say I shouldn't have been there in the first place! Well, except for all the people already saying I shouldn't be there in the first place even if I'm not committing horrible crimes, and physically assaulting me for being there in the first place, but other than that it's the perfect crime!"
Yep, this argument is basically blood libel for trans folk.
I live near Hollywood, and I've never heard of it happening there, either.
Clearly you haven't been paying attention then. Well that and the media goes out of their way to not cover these things while anything in favor of trans people is covered immediately.
But it's far from impossible to find if you do the faintest bit of searching.
What you don't seem to understand is many guys dress up as women for fetishes, but the fact is that because of these new rules you don't have to dress up like anything. Guys can go into the women's toilets and linger around all they like no matter what they're wearing. It's called Self ID.
It's not just about attacks either. I'm not interested in dudes holing up in bathroom stalls jerking off to women peeing. Or now having to escort my teen daughter to the bathroom because a grown man thinks it's perfectly fine to ask her for a tampon he obviously doesn't need and discuss periods because he has a sick fetish.
You seem to be under the delusion that when a man transitions...so does his average crime rate down to the female level. Well that's not what happens. They still retain the male crime rate. What a shock. The only difference is trans women are more than twice as likely as regular men to be in prison for s*x crimes.
This isn't going to stop at bathrooms either. They're demanding to be in women's prisons and r*pe shelters using self ID. And successfully doing so under these new laws and assaulting women. Yes what a great idea, stick a man who's in jail for crimes targeting women...in a cell with a woman. What could go wrong.
Everyone I heard of was a transvestite pretending to be a woman
*BREAKING NEWS*
JK Rowling has revealed that Hagrid is a furry
Nah Sirius is
We could tell
That actually makes sense
@Lavi Fish-Bieler *truwu
Pfft,That's Not NEWS: That's Just Stating A Well Known Fact.XD
People will talk about Harry Potter and JK’s transphobia in the same breath just like they do about HP Lovecraft and what he named his cat.
It’s a shame the author’s bigoted beliefs are going to stain their work forever, but we can’t ignore it when we discuss their works. This is especially true considering the treasure trove of other ugly problems in Harry Potter. JK’s transphobia isn’t an anomaly, it’s a feature of her thatcher/Blaire-esque neoliberal ideology, and that ideology seriously effects her work in a lot of other ways.
what did he name his cat again.
@@AmySwain03 it's uh.
It's.
It was um.
Look, just Google it.
Gamerman
@@AmySwain03 wasn't it the n-word ? I don't remember?
@@user-mv8ys5og5l I just searched it up and..who the Frick names their cat that
if terf is a slur how come i was never called a terf in a call of duty lobby
I'm #TeamTerf
@@liampatrick3110then perish
The thing I can't wrap my head around is how Rowling is literally taking Voldemort's stance: "They (muggleborns) are not really part of us US, theyre not REALLY wizards, we should drive them out"
Its my personal biggest justification for disowning her from her work
this is the best analogy i’ve ever heard for it, hands down. i mean, muggle-borns and pure-bloods have different experiences - muggle-borns grow up thinking they’ll be muggles while pure-bloods always know they’re wizards - but at the end of the day, they’re all wizards, and they all have a right to exist in the same spaces without being removed or attacked. even if muggles may have burned your ancestors at the stake, you are not looking at a muggle! you’re looking at a wizard! they’re not going to hurt you, and they’re just as likely as you are to be targeted by violence (if not moreso, since they’re also targeted *by you*).
yes it's definitely ironic to make an entire series against prejudice of people who are "different" and turning out to be a bigot yourself. i'll never understand
I would say it is more like the opposite. He hated them because he believed that they were different from purebloods despite them being for all intents and purposes the same. They are what they are born as (wizard, muggle or squib) and they can't change that. Harry was a wizard but the Dursleys tried their hardest to deny it for as long as they could, even having Harry believe that he was a muggle. In the end they grudgingly had to accept that he was what he was born as. It doesn't matter what they identify as because in the end they are what they are.
Okay that's kinda ironic, sad, and funny in a really painful way.
Rowling was secretly voldermort the entire time.
On the detransitioning part: I have a trans friend. I’ve had her break down because she was seriously considering detransitioning. She couldn’t find a job, and her parents kept on telling her she might get a job if she detransitioned. I had to reassure her that she is a woman and shouldn’t pretend to be something she isn’t. I can imagine there are trans people who don’t have support systems and are forced back :(
Rlly hope she gets a job, she deserves it
:( I hope things get better for her...
Not to mention in the uk waiting lists for the gender clinics are so long that is motivation enough to put people off getting the treatment if they truelydidnt want to transition. Like say if people did feel pressured to transition, I've been waiting two years to even be SEEN nevermind to even be treated, if you felt pressured to transition (a commonly cited reason as to why people detransition) that is plenty time to come out and go back on your decision to socially transition and get yourself taken off the list. Also nhs stats show only 0.5% off trans ppl who have been treated from them actually detransition, not many
And there are also people being told to transition before it is responsible for them to. At the end of the day, a lot of what goes into transitioning causes physical changes, some of which you cannot just undo (not even talking about surgeries). And even if there's only one genuine case of someone regretting the decision, not because the environment around them in unwelcoming but because it was genuinely a mistake, doesn't that warrant being careful?
Renegade Vile aren’t we talking about the pressure transitioned people (and mature enough to make the choice) feel to detransition? I’m sorry I understand you raise valid points but in this context you are just detracting from the conversation and in a passive way criticizing the choice to transaction.
jkr saying "autistic girls are hugely overrepresented in their numbers" is APPALLING to me as an autistic trans guy. like, first of all, you don't actually care about autistic people, and you don't need to speak for us like it's some tragedy that autistic people are trans sometimes. second of all, autistic people often have unique relationships with gender as a result of being autistic; we don't necessarily interact with our assigned gender the same way allistic people do, and many of us have easier times accepting and understanding that we're trans because of that. also, autistic people are every bit as capable of deciding to transition as allistic people. we're not children and we don't need your "concern".
Honestly the casual ableism in their rhetoric is just appalling
hmmm, i wonder what could lead people who often have difficulty with social norms and are more likely to reject them to question their gender? It is truly a mystery.
She's so gross lmao
@MorCell Speaking with a therapist or a psychiatrist is usually a good place to start. I'm sorry I'm not much help. I got lucky because my mom is a child therapist, so she knew how to get me properly assessed when I was really young.
People are so quick to infantilize and desexualize autistic folks and it's so frustrating. We can be LGBT, sexually active, etc. and it's not weird or us being misguided. A lot of people love to use autism as a scapegoat in ways that actually harm and belittle autistic people and it's so messed up.
Shout out to Sarah's sister for actively being understanding of trans people in a medical sense. So many doctors out there don't put in the effort to educate themselves.
*indoctrinate and bullshit themselves* YEAH!
I'm a current medical student and while a lot of older doctors have very little understanding of trans people's issues, at least at my school we have several lectures about gender-affirming care and how vital it is for trans people's well-being and survival. we even had a panel of trans and non-binary people from our community come speak at the school to share their experiences. newer doctors that will be starting to practice in the next 5 to 10 years should be much better informed, which is really wonderful.
@@samwarren2850 thanks for sayin this :)
What I find most fascinating about Percy Jackson is watching the author go through the entire 90's representation growing pains over the course of his career.
Percy Jackson: all white leads
Heroes of Olympus: gotta have 1 of each major ethnic group
Kane Chronicles: A Biracial family that frequently deal with not being treated as a family
Magnus Chase: possibly the most nuanced and careful depictions of a gender fluid person and a Muslim in literature.
To me, this really shows how an author can realize the impact their work has, then using that platform to make a positive impact. Riordan isnt perfect, but is always trying to do better. Hence, he is one of my favorite authors
In Percy Jackson, even though the leads were all white, they had ADHD and dislexia, so from the beginning, representing minorities was an important value for the author.
I'm not sure I'd say that Magnus Chase is one of the most nuanced and careful depictions of a Muslim in literature, but it's certainly very good as far as YA novels by a white author go.
I think it also shows that you can always improve.
There's nothing wrong with all white leads though, good representation is great to see in books but it shouldn't be necessary by any means.
@@matrixpolaris679 I didnt say there was? What I said was Riordan has gotten better at meaningful representation.
The argument of “I was holding my phone incorrect” is the equivalent of saying “my cousin texted that”
How exactly does one hold a phone right?
Same vibes in both scenarios.
"my cat turned on my aimbot"
Sometimes my cousin actually takes my phone and texts my friends when I show her soemthing lmao
At least the cousin one actually happens sometimes, but I've never liked a series of transphobic tweets from holding my phone wrong
Her weird, obsessive fixation on locker rooms is unsurprising considering she wrote Hogwarts to have magical dormitories that don't let boys into the girls' dorms but *do* allow girls into boys' dorms because "girls are more trustworthy than boys". She's been clutching her pearls about gender segregated spaces for 20 years.
Outdated second wave white feminism at its finest
@@possumhead2812 It is surprising that it's "outdated second-wave feminism" when that's literally what she grew up with? She's like 30 years your senior.
Oop-
@@briannab4037 that doesn't justidy it tho. She should grow and learn like everyone else
@@MikaelaCher Most women in her generation have not grown and learned.
I love how people are like "if your friend group is made of lgbt+ people it means they all pressure each other into being lgbt"
Like no, Janet, it doesn't. It just means that cishet people treated me like shit and I like being friends with folks who understand me.
Or that there are far more LGBT people than we realise and being around LGBT folk tends to make you examine yourself. Like, my friend group started with 1 open trans person. Now there's 1 cis person.
love your pfp, mine is similar.
@@glamorousaxolotl1881 I love seeing other bisexuals with this pfp style
Saaaaaaaaame
Idk why but you calling JK Rowling “Janet” had me on the floor
Shout out to when Rowling, in the middle of this entire fucking firestorm, published a book with a plot that was basically Transphobia: The Novel.
Like the plot was about a male serial killer who murdered women by pretending to be a woman.
Is that Comoran Strike 5: Troubled Blood?
Not to mention in another comoran strike book she basically has one of the protagonists threaten a trans woman with prison time and "gang rape" and it's treated like a joke.
But if the serial killer was pretending to be a woman, then they’re not trans, so how does that apply to anything…?
@@BlackWolf207 A common argument against letting trans women in women’s spaces is the idea that trans women are just cis men who want to assault women by gaining access to women’s spaces.
So, by TERF logic, the character would be a “trans woman” because he dresses as a woman to gain access to his victims, when in reality, trans women are no more dangerous to cis women than cis women are.
I’m not the best at explaining things so I hope this helps lol
Read the book, there's one mention of someone seemingly cross-dressing in the entire novel. The book is not about transgenderism or gender dysphoria at all.
I'm a clinical psychologist in public health and I work with a lot of transgender young people, and I can say, with absolute seriousness, that Rowling is making my job of helping transgender young people not kill themselves harder. I have real, in person evidence that she's tipping the scales in favour of harm to transgender youth, and as someone who loved Harry Potter so much and is still struggling with how I feel about that work now, I will never forgive her for this. I hope one day she realises that there are people working in the NHS in her country, being paid by her taxes, trying to help distressed kids feel a little better, and she has become something they are having to work against.
Thank you for helping them best you can
I am so sorry to hear that. She really does not deserve any part of the platform she's gotten. I hope these kids hold on and notice the people like you who were there for them, and all the people who pushed back and said "this is wrong", and it helps them realize they aren't alone in the world. I didn't think it was possible to feel more disgust towards what Rowling is doing but you just pushed it up to 11. So she was traumatized by a man. I feel for her, truly, on that. But the fact that she took her new position and wealth and safety, and made the decision to "cope" by...deciding to buy into all this stuff, and use her position to just hurt people far more vulnerable without even THINKING...and feeling righteous while doing so, there's no excuse. Even if someday she magically breaks out of this new cult of "friends" and improves as a person and realizes how she was wrong...some damages just can't be fixed. Like damage to people. And I hope she has to see that someday and sit with it for the next few decades, knowing she helped cause that damage.
Take care of yourself, that sounds like a really emotionally fraught job, though it is so important. Those young people really are lucky to have someone like you in their corner, you sound like you really care, and the world needs more of that.
@@liliks14 so what you're saying is that trans girls should just accept the fact that they're much more likely to be murdered young because of other people's opinion that they shouldn't exist, and that's the consequence of their own existance, and they should just stop "freaking out" because it's "not that serious"?
@@liliks14 It's not just like... _fine_ that transphobia exists. And what exactly about respecting trans people "stops your life"?
@@ramywiles the real lesson would be to respect everyone wether they are trans ...or not . respect only works when it's mutual.
Imagine being insanely rich and spending your time online like this. Go out on your yacht.
This is the only thing that’s keeping her relevant
Notch moment
Yea its totally better to stay silent and not speak up, right? All those rich northeners shouldn't of spoken against slavery cuz imagine spending your time speaking for what you believe in.
I just think its dumb to say she shouldn't voice her opinion, she has every right to and thankfully she is in a position where she CAN speak out about it, unlike many ppl who share her opinions that would lose their jobs. Until anyone can make such nonoffensive tweets like JK made without their livelyhood being at risk then i am glad she is using her influence to speak out on this issue that many cannot without getting backlash. She is literally one person w an opinion but apparently deserves to get villified by her fans, how many other celebrities and everyday ppl that share her sentiments are just staying quit to avoid being canceled? How many are genuine w their beleifs and not putting a facade to keep PR in check? Seriously its a ridiculous thing to be upset over. As if her opinion ever affected anyone, ever
@@lindsaypaige4628 You are so painfully myopic and self-centered here, dude. Just because something doesn't affect you doesn't mean it doesn't affect anyone.
Its bc she's rich that she's bored and on the internet. Nothing else is bigger than this for her
I think the issue is that Harry Potter is a story that ultimately throws a couple token characters in but doesn’t challenge the inherent imbalance of the status quo. Saying Harry Potter doesn’t have an author or that it was written by Hatsune Miku just brushes it under the rug, when what we need to do is condemn the author and hold her accountable
Thank you for this. More people need to know about Death of the Author, which already exists.
I'm 72, I would be more entitled to senior moments that JK Rowling, though can't recall liking a Donald Trump post inappropriately, say. I'm also a trans guy. Used to love HP, obviously not the same as people grew up with it, but find it not so appealing anymore. I'm not sure how to figure this one out, tbh. Your video was recommended to me, you definitely make a great ally. TY. (BTW, another trans creator--Jessy Gender. Also has a lot of Star Trek (all series) content.)
Thank you for being you
❤️❤️❤️
Just hearing that we can live that long is kinda making me tear up. Trans man, 26. I’m still surprised I even made it this long.
@@Lucifersfursona We actually have a FB group, Trans guys over 60. So there are others of us. I transitioned very late--but I do know folx who transitioned 40 years ago. Imagine figuring all this out at that age?! I didn't know I was trans--but knew something was up.
R u alive? Still
I just wanted to point out that the creator of the Mikumiku_ebooks account was a trans girl, and she hated the "miku made" meme so much that she closed the account after the Rowling stuff happened, citing that she felt people were using it to deflect from thinking critically about consuming media that gives money to bad people and feeling guilty that a joke had evolved to being used in that way.
Oh my, that's so sad. I hope she's doing okay. Do you know if she has any other social medias?
@@gavanscorner2524 she's in a friend group of mine and yeah she's doing alright
@@sylvisoul164 That's good! I'd tell you to wish her well for me, but that'd be weird coming from a total stranger lmao. Thanks for letting us know, though!
Is that more recent? I've had no awareness of the Mikumiku thing before this whole thing blew up so please forgive my ignorance, but all I've seen about retiring from the account was basically just that she'd moved on and it wasn't giving her what she wanted from it/didn't mean what it used to mean for her so she was stepping away to other things.
I recall a Tumblr post that was basically calling out this attitude in a way that kinda ties in with Sarah's video about double standards with marginalized creators. It was something to the effect of:
Someone: Steven Universe is so terrible and Rebecca Sugar is an awful person.
Same person: BUT MINECRAFT AND HARRY POTTER ARE OKAY BECAUSE THEY WERE MADE BY HATSUNE MIKU!
“if you were discriminated on the basis of being trans”??? “IF”???? wtf is wrong with her?
*says while discriminating trans people*
She’s moving her goalposts for plausible deniability. First it was ‘trans people aren’t discriminated against’ and now she’s shifting to ‘some trans people are discriminated against but it’s rare’ and in a few weeks it’ll be ‘trans people are broadly discriminated against but that is good actually.’
@@johnjuiceshipper4963 oof, that sounds like the Narcissist's Prayer...
*transwomen literally being murdered* Am I a joke to you???
The thing that always amused me about Jo Rowling's whole "sex is real" stance is that she simply wasn't educated enough to know that sex and gender are no longer considered synonymous with each other BECAUSE trans people exist.
Sex is the physical element, which is mainly binary - with the notable exception of hermaphroditic and intersex people - and gender is now considered to be the psychological profile of how an individual sees their identity in relation to their sex.
The whole "sex is real" stance isn't even a relevant argument when talking about gender. The fact that "sex is real" actually backs up the point of using gender neutral language like "people who menstruate" because menstruation is decided by biological sex and gender identity is decided by individual psychology. Any feminist argument that combines the two no longer has any real credibility and, honestly, any self-respecting feminist would look at their behaviour in bullying the trans community and be able to see how it correlates with the abysmal treatment of women from the past.
It's such hypocrisy to see one group of people acting as though their only path to their equal rights is through invalidating the same rights of another group of people. 🤦🏼♀️
This is so well written omg
You know those people who run around with a broomstick between their legs playing Quidditch?
They can't really fly, no matter how hard they believe it.
Dear JK Rowling, I agree, sex is real. There are two sexes. The one I had with your mom, and the one I had with your dad.
you know, I'm tired of English being a weird and incoherent language. I don't get why people have to change words and make English so much harder. I already struggle with the language and all these changes are making it worse
Gender is a social construct. And wanting a separate space away from men is not bullying trans people. Like it or not, many men are using these rules to gain access to women's spaces for the wrong reasons. It's gotten to the point many places are reversing or talking about reversing the rules back to what they were. That's how many problems it's causing.
*It's such hypocrisy to see one group of people acting as though their only path to their equal rights is through invalidating the same rights of another group of people.*
Wow the irony. That's literally what the TRA's are doing, not the other way around. Women wanting to only be around women when their pants are down, in a jail cell etc isn't invalidating anyone.
Trans women demanding they get housed with women in prison after committing crimes specifically targeting women would actually be the definition of "one group of people acting as thought their only path to equal rights is through invalidating the rights of others"
*bullying the trans community and be able to see how it correlates with the abysmal treatment of women from the past.*
Oh yes of course, how could I not see that being told you can't be housed in a women's prison when you have a penis was exactly the same as women being enslaved en masse simply for the fact they're female, female babies murdered by the millions, married off as children, unable to take credit for their discoveries and inventions, unable to own property (in fact they were property and still are in many places), not being able to do anything about marital r*pe, constantly dealing with full grown men harassing you, following you or worse when you're clearly still a minor...
Yeah you're right. It's totally the same struggle.
"I'm sure when she created the goblin bankers she was just following a fantasy archetype without realising how harmful it was."
*New York business-goblin appears in Fantastic Beasts*
"Why do you do this, JK?"
Once it's been created and written into the story, it stays in the story.
jk is an ass but this goblin thing is blown out of proportion
I'm pretty sure that she followed fantasy tropes. After all they weren't created in a vacuum. They inherited racism from their authors
I'm frustrated with her saying that sex not being "real" invalidates same-sex attraction. Like, I'm not attracted to a chromosome, I'm attracted to men. Sex doesn't make me gay, gender does.
ah yes I love me some xx chromosomes
I *have* to check your blood so i now your chromosomes, otherwise, i am not sure about the attraction part
Very valid point. I was thinking the same thing but was unsure of how to word it, so thanks for making that concise lol
But men still don't menstruate. That's simply a fact.
Exactly. At most it just makes same sex sex attraction more nuanced. Some people might be really attracted to the masculinity and general man-mes. Some people just really love that dick
Harry Potter was ruined for me when I realized that being a child soldier isn't actually cool, and that 'if you go to a teacher when you're being abused they'll pat you on the head and send you back to your abusers' isn't really a message you want to impart to children.
Oh my god it’s so refreshing to see someone talk about this
Harry Potter is truly a horrible story
Harry Potter was always bad
Also I'm pretty sure a kid died there, the one with the camera
I mean that second part is true in my experience.
Umbridge didn't use the quill hand carving until after McGonagall sent Harry back. And when he got the scars, Hermione urged him to tell McGonagall or Dumbledore because they definitely would have done something. Harry actively chose to keep it a secret. And what student soldiers are you talking about? The battle of Hogwarts? They didn't let any younger years fight and made it clear that older students don't have to fight if they want to. You're mischaracterising hard here
That "people who menstruate" tweet taught me that J. Karen Rowling apparently thinks I'm not a woman. Thanks to birth control, I haven't had an actual period since 2015 and haven't even had a fake period (from taking the placebo pills) in over a year.
That's not what she meant though, she meant it's important to recognise a person's sex to combat sexism in the same way we acknowledge someone's race to combat racism
also calling women "Karen" is sexist and polices women from having opinions in a way we don't police or dismiss men
@@user-bq2ko2tb2w I actually agree that that's what she meant, but it was still a dumb thing to say. Also, menopause, hello?
It seems to me that she got so triggered by the language that she didn't think through what it actually meant or what her response implied. Assuming that what you said IS what she meant, it didn't actually further the cause or provoke meaningful discussion.
@@user-bq2ko2tb2w I also do happen to agree with the Karen thing btw. It's an unnecessary shot to fire when JKR already provides so much ammunition.
@@user-bq2ko2tb2w "recognize a person's sex"
Which no one was not doing.
"to combat sexism"
Which is not combatted by appropriation, misgendering, and 1950s-style rigid stereotypes and normativity.
"in the same way we acknowledge someone's race to combat racism"
Which JKR has undoubtably experienced a great deal of. It's ironic that you call the usage of "Karen" sexist, as it was originally devised to refer to the same type of entitled rich white woman that use their power to hurt others that describes her to a K.
Every time I get pissed at JK Rowling I go read this one amazing Harry Potter fic featuring a FtM Seamus just to spite her
I reccomend Kaleidoscopic Grangers. It's still being written but it's a fantastic fic. About half way through book 7 at the moment.
@@LyraLyraPantsOnFyra I just got caught up on Kaleidoscopic Grangers myself; it was really well written.
I've considered writing a fanfic about a Marxist transfem wizard leading a revolution of working class Wizards, Muggles, and goblins/house elves against the Ministry of Magic and the ruling class.
When she said that young girls will "decide" to be trans to escape misogyny, I flipped out. I'm a trans man and I stayed in the closet for years because I was terrified of losing everyone I cared about.
No. Just, no. That's not a thing. Transitioning is terrifying and it is not something anyone does on a whim. We do it because it's who we are.
I still have things in common with the experiences of cis women. My coworker and have compared our experiences of childbirth. But she still acknowledges that I'm a man.
I need some wine. 🍷
here *gives you a glass of wine*
ikr, I blocked out being trans for 10 years to keep myself safe. I would much rather be a cis girl than a trans guy
It does happen tho, thats why its important for there to be a lot of checks before giving the OK to start horomones. There have been cases where girls transitioned only to regret it because they werent truly trans but just processing truama. There are also girls who are simply confused and in denial about growing up, and confuse the discomfort of their maturing female bodies as the discomfort of being female all together, this is why todays climate of pushing the trans lable on any kid who isnt expressing 100% typically to their biological gender is danerous. As a child I would have told you I wanted to be a boy, and I really believed and felt that way too. This was especially true around the ages of 11-13 because thats when the changes due to puberty start to take effect. I was devestated when I got breast bulbs, and loathed my period. I would wish that when I woke up, Id be a boy instead. When I was that age, we didnt know what trans was so my family just assumed I was gay(Im not I just wasnt the typical girl that cared about romance as a kid) it wasnt until I was 14 that I started to become more comfortable as a girl and by 16 I was fully accepting and embracing of that fact, as an adult I know realize that my discomfort was because I didnt want to grow up, because boys were more free to roll around and be rough and play than girls and especially women. That as a "young lady" I was told not to do certain things just because of my gender. Sit like a lady, Dont do that its not propper for a girl, you cant play like that in a dress ect. IF I were to have grown up today, I think the idea of being trans would have been pushed more on me and I might have made a mistake because there ARE doctors and therapist ready to jump on the diagnosis and treatment of GD without due diligance. So its important to realize that while trans people do exist,there are sometimes other reasons to people being confused about their gender than Dysphoria which makes the therapy and good well meaning proffesionals an important aspect and stepping stone to transitioning. I know there have been a few stories about girls who transitioned due to past sexual abuse as well, mistaking the desire to no longer be seen as prey as the urge to be male. You can find their stories on YT..there is also a documentaty about girls posing as boys in I believe afganistan because their families have no sons and that way they get the freedom they cant have as girls. Some very well may be trans, but many do so due to being forced by family or because its the only path to freedom. In our society in most of the first world this doesnt happen only because women are allowed equal autonomy and rights. But it is something that can and does happen in oppresses socities. I think she was trying to express this, but did so poorly because those women were never trans, they just posed as men for survival,the same way some women feel the need to transiion for survival after assult(but they arent actually trans and realize it later on ) her comment made it seem as if no transman ever existed on their own right and thats untrue, I think generally as a society we see less tranmen because they pass easily, so they are kind of more hidden which to the uneducated would make one believe that they are quite rare and that because of this and the fact that there are cases in other parts of the world where women pose as men to escape opression, that these men also are doing that when again it makes no sense in a country that has equality for genders. Please dont think Im trying to say you are wrong or that transpeople dont exist and arent valid, I was just shedding some light onto other aspects of the topic that can and do occure and my own expireance.
While misogyny obviously puts women in danger, there's a unique aspect to the trans man experience that I never see acknowledged. We are often still viewed as women by transphobes, but because we're "pretending to be men", transphobic men who would otherwise stick with the double standard "men shouldn't hit girls" see it as a loophole. If we want to be treated as men, then we shouldn't expect the same protections that vulnerable women get. There's also the double-edged sword of safe spaces and resources for women forcing us to re-closet ourselves just to stay safe. When we come out as trans men, we aren't avoiding misogyny. We're making the extremely difficult choice of becoming ineligible for the resources made to combat misogyny, while still facing misogyny.
@Chaos Burrito That's very unusual. You rarely see organizations even acknowledge the existence of trans men, let alone offer services for them. That counseling service should not be including trans men with women, and should either have a separate program, or have a program for men in general.
The bathroom excuse for transphobia is tired. I was assaulted in a public women's bathroom in 2003 by my cis-male manager. He was wearing khakis and a polo. No need for a disguise to follow me in. I've had the trans humans I love verbally and physically attacked for going into public bathrooms. From where I stand it appears cis humans are far more dangerous.
Yeah, it's not like the bathroom door has a spell on it and pushes all men who try to enter out again.
@@cayreet5992 What do you mean, it doesn't work like the Hogwarts dorms where it won't let them in??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I'm sorry you went through that. My "mentor" in my first job followed me to the bathroom and it made me feel super uncomfortable. When I finally told my family, some of them said I was exaggerating, some even went as far to say "congratulations, you have a boyfriend!". Hey, even now some people don't believe me when I tell this. I wish they did.
Pffff, we all know that if someone goes into the bathroom of the gender they aren't assigned at birth they instantly become rapists.
I feel like the rason there are more dangerous cis people than trans people is because there is a higher number of cis people who can turn out bad than trans people.
So if there was the same number of trans people as cis people in the world then there would be a similar number in bad cis and bad trans people.
The Lovecraft thing is such an interesting comparison. There are two main differences between him and Rowling as I see it:
1) If you're getting into Lovecraft in the 21st century, his racism is one of the first things you learn about him. Every introduction, every article, every essay, and every comments section, it's all over the place. So, if you want to get into him, you just have to learn to deal with it. Rowling, on the other hand, only revealed her transphobia after twenty years of quasi-religious devotion from people who seem to have been too young to comprehend the horrible subtext that evidently infects her work (haven't read beyond the first two books of HP when I was a kid, so I can't speak to it myself) when they first read it. Also, still being alive and active on social media, she feels accessible. You can go yell at her if you want. It won't help anyone, but you can do it.
2) Lovecraft's racism isn't accomplishing anything today. Nobody's getting radicalized by "The Rats in the Walls." If anything, as others have pointed out, it's so extreme that it appears absurd today. Because, again, what can you do? The dude is dead. You can't cancel him. His influence is secured, his work part of the DNA of horror now just like Poe or Shelley. So you just have to accept it, roll your eyes at his ignorance, and put in the intellectual rigor to evaluate the whole package of man and fiction. Or, remove him from what I assume must be a barren bookshelf, if you insist on disposing of the works of every problematic author in history. Good luck with that.
Rowling, again, is still alive, and her embrace of transphobia is doing real harm. Again, as attested to by the comments. The subtext of her works has probably gone on to shape the way her generation of readers thinks, and there is probably a lot of damage to repair there. Again, not a reader of hers, so I can't comment personally. But it is quite possible, even likely, that some people have jumped onto the TERF wagon by her signal-boosting those voices.
So the children's author that at least *tries* to appear accepting (though she could hardly do a worse job at it) is actually doing more real-world harm than the viciously-racist horror writer. It's... funny?
The other facet of Lovecraft that is different is that the Weird Fiction authorbase and community has grappled with his mentality and works in their own way, and came to their own conclusions.
For one particular noteworthy writing competition (can't recall which), the prize for years had been a bust of Lovecraft - until one year a black writer one the award. She had it on her mantle for a bit and then took it down and wrote to the organizers of the writing competition about the discomfort of her achievements being marked and represented by someone who would have hated her. They changed the award.
You can't seperate Lovecraft from his contributions to the genre, nor his attitudes from his works - but his works can, and have been, recontextualized. His agarophobia and xenophobia manifested as racism - but modern authors manifest those fears of the strange and unknown in ways divorced from those concepts, and yet they are inspired by it. Cosmic horror isn't defined as being rooted in racism, and yet Lovecraft practically gave birth to the concept. Cosmic horror has since been utilized to tackle with a variety of themes, including racism, and brings those concepts to a wide audience - and those works would not have existed if not for the xenophobic writings of a very broken man.
Harry Potter provided many of the modern critics of Rowling with lessons that perhaps Rowling herself would hate that they learned. I think Harry Potter is a particularly sore point explicitly because trans people and LGBTQ+ people in particular feel betrayed by her when these books were part of their formative years. But I do think the things that those people picked up (I mean positive themes such as friendship, loyalty, bravery, the destructive nature of othering and racism, etc) can still be learned from Harry Potter. I did not pick up some of the hateful rhetoric until I was older, and I think those things should be analyzed and addressed by people reading them, but there are positive themes in the works themselves and cautionary tales that we learned upon reading them.
Harry Potter, I believe, can become divorced from Rowling after her death - when she and her causes can no longer benefit financially from it. I believe the Harry Potter universe can enter the exact sort of sphere that Lovecraft shares when it comes to how to interact with the work, given time.
If memory serves, didn't Lovecraft, about 2 weeks before he died, send a letter to a friend that roughly said that he regretted a lot of the terrible things he'd said/done?
@ShadowL Drago to my knowledge that’s an invented story, either way it hardly paints him in a good light.
As a more general reply to the topic at hand, perhaps the best thing to do is to expand upon what good ideas he created and explore new ideas with that eye. Bloodborne is one of the best video game narratives I’ve ever experienced, we wouldn’t have it without Lovecraft’s groundwork. It’s also thankfully free of o v e r t racism, with some vague fantasy racism in the margins of an already subtly told story.
@@jaxbeck9550 A fair point.
Double points if the Lovecraft reader is a POC(such as myself even though I barely use that card.)
I wanted to say thank you a ton for explaining the stuff behind changing rooms and bathrooms. I’ve always been mildly concerned about the thought of a man claiming to be transgender in order to harm women, but youve explained it so perfectly and in an understandable way that that worry is gone now. Thank you a million for helping me be a better person ^^
I'm a trans man and I did not transition to escape misogyny. I delayed my transition for years because I didn't want to have to face rejection and discrimination for being trans. I transitioned because I was not a woman and could not continue living as one. As a woman, I couldn't physically be with partners. I could hardly put a shirt on when I woke up because I'd have to deal with breasts and clothing that fit a women's body. In a world without misogyny I still would have needed to transition.
Btw transitioning was absolutely worth it. I'm happy and comfortable in my body now--not because I have male privilege and have "escaped misogyny" but because the way I feel inside and the way others see me and the person I see in the mirror are all aligned.
A month later response, but I've never had someone describe how I felt so right, yet in the opposite way.
I am trans. Why? Because every day I wake up I am disgusted at the lack of any volume to my chest, and the hair on my face, and the clothes made for male bodies.
Amongst other things, but thats the main gist
@@VeryRealLeslie Yeah, dysphoria is rough to deal with. Transition can feel daunting, but it makes it so much better. The pre-transition part is the hardest imo, (therapist, health insurance, talking options w/ your doctor, talking to LGBT resources, planning coming out with work and family if you're not, etc) but if it's something that's medically safe for you and something you want, it's absolutely worth it.
I saw feminists talk about importance of acceptance and non-judjmental environment.
Then the same people judge the looks of transgender women, they go especially hard on those who transition after the puberty.
It is truly horrible.
Good for you 👍👍👍
Same here. Transitioning is about feeling comfortable in your own skin, not how you deal with society.
The "Miku created it" meme is also a joke about how producers and composers who use vocaloid in their music were largely left uncredited when their PVs were reuploaded to youtube in the 2000s.
Until wowaka said "No bitches, Miku is like my guitar"
That's still a thing too. People will just credit the vocaloid, not the producer
@@CrashDunning True, though it has gotten MUCH better than it used to be, mainly because producers themselves are usually the ones that are uploading on English platforms these days.
I just got flashbacks to binge watching Vocaloids in junior high.
to all trans people reading this: i am so so sorry for everything you go through. you don’t deserve it. you are valid. i love you
Agreed
What is a woman?
@@liampatrick3110 how many times you gonna leave that comment
Trans people are indeed valid. To any trans person who comes across my reply, I want you to know that I stand with you.
@@nathanlabrador7664 Thank you
Speaking as an (upcoming? aspiring?) author: I think it's impossible to truly separate art from the artist. Mainly because the work of an author is shaped by their imagination and creativity, which is *always* affected by the world and culture around them - as well as how they interacted with it. So for example, my work as a trans person will often natrually gravitate to trans adjacent themes, such as a story about someone learning that the life ahead of them doesn't need to be laid out by someone else or some unseen force. The author is quite literally responsible for every single word.
I think it's important to keep the author in mind. you need to look for where their beliefs are seeping in and affecting their work. you can enjoy things outside of their creators, but you can't ignore the context of how the work came to be!!!
"shes clearly been doing fine 5 cancellations later" JUMP CUT TO LESS WINE IN THE GLASS "but anyway". yeah i feel that sarah
Huh you love destroying women’s careers but it won’t work this time. Continue to shriek.
@@lynnross2204 wut
@@lynnross2204 Concern troll
jk rowling: dont tell women what to do or how to feel
also jk rowling: trans men are just confused women
well said unfortunately
Thank you
a m a z i n
Can you quote where she said this please?
She never said the Second one
Whenever people go on about the bathroom or locker room example, it's important to point to two things:
- First, the illegality of assault in and of itself, from anyone, at any time, anywhere. Regardless of who you allow into a gendered space.
- Second, the fact that a blue sign on a door hasn't stopped predators before, and won't stop them if you ban innocent people from those spaces. They will not go through the trouble of passing that trans people spend so much time and money on just to enter a room they shouldn't to do things they shouldn't. Making the sign shinier won't hinder actual predators any more than they already have.
men aren't comfortable with each other in the bathroom, add woman and it becomes sooo much more awkward
Making guns illegal doesn't stop people from buying guns and doing bad things so why do many countries enforce gun control?
14:00 "I have one Salt Lake City Following me, and I'd feel terrible if I misinformed all those mormons to a similiar scale" lol that line slayed me
The bathroom argument really gets me because not only is it complete bs in an attempt to harm trans folk, but it completely denies acknowledgement that cis women sexually assault other women. I’ve been sexually assaulted by quite a few cis women, but I’ve never been sexually assaulted by a trans man, trans woman or nb person. I’ve often had to escort my trans friends into the bathroom because they’re scared of being attacked by a transphobe. Terfs are the real threat in bathrooms
It is a common line of feminist thought, not just TERF thought, that cis women are either A) not capable of sexual assault by definition B) less harmful (whether physically, socially, emotionally, psychologically, etc) even if they are capable of sexual assault C) less dangerous even if capable and equally harmful because they statistically are the offenders far less than cis men. It's not really a surprise that Rowling would not acknowledge or consider woman-on-woman abuse, since even non-TERFs are guilty of this. This may be hard to wrap one's head around since tolerance and approval of transgender individuals has skyrocketed in recent years, but TERF ideology is much older than current intersectional ideology because feminism in it's early stages was very, very bioessentialist (which means that it fed into the stereotype that women are "gentler" and "kinder" in nature by default, and that women are only ever the victims).
Men posing as women have greater strength than cis females, and are much more likely to be the ones involved in an assault of another woman. So, yes, a female can assautl another female, but it's certainly not as common.
@XXCoreXX No, "cis" refers to gender identity, not sexuality.
@@briannab4037 Interesting. I didn't know that. But then the philosophy of feminism is inherently flawed not just the view of radical Feminists right?
@@willaince7382 Yup. That's why you see many feminists nowadays who are trying to rectify these issues and non-feminists who are calling said issues out. But this is a very, very recent change and has not crossed over to mainstream feminist thought or critique quite yet.
didn’t anticipate ending on a “stan Percy Jackson” note, but I’m happy we did. Rick Riordan is what everyone wishes JKR could be.
didn't Rick Riordian write a muslim Valkyrie who smugly said the Norse gods weren't real gods or something
@@emberhermin52 Not exactly. She said that, for her (a Muslim), Norse gods were merely a representation of Allah. That is, it's all a matter of interpretation.
@@emberhermin52 She didn't say it smugly from what I remember, it was just her personal interpretation of how to fit Norse mythology with her own religion
The representation in Percy Jackson is unmatched. I’m so happy we have Uncle Rick as a role model
I love that as people are getting sick of Rowling and her antics they promote other authors like Rick. It makes me so happy because I found PJO before Harry Potter and because he’s got actual representation in everything and as an old straight white cis male, is really trying to be better and more accepting.
I'm sure you know this by now but to add to the horribleness, JKR also released a murder mystery book under her pseudonym (you know, the one named after the guy that innovated gay conversion therapy?) that was about a man who dressed up as a woman in order to murder other women! 🙃 To me, that said that JKR decided to finally bring her terrible beliefs to social media in order to find the right (TERF) audience *to market her book to*. This makes it ten times worse in my opinion.
I've generally been of the opinion that separating out the art from the artist is an intensely personal decision. For example, for whatever reason, I don't find it upsetting to listen to R. Kelly's songs so I haven't gone out of my way to remove his songs from my playlists (I don't seek them out either). But I stopped DJing them because while I knew *my* emotional reaction to his music, I had no way of knowing what someone else's was and didn't want to cause distress that way. On the other hand, I now really struggle to enjoy Sia's music after her truly awful movie about autism. Maybe because I had a more personal connection to Sia's music to begin with so it felt like a more personal betrayal.
But with Rowling, it feels less like a personal decision and more like a community decision to stop supporting her work. Rowling continued to be extremely involved with her fan base in interacting with them about the world she created, making it hard to separate her from the work. And then there's the fact that one of the primary themes of the books was the idea that there's no such thing as certain people being better than other people. With her stance on trans folks now public, it's clear she doesn't actually believe that and it makes the underlying message of the books feel like a lie.
I remember 2 years ago I came here watched this video and I was angry. "They are picking apart an innocent tweet" I thought.
Can't thank you enough for talking about these things, the outpour of video essays on this topics really led me to question a lot of things, and find people who explained how the language can be weaponized against marginalized groups.
This videos are working maybe not immediately because I still thought that this video is an overkill for months after seeing, but at least they kickstart the questioning process.
i hate the bathroom argument so much. "I'm going to save money for surgeries, risk my safety to be who i want to be and risk getting completely separated from the people i love while being constantly bullied by society just so i can creep on people in bathrooms!" also the bathrooms at my school weren't gender based for a long time, no issues. The only reason we now have one for girls is because some dudes cant aim, in fact our principle said "anyone who *identifies* as a girl" when introducing the change. he added that word for the trans girls in our school and guess what? No issues.
There are predatory doctors that spend years in medical school just to abuse.
: 3 They don’t go to medical school just to abuse. It’s stable, well paying job and a lot of people just want to make money and if you also happen to be a creep, you’ll use what you have. But creeps will be creepy no matter what. You don’t need to go to medical school for that, nor do you need to change your gender.
Elisheva the Intellectual Exactly! A creep will just do whatever they want regardless, they’re not gonna transition or go to medical school just to abuse patients. They can easily just waltz into the bathroom or patient room to assault someone, they don’t need to go through all that trouble just to do it.
@@Eli7owls I'm sure there are people who do it with the intention of taking advantage of their position.
Unlike bathrooms, which are typically accessible to anyone, being a doctor actually DOES open up many avenues for abuse. Doctors who sexually assault or extort people can get away with it for decades if theyre careful.
That moment when the suggestion of the Bathroom Argument is that the sign on the door stops rapists forcing their way in and having their way with people anyway. That aside, ah yes, I shall literally put my entire social life and family relationships at risk, save up for years, risk my safety and become statically one of the most likely people to be attacked due to hate crime because I want to look at people in certain bathrooms, because that *obviously* makes sense.
Sex is real, but sex and gender are not the same thing. I wish people would grasp that concept already...
What's the difference, then? I think I know it, but I'd like to hear someone else's answer as well.
@@g5naim Your gender identity is different from sex. sex is your genitalia. gender is whats in your heart and brain.
@@3mers0n that's pretty much what Rowling said. Think you might be a transphobe too, bruh.
@@g5naim Sex is biological and gender is socially constructed. Your sex is determined by your chromosomes, hormones, genitalia etc. and biological sex is already on a spectrum, despite what uneducated weirdos like JRK seem to believe. Your gender is determined by your culture.
@@bialynia Some aspects of gender are socially constructed, but there are also physiological affects that affect how gender is expressed. Gender, and sex can be mutally exclusive, but they can also be mutally entwined.
Trans people: just trying to live their lives and feel good about themselves
JKR: “and I took that personally😠”
What is a woman?
Bs, trans are the only crying about everything
The most ridiculous part of the bathroom argument is the idea that a man would actually pretend to be a trans woman to get in.
When theres so many easier ways to do that, like a janitor, security guard, first aid person.
And how do they know a man cant pretend he's a trans man and should be in there on the basis of being born a woman therefore should be in a womans bathroom? Itd be a shit ton easier than crossdressing.
Oh
Rowling strikes me as the type to say that she can "spot a transgendered from a mile away" to someone who is trans
You Twitter goblins really love to fantasise about this shit don’t you?
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I'm not on twitter but yeah you right
@@sweatyskeleton7390 Twitter is a cesspool-
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Real shit? Damn that's crazy
Harry Potter taught readers to fight people like JK Rowling.
Lmao
Ironic
@Mikko Simonen No, it didn't.
Jk hasn't said anything wrong here.
@@MegaSpideyman Haha lol.
There is definitely some irony in that.
I'm Asian did you know the character Cho Chan her name is actually both last names and not even from the same country.
One is from Korea the other from China. She couldn't even do enough research to get that right.
I remember when fast food places first switched to those outlines of people instead of using words to indicate restroom gender. I was on vacation with my parents and went to the bathroom. As I was washing my hands, my mother walked in and asked "Why are you in the women's room?" I went out and looked and, because the skirt bit was very narrow I had mistaken it for the male sign. The point being, nothing much prevents a man from walking into a women's bathroom or changing room right now. I did it by accident, but it would not be hard to do on purpose.
The point of that point being I never understood the "bathroom bill" hysteria or all the arguments about bathrooms and changing rooms. One of the bars I frequented had the usual male and female bathrooms, but sometimes men would use the women's room as it had the only locking door. And no one thought a thing of it. For that matter my own home is FULL of unisex bathrooms, and not one resident or guest has made a comment.
Men use the women washrooms quite often here because they usually don’t have changing tables for babies in both washrooms yet. Literally no one cares. It’s just a room we spend like 2 seconds in
As someone who is trans, and someone who absolutely adored Harry Potter growing up,,, I am so angry. Those books shaped my entire life. So has being trans. I hate this entire thing. Transphobia is always horrible, but when it comes from someone you've looked up to your entire life,, it really, deeply hurts. She was the reason I've wanted to be an author most of my life, she was the reason I love reading so much, her and her characters influenced me so much, and they still do. It angers me so, so much that the woman who essentially made me who I am has these views about me. It's not personal, but it feels personal.
Thank you, you are very brave to tell this to us
Same thing here. I'm a transman, it hurts me to see someone who made a series that shaped who I am today, be this way.
SHE NEVER SAID ANYTHING TRANSPHOBIC
@@Lord_Drakostar ...
@@Lord_Drakostar Watch the video maybe?
“my experiences as a bi woman are different from straight women” aw yeah a win for the ladies!!!
What is a woman?
@@neumaticimpact A Man called Wo
@@neumaticimpact Apparently a nebulous blob of nothingness devoid of useful meaning for the fear that any concrete rule may exclude someone and hurt their feelings.
I knew she seemed cool
Anyone's experience as a bi-woman are going to be differen from that of *ant* other woman. A fortiori they will be different from those of straight women.
this is one of the reasons i love rick riordan’s books. i can’t even explain how great it was to read about alex bc it felt more personal and it’s so much better than claiming a 150 year old man was gay after he already died in the series
JK Rowling forgets that trans men ALSO FACE SOCIAL STIGMA FOR BEING TRANS
I feel like she’s exploiting our community. “Omg you guys! Dumbledore is ... GAY! He’s a homosexual!! I’m so woke, right guys? My books were so progressive all along! Wait, a ... TRANS person? Omg, no, I’m not like other feminists. I’m like those cool feminists who know that those people aren’t real women! I’m, like, so cool and different you guys!”
She isn't, and everything you've just said is a narrative you've created in that lackluster head of yours.
@@briannab4037 bruh. They were "quoting" jk Rowling in an jokingly way. They are trying to explain how she thinks she's woke because Dumbledore is gay, but then is extremely transphobic. You missed their whole point.
You mean like the slew of recent films that have done exacxtly what you stated, and have been applauded by the woke folks? Damned if you do, damned if you don't. So don't.
@@itheuserfirst3186 the difference is that she decided to make a character gay while never mentioning it in any of her books to appear as progressive, while movies who show gay characters actually show them, they dont tell you 20 years after the movie "oh, sorry, we forgot to tell you, but we are soooooo progressive, so this character is actually gay, even though nothing even remotely hints at it"
@@briannab4037 calm down simp
jk rowling's "plentiful research on trans issues" was probably entirely confined to r/gendercritical
Hey be fair she also name checked "researchers" like Littmam... who confined their research to GC reddit & TERF forums
Well this is the "Werewolves are a metaphor for AIDS" author we're talking about here.
I- 😂😂
Yep
She did plenty of "research"--that is, combing through dozens or even hundreds of articles until she found something that supported her claims, before going, "Aha, at last the truth!"
The way she tries to loop lesbians into her transphobic beliefs is insulting to us lesbians. Why are you only bringing us up as a philosophical argument against trans people? Show me one time you've advocated for lesbians that wasn't an attempt to pit us against trans people? We do not claim. I send this video every time someone tries to defend that new video game or anything HP related, it hits their points while showing how easy it is for them to be misinformed by a tweet, and how much more work it takes to debunk that tweet.
"As we all know: censorship is when you criticize someone for what they say, and in a truly uncensored society no one is allowed to express criticism of another persons ideas"
I think about this quote a lot
Oh wow. Hey, JK! Autistic, queer young woman here who hated being treated like a girl, hated girly things and generally did not enjoy growing into a woman in my teenage years.
I was very aware of trans people, in fact there was a transguy in my school who was widely accepted.
Well guess what, I was still 100% sure that I wasn't trans. Because there's a difference between liking women and hating your period, and BEING A MAN. I was never, and will never feel like a guy - and being autistic has NOTHING to do with it!
Seriously, my aspergers mostly means that I talk way too much about Lord of the Rings and live in perpetual fear that the other person is bored by it, because unless they tell me, I just won't notice. What that ever could have to do with gender goes beyond me.
The issue seems to be that JK sees being trans as a choice one makes for any number of rational reasons, like wanting male privilege. What a weirdly distorted way to view the whole thing...
You can chat with me about LOtR all damn day, frendo.
Small nitpick, I think your autocorrect changed JR to JK.
My autism is tied into my gender identity but it isn't because I'm too stupid and gullible to make my own decisions
It's because my brain is different and my response to gender is different
Garret Jacobs no I like JK more. Leave out the R. She is a joke, after all.
Why do you sound like the most amazing buddy there is - and why is your nickname awesome as well?
“in conclusion: stan percy jackson” LMAO
What does "stan" mean?
@@futureecho4509 the short version, a replacement of "Fangirl".
but the actual meaning: "A crazed and or obsessed fan."
Rick riordan is the writer chad to Just Karen Trollings writer virgin
Absolutely!
Future Echo it’s a fusion of the words “stalker” and “fan”
This would be a great moment for the real Tara to show up and claim Harry Potter
Always thought the way JK wrote all her ‘Irish characters’ as avatars of every essentialist-colonial trope ever dreamt up about us over the last 900 years was fairly indicative of her attitude towards cultural differences.
There is a total of 1 Irish character who is described as a model student in the books. Try harder next time though.
@@lesdodoclips3915 however that’s not the only reference to “the Irish”. Being less insecure than you clearly are assists critical faculties.
@@quinbrady and the others are what exactly?
@@lesdodoclips3915 use CTEL+F
@@quinbrady maybe you should do that so you can defend your own argument a bit better?
I’ve literally been sexually assaulted by a cis gay man, and yet I’m completely comfortable sharing the changeroom at my work with a transwoman. She’s literally using her trauma and the trauma of others to justify hatred which is...whack. Corny and whack.
What she and other terfs feel is not a rational feeling.
@@luizabianco wait, they burned someone alive?
@@luizabianco why would anyone do that? Did they get punished for it?
@@luizabianco what-
What kind of a town did you grow up in-
@@iexistyes_ She lives in lefty la-la land
"...Then claims the only people who aren't supportive of spaces excluding trans women are 'privileged or lucky enough never to have come up against male violence or sexual assault and who've never troubled to educate themselves on how prevalent it is."
This cuts so badly. My trans friend was sexually assaulted by their brother.
There is not enough brain bleach in the world to help me safely unpack that sentence. I'm so sorry this happened to them, I hope they're getting the help they need to get through this.
I speak from personal experience that you yourself might be in need of help. If you ever feel like you need to talk about what was done to your friend; if you ever suffer because of it, please don't dismiss those feelings. Take them seriously. I am convinced that the vast majority of sexual assaults has secondary victims.
As a male who has been assaulted by another male, I can say that she is 100% incorrect. I fully support the right of trans individuals to be and feel safe. While I haven't been sexually assaulted, it's enough for me to realise that sex or gender are immaterial with regard to assault. To exclude people from the very second she initiates this argument is a disservice and reprehensible. She talks about her own experience while discounting so many others. No, Rowling you do not speak for me.
@@eirinym Exactly: Rape is not about sex, is about power and domination.
Oh wow I didn't realize you were bi, that's really cool to know! Your essays are super informative and well articulated, really love your content!
"This is not to condemn those who enjoy Harry Potter" Yeah a lot of people seem to opt out of that part. It's nice to see a video that so thoroughly yet non-aggressively explains the situation and how it isn't isolated from her work. I'm a few videos into this channel and that's my favorite thing, how you take an approach that explains issues without being accusatory. Even as someone who so far has gone in agreeing with all of them I appreciate it because the most important part of changing minds is to not put people on the defensive.
I don't even like Harry Potter but in certain circles online i CONSTANTLY see people pretty clearly endorse harassing anyone who admits they haven't completely disowned a franchise they clearly grew up loving. It disgusts me how many people will say things like "It's not enough to disagree with JK Rowling. You can't even mention her, and you can't like Harry Potter" and then turn around and start talking about how bad JK Rowling is right after saying the point isn't to disavow her but to not give her any influence or whatever. It strikes a nerve particularly as someone who grew up relentlessly bullied for not liking the super mainstream franchises like Halo or, ironically Harry Potter. So I know exactly what it's like to feel persecuted for liking something regardless of why or you enjoy it, emotional attached or not, critically or not.
Like... to those people who don't even explain why Harry Potter is intrinsically connected, and just hatepost: Do you actually hate JK Rowling because you support transgender people? Or are you just happy you have an excuse to bash on a famous person?
Another person who has a very strong empathy approach is kuncan dastner, I would highly recommend if you're looking for similar content!
Council of Geeks recently made a very fire-and-brimstone video about people who give money to JK, but I think she's completely justified in taking that approach, because she's trans and it affects her personally.
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Why do so many transphobes think we get a sexual kick out of expressing ourselves as the gender we identify as? In reality, it just makes me wanna die a little less.
See ContraPoints’ video on ”autogynophilia” for an explanation of that particular transphobe talking point
True??? I don’t get turned on by wearing a binder, it just makes me feel more confident and hate my body less, I hate how some cis people try to explain trans experiences to trans people
jessica yaniv possibly does
because *they* think it's inherently sexual for being taboo, and they're afraid to even read a wiki about it.
@@kaiyodei why does everyone bring up jessica yaniv as though every trans women is singlehandedly responsible for her. she's a single awful person. i know a number of cis women like her, groomers and rapists, but nobody goes around asking cis women to personally grovel for all bad people from their demographic.
Damm, you really did write and produce a whole ass 40 minute video on Rowling in like, a week.
I'm impressed.
I MADE THIS IN AN OUTRAGED FLURRY TBH
@@SarahZ I have to note that it's not just impressive, but justified.
@@SarahZ sadly that's kind of obvious 😔 More words aren't always better. You have a very, very important point to make (one which I fully support), but sadly it gets completely diluted in these ramblings. You're preaching to the choir here right? You must know that. Because nobody who actually holds those ignorant opinions (such as JK herself) is going to sit through 40 minutes hoping to be proved wrong.
This isn't meant to be criticism.
You make amazing points with real-world examples to back them up.
Imagine the positive effect you could have if you channelled them into short, concise and snappy videos which get to the point and hit the nail on the head. Then there's a chance that the people who might actually learn something, might actually watch it all. Otherwise you're just ranting to people who already agree with you. And I've done nothing wrong. I didnt write those tweets. I really dont deserve a 40 minute angry rant being shoved down my throat :)
@@stester6162 you could skip to where she says she stops the disputing of the bs, you know. It's not being shoved down your throat by any means, you clicked knowing the topic, you ignored her tip... Seems to me like *you* shoved it down your throat
A lot of people DO believe these pseudo-arguments, btw
Ste Ste R also like she said in the video, it takes a much longer time to debunk these lies than it does to tell them. A longer video makes room for nuance, the lack of which is the cause for many of the problems stated in the video. Also, other than like, maybe one or two lines where Sarah expresses her frustration, there wasn’t much ranting going on. Most of the runtime was taken up by genuine evidence and reasoning. Of course, I also enjoy watching longer videos and I understand that it isn’t many people’s forte, and thats fine, I just don’t think it’s necessarily Sarah’s fault nor does it make for an objectively worse video.
The Harry Potter fandom took the story and told Jo she could have it back when she learns to be nice.
The good people in the fandom went straight to Percy Jackson and didn't look back.
Thank you for acknowledging and explaining how and why "Miku made Harry Potter" is a really bad take. I'm not very good at translating my thoughts to words, and you pretty much nailed my thoughts on the matter. It's good to have this as a resource that I can send to other people when I can't quite figure out how to articulate my thoughts on something that I feel so strongly about.
"I'm not trasphobic. I'm just scared of self-identified trans women," WHO THE FLIP ELSE IS SUPPOSED TO IDENTIFY THEM???
All trans women gotta go to Jo and get their pass approved before they’re allowed to exist 🤷♀️ rules are rules
Strawman. That's a strawman.
The Drone Overmind of course!
@Fortescue Your last paragraph seems at odds with your first. You seem to advocate for self-identification in your first paragraph, giving good reasons for why state-certification is a horrible idea, then immediately follow it up with a paragraph questioning the safety of allowing self-identification?
And you try to dodge the question of whether self-identification actually is a problem by doing a "do your own research", when the research is very much already readily available in the very video we are commenting on, showing that your suggested problem with self-identification isn't an actual problem.
Men can just claim to be women already, and walk into a women's restroom and assault women. That is already a choice they have, unless we specifically make it illegal to walk into the "wrong" restroom.
Not much comfort in knowing your assailant got a small fine for walking into the wrong restroom if they didn't also get convicted of assault, so why even bother? You are just criminalizing a non-problem to spite trans people at that point.
Making it illegal to walk into the "wrong" restroom is a useless legislative measure that hurts more people than it could ever help. It focuses on the wrong part of the issue, punishing restroom choice over actual assault.
If men can self-identify as women and walk into women's restrooms, what does that actually change? How does that help creeps?
This isn't an issue, but trans people being locked out of the spaces they feel comfortable in IS, and it has serious mental health consequences for the people it affects.
Trump banned trans people from the military (or tried to? I don't remember what ended up happening) because of increased rates of mental health issues, without acknowledging that those issues are caused by societal behavior towards trans people. People do bad things to trans people (like banning them from the military) because of problems like mental health issues, and that treatment leads to the same issues that caused the bad treatment to begin with. It's a viscious cycle, just like how black people are discriminated against because of higher crime rates caused by increased rates of poverty that are themselves caused by discrimination.
It has nothing to do with race or gender identity and everything to do with bigots unable to accept the consequences of their stupidity
Doctors using invasive, borderline or outright predatory questions to enforce inconsistent standards of what defines a woman used as an excuse to always say, "No, you are not actually a woman." If you can get past that, then... They still hate you.
I still don't like the gag in the books where Ron tries to run into the girls' dorm to yell at Hermoine but falls down the stairs, but Hermoine can enter the boys' dorm as she pleases. That's a double-standard. It's based on the assumption that all men are rapists. Stuff like that in books always rubs me the wrong way, esp. because it feeds into problematic gender expectations and a binary division of gender, which is also very exclusive to those who don't subscribe to following conventional expectations for men or women, but given where Rowling stands, it's not surprising that she'd write something like that.
I also really don't like how Harry getting sent love potions and what have you is played for laughs in Book 6. That's attempted date rape. How is that tolerated? The assailants being female shouldn't make it any less bad. (Of course, how Rowling handles romance, sexuality, abuse, and relationships is another topic in and of itself. Personally, I don't think she handles relationships and/or abuse with much tact -- if at all. How is Harry somehow able to be well-adjusted during his first year at Hogwarts after spending most of his time either in a cupboard or being abused by the Dursleys? It just feels rather insincere and disingenuous, and a lazy way to make Harry more sympathetic. Look, he's a sad boy. Pity him.)
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Yes yes yes. I read the books for the fist time this year and I thought they were really disappointing. The standards for boys and girls were twisted and confusing and the constant screaming of ALL the girls in minor situations was tiring honestly.
Right, I also thought that Harry being sent love potions in chocolates and Ron eating some of them was icky. And I consider myself a TIRF (not a TERF).
@@estherbarba1409 I assume TIRF means trans inclusionary radical feminist, because I haven't heard that term before. One of the reasons I was so scared of the radical feminism movement for a while was it's strict code for how women should act that felt just as restrictive as sexism. (don't feel you have to) but could you elaborate on how it differs from the TERF ideologies?
@@marieoconnell6191 Oh, no, sorry, I just made that up. I meant just that, Trans Inclusive Radical Feminist. I agree with TERFs in some things, such as bio sex does not preset our gender roles, and utterly disagree with them in most things. Sex is not the same as gender, and gender roles evolve with time anyway. Above all, trans men are men, trans women are women, and non-binary people exist. What do they think people are, electrical switches, on/off and that's that? Humans are far more complex and nuanced.
My big problem with seperating Rowling from Harry Potter is that in every facet of harry potter, she's wanted complete control. She's so deep into all of her franchise that it's difficult not to see her in the franchise. Maybe you could seperate art from artist but Rowling is in too deep and far too vocal
What do you mean “too deep”?? She literally made it, how is she not supposed to be “too deep” in her own franchise?
@@luckazelena8945 Well most authors, or at least many, do not personally oversee all of the aspects of the world, and rather focus on certain stories in it. Like, star wars for example, even before disney bought it, there where many side stories, games and books writen by other people in the same world as the movies. This is pretty common with most big stories, but this is not the case with harry potter, rowling is either the director, writer, producer or all three on nearly any and everything Harry potter, with very few exeptions. This means that her thinking, and her profit, are tied into all enjoyment of the source materials.
"In conclusion: stan Percy Jackson"
Man, Rick Riordan really is a great counter-example to Rowling. Like, some things in his books have been critisized as being sligtly problematc, but it's obvious that his attempts at representation came from a genuine place of caring, even if they were a bit clumsy at first. And, most importantly, you can see him learning and growing and doing it better next time and it's just so wholesome and pure!
Woke Riordan is a SELLOUT!!
@@liampatrick3110 in what way are they a sellout? I guess people just can't hold certain political opinions on their own now?
The anti-autistic stuff is so frustrating. Autistic are more likely to be queer, not b/c we somehow don't have agency and are tricked into it, but b/c our brains dont line up w/ standard societal norms.
More likely to come out as queer anyway. Some theorise it isn't so much that autistic ppl are more likely to be any other kind of different, as that we are more likely to actually question and investigate any potential mismatch between what we really are and what the system tells us to be, instead of trying to rationalise or deny it.
BUMP
Yes! Exactly! We are more socially free. Caring less what society thinks. Thats why we also become furries more.
@@-gemberkoekje-5547 i love the furry thing lol
yeah well you can see the masculine presenting butch lesbians don't line up with social norms either. but a butch lesbian who is AUTISTIC is more likely to be attracted to the idea of transitioning. to not question WHY that is the case is a disservice to young autistic people. it's not about being more likely to be non conforming or not align with social norms, its about how its more likely for autistic people to have certain viewpoints about not conforming, making them more vulnerable to this social contagion.
JK Rowling really doesn't like the Starkid musicals...
So, if you are a fan of Potter, you might want to roll on the floor over there
CrappyOneshots JK is a crime! The Scarf of Sexuality is the best character
**in a Draco voice** Famous Rowling doesn’t even know about PIGFARTS! Figures!
I've basically just decided that Starkid Cannon is replacing the actual cannon after this bs lol
RUMBLEROARRR
JK just mad that a very potter musical did a better job of saying that Dumbledore was gay and portraying LGBT+ characters she would ever had in the books/movies
Solution: Neil Gaiman made basically an identical book series a decade before Harry Potter and he is a very cool dude.
Also Jane Yolen wrote a condensed version of H P called “Wizards Hall” ages ago. I’m pretty sure JKR has read it.
@@blackstarninja6785 Nice
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman in general are both a solution.
@@basedbattledroid3507 Hell yeah.
And Percy Jackson is a superior alternative and longer.
Sarah - "I have about one Salt Lake City following me"
Me who lives in Salt Lake City - "Ayyyeee"
"in conclusion Stan Percy Jackson" I already do
Yes, but my girlfriend and I have been rereading them and goodness there are a lot of plot holes and silly decisions. Especially Titan's Curse onwards. Still stan them tho.
Since the adaptation announcement I’ve read all 5 PJO books, all 5 HOO books and half of the first Magnus Chase book.
I can safely say after this I stan Uncle Rick more than ever before
Ben Lohmer I’d rather have plot holes than transphobic authors any day, but I get what you mean
@@brynnaschauer4563 Magnus Chase is my fav of all his series. The second one introduces a gender-fluid character, Alex as the third main character, which I'm pretty sure is the only non-binary representation in any book I've ever read.
@@whateveryouhearditwasntme4109 plus theres a lot of plot holes in harry potter too.
dammit, she got me when she said "In conclusion: stan Percy Jackson"
I literally screamed
Never.
Same here 🔱💙
uncle Rick is the only king 💅🏻
It’s worth noting that many HP fans especially people of color were criticizing ideological flaws in the books long before JKR’s transphobia was exposed and they were attacked by the fandom who at the time worshipped JKR, and then afterwords all these white cis fans started repeating the same criticisms they’d called “hate” as if they were new ideas. So personally I have always been critical of HP and JKR and will continue to be even more so while still enjoying my HP slash fics.
While this comments section is a very mixed bag, I think the one thing we can all agree on is that the cursed child is not cannon
And Percy Jackson is better