@gooba42 @GhostOnTheHalfShell @Chancerubbage @callisto @limneticvillains

i don't even try

sometimes the "crime" of the artist is overblown empty #socialMedia outrage and i just roll my eyes and enjoy their work immensely

but if the crime is real, and serious enough, fuck them. i can't watch them or read them. i'm done

#jKRowling is clearly solidly well established in "i'm a #bigot and i'm proud of it" mode

i will never look at or read her works, ever again

@Chancerubbage @callisto @limneticvillains

and?

why waste our time extending empathy to villains?

fuck #jKRowling

there is no justification no excuse no explanation for her #bigotry

none

jk rowling is a monster

we can't let our desire to understand be used against us

we try to understand, and we can't. so we get stuck

but just because it's incomprehensible doesn't mean we don't put blame where blame is due

there are limits to understanding

jk rowling has gone far far over her limit

@callisto @limneticvillains

the #cycleOfAbuse also has endings and beginnings

some took great abuse, and didn't dish it out on others. to their great credit

but there are also those, like #jKRowling, who *start* the cycle of abuse

there is no trauma backstory, none whatsoever, that explains her turn to loud forceful #bigotry

she is a real monster

we need to understand people, yes

sometimes we see how they are a victim as well

but sometimes that understanding means seeing a true villain

@mark @callisto @limneticvillains

some suffer abuse and poverty, and wind up as saints

some experience adulation and riches, and wind up as monsters

frankly, i just don't give a shit about any trauma #jkrowling may or may not have experienced

there was no need for her to take the turn to vicious #bigotry that she did

but she did it

the cycle of abuse is real, yes

sometimes a backstory matters

but there are also monsters in this world:

the original authors (no pun intended) of their sin

@callisto @limneticvillains

and we're not talking about someone young, abused, nor stressed

we're talking about a contented, successful author

she demonstrates in her writing emotional intelligence, wit, an exquisite cognitive skillset

so there isn't forgiveness nor understanding for #jkrowling

whatever the backstory that led to her #bigotry, the explanation not the excuse as you say:

that she can't get over it, and doubles down, is not tragedy

it's a disgusting betrayal of her humanity

Yeah, JK doesn't care about any of that, just that a boxer from the Global South is beating the white master race and so must obviously be a man, even when the World has proved her wrong.

Hurrah for John Oliver though!
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/john-oliver-jk-rowling-outrage-trans-athletes-1236361826/