Anytime anything popular gets dragged here there’s always a few “let people enjoy things” and “don’t ruin peoples fun” and “don’t be a weird cynical hipster” and what have you.
Except for the most popular series of children books in history. For whatever reason that’s apparently weapons free for Hater Team 6 to go to town on. I’ve seen people say was shouldn’t ruin peoples “favorite toy” when it comes to sports, Twilight, Marvel Movies and astrology, but what makes those sacrosanct and Harry Potter fair game?
This applies somewhat to Hamilton too.
I kinda feel like we were hatin on it before she came out as full blown TERF.
Also isn’t Meyers like a hardcore Mormon? Pretty sure she has Garbo opinions, she’s just smart enough to keep them on the DL.
I think that was general complaining about nostalgia culture and adults carrying their regressive childhood passions forward as totems of their identity. Then she became (or always was, honestly) a transphobe.
Meyer absolutely does, they come out in the writing. I revisit it to remind myself how much awful shit I missed as a kid and how it fit into the zeitgeist of that time, but also to sus out what drew me to it in the first place, since I've had a wide range of opinions on it.
She’s been a known TERF for like a decade. The first 2-3 years of it were her dog whistling transphobic shit, trans people calling it out, and then cis libs saying trans people were overreacting.
That stopped around the time she wrote that whole novel about the crossdressing serial killer man that murders women in bathrooms.
It was really funny watching all the people who defended Rowling either delete their tweets, publicly self-crit, or admit they were also TERFs lol
Honestly that might be a part of my hate for Harry Potter. A bunch of losers decided their make believe baby book was more important than being against bigotry.