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.

  • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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    3 years ago

    I don’t recall anything transphobic in the books specifically, the author is just transphobic.

    Like 90% of media is pro cop.

    Okay the antisemitism part is fair.

    Twilight as some weird pedo undertones yet we let people enjoy that.

    • Gosplan14 [any]
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      3 years ago

      I don’t recall anything transphobic in the books specifically

      I discovered this recently, but the character of Rita Skeeter has some sus characterization

      https://twitter.com/ponettplus/status/1270133803328159748

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        3 years ago

        Adding onto that tweet, Rita Skeeter is also an unregistered animagus and transforms into a beetle in order to gain access to places so she can spy on her subjects . Which is incredibly sus in context of JKR's transphobic views

      • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        this is, of course, on top of all the antisemitic subtext with the goblin bankers, and the subplot about how hermione is being silly by trying to free the house elves because they LIKE being slaves, and the one asian character being named "cho chang," and on and on and on

        wait what the fuck I haven’t read the books in years, she literally named the only asian character that. Fucking fuck.

    • D61 [any]
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      3 years ago

      Twilight as some weird pedo undertones yet we let people enjoy that.

      I have vague memories of reading/watching a fair amount of content pointing out how cringy the dynamic is between a barely legal teenaged girl and a forever young hundred year old vampire boy was.

    • CoolYori [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Twilight as some weird pedo undertones

      Well you sort of expect that kind of stuff when its written by a Mormon considering their founder married and fucked 14 year olds.