the archterf once admitted that all the 'bad' harry potter characters were basically just caricatures of people in her life that she doesnt like, so the chances that voldemort was actually modeled off a trans person (or her own mental image of scary trans people) seem pretty damn high
Voldemort did use dark magic to alter his appearance to become a slightly androgynous reptilian skeleton man and he is IIRC described as having a shrill high-pitched voice
I think you could bake this
The smugness of lines like "and somehow, that's controversial" libs always use kills me. Like, yeah, it is controversial, because there are bad people out there, now accept that trans lives are at risk because of them and actually do something you fucking prick, you don't get to be smug if your face is looking down a gun barrel
They treat it like a fashion trend.
'Transphobia is sooo 90s, Becky'
I am eating the John Madden Football '93 of popcorn buckets while reading this. Truly the Tron Legacy of Slate articles. And Slate is the Morbius of news sources.
It is not controversial that Kiwifarms got yeeted. Shut the fuck up Slate, stop reinforcing the far right.
Gotta use the character created by an outspoken anti-trans author too smh
I don't know, Harry Potter seems just as zoomer to me, if not moreso. The first book came out in 1997 (when a bunch of millennials were already teens) and the last movie was in theatres in 2011/2012. Pretty much every zoomer had their entire childhood constantly barraged by new Harry Potter shit coming out. I bet once shitty news sites have mostly zoomers writing for them this Harry Potter nonsense will get even worse.
It’s definitely more millennial, we used to go to midnight launch parties for the books lol
If nothing else, this shows the arbitrary nature of generational cohorts. Get a millennial born in '84 and a millennial born in '94 chatting about Harry Potter and you'll have one person who never read them and doesn't give a fuck and one perfectly timed superfan. Similarly if get two zoomers, one born in '96 and the other in '06, to do the same and you will also get one perfectly timed superfan and one person who missed it completely and doesn't give a fuck.
Eh, the HP metaphor is actually in service of something good for once, so I'll allow it.
Wouldn't the Voldemort of anti trans websites be Reddit because, like Voldemort's many phylacteries, banning an individual sub does nothing to kill the anti-trans sentiment of the whole
My take was that they didn't want to give kf free publicity in the headline
