If you still find warmth, healing, or safety in the wizarding world, that doesn’t make you complicit. It makes you human. People survive by holding onto comfort, especially when that comfort is rooted in a story that once gave you hope.
You grew up with it. You built your own meanings into it. You connected to the loneliness, the wonder, the found family. That world shaped your inner landscape long before you even knew what her politics were.
It’s okay to let go of your childhood favorites like Harry Potter and Rurouni Kenshin.
It’s only disappointing for a while, and then nothing matters after that; because there are still so many fresh, just as good if not better creators and IPs to celebrate and to support.
Our editor is a woman, our assistant editor is a woman, our newsroom has more than double the amount of female reporters than it does male. Standing up for transgender people who have been relentlessly bullied by the public & media doesn’t make us “anti-women”, it makes us human
JK Rowling is "as much of a cartoon super villain as she is a dangerous and out-of-touch fearmonger."
It's time to leave Harry Potter behind. ✅
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Harry Potter and Cormoran Strike author JK Rowling is an obnoxious blowhard.
Our mission since 2020 has been to highlight JKR's incessant anti-queer bigotry, and it's been a huge success.
The world finally understands she's dangerous. Vindictive. Spoiled. Revoltingly offensive.
A #HarryPotter TV series is in the works at HBO Max, but there is no writer or talent attached. It's unclear what part of the Wizarding World the show would focus on, if it moves ahead https://t.co/re86ntLeyY