#//any further anons about this subject will be deleted so don't waste your time!

[droplets-of-starlight]

You do realize it hurts a lot of people when they write rape, pedophilia, incest, etc. Just because it's fictional doesn't suddenly mean people who are real life abusers can't read it and think "Well if they write that then I must be okay :)" it's called normalizing it, So don't just because it's "Fictional". Look up the Jaws effect and see how white sharks almost went extinct over a fictional movie. Fiction affects reality, that's why you can't write whatever the hell you want.

I wasn't sure if I really wanted to waste my energy on this but I guess I will. Very cowardly of you to come at me on anon, which means you aren't brave enough to let people know who you are. But let's get started I guess.

Fiction =/= reality. It does not affect reality. I say this with as much respect as possible, but if there are people who let fiction affect their reality then 9/10, they are not mentally okay. I won't say more on that subject cause it's a whole different subject here and we are not talking about that. I'm talking about the mentally sound people who come in preaching "You can't write this because I say so!"

This is just like people trying to ban video games for violence. There are writers who write rape, pedophilia, incest, and normalize it. Romanticize it even. And I don't see you going after them.

What about the movies with teens in it? There's always a heavily implied sex scene because that's what teens do. Most are going to have sex whether you like it or not. But they are underage so that's pedophilia, isn't it? How about we go after the people who directed the movie? Or wrote the book that movie is based off of?

Oh, let's talk about slasher movies! Killers will see those and think "wow, this means it's okay for me to go kill a bunch of people!" Guess we should get rid of those too!

Oh, there's lots of anime that showcase problematic stuff, like Another and Higurashi. Guess we can't watch or like those anymore. No, no, people will see those and think it's okay to go out and do those things. Maybe Attack on Titan will make cannibals think it's okay to go and eat people.

Bottom line is, there's always going to be problematic stuff. Fiction is a place where writers get to explore things they want to write. If I write about someone killing people, that doesn't mean I'm going to go out and kill people and I'm pretty sure people who read my work aren't gonna go out and murder people. If I write about two teens in love and they have sex that doesn't mean anything. If I write about problematic stuff it doesn't mean I'm telling people to do these things. Most of the stuff I write in fiction is stuff I don't condone irl. I write it because I'm a pretty dark person and writing these things lets me explore these dark things. I'm not hurting anyone by writing these things. And it's not okay for you to come and tell me or others we can't write this stuff just because you don't think we should.

Grow up and get over yourself. If you don't want to see this stuff, block/unfollow and move on. But I will keep writing what I want and I encourage other writers to do the same. Don't let people tell you what you can and can't write. As long as they aren't hurting anyone, it should not matter what they write. Because it's fiction and does not hurt anyone.

[notebooks-and-laptops]

hello, am i allowed to ask what the whole jk rowling thing is about. i don't want to sound rude i just want to get that explained. thank you for answering and sorry to disturb you. have a wonderful week and stay healthy and safe please. ✨

Hello! I’ll do my best to outline the main points of the current controversy, as well as how this links to her behaviour in the past (although the examples I’m using are not exhaustive). But I would like to point out first that while I stand in solidarity with the trans community, I am not trans myself and I would suggest reading articles on this found online (pinknews is pretty good) as well as focusing on trans responses to the issue. I’m also summing up a lot of my views towards the end on why this is ‘bad’ so if I cover it here, I’m not responding to any other asks on the subject and I refuse to respond to all the anon hate I’ve been getting so don’t waste your breath. 

So her previous TERF comments: 

- in March 2018, JK Rowling liked a hateful tweet which referred to trans women as ‘men in dresses’. While her PR team labelled this a ‘middle-aged blunder’ of her clicking on the wrong thing, her many TERF activities after this would suggest that that is not the case. 

- In December 2019 JK Rowling tweeted in protest of the removal of Maya Forstater, a TERF who was removed from her position due to her bigotted comments, after insisting that a person cannot change their biological sex. 

- In May 2020, JK Rowling tweeted a response to a child’s drawing, accidentally copy-and-pasting a quote from an anti-trans article, which misgendered a trans-woman. This was particularly awful as it was, like I said, in response to a childs drawing. While she later deleted and apologised for the line having found its way into the response, she did not apologise for the misgendering within the tweet itself. 

- And Yesterday, smack bang in the middle of pride month and the Black Lives Matter movement, JK Rowling tweeted this in response to a very netural non-aggressive phrase used within an article. The article used ‘people who menstrate’ which is inclusive of trans-men as not everyone who menstrates identifies as a ‘woman’ like JK Rowling wishes to claim. 

She then went on to pit lesbians and gays against trans people, despite not ascribing to either label herself (a tactic often used by trolls to create in-fighting within a community), and claimed she was right to think this due to the opinion of her lesbian friend, using the lesbian community as a buffer for her views despite, again, not identifying as a lesbian. 

She further implied TERF (trans-exclusionary-radical-feminist) to be a slur (it’ s not a slur - it’s a descriptor which is used to denote feminists who believe that trans women are not ‘real’ women and often claiming trans men are ‘confused’ lesbians and its an important descriptor because it helps to separate feminism that is for equality from feminism which relies on insisting there is a biological divide between men and women that often equates men as ‘evil’ and women as ‘trustworthy’ and ‘kind’ due to their motherly instincts) - and implied that the backlash against her from people who call her a TERF is somehow comparable to women being called ‘witches’ which, as we know, led to the mass murder of women during the 17th and 18th centuries. 

Some further issues with her actions: 

- she chose to do this during pride month, which should be about celebrating trans lives, as well as LGBT lives in general. 

- she chose to do this instead of directing her millions of fans towards support in the Black Lives Matter movement. She clearly doesn’t have a problem getting political on her twitter, as this all shows, but she’s chosen NOW to focus on this instead, meaning that activists have to split their focus even more against the tide of TERFS this has brought out of the woodwork - the focus should not be on this! It should be on Black Lives Matter! Why did she decide to bring this up now of all times? 

- she has a large following of young idols. This is dangerous, as when a person who many young people idolise says something like this it can radicalise those children against trans people or it can cause extreme self-hatred for those trans youth whose idol is now turning against them. 

- she is a very clever woman. Her language is thus chosen very carefully to make her point seem reasonable on the surface unless taken to its logical conclusions. This means that her rhetoric is more likely to get people on side and spewing anti-trans bullshit than if she was just tweeting a simple ‘I hate trans people’. Notice how she claims she supports trans people, despite how her views are decried by so many trans men and women (and non-binary/gender fluid etc. people too)

- this is on the back of her other homophobic actions such as asking for credit for making a morally dubious man gay (even though its never mentioned in the books) and then making him in love with Literal Wizard Hitler, perpatrating the harmful sterotype that gay men are in some ways ‘evil’ or likely to love evil things. 

Many people are claiming that this is fine and she’s just being ‘middle aged’ and not understanding properly but this is NOT like your grandma or your aunt getting something wrong. This is a woman who has claimed to do lots of research, who has come out on the side of TERFS and who has the ability to influence many to be transphobic. Transphobia is awful, look up trans depression rates, or trans suicide rates, and you’ll see just why it’s not okay for someone who has her power to be this hateful. 

Once again, I’m not trans, please look at trans responses to this. And please do your own research. But I hope this clarifies why I am anti-Rowling and anti-TERF in general. If you are a TERF you can unfollow me now.