Where Is Duty? Where Is Sacrifice?

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When male athletes say their favorite female athlete is Serena Williams: I bet that’s the only female athlete they could even name.

2) People, especially kids were not stupid or bad for liking it at the time. And you are not better than anyone for not jumping on the bandwagon at the time. Whenever anyone says “I didn’t ever fall for the hype when *example of less problematic author* was right there, I roll my eyes. Bad people can make good art. You cannot always tell the morality of the artist by their art, especially when you’re a CHILD. I wouldn’t say HP is great art, but there was something that captured the imagination of billions of people. And many queer people such as myself found it comforting at the time. You are not morally better than anyone just because you didn’t ever love HP. HP not being good is actually completely beside the point that the author uses her success and platform to dehumanize and actively campaign against trans people. That has nothing to do with the quality of HP. Niel Gaimen is much more regarded artistically and he turned out to be a bad person. If you continue to insist that good art= good person you will continually be disappointed and shocked.