Trigger warning: JKR the faux-feminist. Transphobes, don't even start on this post.
That aside, I was just reading Wikipedia, as one does, and the acronym here hit me like a wet sock.
Like, do you think she knew?
When she wrote Hermione's arc as an overbearing self-righteous SJW ignoring the wants and desires of the people she advocated for, who... you know, do tons of unpaid domestic labour without even legal personhood, who she thought should be given proper wages and the right to leave abusive households...
I realize this is a really dumb point here. Obviously her "feminism" was never strong enough to overcome a lot of basic misogyny at any point, but it's long since stopped being a tissue-thin veil over her transphobia. It wouldn't actually matter to any of the other "feminists" she hangs around with if she had at one point had reason to know better than to make her bad point about misguided student activism so closely parallel the argument that women just LIKE being barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen all day and feminism was a mistake to begin with.
Nor would it make my opinion of her any lower, frankly. Clearly she's still a bigoted celebrity crybully who thinks only women like her should get to throw punches.
But I'm still agog? Surely she didn't know and just went for a silly pun. Back then she still thought she was a liberal. She couldn't have.
Right?
