I still donât understand how someone who I had thought of as an amazing writer, a beautiful soul who gave those that didnât fit in the traditional mold, a place to belong and to find friendship and acceptance, someone who I saw as a feminist, when from the above Tweet, to the absolute HORRIFIC, horrible, close-minded, hateful person she is today.
What happened Jo? Trans-women do not take away from my feminity. Trans-lesbians do not make me any less of a lesbian. And you know what? Fuck you Rowling, you donât get to take the one place I felt safe, and happy, and loved, and accepted as a child. So no, I wonât buy any more of your damned movies, or books, or merchandise, but I will ALWAYS be a Potterhead and I will use all the absolute FILTH you spew any more as a way to teach others that just because you create something, doesnât mean you own it.
I wonât let your ignorance and hate define the Potter-universe any longer. HPU was and is nowhere close to being perfect. There is more flaws with the writing, the storyline, the casting, blah, blah blah... I could write as many words as you did in your final book on what you did wrong in these stories as I can with what you have done since. Yet, that doesnât take away from what I felt the first time (and well, many, many times after) when I read the first line in what would eventually become a series of books and movies what would transport a generation and beyond of children to a brand new world. A world where being me, being someone who was the complete opposite of everyone I had ever known, was no longer a bad thing.
The mistakes in your stories, the systematic racism, the misogyny from a âfeministâ writer, and the plethora of hate filled words youâve spewed since, wonât take away from the family I found in the Weasleyâs, the best friendâs I found in not only the Golden Trio but in the underdogs like Seamus and Luna and Neville. So, I will share the Potterverse with my kids and grandkids, and make sure that they and anyone that will stand still long enough to listen, that yes, there are times in life, more often than not, where seemingly semi-intelligent people in the world, like Ms. âJKâ Jo Rowling herself, whom mistakenly think that trans-women arenât real women or even more mind-boggling, that trans-women somehow minimize the fact that people like Jo are women, too. I will teach them that thinking like this isnât okay, and isnât how 99% Potterheads, those individuals who love the world Jo created, think, or feel, or believe. I will, though, share with them that there are times where love can conquer all, that magic is real, and that there is a place in the world where they can be accepted exactly as they are. I will open to that first sentence, in that first book, and tell them, this line may not seem life changing, but just like Jo is wrong in her thinking... well on this... so are they.
âMr and Mrs Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.âÂ
With those words, I will open the door to them, a door to a world where itâs okay to be anything but âperfectly normal, thank you very much.â