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message 1: by Srujan, Bibliophile (new)

Srujan (srujanreads) | 1325 comments Mod
I used to love her before I came across her Transphobic comments and I started hating her! Though it does not stop me from from loving the Wizarding World


message 2: by Amelie (new)

Amelie | 1106 comments Yeah, I definetely don’t agree with what she’s doing, but I still admire her work, and the Harry Potter books will always have meaning to me.


message 3: by Sofia (new)

Sofia (sofloaf) I love Harry Potter, and that has nothing to do with my views on JKR, who is transphobic and no longer someone I look up to.


message 4: by Rheanna (new)

Rheanna (goodreadscomuser_rheanna) @reina I totally agree


message 5: by katie ❀ (new)

katie ❀ (whisperngpages) Agreed. I understand that people will always love HP, but I don't think I can anymore. I didn't really enjoy HP the first time I read it, and I don't particularly care about it anymore. I don't want to read books like this with no diversity. It may be different for others, though. This is just my opinion.


message 6: by queen victoria (new)

queen victoria (makevocaloidgreatagain) | 0 comments love the world but i ship the author with dirt


Amanda Artist Cat (amandawholovesbooks) I don't think she is really transphobic. I mean, I read her tweets and there is really nothing very offensive, I'm confused, maybe my information is faulty, but it seems to me that it she's not attacking anyone, it's the news headlines that making a massive fuss about it and making it sound like she's transphobic.
I'm no expert, I'm not defending what she did, I'm sorry if I offen anyone, this is just my personal opinion.
My mum thinks she might be doing it to draw attention from the press, but I'm not sure about it.


maryam مريم  (raindropsandastorm) | 1 comments Amanda (Artist Cat) wrote: "I don't think she is really transphobic. I mean, I read her tweets and there is really nothing very offensive, I'm confused, maybe my information is faulty, but it seems to me that it she's not att..."

Yeah, I thought so too... I don't know much about this.


Amanda Artist Cat (amandawholovesbooks) Maryam Zainab wrote: "Yeah, I thought so too... I don't know much about this."

Neither does anyone, as far as I know! It's just the headlines we see that screams about it, what did she actually SAY? Where's the proof, or evidence? I hope I'm not sounding like a troll or mean, I just want to know what's really going on... :(


message 10: by Rheanna (new)

Rheanna (goodreadscomuser_rheanna) You’re kinda right on some aspects. If we took all her tweets out of context they wouldn’t be incredibly transphobic but combined they are transphobic. Firstly, she’s misgendered many trans people, also she wrote a whole essay about how trans women are actually predatory me in dresses who want to get into women’s washrooms. Not to mention that she compared transitioning to gay conversion therapy. Most recently, her new book includes a cross dressing male serial killer who dresses up as a woman to kill woman. And last but not least she promoted a company that sells merch that is incredibly transphobic. They sells pins that say things like “F*ck your pronouns “ or “trans women are men” and so on.
Sorry this is so long, if you need clarification on anything just ask ;))


message 11: by Rheanna (new)

Rheanna (goodreadscomuser_rheanna) Ya she can


message 12: by Lilly S (new)

Lilly S Rheanna wrote: "You’re kinda right on some aspects. If we took all her tweets out of context they wouldn’t be incredibly transphobic but combined they are transphobic. Firstly, she’s misgendered many trans people,..."

I've seen a couple of her tweets that are super transphobic but I had no idea that she did that stuff. Jesus.


message 13: by Rheanna (new)

Rheanna (goodreadscomuser_rheanna) Yeah she keeps kinda saying more stuff and it doesn’t seem like she’s going to stop


message 14: by Srujan, Bibliophile (new)

Srujan (srujanreads) | 1325 comments Mod
Twitter can ban users.


message 15: by Rheanna (new)

Rheanna (goodreadscomuser_rheanna) I mean they haven’t banned Trump yet so I’m not really surprised


message 16: by Srujan, Bibliophile (new)

Srujan (srujanreads) | 1325 comments Mod
Hahaha. It seems Trump is not a good president.


message 17: by Lilly S (new)

Lilly S I wish 😂


message 18: by Srujan, Bibliophile (new)

Srujan (srujanreads) | 1325 comments Mod
I read a few articles which said that his testing corona positive is also an election stunt. As the US presidential elections are coming.


message 19: by Rheanna (new)

Rheanna (goodreadscomuser_rheanna) 🤮🤮🤮
Also Trump has Instagram?? How did I not know this??


message 20: by Srujan, Bibliophile (last edited Oct 09, 2020 11:05PM) (new)

Srujan (srujanreads) | 1325 comments Mod
Oh my god he really has an instagram account!
And he also has 22.5 million followers!!!


message 22: by Rheanna (new)

Rheanna (goodreadscomuser_rheanna) I can’t believe it. I thought he only used Twitter lol


message 23: by Rheanna (new)

Rheanna (goodreadscomuser_rheanna) That sucks, he sounds horrible


message 24: by Rheanna (new)

Rheanna (goodreadscomuser_rheanna) Omg that’s terrible


message 25: by Srujan, Bibliophile (new)

Srujan (srujanreads) | 1325 comments Mod
Oh my god! That sounds bad!


maryam مريم  (raindropsandastorm) | 1 comments Srujan wrote: "Hahaha. It seems Trump is not a good president."
Everyone's criticizing him, even small children. Serves him right.


message 27: by Ojas (new)

Ojas | 211 comments I don't really know anything more about JKR but all I know is Harry Potter is awesome!


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