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Tennant called transgender critics “a tiny bunch of little whinging f*ckers who are on the wrong side of history, and they’ll all go away soon.”
Is the real headline here. And good for him.
I'd rather not give what's her name any more attention over this crap.
Also, calling Tennant a "Harry Potter actor", while true, feels like a calculated insult to a man who has played Doctor Who, The Purple Man, and Crawley.
He was also barely even in Harry Potter, if we are going by screen time pretty sure Harry potter is the least relevant part of his career.
I wasn't even aware that he was in there.
He was in Goblet of Fire. Showed up briefly at the beginning and end of the movie, certainly easy to miss. More of a cameo appearance for David Tennant fans.
Also, calling Tennant a “Harry Potter actor”, while true, feels like a calculated insult to a man who has played Doctor Who, The Purple Man, and Crawley.
I'm not sure it's a "calculated insult" but it did read a but oddly (I assumed initially that it was referring to someone else). I presume the writer or their editor went with that angle because because his having appeared in the Harry Potter movies is relevant to an article and fitted the wider context of JK Rowling falling out with HP cast members. I'm not convinced it was the right approach.
Tennant, who once lowered himself to appear in a Harry Potter film, stated....
Better?
I'm not sure it's a "calculated insult" but it did read a but oddly (I assumed initially that it was referring to someone else).
Yeah. My choice of words was a bit unnecessarily inflammatory. I struggled to find the words for how weird a choice of introduction it is, but don't mean to actually assign malice.
I don't really think the article author meant anything by it necessarily.
Your point about the context of the cast relationships makes sense. Probably why they went for it.
Tennant: TERFs are whiny fucking babies
JK Rowling, Court Jester: whines like baby
Extra Fabulous on It as usual
How is it that every time we hear from the TERF in the high castle, she's somehow even more unhinged?
When you have that much money reality ceases to exist. Rich people live in the ultimate echo chamber.
Calling someone Taliban while at the same time sharing a lot of Taliban ideology is the kind of delicious irony people like Rowling are completely oblivious to.
“For a man who’s supposedly a model of compassion and tolerance, he sure does want a lot of people to cease to exist.”
Critical of people she praises for compassion.
"J.K. Rowling has recently been canceled because she… did not please the fans of the so-called gender freedoms."
-Putin
Praised by fascist dictators.
And yet somehow JK thinks she is on the right side of history? 😄
So much Love for David Tennant<3
Thankfully the vast majority of the cast of the Harry Potter movies ended up being decent people. They are the ones that young people should look up to, not whatever the fuck Joanne has become.
She's taking the Graham Linehan route, dedicate your whole life to bashing trans people and spreading hate against them, to the point where you ruin your entire legacy and your own personal relationships.
She can keep fighting against trans people's right to exist, but trans people will just fight back at every turn.
Harry Potter actor? This man is the Doctor.
He's a national treasure.
Where can I get my membership card, shirt, and other swag as a member of David Tennant's Gender Taliban
Putting all the politics aside, man I wish he got more roles. The purple man was the best part of Jessica Jones.
I’m so glad I pirated the harry potter audiobooks and didn’t give a cent to this bigot
I'm so glad I stopped giving a shit about Harry Potter and accepted that just because a zeitgeist happened in my childhood doesn't mean I should cling to fictional fantasy that hadn't actually done anything novel in the genre or touched upon topics that aren't handled in better novels elsewhere
Once again, I am tapping the sign for people to go watch the two hour video by Shaun on the subject.
The moral of Harry Potter is that the status quo is correct and should never be questioned, and nobody should ever try to change anything.
Harry doesn't defeat Voldemort or change any of the issues inherent in the bumbling bureaucracy of the wizard world. Voldemort kills himself on a magic technicality, Harry becomes a magic cop and helps to ensure that magic is never used to help the undesirables of society (Muggles), and Hermione is ridiculed for being a girl with blue hair and pronouns who tried to end the chattel slavery system before she "grew up" and became a much more sensible person who realized that the slaves actually want to be oppressed, and it's for their own good.
You can see Rowling's morality change practically in real-time as the books go on, from criticizing the system to defending it as she began to benefit from it as her wealth grew. And underneath it all, you can see her discriminatory opinions of people. That was always there. When she wants you to hate a woman, she makes them fat or gives them masculine features. If I have to read the phrase "mannish hands" one more time, I might vomit.
Once again, I am tapping the sign for people to go watch the two hour video by Shaun on the subject.
Good call, here is a link.
Dude I'm saying! Harry Potter was never good, it was just popular
And yeah I read them and watched them, at least the first few. I'm not talking out of my ass. It's a series with a few imaginative ideas sprinkled throughout otherwise super typical schlock with casually racist seasoning.
Fuck Harry Potter
I am/was likely far too old to be in the target demographic for Pottermania but they never worked for me. They always felt a little... safe, reactionary even as they drew on a long tradition of British boarding school books without really addressing or undermining the genre tropes or even using it as a means to examine that culture. It then wasn't a surprise to find out the author had some questionable views didn't seem a great surprise to me.
She really is firmly determined to take anyone who's ever cast doubt on her intelligence and decency, and prove them thoroughly right.
There’s a few butt-hurt TERFs here downvoting. I wonder if the endorphin rush from such a rebellious act will carry them through the day.
The irony is that the Taliban agrees with JK Rowling on matters of gender and sexuality lol.
Fuck you Joanne.
Glad to not see the usual "separate the art from the artist" crowd that can't stop giving her money to continue to be a fucking plague on humanity.
I expect in a Rowling vs. Tenant fight, Tenant is gonna come out with a win every time. That woman has a damaged moral compass on a good day.
This man is talking about rape survivors who want female-only care, the nurses currently suing their health trust for making them change in front of a man, girls and women losing sporting opportunities to males and female prisoners incarcerated with convicted sex offenders.
It's hilarious that she's making these seem like widespread issues when most of them are literally just one incident, or aren't happening at all. These are the best examples she can come up with of legitimate grievances against trans people?
How about "bullied to suicide, denied medical care, housing discrimination, employment discrimination, and getting violently hate crimed at enormous rates" for the other side of this issue? Even if you think trans identities are invalid, at least pretend to treat them with the same respect you would other human beings. But no, trans people who are just trying to survive day-to-day are nonchalantly grouped in with pedophile rapists, as if those two things are in any way equivalent.
It's easy to hate someone when you just ignore what they really are and supplant it with something else entirely.
As a cis female rape survivor I would choose the care of a compassionate trans woman over a judgemental TERF anytime!
She added: “For a man who’s supposedly a model of compassion and tolerance, he sure does want a lot of people to cease to exist.”
What a dumb cunt she is
How can she not see the projection? Do people get their ability to not tell on themselves removed when they cast that magical first Tory vote?
Wait... The UK has a minister of Equalities and they're against equality? What the fuck?
The sooner JK Rowling is charged with hate speech, the better. How the fuck has she been allowed to get away with it for so long I don’t know.
How the fuck has she been allowed to get away with it for so long I don’t know.
Those in power agree with her, and are probably glad she's so willing to do their dirty work for them
I think this is a good place to add context for those outside the UK that don't pay attention to politics, especially foreign politics:
The UK is having elections on July 4th. The House of commons has... 650 seats, of which the Conservatives (Tories, equivalent UK version of US Rupublicans) have ~350 seats.
They are expected to literally lose hundreds of seats in this elections and fall out of power. Labour (UK equivalent of US Democrats) has not been as progressive as people expected/wanted, but they are expected to be the big winners. Hopefully the UKs situation improves from the past 14-15 years of the Tories rule... seems like they've gone scorched earth, and the UK is a shadow of what it was even a decade ago.
Those same whiners in power, are about to experience a near political power extinction event.
Hmm maybe if you keep attacking the people who stand for good, that means that you're the evil one with dumb, shitty, and wrong ideas? Ever think of that you dumb fuck Rowling?