Hello there!! What did you think/How did you feel about finding out that JKR is a TERF? I’m sorry if it’s abit personal, but it saddened me alot when I found out, but I’m glad I have fanfics to cheer me up. Thank you so much for your blog, it really means alot to be able to find good ones to read!
At that time, I was surprised and a bit disappointed, but not too much. It might be because I'm not that invested in the creators and more focused on their works? And talking about authors, I've always liked Suzanne Collins more.
About the topic, 'Is JKR really a TERF?' I've seen some controversy, I think you could ask for the opinions from someone more knowledgeable than me, aka @bounding-heart !
I was debating whether to reblog this post with all of the additions, because @dewitty1 and @secretlycrazyhummingbird made some really good points in their replies, but... I refuse to give cis people's transphobic opinions a platform in my blog.
It's okay to not know much about what's going on with JKR. It's okay to not know much about radical feminism, transphobia, and transmisogyny.
But if you care about trans people, if you want to be an ally to the community, you need to do better than to encourage people who may also not know much to listen to a cis woman on this. Especially when trans people and their allies have talked about these topics at length and continue to do so.
And, to me, it's alarming that your first choice when you decided to direct people to someone more knowledgeable than you was a cis woman that has repeatedly sided with other TERFs on Tumblr, that calls the fight for trans rights "misogynistic and homophobic", and that goes as far as to claim that "same sex attracted people have a moral right to reject people with bodies that don't fall within their sexuality" in her pinned post.
If you care about us, you need to do better than this.
Reblogging this one because I’m fully repulsed by some of the other commentary and this is what deserves to be seen.
1) TERF isn’t a slur.
2) JKR is a TERF.
3) If you exclude trans people from your feminism, you’re not a feminist.
4) Cis people don’t get to decide what is and isn’t right for, or insulting to, the trans community.
5) JKR isn’t even a feminist or an LGBT+ ally—her books have a lot of gross ‘not like other girls’ bullshit, and there’s literally no canon LGBT+ representation. Now, they were written forever ago, but instead of saying ‘I wrote these books before I was educated on the importance of thoughtful, well-rounded minority representation, and while I can’t go back in time to change it, I can do better going forward, and I appreciate everyone who’s talked to me about this’, she chose to pretend certain characters have always been part of a specific community.
6) It’s disappointing to see a fanfic author whose work I’ve enjoyed take such a regressive, antagonistic stance, but I’m glad I know now. I hope that person talks to people who were affected by JKR’s words instead of burying her head in the sand in the name of ‘being right’.
7) Using sexual assault to justify your bigoted views is disgusting and insulting to all other survivors.
That’s about all I’ve got on this. I hope certain people wake up and grow up. Grossed out that there are still so many people with these views in 2020.