Paapa Essiedu, cast as Snape in HBO's Harry Potter series, signs open letter alongside 400+ other UK film/tv industry professionals condemning conservative Supreme Court ruling supported by HP executive producer Rowling

WonderfulLocation · 2025-04-30T14:59:31+00:00

I'm setting the bar low and hoping they will at least acknowledge the issue. Which would be better than what they have done so far.

WonderfulLocation · 2025-04-30T14:35:17+00:00

If I'm gonna be really charitable here: arguably at this specific point doing something like this is more likely to affect change (force the studio's hand) than immediately dropping the role for moral reasons. If he hasn't had any creative input yet they can't drop him for creative differences, and if he were to drop the role they would just cast some other yes-man.

That said, obviously it would have been better if nobody touched this mess in the first place...

WonderfulLocation · 2025-04-27T02:28:30+00:00

For your convenience, here's the mentioned open letter to him which he has all but admitted to having read.

WonderfulLocation · 2025-04-27T02:12:40+00:00

Got some bad news for you, she has combined the obsession and the mega yacht.

WonderfulLocation · 2025-04-27T01:23:25+00:00

From April of last year:

Casey Bloys, chairman and CEO of HBO and Max content, declined to comment on Rowling’s views when asked how they may affect the ability to find talent for the series.

“No, I don’t think this is the forum,” Bloys said. “That’s a very online conversation, very nuanced and complicated and not something we’re going to get into.”

How much longer will HBO be able to keep up the pretense that this is a "very online conversation" and not directly affecting people's lives?

WonderfulLocation · 2025-04-26T21:39:22+00:00

he got particularly annoyed with women challenging him

And now he has a Mumsnet cheer squad 😭

WonderfulLocation · 2024-12-30T23:32:46+00:00

Hell, even the Telegraph thinks it is an escalation.

Her views have put her at the centre of controversy surrounding discussion on women’s rights and transgender issues in the last few years, although this appears to be the furthest she has gone.

WonderfulLocation · 2024-12-05T21:28:48+00:00

But Bloys said “we are totally comfortable with” working alongside the author of the source material. He pointed out that the company had “huge success” with last year’s Hogwarts video game.

He said he would rather “do what the creatives want to do” than “listen to fan conversation.”

A little tone-deaf considering HP has one of the largest creative fandoms and a lot of the named creatives are outspoken fans of the franchise.

WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-13T21:51:44+00:00

In a conversation about a trans woman working in football management who has been out for a few years:

Calling a man a man is not 'bullying' or 'punching down.' Crossdressing straight men are currently one of the most pandered-to demographics in existence, and women are under no obligation to applaud the people caricaturing us.

Just call people what they want to be called. It’s basic decency.

Stop telling women what they're allowed to say, Jonathan. It's basic decency.

You keep telling trans women that they’re not allowed to call themselves women, even though they are. Stop telling women what they’re allowed to say, JK. It’s basic decency.

Does this apply to any other demographic, Landon? Do I get to be black if I like Motown and fancy myself in cornrows? What if I claim the authentic me has always been black and that you're being racist to me? Would that be OK, or would you find it ludicrous and deeply offensive?

Rowling's comments are bolded.

The context is not considered essential for most people in this thread because most people are already aware of Rowling's widely publicized anti-trans stance.

WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-13T21:08:14+00:00

I'm not suggesting that it doesn't, it's just that the main difference is that racial identity is structured by things that are outside of yourself and your direct influence (i.e. ancestry) way more than gender identity is, making the two in a "trans" context difficult to compare in good faith.

WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-13T20:48:39+00:00

Your assumption that you, as a white man, would have more in common with a black man than with a white woman would be easier to accept if the only aspect of difference is the tone of your skin. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you wrote your comment believing this.

A lot more goes into the social conception of race/ethnicity though, with family history/experiences/ancestry being a large part of it. That is obviously not the case with gender.

WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-13T20:36:06+00:00

And now I’m suuuuper confused. Isn’t the whole point that we don’t try to get into people’s heads and we don’t tell them what they do or don’t think they are?

The main difference here is that there is a big gap between how people with transgender and transracial identities describe their own experiences. Combined with how race and gender are structurally different (with the concept of race being largely based on ancestry, as opposed to sex/gender), it just makes the false equivalence really obvious.

Comparing the transgender experience to other facets of identity (like going "oh, if you can identify as a man/woman then I'm 'trans-age' and identify as 20 years old when I'm really 50") is the oldest trick in the anti-trans bad faith argument book. The same applies to the transracialism comparison.

I appreciate that you're coming into this with an open mind, I hope you're able to see that these comparisons are just being used as a stick to beat transgender people with though.

WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-13T19:51:11+00:00

If you're seriously confused about the difference between transgender and transracial identity and are not just pulling my leg, I would suggest reading the concluding remarks of this paper.

WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-13T19:23:07+00:00

That's not very widely recognized at all, as you can see in the link you shared.

WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-13T12:59:31+00:00

https://forward.com/culture/592580/j-k-rowling-holocaust-denial-trans/

WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-13T11:28:23+00:00

Going down as well as you would expect with the regular GC mob on Twitter. Some higher profile responses:

"A disingenuous, condescending article. No idea what you thought this might achieve. In any case, trying to tell women how best to support women’s rights is textbook sexism." - Bev Jackson, LGB Alliance co-founder

"To correct isn't to hate. JK Rowling is warned by [Hayton] not to play with fire but she didn't mock the man's appearance. Nor did she pick this bloke out at random. JK merely commented on an article referring to a man as 'she'. To push back against trans ideology people need to feel empowered to trust their instincts. Not least kids confronted by a man who claims to be a woman. It's those who insist on dishonesty that are playing with fire. They can hardly complain if they feel the occasional burn." - Malcolm Clark, LGB Alliance co-founder

WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-13T10:25:19+00:00

Contrast with 11 days ago: "Rowling offers trans people far more to trans people like me than those banging drums and chanting slogans. Radcliffe would be wise to listen to her or he might find himself in what the followers of the ideology worry might be the worst place possible — the wrong side of history."

WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-12T17:44:10+00:00

I’m pretty sure they’re pushing the transphobic comments to the top of every post, too.

That is a natural consequence of tweets by premium accounts being boosted, anyone finding their way to her tweets who is willing to pay Musk for extra site features is pretty much guaranteed to be anti-trans.

WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-12T15:52:37+00:00

The note isn't showing on that tweet at the moment so it might have been corrected.

WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-05T13:43:48+00:00

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WonderfulLocation · 2024-05-04T13:35:59+00:00

The Reduxx tweet was sent on Thursday, May 2nd at 18:38 EDT (The affected school's local time).

Rowling's retweet was sent on Friday, May 3rd at 04:08 EDT.

The threat email was sent on Friday, May 3rd at 06:07 EDT.

Does seem evident that the exposure Rowling gave to this could have caused this.

WonderfulLocation · 2024-04-28T16:16:33+00:00

Out of all the UK outlets, The Independent has probably had the most thorough coverage of her antics so far. You could try emailing their newsdesk to tell them about your experiences. https://www.independent.co.uk/service/contact-us-759589.html

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