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“Rowling, whose beliefs on transgender rights have recently seen scores of Harry Potter fans distance themselves from her [...]” That’s an understatement. She’

“Rowling, whose beliefs on transgender rights have recently seen scores of Harry Potter fans distance themselves from her [...]” That’s an understatement. She’s effectively canceled for rest of her writing career for even thinking what she ended up writing. Looking forward to the next chapter though - the best is yet to come.

krapp 6y ago
>She’s effectively canceled for rest of her writing career for even thinking what she ended up writing. No, she isn't. Her views on transgender rights, offensive as I and many others find them, are still comfortably mainstream. She lost a lot of Harry Potter fans, but a lot of fans have also chosen to divorce their love of her work from her politics, and many others simply couldn't care less. I seriously doubt publishers are going to refuse to publish her, bookstores to stock her, or studios to turn down piles of money from franchising her work. I seriously doubt that she's going to be wanting for fame, readership or money in the forseeable future.
- zozbot234 6y ago
  Unfortunately, her concerns are still far from "mainstream". Most people have no idea that "detransitioning" is actually a thing for quite a few trans folks, or that "rapid onset" gender-dysphoric identity is a serious concern as relating to a minority of young people whose self-perception and orientation seems to be strongly influenced by their "progressive" social milieus.
- cosmiccatnap 6y ago
  If you feel like they are mainstream I think you should get out more... Death of the author is impossible if the author isn't actually dead...see orson scott card for a great example of an acalimed and praised bigot still walking and selling both his ideology that gay people shouldn't exist right along side his book.
mcphage 6y ago
> She’s effectively canceled for rest of her writing career for even thinking what she ended up writing. > Looking forward to the next chapter though - the best is yet to come. You think she's cancelled her career, but want to see what she does next? It doesn't seem like you actually think she's been cancelled.
Turing_Machine 6y ago
> She’s effectively canceled for rest of her writing career Amazon Charts would seem to indicate otherwise. https://www.amazon.com/charts/2020-07-05/mostread/fiction/index.html https://www.amazon.com/charts/2020-07-05/mostread/fiction/in...

krapp 6y ago

>She’s effectively canceled for rest of her writing career for even thinking what she ended up writing. No, she isn't. Her views on transgender rights, offensive as I and many others find them, are still comfortably mainstream. She lost a lot of Harry Potter fans, but a lot of fans have also chosen to divorce their love of her work from her politics, and many others simply couldn't care less. I seriously doubt publishers are going to refuse to publish her, bookstores to stock her, or studios to turn down piles of money from franchising her work. I seriously doubt that she's going to be wanting for fame, readership or money in the forseeable future.

zozbot234 6y ago
Unfortunately, her concerns are still far from "mainstream". Most people have no idea that "detransitioning" is actually a thing for quite a few trans folks, or that "rapid onset" gender-dysphoric identity is a serious concern as relating to a minority of young people whose self-perception and orientation seems to be strongly influenced by their "progressive" social milieus.
cosmiccatnap 6y ago
If you feel like they are mainstream I think you should get out more... Death of the author is impossible if the author isn't actually dead...see orson scott card for a great example of an acalimed and praised bigot still walking and selling both his ideology that gay people shouldn't exist right along side his book.

mcphage 6y ago

> She’s effectively canceled for rest of her writing career for even thinking what she ended up writing. > Looking forward to the next chapter though - the best is yet to come. You think she's cancelled her career, but want to see what she does next? It doesn't seem like you actually think she's been cancelled.

Turing_Machine 6y ago

> She’s effectively canceled for rest of her writing career Amazon Charts would seem to indicate otherwise. https://www.amazon.com/charts/2020-07-05/mostread/fiction/index.html https://www.amazon.com/charts/2020-07-05/mostread/fiction/in...