SheepieI’m seeing people talk about a certain wizarding universe again, so it’s time to remind people that “separating the art from the artist” doesn’t apply when the artist has explicitly stated they’ll use any profits from the art to promote hateful anti-trans causes.
In this particular case, because of what the artist has very openly vowed, to support the art is to explicitly support the hate campaign. There is no separation.
Cycling Stu@bastardsheep I think the new tv series is close to being released
@stufromoz And I will be judging every person who watches it as being anti-trans.
There is no excuse.
Giliell@bastardsheep Also: the Art is shitty. It was ok to fall for it 25 years ago but you really need to grow the fuck up
trainguyrom@Giliell @bastardsheep Harry Potter and the adults who should've read another book by now.
Seriously there's so much *good* youth fiction they could be clammoring about and instead they pick this slop? And that's not even considering the amazing adult fiction out there!
Andrew@Giliell @bastardsheep Agreed, it’s thinly disguised Oxbridge fanwank. More to the point, it’s an infantile, sub-sub-sub-Dahl fantasy about being whisked away from the aww-so-meeeean poopie-heads who don’t appreciate her, into an exclusive clique of ‘special, chosen people’ just like her, or how she wants to be. Snotty, jingoistic superiority (magic vs. ‘muggle’) as a defence mechanism against a whinging adolescent sense of victimhood. And feck knows what Freud would say about all those magic wands… same as what he’d say about her petty, triumphant cigar-smoking selfie, I imagine. No wonder she is the way she is.
@arx @bastardsheep For me it was more the fun rape drugs and the glorification of tradwives.
C.S.Strowbridge“separating the art from the artist”
Only really works when the artist is dead. Lovecraft was a massive racist, but he's dead, so he's not getting any money from me reading his books.