TRANS PERSON: please don't press the button that makes children kill themselves

CIS PERSON: but it's such a pretty button

TRANS PERSON: yes but it kills children

CIS PERSON: it looks so fun to press tho

TRANS PERSON: uh huh it kills children

CIS PERSON: you don't understand this button reminds me of my own childhood

TRANS PERSON: i feel like I need to remind you - dead children

CIS PERSON: *sweat pouring down their face* but i can separate the button from the person who made the button!

TRANS PERSON: good for you, the button still makes children kill themselves

CIS PERSON: *straining from the effort of not pushing the button* but i want my children to enjoy the button

TRANS PERSON: the button that kills children

CIS PERSON: you just don't want anyone to enjoy things

TRANS PERSON: again...dead children

CIS PERSON: *pushes the button*

This post is about JK Rowling.

@Lana From my experience of my own kid's social circles: the ones who were HP fans had moms who'd been HP fans and gave off "gaslight gatekeep girlboss feminist" vibes. AFAIK none of them are friends anymore, which is also related to them having gone off to private schools because the middle school *gasp* has Black kids at it and Black folks living in the neighborhood around it.

Folks who were drawn to HP were drawn to it for a reason.

@dalias

I can't believe the books with "Cho Chang" and totally-not-jewish banker goblins have a statistically significant racist readership. Who could have seen that coming?

@Lana

@alessandro holy shit that naming is so racist it’s beyond belief lmao