Hi there! I hope you are safe and sound, pornies. Here we go again, with yet another controversy, and I cannot help but speak (well, technically, write) on the matter. And again, I want to focus on the positive side of things, although I seriously doubt there will be an apology this time.
Not long ago, a woman known as J. K. Rowling, author of a saga named Harry Potter we never heard about, published some controversial tweets that caused more of an impact (I guess) than she expected. The matter escalated to the point that Daniel Radcliffe, who played The Boy Who Lived, and Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang, adressed the issue.
I'm sure we are all mad that the author of such a beloved saga implied such things and I understand the fan backlash, but I can't forget one of the first things I learned when dealing with curses and ill-intended spells: Do not give it importance, do not care about it, do not pay attention. If you allow yourself to focus on it, then it will have an effect on you, you're feeding it, and you're allowing yourself to fill your heart with those energies. The same applies here.
We do care about it and we are hurt because someone as Rowling said such things, but, after some thought, I realized that we care just because of that, because it is Jo, Rowling, the woman we admired a lot, the woman with an impressive creativity. What if she was just another woman? What if she was just another woman saying the same think?We would pay no attention and forget about it, and that's what I think we should do in some way.
Being famous means her words have impact, that she will be in the news for whatever she does or thinks or says (and have you seen how much coverage she is getting because of this? It's nuts,) but I've been doing something for a while: take what works for you, dismiss what doesn't, and apply what you learned from both. It doesn't work to think like she does, and I hate it, so I take this as a chance to learn from it and, for now, understand more about menstruation and trans folks. She has her right to have her opinion, but that doesn't mean we need to agree with her, and she obviously doesn't care, but who would at her age? I would worry if she did.
What do I mean? That we focus on the good things HP inspired, like this amazing video I saw recently about the LGBT+ themes in the series. We don't need to pick sides here. I like the books, I like the movies, I admire her as a writer, not as much as a person on these matters, but I'm not hating this saga because Rowling is a TERF (don't call her that, she will claim it's "woman-hate;" honey, we are in a time of acceptance and that means accepting who we/you are.) I rather take this as an opportunity to remind myself what I like about the series, what I learned from it, not think about the mental carbage she carries on a daily basis, but learn because of it so I become a better person.
Kinky regards, K!
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