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  • I'm sorry, people who don't feel attraction to either gender are now not a form of Queer?

    Why does a straight billionaire get to tell people what counts as queer or what labels they use? She's a horrible sociopath who uses her power and influence to hurt people and take away their rights and liberties.

  • What a miserable person.

    I used to not care at all about Rowling, so it didn't bother me that everyone loved her books.

    But since she's revealed that she's also a horrible person, I feel like it's worth pointing out that she's also a horrible writer. Everything good that she put into her books is lifted from something else. The stories are meandering wish fulfillment, barely coherent and hardly ever internally consistent. Her twists are either telegraphed and obvious or non-sequitur. Her characters are one-dimensional caricatures, and the only reason they are so beloved is because they were crafted into films.

    Go back and really read her stories. Read the dialogue, read the imagery, and really ask yourself, "is this good writing?" No it isn't. Is it examining interesting moral questions? No, not once. Is it clever and original? It's only clever when it's plagiarism.

    You can enjoy bad writing. I enjoyed reading the later books. I enjiyed the movies. Just as you can enjoy a McDonald's cheeseburger and fries, Rowling's world of Harry Potter scratches the right itches to engage the reader and make you feel good. But that doesn't make her a good writer, anymore than the fast food burger flipper is a good chef.

    JK Rowling sucks as a person, and as a writer.

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