[ SECRET POST #6531 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6531 ⌋

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06. [WARNING for discussion of JKR and related topics]
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[(Anonymous)]

One of the reasons authors use pen names is because sometimes they want to write about different or more adult topics and they don't exactly fit with the image attached to their real name. Since JKR was mainly associated with all things Harry Potter I guess that is JKR's reason for still using Galbraith.

[(Anonymous)]

And I'm sure it was totally innocent reasons Mister Galbraith took the name of a founder of gay-conversion therapy to write those frequently transphobic books.

[(Anonymous)]

She said that was totally coincidental and his name was Robert Galbraith Heath.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh well of course if she said it...

Because people never lie more when caught out in a bad act.

[(Anonymous)]

Why are you so eager to disbelieve her? Because she's disagreeing with your trans groupthink?

[(Anonymous)]

Calling her and her books transphobic is a big reach.
Good day now.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol She could barely cover YA topics

[(Anonymous)]

I like your crappy doodle.

[(Anonymous)]

Me too, it is excellent and you put more creativity to it than an image generator filled with stolen imagery <3

[(Anonymous)]

As a matter of convention, if the author's real identity is known, they are generally referred to by those pronouns regardless of gendered pen names, ie George Sand and George Elliot are discussed as 'she' academically.

[(Anonymous)]

I love the doodle lol.

She's clearly always preferred presenting as male or ambiguous gender in her pen names. She didn't publish HP under Joanne Rowling for the same reason she chose Robert Galbraith for the adult series. She wanted to be read in the genres without gender expectations.

I imagine she hasn't changed either pen name for series consistency.

I feel like it is well to keep in mind that her attitudes towards gender were formed during a time when those who were NOT white males enjoyed literary privilege.

[(Anonymous)]

Mister Galbraith has also said that he had gender issues as a child and would have been "transed" if he'd been a child these days. So, I feel pretty confident in saying that Mister Galbraith is a bitter old closeted transman who is unhappy they never got the chance to be wwho they are, but have gotten trapped in their public femmey persona. Sucks for him. sucks worse for everyone else with him spending all his cash to keep everyone else as miserable as they are.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think so. JKR has money and power. If she wanted to transition, she could and would. She does not seem to be a man.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. If she truly was closeted she could've come out when the HP series ended, she would've been rich enough to do so. She already got backlash for making Dumbledore gay in the 00s and fundie Christians burned Harry Potter books in the late 90s, so it's not like the heat from being a trans children's book author would be something she couldn't handle.

[(Anonymous)]

She really doesn't seem to be trans at all. Of course, only she knows. I put her percentage at 99.9999999999 cisgender, with little room for transitioning.
She appears to be a strong woman that can handle everybody's public bullshit against her views, with or without all her cash.

[(Anonymous)]

IMO, given that she admitted she may have questioned her gender as a teen and if she'd known about transgender people then, she might be different... she's absolutely in denial. Now, I'm not saying she is a trans man or non-binary, but that she cannot bear to entertain the possibility. Even if it's a tiny, 1% chance that she is not cis that scares her to the bone. Easier to deny it exists at all than confront it.

And honestly, I don't think she's anything but cis. She's just a Hermione, she feels divorced from womanhood because she's not like other girls, she's not vapid and vain, she's smart and likes books and doesn't care much about her appearance! But deep down, she's not confident enough in herself to be sure she could interrogate her gender and find it unchanged because of this.

[(Anonymous)]

I do find it really interesting that JKR doesn't question why she felt the need to select masculine coded names to get what she considers a fair chance in the published fiction novel market.
She says that it's sexism where men are just generally treated more fairly, that's why feminism and all that.
Yet doesn't see that she actively is promoting the sexism she hates so much by playing into it with her pen names.

[(Anonymous)]

>Yet doesn't see that she actively is promoting the sexism she hates so much by playing into it with her pen names.

I abhor her views on trans issues as much as the next person, but this is a huge reach.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I can see it. She actively chose a male pseudonym for the crime books (despite the biggest name in crime books, Agatha Cristie, being a woman) because she truly believed in her crooked little soul that an out woman couldn't write a successful one. The most famous author in the world at the time, male or female, and she could have done it under her own name, or under a female pseudonym, but she chose to perpetuate the myth that only men can write detective books despite all evidence to the contrary. The most famous woman in the world sent the message that women weren't good enough for that genre.

It may not have been intentional, it probably wasn't, but it was still the message sent. Because Rowling has a shitton of internalized sexism that she refuses to deal with in case it shakes something loose in her.

[(Anonymous)]

Ask George Sand, George Elliot, Louisa May Alcott, etc.