[ SECRET POST #7056 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7056 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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01. [WARNING for possible discussion of sexism, racism]




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02. [WARNING for discussion of sexual assault]




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03. [WARNING for discussion of child sexual assault, IRL murder/death]




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04. [WARNING for discussion of child sexual assault, IRL murder/death]




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05. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]


















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This. I think her intentions were good, in a clueless but well-meaning and only moderately informed straight person kinda way. The complainers accusing her of wanting brownie points were very lucky adult queers in big leftist cities, and the message was not for them. It was for kids who hadn't heard the word "gay" before and if they had it was as an insult.

That doesn't mean she didn't have subconscious homophobia that grew and rotted to make her the person she is today. But the way the story as been warped is lowkey terrifying to me as a queer writer. Imagine trying to do something good with my writing and being mocked forever of being insincere and wanting brownie points because I didn't please the people who consider themselves queerer than I (and straight people wanting to get brownie points from THEM, looking at you in the afterlife Terry Pratchett with your self-congratulatory announcement [unlike JKR's simple answering of a question] that a male character you'd explicitly written as liking women [unlike Dumbledore] was gay.)