Posted on 12/01/2024 11:46:32 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
It is an unlikely return reminiscent of Harry Potter, "The Boy Who Lived", himself (or the Dark Lord Voldemort depending on your opinion). J.K. Rowling, author of the globally adored fantasy series who in recent years became a pariah in some quarters over her views on transgender people, appears to have just won the culture war she has been fighting for the past five years.
Since 2019, Rowling has sparked impassioned debate—and backlash—over her statements on trans women and insistence on using male pronouns to describe them. The British-born writer has publicly supported women who question the legitimacy of trans women's gender identities and has dedicated much of her feed on X, formerly Twitter, to speaking out on the issue.
Celebrities condemned her statements, social media users labeled her views "disgusting," and activists branded her a "TERF"—a trans-exclusionary radical feminist. Conversely, she has also received an outpouring of support for her stance, with "#IStandWithJKRowling" trending intermittently on social media whenever the debate resurfaces.
Now, long after Rowling had accepted she might have irreparably tarnished her legacy, she finds herself firmly back in the fold. Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the entertainment behemoth bringing her Harry Potter franchise back to screens as an HBO TV show, stated in November that not only will it be working with her on the project, it sees no reason to wade into the furor over her trans-related utterances.
HBO chairman and CEO Casey Bloys said at a November 12 press event that Rowling was "very, very involved in the process selecting the writer and the director," and added that Rowling's trans statements "haven't affected the casting or hiring of writers or productions staff" for the show.
A spokesperson for the network followed up with a statement calling...
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We have reached peak pervert supremacist.
It all goes back to normalization of faggotry. There is a reason God called it an abomination.
She didn’t win the culture war, Trump did. She did help a little though.
Trans people are mentally ill. Gay/Straight without surgery is live and let live. Rowling is correct
We have won an important battle—but World War T continues.
This is gonna be like the hundred years war.
Settle in for the long haul.
The perverts are not going anywhere.
The fag industry crushed Anita Bryant into the dirt.
Remember. She said Dumbledore was gay
No such thing as a trans-woman.
I lived in DC, the COMINTERN of neo-marxist globohomo, in the 1980s and 90s. I remember when the "same sex partnerships" debate was just starting.
We have gone from: "We just want to love who we love, and be able to visit our dying partners in the hospital" which has steadily morphed into - "we'll genitally mutilate children at will, paid for by government, and promote all kinds of deviancy - and propagandize you constantly on it. And if you object, you will be cancelled."
Her problem doesn’t seem to be with homosexuality; it’s with the ‘trans’ business.
Anita Bryant was stupid in the waybshe handled the issue. I am straight, and right now i am sitting in a coffee house non starbux, and i am looking at a 20-something barrista, Hannah who is very cute. Im am an old guy but still appreciate the women.
Me too.
IMO the "culture war" is far from won, and far from over.
We DO have a champion for our side -- Trump -- and he has started to select his generals. But he has yet to get into office, fight the war, and start to repair the damage the other side has done for many years.
I have hope that he and his team will prevail. But I do not call the culture war anywhere near "over and won".
And as you say, JKR has been a vocal supporter and I applaud her efforts. But she is only one player.
I have posted this often. Homosexuality is a behavior, it is not an identity.
Now all, imagine what that behavior is and imagine being the hotel maid after the behavior.
Money talks, bulls&@t walks away, far away.
DEI is dead long live MEI.
yep. They told us ‘we just want to get married and be left alone.’ Then they wanted to ‘adopt’ kids...
We elected GW MORON, in part, to stop gay marriage and we got it anyway.... and look where it has led us to
Didn’t she get a pie in the face assault from a criminal activist?
We began to destroy the moral social fabric of our country in the 1960s when the news media proclaimed the PERVERTS as normal and demanded we accept their perversion as “normal”.
Yup….she tried to give the loons something to endear her to them - then they attacked her lack of ideological purity.
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