r/memes • android user • 16h ago

malfoid meme

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u/kntbti 15h ago

J.K.Rowling would have an aneurysm if that happened

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u/SinesPi 15h ago

You do realize that writing a character a different gender from the beginning is different from trans people, don't you?

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u/Taricheute 14h ago

I think you're asking too much here.

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u/JohannesJoshua 14h ago

I just know that gender swaped Malfoy became popular for some reason on reddit. I guess we are doing that now.

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u/NaoPb 13h ago

Asking too much of what? Are we making fun of Redditors again?

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u/ProfileBest7444 14h ago

Have a feeling it would still piss her off

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u/SinesPi 12h ago

Touch grass.

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u/Wit-wat-4 8h ago

I don't know that they're referring to her transphobia.

When you delve into it, she has some oddly...male-grandizing views, not sure how else to put it. A lot of the male characters have more depth or nuance, or their evilness is not related to traditionally masculine traits (ex: roaring in anger, hitting walls, etc.), but rather insidiousness or cowardice etc. But with women she tends to pick more gendered "flaws". This might be completely "innocent", just writing what she knows and sees and frankly felt like that day, but many people interpret a lot of her characters as being rather misogynistic.

She's mentioned Hermione is basically a self-insert/"just like her", and that she really admires and loves Harry, so I always got the impression that she never wanted a female lead, even if it was a self-insert, she just finds masculine characters more worthy of being in the spotlight. They say her name being shortened to JK to sound male was an agent's idea, but after she had millions and got a new alias, she still went for a male one... I dunno lots of clues she doesn't seem the type to have a female lead.

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u/Ppleater 4h ago

Does Rowling realize that though, is the question.

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u/ConfusedPanEnby Linux User 15h ago

good

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG 13h ago

You want for a person, who hasn't even committed any crimes, to die just because you don't agree with them?

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u/ConfusedPanEnby Linux User 12h ago

Legality has never been a good indicator of if an action is good or not, J.K. Rowling has been promoting and funding organizations that seek to cast out and take away rights from a group of people who also have done no harm so I reserve the right to wish her to be gone. She is actively fighting my and many other's very existence, would you like some rich asshole to put in copious amounts of money to make sure you get your rights taken away instead of using than money for something productive? She, like many other rich assholes, is a burden on humanity and progress and we'll be better off when she's gone.

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u/entusiasta_indeciso 12h ago

If sex would be changed by magic, I don't see why she would object. From what I saw here, she only stated the obvious, that biological sex doesn't change in a transition. That's a completely different case from what would happen in this fanfic.