Szamo's_Ammo Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 3 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Why are even 'reporting' this shite? Given how many folk watch that dreadful show, 1900 is an absolutely minuscule percentage of overall viewers. The BBC is quickly becoming a clickbait, Buzzfeed-type website. All these articles do is encourage more people to complain as a means to articulate their racist outlook. Look at the replies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 1 minute ago, Szamo's_Ammo said: The BBC is quickly becoming a clickbait, Buzzfeed-type website. All these articles do is encourage more people to complain as a means to articulate their racist outlook. Look at the replies. Aye, sadly so. Think I'll give the comments a pass! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 22 minutes ago, bennett said: Why would you be on mumsnet anyway? Surely not starting another PnB trolling escapade.... I would never encourage anything of the sort, even in cases where it's probably well overdue and ripe for causing peak heads-gone. Honest. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 I heard a pretty long spiel on the radio tonight whilst driving about a Harry Potter computer game which is causing much excitement.... Anyway, at the end, the DJ said seemingly JK Rowling has had very little involvement in the project. It would be a desperate shame for her if she has been cancelled from her own creation...... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 12 hours ago, Szamo's_Ammo said: The BBC is quickly becoming a clickbait, Buzzfeed-type website. All these articles do is encourage more people to complain as a means to articulate their racist outlook. Look at the replies. Any story that is generated from a Twitter reaction is without fail clickbait shite. And the BBC publish them with increasing regularity. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genuine Hibs Fan Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 “I can’t imagine what it would be like to exist in her shoes,” Thomas said of Rowling’s recent years. “Where this story that lived in your head during the worst time in your life — when you’re a single mom, abuse survivor, living on welfare — your wildest dream comes true. Your story is the best-selling children’s-book series of all time. You transform children’s literature and media … I can’t imagine having had that much cultural significance and power, feeling as if the ground is shifting underneath your feet. Being told that you’re wrong.” https://www.thecut.com/article/who-did-j-k-rowling-become.html Interesting article about the path of Rowling to TERF-dom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 3 hours ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said: “I can’t imagine what it would be like to exist in her shoes,” Thomas said of Rowling’s recent years. “Where this story that lived in your head during the worst time in your life — when you’re a single mom, abuse survivor, living on welfare — your wildest dream comes true. Your story is the best-selling children’s-book series of all time. You transform children’s literature and media … I can’t imagine having had that much cultural significance and power, feeling as if the ground is shifting underneath your feet. Being told that you’re wrong.” https://www.thecut.com/article/who-did-j-k-rowling-become.html Interesting article about the path of Rowling to TERF-dom As someone that has recently learned what the term TERF meant I must say I liked this part of the article. "She seemed to have aligned herself with a camp of people who often call themselves “gender-critical feminists”; opponents tend to call them TERFs, or “trans-exclusionary radical feminists,” though they are not necessarily very radical." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 37 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: What did you like about it? Most people that I've seen described as a TERF are not offering radical thought at all, I admittedly don't venture into whatever part of Twitter gets het up about such things so I'm sure there are plenty of radical viewpoints. I think you'd struggle to find them with let's say Rowling and your Wightman guy. I'm very new to the trans/terf debates. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Also I read the full article, it was an interesting piece, fairly balanced. I was confused why there was such hatred on Twitter towards Rowling, I mean, I knew why she got it from "cybernats" but I actually didn't realise she expressed political opinions publicly - “I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls,” - In reference to someone calling Corbyn Dumbledore.. I now understand why so many irrational people have such an intense hatred for her. What a beautiful tweet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Stormzy said: “I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls,” As someone pointed out to Rowling at the time, Dumbledore did do something to this effect in the 5th book. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binos Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 10 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: There was a good tweet about how while Bezos is probably objectively worse for society than Musk, he at least recognises that if you're incredibly wealthy, posting all the time on Twitter is beneath your attention, and therefore Musk deserves more scorn. I think that applies quite well to a number of people, Rowling included. Bezos should be cancelled and ripped up We used to, maybe still have, a monopolies commission in this country How a global monopoly has been allowed to develop and continue is beyond me Same for Microsoft, Google Too dangerous allowing these cos with so much power 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Quote While the fandom emerged alongside the social internet, it wasn’t until 2014 that Rowling herself embraced Twitter and embarked on a prolific posting career. Tweeting, she was delighted to discover, was writing. “You’re swimming in your own medium,” she told a 2015 interviewer. “Twitter for me has been an unmixed blessing.” Rowling too found she could be the person she wanted to be online. For her, this meant shrugging off the trappings of celebrity. “There came a point where Harry became so enormous that, at a reading, there were 2,000 people,” she explained. “You can’t answer everyone’s question. Twitter gave that back to me.” It was also an ideal conduit for a constant stream of Harry Potter amendments. Readers learned that Fluffy, the three-headed dog, had been repatriated to Greece; that Luna Lovegood’s birthday was February 13; and that there was at least one Jewish student at Hogwarts (his name was Anthony Goldstein, and he was a Ravenclaw). They learned that Hogwarts was tuition-free and that, among wizards, homophobia did not exist. The journalist Brian Feldman’s tweet poking fun at her relentless output went viral: “*J. K. rowling wakes up* what’s today’s tweet *spins large bingo cage* hagrid … is … pansexual and … he later joined isis.” Quote In 2016, with a film adaptation of her fictional textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them on the horizon, Rowling released new writing on Pottermore. This time, she cast her gaze beyond Britain, to unfortunate effect. According to “Magic in North America,” the Magical Congress of the United States of America was founded in 1693, or 83 years before there was a United States. In 1777, wizard president Elizabeth McGilliguddy worked out of Washington, D.C., a city that did not then exist. While these mistakes were partially corrected on Pottermore, larger concerns remained: Rowling had taken the Navajo concept of shape-shifting “skin walkers” and adapted it to suit her magical world in a way that struck many Native American readers as trivializing. “Rowling is known for responding directly to fan questions on Twitter,” wrote Cherokee academic Adrienne Keene on her blog, Native Appropriations. “Despite thousands of tweets directed at her about these concerns, she has not addressed it at all.” Meanwhile, readers pointed out that the wizarding school Rowling placed in Uganda had a West African name; the wizarding school in Japan had a name that didn’t make sense in Japanese. Flourish Klink now advises entertainment franchises on building relationships with fans. The approach Rowling took to global wizarding struck them as a waste. “She missed a big trick there,” Klink told me. There had been an opportunity to collaborate with writers who had relevant expertise, but it would have meant ceding some creative control. “People always get pissed off about anything where you’re using cultural beliefs in any way,” Klink said of the response to Rowling’s take on skin walkers. “But I think that if it had been well done, and in consultation with someone who had even a remote amount of knowledge about it, it would have been a lot less offensive.” I enjoyed it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genuine Hibs Fan Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said: I enjoyed it. It's wonderfully snide at points 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Can I just say, I think a lot of you guys are blatantly Hufflepuffs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szamo's_Ammo Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I'm Slytherin. But one of the good ones. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Can I just say, I think a lot of you guys are blatantly Hufflepuffs. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I'd be Gryffindor like the good Rangers man I am. -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Rangers are clearly Slytherin. C'mon man. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genuine Hibs Fan Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 1 minute ago, MixuFruit said: Stop using adverbs as a crutch for your shitty writing. I'm happily going to wisely avoid engaging with your poorly made point 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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