Also on closer inspection, her writing really revels in grossness like natural hierarchies. I liked HP when i was younger, but knowing who Rowling is now, I can’t help but see her sick fingerprints all over that work.
It’s possible to fashion a new, better nostalgia for yourself. For my part I’d rather just reread any Discworld book for the dozenth time.
Yeah, I too just can’t unsee her influence in her work. I would have made a deliberate choice to no longer support her with my money, even if I could still enjoy HP. But it turns out my brain just won’t let me enjoy any of it anymore. Things I used to enjoy suddenly being almost revolting to me only ever happened to me with 3 different artists and she is one of them.
Yeah it’s also not many for me. Kevin Spacey is another one for me, mainly because he came out as gay and tried to accuse his (often also gay) victims of homophobia. The third one for me is something hyper-local, a band where the lead singer was accused of sexual assault by an overwhelming number of people in the span of 24hrs, where the singer claimed it was transphobia even though most (all?) of her accusers were queer themselves. I just feel extra gross about that because when the first person accused her I did immediately want to defend her because of being a trans woman. But then within the space of the next 24 hours three more unrelated people publicly accused her as well.
The other ones for me are: Neil Gaiman because of the recent sexual abuse/ coercion thing with multiple victims and the band Disturbed because of the political views of their lead singer.
Also on closer inspection, her writing really revels in grossness like natural hierarchies. I liked HP when i was younger, but knowing who Rowling is now, I can’t help but see her sick fingerprints all over that work.
It’s possible to fashion a new, better nostalgia for yourself. For my part I’d rather just reread any Discworld book for the dozenth time.
Yeah, I too just can’t unsee her influence in her work. I would have made a deliberate choice to no longer support her with my money, even if I could still enjoy HP. But it turns out my brain just won’t let me enjoy any of it anymore. Things I used to enjoy suddenly being almost revolting to me only ever happened to me with 3 different artists and she is one of them.
Yeah it’s also not many for me. Kevin Spacey is another one for me, mainly because he came out as gay and tried to accuse his (often also gay) victims of homophobia. The third one for me is something hyper-local, a band where the lead singer was accused of sexual assault by an overwhelming number of people in the span of 24hrs, where the singer claimed it was transphobia even though most (all?) of her accusers were queer themselves. I just feel extra gross about that because when the first person accused her I did immediately want to defend her because of being a trans woman. But then within the space of the next 24 hours three more unrelated people publicly accused her as well.
The other ones for me are: Neil Gaiman because of the recent sexual abuse/ coercion thing with multiple victims and the band Disturbed because of the political views of their lead singer.