Good morning to the trans man loudly slamming his girlfriend in the bunk above convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, and ONLY the trans man loudly slamming his girlfriend in the bunk above convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell
Don’t forget that in Rowling’s world there are only three kinds of women:
Mothers (or nurturers), bitches, and jokes.
That’s it.
Petunia is a bitch until she admits to worry for Harry and Dudley.
Narcissa Malfoy is a bitch until she admits to worry for Draco.
Mrs. Black is a mother who refuses to nurture and is a bitch.
Fleur Delacourt is a bitch until she chooses to devote herself to nurturing Bill.
Rita Skeeter is a bitch.
Bellatrix Lestrange is a bitch.
Dolores Umbridge is a bitch.
Aunt Marge is a bitch.
Pansy Parkinson is a bitch.
Molly Weasley is a mother.
Lily Potter is a mother.
Mrs. Longbottom is a mother.
Tonks is a mother.
Ginny is a joke until she becomes Harry’s emotional support, and postcanon is a mother.
Hermione’s entire role is to support Harry and Ron and—yup—in the epilogue is a mother.
Narcissa is redeemed by being a mother.
Luna Lovegood is a mother and teacher.
Minerva McGonagall is a head of house—what we in the US call a housemother—and headmistress.
Professor Hooch is a teacher.
Professor Sprout is a teacher.
Merope Riddle is a mother and entirely devoted to a man.
Cho Chang’s entire character is “I’m devoted to a man.” She straddles the line between mother and joke.
Professor Trelawney? Joke.
Moaning Myrtle? Joke.
Also, note that when Rowling wants you to dislike a female character, she always goes straight for their looks. Narcissa always looks like she’s smelled something unpleasant. Umbridge looks like a toad. Rita Skeeter is “mannish.” Petunia is “scrawny” while Aunt Marge is described as fat in super-fatphobic ways and Umbridge is described as looking like a toad. When we first meet Hermione she’s described as “frizzy-haired and bucktoothed” and her teeth are magically fixed after she becomes a love interest. Cho’s friend, I forget her name because she literally only shows up once, turns in Dumbledore’s Army and her punishment—which is treated as a joke—is disfiguring acne and scarring across her face.
And let’s not forget the implication that Umbridge was raped, which is also treated as a joke!
Yeah, that sure is some feminist writing right there!
Don’t forget that Merope is also a r*pist because she used a love potion, entirely negating consent in her relationship with Tom Riddle Sr.
Not only is she a rapist (hon you gotta type that out for the Tumblr blacklist to catch it, this ain’t TikTok), here’s a list of OTHER people in the books who’ve committed sexual crimes:
–Romilda Vane (attempts to give Harry a date rape drug, accidentally drugs Ron instead) –Molly Weasley (admits to using date rape drugs, which is treated as a silly thing girls do sometimes) –Moaning Myrtle (admits to hanging out in the prefects’ bathroom to see them undress and bathe) –Rita Skeeter (hides in the boys’ dormitory; it’s unclear whether she watched them undress) –James Potter (restrains a boy against his will and exposes his genitals to a crowd of onlookers; demands a date from a girl in exchange for stopping the assault) –Sirius Black (aids and abets James Potter in the above) –Aberforth Dumbledore (fucked a goat, apparently) –Fred and George Weasley (produce and sell date rape drugs, which they market toward underage girls)
And a bonus via horrible metaphor: Fenrir Greyback (lycanthropy is supposedly the wizarding analogue of HIV/AIDS; Greyback deliberately attacks and infects Lupin)
Notice something funny about this list? Because I do. All the victims–except the goat, which is a goat–are male, and every single one is underage. The only victim in the entire series who’s over the age of 18 is Tom Riddle Sr. and the lesson we’re supposed to take away from that is “if you’re a rape baby, you’re gonna be a murderous racist psychopath.”
So let’s see…we have nine separate confirmed instances of sexual assault, ten if we assume the heavily-implied Umbridge assault scene was definitely assault. Seven of them are played for laughs. One is played as a tragedy. Two are played as horrible violations.
….wait…..hang on…..
The “feral gay man who deliberately infects others with AIDS” stereotype metaphor and the “coded as a trans woman or possibly a lesbian” stereotype metaphor are the ones seen as horrible violations.
WHOOPS.
Should we add that the only canonly gay character is actively a child groomer, and the text straight up calls him out for it? (“You’re raising him like a lamb to the slaughter.”)
So much for “she’s not homophobic”! And I’d also suggest she’s an active danger to young boys, given her apparent zest for writing them as victims of sexual assault.
a lot of the offensive stuff in Harry Potter is more offensive knowing what she’s up to these days, harder to write it off as a generic fantasy trope or whatever
Nah we were complaining about the fatphobia, rampant girl-on-boy and centaur-on-villain sexual assault written off as a joke, and various unfortunate implications of some of the foreign characters and fantasy races long before the terf stuff came out. The terf stuff gives it context but readers already weren’t happy.
why do i end up sitting straight up in my sleep. ignore how many blankets I use.
Bestie it is impossible to ignore the amount of blankets you use at first I assumed this was a meme and those were the layers of the crust of the earth
I actually have 4 more blankets I sometimes add but I didn’t want to make my blanket number look excessive
Are you okay
The results are inconclusive on that.
Bestie. the reason you end up sitting up is your lungs think you are being crushed.
Hi friend! Fun fact! The human body can only absorb one liter of water per hour, and not all at once! Likely the reason you’re peeing so much is because you’re taking in too much water at a time, so your body just flushes it through your system as opposed to absorbing it. A good rule is ¼ liter every 15 minutes. Don’t get me wrong, there are definitely times that I want to (and will) glug a whole liter like it’s nothing, but steady hydration throughout the day is key! -Your friendly local wilderness first responder who rehydrates people for their job :)
