This new academic paper claims that J.K. Rowling has essentially become Voldemort via her “celebrified transphobia,” which is apparently the authors’ term for Rowling publicly acknowledging basic biology.
It argues that the “Wizarding World should be considered a cultural field” whose defining principle is “trans/queer inclusivity,” and says Rowling’s views have “significantly depleted her once-elite status.”
This is an academic paper? It’s not a nerdy hobby for nerdy hobbyists but an actual paper in an academic field?
It says Harry Potter has been read as “resisting binary gendering” and presenting gender as “varied, easily shifting, exploratory, and ‘slippery,’” with the Wizarding World offering trans and queer fans “identification and community” and “a ‘place of belonging.’”
So Rowling became the moral equivalent of her own villain because some readers projected gender ideology onto the books, then felt shocked when the author turned out to believe sex is real.
And in case the paper was not absurd enough already, its conclusion declares: “You’re a muggle, Joanne.”
That’s Ms Rowling to you pathetic goons.
Ooooh a prestigious global celebrity – what a very academic and scholarly observation.
There are ways academics could educate us about JKR and/or her work, but this isn’t one of them.
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