Speaking of real advocates for women:
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Is this emma-inception?
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Emception 
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Aye; she knows first hand what itâs like to be oppressed yet as soon as she gets some privilege, she turns around and supports the oppression of other marginalized people.
Sheâs a hypocrite, and while I wonât get rid of my Harry Potter books that I already have, I wonât ever again support her work going forward.
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She got millions of kids to read. I used to think she was a positive influence because of that.
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While we all know the stories of how JK was poor and on welfare- it was for a very short period of her life. Her father was a Rolls Royce aircraft engineer and mother a science tech. She grew up here.
She famously wrote often in a cafe. But the cafe was owned by her brother in law.
She was solidly middle class.
She was working as a researcher and bilingual administrative assistant for Amnesty International while conceiving the Potterverse.
Apparently, not a particularly good researcher.
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Right? Thatâs the infuriating part here.
And there it is⊠She clearly learned nothing from her days at AI. Depressing.
This is why a good understanding of intersectionality matters.
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Going back at least as far as Mary Shelley, who published the first edition of Frankenstein anonymously in 1818 to make it more marketable.
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And Rowlings with her transphobia makes a mockery of all the great women that contributed to sci-fi/fantasy despite the struggle to be taken seriously.
But as @KathyPartdeux, it maybe shouldnât be so surprising, as sheâs a woman of privilege, so it really shouldnât be a shock that she punches down once sheâs made her bones. Itâs still depressing, though. My daughter grew up with the Harry Potter books. Sheâs pretty disappointed in Rowlingâs behavior here.
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Gloves off, Jezebel⊠
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I donât know about this. I get the point, but Iâm not sure misgendering Rowlingâs the right way to go⊠especially when there are so many other ways to criticize a Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobe.
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Yeah, I agree with you. I donât know either. I think the goal is to point out how she is misgendering people in her language and how trans people are often regularly misgendered on a regular basis by our society. 
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I have a quibble with the author. â If he, as a multimillionaire authorâ
JK is a billionaire.
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Good man!
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Good for Daniel!
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Now Iâm only horrified that heâs 30
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Jesus.
Police in St. Paul, Minn. are urging a 21-year-old transgender woman who was attacked and beaten on June 1 by more than dozen men at a St. Paul convenience store that was captured on video to report the incident to police, who are eager to apprehend the attackers.
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