cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29107366
JK Rowling:
The Andrew Tate for middle aged white women.
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2025
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Hah! That's very apt
What a miserable person.
I used to not care at all about Rowling, so it didn't bother me that everyone loved her books.
But since she's revealed that she's also a horrible person, I feel like it's worth pointing out that she's also a horrible writer. Everything good that she put into her books is lifted from something else. The stories are meandering wish fulfillment, barely coherent and hardly ever internally consistent. Her twists are either telegraphed and obvious or non-sequitur. Her characters are one-dimensional caricatures, and the only reason they are so beloved is because they were crafted into films.
Go back and really read her stories. Read the dialogue, read the imagery, and really ask yourself, "is this good writing?" No it isn't. Is it examining interesting moral questions? No, not once. Is it clever and original? It's only clever when it's plagiarism.
You can enjoy bad writing. I enjoyed reading the later books. I enjiyed the movies. Just as you can enjoy a McDonald's cheeseburger and fries, Rowling's world of Harry Potter scratches the right itches to engage the reader and make you feel good. But that doesn't make her a good writer, anymore than the fast food burger flipper is a good chef.
JK Rowling sucks as a person, and as a writer.
Totally. I'm a big reader I enjoyed reading the HP books when they came out, but wasn't obsessed. They were good for passing the time, stuck at an airport, sitting on the beach fluffy reads. I wasn't reading them as literature, just something to relax and procrastinate. The character names often gave them away if you had any knowledge of Latin. OMG, Lupin is a werewolf and Serius Black is a dogman?!? What a shock /s
I started reading them to my kids (who liked the movies) and yikes were they bad. Larger characters have their girth pointed out at evey possible opportunity. I think everything the Dursley men did it needed to be mentioned that they did it while fat. Like 6 times in 2 pages. And her mysteries are even worse.
I don't understand why she gets to tell other people whether they're queer or not.
She doesn't. No one owes her their attention to her opinion.
Youβre a billionaire! Now go take your money and piss off!
I'm ace and JK can go fuck herself
I'm sorry, people who don't feel attraction to either gender are now not a form of Queer?
Why does a straight billionaire get to tell people what counts as queer or what labels they use? She's a horrible sociopath who uses her power and influence to hurt people and take away their rights and liberties.
She gets to tell people her opinions because for some reason you're funny enough to spread it. For free.
Sheβs just mad sheβs been made aware of another group of people who donβt want to fuck her.
Rich people are always miserable and malevolent.
I'll bet you anything she's looked at a lot of different harry potter porn genres.
I'll have a dose of My Immortal, please