Because I’m tired of being told what to be outraged about
Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion
LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks agoWhy’d you give money to a terf?
shortrounddev@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
You’re supposed to be able to figure it out yourself. People wouldn’t have to tell you these things if you were smarter.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
My trans friends purchased the game, too. One of them specifically because of the well-done trans character, they said “I want to support whoever wrote that character into the game”
Almost like projects with 100s of people working on them are more complicated than “one person gets a tiny share of each purchase so it’s completely bad”
LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
SIRona RYAN might sound like a transphobic name at first, but it turns out, Sirona is the name of a Celtic goddess. Who was often represented with a snake and eggs.
Not a well done character. Which isn’t surprising, when the lead writer for most of the project was a Nazi.
shortrounddev@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Shut up lmao
JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not OP but I bought it for my sister who is notoriously impossible to buy birthday presents for because she explicitly requested something for once, then I played it through Steam family sharing to deny at least one sale of the game.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m suprised and a lil’ confused why you would share this story in response. Respectfully, it feels like you’re shifting blame. Like, okay, sure, It’s your sister’s birthdays fault you gave money to a terf.
I mean, you do you but if the trans persecution isn’t a deal breaker when it comes to something so basic as media choices. Then, whatever. Own it.
JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Totally valid criticism, I absolutely agree with you. Times are tough for trans folk and giving money to transphobes is not helping that.
Looking back on it, I wouldn’t buy it having seen how far off the deep end she has gone. I admit I dismissed her at the time as just a nutjob on Twitter but she’s now proved to me that she is a bigot beyond reproach.
I also find myself in a better educated position than I was at that time. I have more LGBTQ friends and family than ever and I’m challenging anti-trans behaviour in others when I spot it.
Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s less about giving money to the woman herself and more about how HP and JK Rowling are used as memetic weapons. Every release of a new property has seen a rush of transphobic actors invading trans spaces for years. Invoking the name of the author and showing solidarity in a lot of contexts is a not subtle way of showing support to the veiws expressed by the Terf ideology during a time when being trans is becoming criminalized in more places. The news isn’t generally covering it well but Texas is passing laws where it is a criminal offense to misrepresent your birth sex at work or in public government spaces.
“Oh but it’s just money” isn’t so much the problem. It’s the cover this entire conversation about ethical consumption or the lack thereof in daily life is providing to people throwing up open flags of anti-trans bigotry in public and using that as a tool to band together to attack the community and send open messages that trans people are not welcome in ways that the average cis person will dismiss as just “they like kid wizards”.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Regarding your confusion and surprise, the person you replied to merely gave their reason why they bought it and supported a transphobe, and it was because this person’s sister requested that game specifically.
I know the question posed was mostly rhetorical in nature. But I’m not sure why you are questioning why someone is answering the question, and I’m not sure what kind of satisfactory answer you could get from anyone who had purchased the game (and supported a transphobe, yes, which I haven’t).
The rest of your comment is a legit response, but I’m only pushing back on the first sentence of your reply. Or even moving that sentence to the back of your comment to make it less charged. If someone’s going to answer a loaded question, let them, but get to the point about how misguided they are with their justification before you question the answer. That would likely make for a more constructive discussion. Unless you think that these answers are unhelpful in the first place, that we’re better off not hearing why people have done transphobic things with different intentions, and we should refuse to give them space to reflect, learn, then own up to their transgressions if they don’t come right out of the gate to apologize. Then sure, ignore what I said.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Ever looked at an advert? Bought a computer? Eaten food produced by a multinational chain like Nestlé? Almost every action you take will involve generating money for an absolute shit. It’s fine (even encouraged) to let people who might not know that Rowing is a horrible bigot, but don’t have a go at someone for enjoying a fucking video game.
dota__2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
nah, they asked a question. it’s a loaded question for sure, but they asked a simple question. stop enabling.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
What does this even mean?
dota__2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
stop enabling terfs. stop enabling punching down. stop enabling fascism. stop enabling ignorance.
Taco2112@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How? There are no good corporations. We are all enablers. There is no conscious consumption under capitalism.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That’s not an excuse to not even try.