The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten
Submitted 9 months ago by Maven@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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Thcdenton@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Omgarm@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Now this feels like a vintage meme.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 9 months ago
nifty@lemmy.world 9 months ago
At the peak of Harry Potter craze, this might have worked well. Sounds like an older millennial
Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 months ago
All millennials are older millennials at this point. Source: seeing what Father Time has done to my beautiful body
rothaine@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Daddy Time, please.
samus12345@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The youngest ones are 28 now.
wieson@feddit.org 9 months ago
The recipient might be in the same age range
norimee@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Its not about the age range, but because Rowling wasn’t a hate spewing TERF back then. At lest not publicly.
Quoting JK Rowling has serious undertones right now. Even more so if the recipient is nonbinary as OP mentioned in another comment. You wouldn’t quote a Nazi to pick up a jewish person, would you?
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Aren’t some millennials still in their 20s?
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s leviosa, not leviosa.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
olutukko@lemmy.world 9 months ago
come on harry, you’re the chosen one
Clbull@lemmy.world 9 months ago
#ACCIO BUM!
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
That was the worst? If they came up with that on their own and didn’t just copy someone then that’s pretty creative at least.
Maven@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I’m NB and quoting Harry Potter just sounds like you hate me
norimee@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m sorry you have to deal with so many ignorant and apologist people.
Everyone who exuses the hate Rowling spreads because of the Harry Potter cult is partly responsible for the harm and danger this causes to trans and non binary people.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I guess it is bad in the sense that it’s not great pick-up line to use in your case, but I do like the creativity. Would’ve been better used to someone with some Harry Potter stuff in their bio though
whoreticulture@lemmy.world 9 months ago
wowwww a trans person sharing their experience being heavily downvoted.
let’s all say it together!!
Lemmy is transphobic as fuck!!
whoreticulture@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The downvotes are because you dared to be trans.
norimee@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Its not what the quote says, but who the quote comes from.
JKR is a hateful, raging TERF. Something like Voldemort for trans people.
xenspidey@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
You should read this from her own words. I know you won’t read it all the way through because your mind is probably made up. Maybe someone will come along and see her in a different light though. I read the whole thing. Zero hate of any kind. jkrowling.com/…/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reas…
sxan@midwest.social 9 months ago
She didn’t get blatantly bigoted until after the series.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Not blatantly, but there are signs of it even in the first book; and as the books go on, you can see almost in real time her political views shift from criticizing the system to defending it as she started becoming wealthy and benefiting from the system.
I highly recommend watching Shaun’s 2 hour video on the subject, as it goes into great detail on the subject and makes for perfect podcast material.
Some highlights include:
- Obesity as a moral failing - want to make a character seem bad? Just make them fat!
- Masculine features as a negative trait for women (sound familiar?) - want to make a teenage girl bad (and ugly) but don’t want to make her fat? Just talk over and over about her “mannish hands” and sharp jawline.
- Token minority characters that are often stereotypes or border on racism - the black kid is named Shacklebolt, the Asian girl is named two single syllable last names (might as well have called her Ching Chong), the 12 year old Irish kid is obsessed with turning drinks into whiskey and blowing stuff up, etc.
- The defense of the slavery of house elves using the exact same arguments that slave owners used before the Civil War in the US mentioned by somebody else, with a bonus criticism of Hermione as a girl with blue hair and pronouns for questioning and trying to change the system.
- There are no good or bad actions, only good or bad people. It’s okay for the right people to use the torture spell, because they’re the "good guys."
- And a resolution that basically resolves nothing. Harry doesn’t kill Voldemort, he kills himself due to a magic technicality, and Harry goes on to become a magic cop to ensure the flawed system that the early books criticized doesn’t change.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I feel like most of those things are not accurate, or are not good faith criticism. It’s worth remembering that until the whole trans thing, the Harry Potter series was seen as very liberal to the point where some conservatives boycotted it.
-Harry isn’t a “cop”, like hes not walking the beat arresting people, hes a dark wizard catcher. Which is perfectly rational given dark wizards killed his parents and they’re pretty explicitly fascists.
-a pretty huge part of the books is devoted to how good people can do bad things and bad people can do good things. Barty Crouch Sr is a whole character who is there to show how the good guys can end up being nearly as bad and brutal as the bad guys because they think the ends justify the means and in times of crisis people are willing to compromise their morals.
-Hermione is ridiculed for sticking up for house elves but she’s also right, as Harry starts to realize by the end of the books. It’s worth noting that the two most steadfast supporters of house elves are Hermione and dumbledore, aka Rowlings “always right about everything” characters
-Seamus is pretty yikesy in the movies but 90% of the stuff isn’t in the books. Idk I thought he was a little racist, although still ultimately a good guy. Cho Chang has a stereotypical name but so what? I don’t think it’s racist in itself. I literally work with a guy named Ying Yang.
-I don’t think obesity is used as a failing, gluttony is used as a failing, as in a favorite expression among leftists, the “fat cat”. There are plenty of other overweight characters that are good and righteous like Ms Weasly, Slughorn (kinda), and Hagrid.
-I’m not sure who you’re referring to with regards to describing teenage females as unattractive but that seems kinda cherry picked. Harry ends up with Ginny who in the books is described as a tomboy. The biggest female villain is arguably Umbridge who is very stereotypically feminine
I’m not defending Rowling as a person at all, or her statements about trans people, but the criticism of Harry potter feels very much like going back and reexamining them with an agenda. You can do the same uncharitable thing with any fantasy series. Hell, off the top of my head I can think of much worse criticisms of lord of the rings or game of thrones but people don’t seem to want to nitpick those the same way.
sxan@midwest.social 9 months ago
Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me, I guess. Money changes people; status and power changes people.
Obesity as a moral failing - want to make a character seem bad? Just make them fat
Although, there were fat good guys, and many non-fat bad guys. There wasn’t a particularly late amount of obesity in the books. That point seems a stretch, to me.
Token minority characters that are often stereotypes or border on racism - the black kid is named Shacklebolt, the Asian girl is named two single syllable last names (might as well have called her Ching Chong),
Schacklebolt is pretty bad, but I think we also have to consider Rowling’s cultural upbringing. Of she were from the US, it would be blatantly shocking. The UK didn’t have systemic domestic slavery based on race; I don’t know that it’s fair to judge her based on US critical race theory; the UK has it’s own version, for sure, but it has different foundations.
As for Cho Chang, it is common for Chinese proper names to have two syllables (2 and 3 character names account for over 99% of the given names - 1 syllable named account for 0.6%). I don’t remember her background, but if any of her recent ancestors (parents, grandparents) were immigrants, then it would be less believable and more forced for her to not have a multi-syllable name.
Rowling has enough criticizable behavior; we don’t have to exaggerate by turning otherwise non- controversial facts into issues.
the 12 year old irish kid is obsessed with turning drinks into whiskey and blowing stuff up, etc.
That’s most 12 y/o boys, but making it the Irish kid is a fair point.
I think nearly all of these ignore counter-examples where, e.g., every other Irish person in the family isn’t an IRA stand-in. That also ignore the fact that every true villain is WAS(P), and that the “crazy” character is so white she’s practically albino.
The defense of the slavery of house elves using the exact same
It’s defense only used by villains. Hermione actively pursues ending the practice, and it’s described as being a terrible practice. How does the fact that villains - and only villains, or in one case, inherited - in the books practice slavery condemn Rowling?
criticism of Hermione as a girl with blue hair and pronouns for questioning and trying to change the system.
Are we ignoring that Hermione was one of the four, central hero’s of each of the novels? I don’t remember any criticism of her except by the establishment.
There are no good or bad actions, only good or bad people. It’s okay for the right people to use the torture spell, because they’re the “good guys.”
Yeah. I agree, there’s a lot of questionable justification of behavior in this. I mean, everyone lets slide the exact same justifications in GoT, but, hey.
And a resolution that basically resolves nothing. Harry doesn’t kill Voldemort, he kills himself due to a magic technicality, and Harry goes on to become a magic cop to ensure the flawed system that the early books criticized doesn’t change.
Agreed. An utterly unsatisfying resolution, which I interpreted as a statement that there are no good and bad people, just good and bad behavior. When the key hero turns out to be not such a hero in the end; when you expect something more noble, but what you get is reality - good doesn’t always triumph, people in wars die indiscriminately, and in the end centuries of established practices continue and survive intact despite great upheaval… yup! It’s a depressing statement, but I still think it was a statement.
I think Rowling changed as money changed her; she hid bigotry less as she became convinced of the armor of her own popularity; but she also had a kid who grew and changed in time with the novels, and she changed the story to match the loss of innocence and realization that fighting the establishment is hard, expensive, and not guaranteed to succeed. The good guys do not always win; they don’t always survive the encounter coming out the same person they started as.
I won’t defend Rowling, but I also think some of the criticisms are reaching, merely in an attempt to vilify her as much as possible mainly for her homophobic views. Which, ironically, there were no examples of in her novels, and so nothing to call her out about except by its absence.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
the black kid is named Shacklebolt
I’m probably missing context but what’s wrong with the name?
Asian girl is named two single syllable last names
But isn’t that extremely common? I personally know like three people like that and I know a pretty limited number of people from East Asia.
silasmariner@programming.dev 9 months ago
I have kids now so I’ve read the first two books again and frankly I’m on the Dursleys’ side. Harry is a shit
uis@lemm.ee 9 months ago
- Obesity as a moral failing - want to make a character seem bad? Just make them fat!
I don’t remember seeing it. At least in translated version. Who? Don’t say Dursleys and Marge, they seem to have inherited condition.
the 12 year old Irish kid is obsessed with turning drinks into whiskey and blowing stuff up
Well, Ireland is not Scottland, but close enough.
Agree on last two, but it’s bad writing.
Maven@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
There’s an entire section of the books about how slavery is okay because the slaves like it actually
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I feel like that was more so her self insert, hermoinie, can be “on the right side of history”
This is my little headcannon theory and not a hill I even wanna fight on, so if there are blatant holes I’m interested I’m hearing but also keep in mind this is just something I “believe” because it amuses me.
sxan@midwest.social 9 months ago
What? Which book? In the original septilogy?
Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Death of the author means I can still listen to Ignition, but I have to kill R Kelly if I ever see him.
steeznson@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My mind is telling me “no”…
Default_Defect@midwest.social 9 months ago
Stop giving her more money to validate her current views.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Pirate anything JKR from here on out, got it
sxan@midwest.social 9 months ago
That’s a fair point, and if someone were to suggest less legal ways of acquiring her work, that would be acceptable.
steeznson@lemmy.world 9 months ago
After reading this thread I feel like the original post is more like a soapbox than a shitpost. No personal opinion about the politics but I thought this was a humour sub.
Maven@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
It was not originally intended to be a soap box.
I thought my reaction to the pickup line would be found humorous especially with the juxtaposition of JK Rowling being a monster.
I’ve apparently just spent too much time in mostly trans spaces that I underestimated the support JK has on Lemmy outside of trans communities.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not everyone follows what these people say on Twitter. Could be this guy had no idea the Rowling was the kind of person she is. Same is kind of true with jorden Patterson. On the surface nothing he says is unreasonable. It’s not until you really look into him that the problems emerge
someguy3@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What?
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Where did you get lost?
lulztard@feddit.org 9 months ago
Can you link me something she said that makes her a monster to you? Genuinely curious.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“Monster” may be a little extreme, but here’s a review of her body of work up to that point.
Generally, she has very questionable views on body image, her “sympathetic” characters are quick to judge and reinforce the status quo, her very questionable story line with S.P.E.W. and the House Elves, which resulted in Harry Potter fans rationalizing race based slavery.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Damn echo chambers are real lol. I feel like all I’ve heard for the past five years is how she’s a walking, tweeting shitstorm.
Maven@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Here’s some examples though this doesn’t appear to be entirely inclusive: glaad.org/gap/jk-rowling/
Gloomy@mander.xyz 9 months ago
This here is also a good video to find out why one would call her that.
whoreticulture@lemmy.world 9 months ago
she’s a terf. if you haven’t heard that by now idk how you found Lemmy.
PlainSimpleGarak@lemm.ee 9 months ago
As I understand it, she mocks T people. That’s it, as far as I’ve seen. But I pay little attention to any of these people as I simply don’t care.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
The spell was just gibberish to me and I couldn’t read it until I read the answer. Only than I would parse it. If you asked me for a spell to lift things up, I would have no idea but someone both things made it make sense. Curious how brains work.
At least mine. JKR’s brain doesn’t seam to work anymore for good sadly
mkwt@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It really is junk fake Latin.
TheBat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wing
Levi(tate)
Skates@feddit.nl 9 months ago
I lack reading comprehension up to the point where I may be illiterate: it took me one fucking day to understand your message. You don’t want this. Hell, I don’t even want this, but I’m stuck with myself. Get out while you still can.
O hey. Idk if my first message didn’t show the right nuance of red on the flag, or maybe it didn’t completely send the “turn back now, I’m literally brain dead” idea. So anyway, here’s a second message.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Honestly would respond to that kind of self-deprecating humor. Unless I found out they were always putting themselves down, in which case it’s not really humor, just depressing and sad.
superterran@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s a good one
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
I’m going to message this to every women, femboy and twink this on bumble and then maybe I can finally get some ass.
sleen@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Dating apps are a joke anyways these days.
sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I can get my dick sucked every few hours all week.
Caveat: by men
Plot twist: I’m bi
Double twist: I’m married
Final twist: I’m lying
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It’s fascinating that profits hinge on providing a slightly below par experience on most forms of social media, dating apps included. Facebook et al require it for rage interactions while dating apps need it to maintain a userbase to populate and pay for the service.
Love me some lemmy.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I just deleted my ‘Boo’ account.
What an absolute joke. Its basically instagram, and almost everyone on it is completely braindead in discussion threads… and almost all the image posts are either I’m so pretty! or cats or landscapes, or Why are people so hard to find?
Kippo is even more hilarious. Nearly every profile is just trying to recruit you to watch their E girl twitch stream or onlyfans and is not interested in dating.
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 9 months ago
People said that 10 years ago, and i always disagreed. Now a days it’s an absolute nightmare. Everything that used to be free is behind a paywall. Set the max distance to 30km? Fuck it, here’s people from thailand and china and kenya.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s crazy to hear that as way back that’s how I met my wife and how a lot of my friends met their spouses.
Sucks to hear it got enshittified
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean, a few of them are probably fine if you’re into hookup culture, but the people who are tend to ruin it for the people who aren’t
Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
You should have gone with the name PeniusWeniusGenius
pyre@lemmy.world 9 months ago
is that another spell
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I was like ‘maybe I can help a guy out’ but I have a strict furry-only policy and I didn’t see anything from a quick glance of your profile suggesting you weren’t a normie. Sorry my man.
(I don’t fit the categories anyway but any is better than nothing :p)
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m curious how that policy came about
zerog_bandit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Bumble with that feather-weight ban hammer