Viceversa
@Viceversa@lemmy.world
- Comment on Boy Breakfast 10 hours ago:
proper handling
What do you consider a proper handling?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I’m flattered by it not being obvious though!
Maybe I’m making progress after all.(or maybe average grammar of native speakers is so bad nowadays, that I’m blending)
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I was just a child, as a lot of other readers were at the time. My morals were just developing, I think.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Ah, ok. L
Anyway, persons from the books had different personalities.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I get my impression from the books
- Comment on 2 days ago:
English isn’t my first language and certainly isn’t my best
- Comment on 2 days ago:
What do you mean?
- Comment on 2 days ago:
By the way: you can pirate those books.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Downvotes on the deleted comment?
There wasn’t any vote on it before deletion. - Comment on 2 days ago:
you cannot extricate the art from the artist.
Yet you can. The books (plot) themselves don’t become bad because of that.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I wonder what your opinion on professor McGonagall
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I admired her. Am I alone?
- Comment on 2 days ago:
If you’re under the impression that I support Rowling - I’m not. Fuck her.
I’m protecting the books. - Comment on 2 days ago:
To me, her cause seemed just.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
That’s your argument? Ok.
- Comment on Cat vs Dog 3 days ago:
My personal experience tell otherwise 🤷
- Comment on 3 days ago:
You’re going full keyboard warrior in this thread
I can say the same about those, who replied to me and downvoted me.
I like the books. They are fine.
IMO art can and should be separated from the author’s person and should be judged by itself. - Comment on 3 days ago:
And according to Joanne KKK Rowling, that’s the only way you can be a woman; if you can produce children.
Harry Potter books don’t have that assertion to me. There are different positive female figures in the books.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
But books 4-7 tries to go into the politics of the world, and they fall apart.
In my case the plot was maturing with me. (I was a child of Harry’s age when the first book came out)
- Comment on 3 days ago:
You’re right, that was hyperbole. What I should’ve written is “every character that expresses traditionally feminine interests”, save for of course, the tradwife, like Molly Weasley whose entire character is just being a mother. Does she have interests beyond being a mother? No, with seven children who has time to be a person?
Hermione doesn’t engage with anything traditionally feminine, she’s a “not-like-other-girls” type character, hell she doesn’t really have any friends that aren’t boys. Even so, she’s often not taken seriously. She’s mocked for studying hard, and she’s mocked for her anti-slavery coalition, which people only really join half-heartedly in order to placate her.
There’s obviously Dolores Umbridge. She’s into cute, frilly, fluffy, pink things. She’s also a sadist. Her punishment for being bad is to be carried off by centaurs to get raped in a forest.
Luna Lovegood was introduced as another character to be bullied, and she remains on the outskirts throughout the book, but Rowling softened up on her once she got extremely popular with the fans of the series.
Just a couple of years ago “people with massive noses” having kahoots with Hitler would be oxymoron.But now, after genocide of Palestinians…
Ah right, the massive genocide of Jews, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people, and other minorities back in the mid 1900s was okay because the Israeli state is now running a genocide of their own. Rowling was correct to be antisemitic actually!
Molly Weasley whose entire character is just being a mother. Does she have interests beyond being a mother? No, with seven children who has time to be a person?
Excuse me, but I can’t agree with your position here.
Is a woman not allowed to realize itself through motherhood?Also Molly was smart and fierce (remember flight with Bellatrix Lestrange?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
she hates women
Hermione, professor McGonagall, Molly Weasley for example - they are prominent and loved characters.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Every single woman character in her books are ridiculed
Hermione is a hero, professor McGonagall is loved by everyone, as well as Molly Weasley and so on.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
It’s not garbage (and books too).
If you, perchance, want to discourage people from consuming Harry Potter because of Rowling’s views, then state so explicitly. It would send a clearer message.
- Comment on Incoming! 1 week ago:
But new will allow themselves in during the night
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 1 week ago:
alcohol is driving?
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 week ago:
I think we disagree. But thank you anyway.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 week ago:
None of those is a trivial matter
I wholeheartedly agree. But which one demands a master’s degree?
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 week ago:
And we both are intrigued by what exactly in librarian work warrants a masters degree.
- Comment on The good old days 1 week ago:
Why would you need the back pain?
- Comment on The good old days 1 week ago:
Maybe the victim was murdered by a cartwheel.