Swift backlash from 2SLGBTQ+ community over series author J.K. Rowling

Natalie Stechyson · CBC News · Posted: Jul 28, 2026 1:10 PM EDT

  • wraekscadu@vargar.org
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    6 days ago

    I absolutely do not work at Tims. But if I did (which I don’t), I would be squeezing every goddamn harry potter donut/timbit before serving. I’d be horribly preparing any given Harry Potter item.

    I mean, Tim Hortons does ALL of that regardless, but I don’t (if I worked at Tim’s which I don’t). However, if you support this Harry Potter bullshit despite that Rowling bitch’s prowling transphobia, then fuck you too.

    Please boycott Tim Hortons (at least till this transphobic nonsense passes).

      • npcknapsack@lemmy.caEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Do you realize JKR posted about her experience laughing at a rape victim who called into her help line because she thought the voice sounded manly?

            • SalamiDommie@lemmus.orgEnglish
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              4 days ago

              A trans dude (girl?) called in as the gender they desire to be. But opted out when being called out?

              Not sure how that is biggoted

              • npcknapsack@lemmy.caEnglish
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                6 hours ago

                I’d like you to think about how that conversation actually must have gone. Someone called in, ostensibly because they were raped. The automated messaging said “your call is important to us, and also recorded.” Because that’s what every line says before you are put through. Then they got on the line with someone. They said something about PCOS and a full beard. And then, they were told “you know this is recorded, right?”

                Do you think they thought they were believed?Would you spend your time trying to convince them that you were a rape victim, or would you hang up knowing that they didn’t believe you? That no one is going to believe you, because your voice is too low. We hear it all the time, don’t we? You’re too ugly to be raped.

                And then, to add insult to injury, JKR tweets about this call from someone who is, ostensibly, a rape victim. So, now… now everyone knows or should know there’s no privacy there. Your calls are recorded and subject to a billionaire listening to you and using you as an example to others.

                • SalamiDommie@lemmus.orgEnglish
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                  6 hours ago

                  I guess I don’t live in the obsession of this that you do.

                  I was mole-sted as a kid. Sometimes it seems worse to have happened as an adult.