In this edition of Cinema Issues we are talking about the backlash from parts of the LGBTQ community to the new Harry Potter tv series trailer.
Did your protests make book shops stop selling Harry Potter? No.
Did your protests kill Hogwarts Legacy? No.
Is J.K Rowling personally killing trans people? No.
Is J.K Rowling creating laws you don’t like? No.
Will your protest stop this show from being popular? No.
So before we get into it, we just wanted to say that we didn’t want to watch this Harry Potter show because of the modern audience slop it’s doing with Snape, but we have now been put in a weird catch 22. We can not watch it and let the militant trans people sending death threats to Rowling win, or we can watch it and deal with the modern dayisms. It’s a rock and a hard place.
In the online conversation around the new Harry Potter trailer amongst people saying there is no need for this or that visually it didn’t look as good, both valid points. There were people sending death threats to J.K Rowling calling her names saying she had blood on her hands, and trying to spoil the book for new audiences. This doesn’t make your cause, the trans movement, look good nor does it make you look like people who people want to protect or side with. When you behave in such a manner it actively helps people who don’t like you as they can point to your behaviour of sending death threats of proof of what they say about you. That’s not winning hearts and minds.
On top of that you have the fact they think they can shame people into doing what they want attacking people who mention Harry Potter as bigots or as being transphobes. Again you cannot shame people into doing what you want them to do it doesn’t work and makes them go the other way. The fact that the trailer has been massively viewed isn’t surprising considering there is a group of people out there demanding others don’t watch it. It very much is like when you’re a kid and your parents may say don’t do something it often makes you want to do it more.
Ultimately there is a crisis of entitlement going on across the world, wherein these small pressure groups think they can dictate how the rest of the world behaves. You need to understand you’re a tiny group and that most people don’t care, and with your behaviour you’re turning people from don’t care into active dislike. You don’t have a right to not be offended or to be catered to, as you would like to say to people you disagree with if you don’t like it don’t watch it and be quiet. You are making things worse for yourself not better.
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