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Originally Posted by Marsh.

Is that Emma Watson stuff aimed at me lady.

I don't object to Emma Watson being a feminist or any other of the causes she puts her name to. I object to her shallowness on the subjects. She plops herself on podiums parroting slogans and phrases getting herself a pat on the back from minority groups and other women for being a "strong advocate" but then when (like now) the cause calls for a more nuanced and detailed actual discussion on the issue, she can't. It's shallow and meaningless and shows her up for the banal ambassador she is. A face and nothing more.

I don't think JKR's words have stirred up any fear. The fear has come from the absolutely ridiculous twisting of her words.

Emma had a moment there where people were calling for her input due to the Harry Potter link and she chose it to post 2 tweets that said.... nothing at all. And by simply saying nothing other than basically "trans women are women" it's almost like she's justifying and enabling the gross twisting of JKR's own words and the backlash she has received. It's completely gross and certainly not feminist.

I agree with Marsh here (yuk!).

My issue with the Potter franchise kids is not that they have differing opinions to JK Rowling... It's that they haven't bothered to - or don't have the ability to - engage her in discussion about it directly to express what it is they disagree with. Beyond that, they haven't even publicly managed to state a case in their own words for why they specifically disagree with her, when they're some of the few people who have a valid platform to do just that.

All they've done is pop their heads up, bleat a group-think mantra which I'm sorry I just cannot ****ing stand. Catchphrases for people who can't articulate their own thoughts to parrot "in support of X, Y, Z"... No. No thank you. As your ol primary school teacher might have said... "show your working". They say that for a reason. You show your reasoning so that people know you understand what you're saying and didn't copy it from the person sat next to you... Because if you did, you don't get the marks.

So yes, anyway, off track a little: I'm repulsed by the response of the Potter kids because it wasn't the personal or thought out response of people who actually give a ****, it was the parroted response of a group of celebrities who are worried that their own image might be attached to JK Rowling and are keen to express otherwise, to appease the fan base, and I imagine to protect their own image. It is shallow. I have very little time for it.