[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Captain.Remy

The "people who menstruate" thing hurt a lot of people, and really if she was a full-on ally like she claims she is, she would have known better before jumping on the topic. It's like, it's always "biological women" vs "trans women" for some of them, as if they were not compatible in the first place.

Talk about reading the room and knowing a big part of Harry Potter's fandom is LGBTQIA+ people...

As Eliott said, it really looks like it has been performative allyship for a while.

The "people who menstrate" thing was pretty stupid, that anyone got annoyed at her for it. Only women can menstrate, and the amount of women who identify as men is tiny, far too tiny to justify a change in language.

Also, lol at "LGBTQIA+" It's LGBT. That covers all deviations from straight and cis.

Originally Posted by Marsh.

She never said Hermione was black all along. She said Hermione's skin colour was not a prequisite for the character so could be played by an actress of any skin colour.

The fact she gets grief for not limiting the role to white women only is completely bizarre to me.

And although Dumbledore was never explicitly gay in the books or movies, to say there are no hints is not true IMO. He was quite clearly in love wih Grindelwald in book 7.

How can anyone say there are no hints, the man walks round in rainbow robes and talks about knitting patterns!