A new moralism is gripping the literary world

Re:A new moralism is gripping the literary world by Pxtl on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:52PM (#26515609)

If you're really curious about this matter, film analysis YouTuber Lindsay Ellis has an excellent video on the history of depictions of trans people (primarily in film) and puts Rowling's work into that context, tracing it back to Psycho and beyond.

https://youtu.be/cHTMidTLO60

Basically, there's a long and sordid history of the Cross Dressing Predator as a literary and film trope and this has been used against trans people heavily.

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Re:A new moralism is gripping the literary world by at_a_remove on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:44PM (#26516951)

So it's not what she did, it's what other people did before her. Now, finally, we can call someone to task for it. Ah, this has so many parallels now with so many other things going on.

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Re:A new moralism is gripping the literary world by Pxtl on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:03PM (#26518131)

Yes, bigotry involves history.

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