Re:Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl...
by pasquinelli on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:55AM
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> Nothing happens, except the game is completely mired in controversy to a degree that it keeps the transphobe-in-chief JK Rowling up at night, to such a degree she called her TERF friend at the NYT to publish a defense of her.
wouldn't her TERF friend publish a defense of her because her TERF friend is a TERF, not because j.k. rowling is bothered?
not that i doubt she is bothered, she's as hopelessly addicted to twitter as the people who hate her. it's how she became a TERF.
twitter is a game. it's played by posting. you score 1 point by getting praise from good people, 2 points by getting scorn from bad people. points can be exchanged for a sense of identity. and so people get sharper and sharper, and their concerns get more and more indesipherable to people who aren't playing the game.
15 years ago people were crowing that the "success" of anti-gay-marriage bills in California proved that gay people had lost the culture war. Oh the irony when that very same bill was used to legalize gay marriage nationwide. I see the "success" of Hogwart's Legacy in the same light, it will be an embarrassment in the side of WB for years to come. I'm an optimist though, maybe I'm wrong and trans people will be genocided out of existence. I hope I'm not wrong, though.