I picked up the video game Hogwarts Legacy on sale for the PS5. Despite never having read a Harry Potter book, or ever watching one of the movies all the way through, I’ve enjoyed the game, and I love the imagination of the world. But a very large, very vocal “community” of die-hard Harry Potter fans have been waging a continuing cultural war with J. K. Rowling over her position on transgender women.
I cannot fathom why someone would make Harry Potter their entire personality, and then fight with the person who created the world, as if they could divorce the two. People: just do what everyone else has had to do for decades with Hollywood movies that star people who are political lunatics (right AND left) when the cameras stop rolling. Disconnect the product from the producer. Enjoy what you want. Ignore what you don’t.
It’s not like they’re going to change the situation, trying to embarrass or harass a literal billionaire into changing her mind or forcing her to stop commenting about the topic. She has reached the point of being untouchable by any mechanism they have at their disposal.
Until she decides she’s done, and “George Lucases” the franchise to Disney, they’re stuck. But if that does happen — I mean, who could have foreseen that Lucas would sign away Star Wars? — they’ll be ecstatic. The milieux will be destroyed, but it will go down checking all of the boxes they care about.