Removal of books

[lexin]

I spent some time yesterday removing J K Rowling’s books from my shelves and replacing them with the pile of gaming books which have been piled on my floor for not just months but years.

The aim is to give the Rowling books to charity. I have no problem with other people reading them, but I won’t be reading them again and having them on the shelves was annoying me. Just about everything she says on X annoys me. She’s a twat.

I mean, I have no problem if a person who’s 6’4” with a beard you could hide a badger in wants to use female pronouns. It’s their choice and not acceding to their wishes is rude. Even if I think they’re nuts, I keep my thoughts to myself. If they want to use female toilets it doesn’t bother me. I’m asexual and other people’s genitalia are of no interest.

Comments

[watervole]

I remember meeting a guy at a con many years ago. Tall, bearded, in a prom dress with a female badge name. He looked so quiet and sad when the con came to an end. I suspect it was the only place he could safely express that side of him/her self.

Most ladies toilets have individual cubicles anyway, so who's going to see anything?

[emrinalexander]

I donated mine to the library book sale.

I am frequently taken back at how incredibly nasty Rowling is about everything these days. Trans people, decorating for Xmas, being poor - she even snarked nastily at people for being too happy! Who does that? It's like she got enormously rich and successful and became the worst kind of conservative.

[leela_cat]

I got rid of mine too.

She and her nasty, narrow-minded opinions annoy me enough that I've been toying with the idea of writing trans, queer, anything that would annoy her fanfic about the characters I love (none of whom are Dumbledore - my anger with her started when she announced that that creepy, manipulative old man was the only gay character in the series.

[lexin]

Precisely. For some trans people, conventions are the only places they can be themselves.

[lexin]

She really is unpleasant on X, and I have no idea what's got into her.

[lexin]

Indeed. I always thought Dumbledore was creepy, even in book 1, where he made use of Harry in that way. Nasty, nasty, man.

[krait]

I'm leaving mine in a heap on the closet floor for now, but I'm in pretty much the same spot: I'm very likely never going to read them again, and they were taking up real estate that could house something more beloved and/or useful.

You'd think someone with six kadillion dollars could find better things to do than loudly discuss things that aren't their business online. Nobody invited her to speculate on the contents of other people's knickers; me least of all, because if I had her money I'd spend all my time on vacationing on a private island and not vehemently spouting bigotry on The Site Formerly Known As Twitter.

[lexin]

Absolutely, I don’t understand what she gets out of it, apart from plaudits from the hard of thinking.