I get why JKR hates trannies

That’s literally just your zoomcoombrain talking. Boomer sissies have different tastes than your altgirl fashion because they grew up with different media. But they’re the exact same thing

No, it's literally because trannies mass sent her penis pics on Twitter because she made the mildest of criticisms over trannies in domestic violence shelters

guy absolutely isn’t a repper. Look how happy he is to be drawn like Saitama

Read the parts with Natsumi Schwarz then get back to me. It's this whole crossdressing meta attraction nonsense for half a book where his male self insert crossdresses, passes super well, and gets the attention of the perfect gentleman who sees her as a real woman

JK wants to skinwalk nerds

nerds want to skinwalk her

Why is life like this?

so?
You’re like a parent when you show them some creative shit you wrote for school and they think your thoughts and feelings are the same thoughts and feelings as every character.

Dude just playing the common genderbender tropes anyways

Nerds don't want to skinwalk her. They also don't want to skinwalk anyone from Harry Potter because she can't write women for shit. She doesn't understand what draws trannies towards womanhood like Tappei does.

famous person from pre internet era can't believe the messages she gets in post internet era

I mean yea it could be that. Boomers not getting technology and being frustrated in the craziest ways

schizo

If they're so common why can't JK write them?

Re:zero is like Japanese game of thrones written by a repper and includes a lot of tranny fanfic stuff. It's a current year thing

??? no it isnt you fucking retard

Arc 7 bro, trust

Also just compare how Tappei writes female characters to how JK does ot how George RR Martin (poonchaser) writes women.
Tells you everything you need to know.

Never understood the appeal of Harry Potter, it is entertaining but once you dig in it falls apart, the writing is awful, the only reason I finished reading the books was to make sure I wasn't missing some important shit everyone else noticed, but no, starting with her obsession with placing it in the real world, "the wizarding world is full of magic" and "there's wizards among us", then you take a look at the "muggle" world and everything is exactly as we perceive it, nothing ever escapes or causes chaos, and they solve it with mind wiping, this could only mean the magical world is capable of completely controlling the rest of the world but no, they are so afraid of muggles they hide, even the magical beings hide, there's basically no connection between both, none knows anything about each other despite having a clear intersection, most surprisingly, the "muggles and their technology" are a mystery to the wizards, even their most dedicated researches don't understand the most basic concepts like mechanics.

At some point I gave up on trying to understand what was good about it, like many other things, this got popular due to cronyism, nothing else.

The basic appeal is escapism. "My life is miserable and my parents don't love me. But what if I'm special? What if someday I get my letter to Hogwarts and I'm spirited away to learn magic and be happy?" Both girls and boys self-insert into Potter's situation, even if they might project more onto like Hermione. Other than being easily digestible for children and with a big fan community (popularity feeds into itself,) that really is the main appeal: escape. Your typical 11 year-old girl who got into Harry Potter back at its peak popularity isn't thinking about the logic, mechanics, or lore of the setting, she's thinking about the core ideal being presented.

Sure, that makes sense but it doesn't explain the exuberant amount of old men thinking they are aurors or something, how come they don't see the glaring flaws?

I'm sure men that are into harry potter are the weird kids, those that try to be "special and unique" but they could never coin any other fandom so they went for a vacant one.

I don't know, I don't see many old men obsessively into Harry Potter. Just dudes who grew up but still r remember all the lore and shit. It's women who are mostly commonly old and still obsessively into Harry Potter, because they never got over the fantasy.

literally waited for my wizard letter until 11

movies helped provide comfy escapist ambience as well

She basically says as much. Transwomen are trying to steal the privileges ciswomen have earned over the 20th century.
Captcha: syrgoy

I know a few, and just recently saw many bitching about the new cast on several internet platforms, and my point still stands, it's a book for girls, why were those boys reading that and enjoying it? Didn't they have anything else to read or watch?

It's a meme among female HP fans that they're still waiting for their letter and it's just 'arriving late'. This was funny when we were teenagers but it gets increasingly sad as they reach their 30's and even 40's.

idk about you but id still beg a nerdy femrepper for sex

It was a unisex book. As someone who actually was a kid when the books came out, EVERYONE liked it. Not just boys, not just girls. Girls are just the ones who are more likely to still care about it now.

It's more than just escapism.
To use an example, Issekai is all about escapism. Do most normal cis women enjoy Issekai?
No. Because it's more than just a normal person going into a fantasy environment.

There's this thing a lot of trans girls do where they obsess over highschool alt girl cliques. Like oh what if I were a teen and out with my friends shopping or w/e. Or Buffy going on adventures fighting monsters as the popular goth girl in highschool (buffy blends the tropes).
Imo, Harry Potter is similar. It is about the idealized life of a teenage boy. A fantasy world cool boys can have. Like imagine a femrepper who just spends all day obsessing over the life she couldn't have. Harry Potter is JK writing that life. The life a woman could've had if she was born a boy. Plus magic. Also the Oxford culture is a lot of the appeal.

Girls flocked to the more fandomy aspect however cuz boys had a bunch of shit like Star Wars to compete for their attention. Like me and my friends went to the midnight releases of the books but my sister would write fics and draw Ron x Harry yaoi

She said that? Really?
Is this like accepting men are less priveledged?
I think there might be some truth that it was astroturfed. There was a huge media push for it from the start. So yes the original fanbase was large but now it does seem to be women latched onto it more firmly

No

There are isekai targeted at women. Your issue is that you're looking at shounen and wondering where all the female fans are, because you don't realize shoujo exists. Harry Potter is just one of the examples of something that managed to capture both girls and boys at high rates.

OP sounds like an actual 14 yo BE NICE

Yes exactly, think of Harry Potter as western shoujo.
One female insert who's smart but otherwise lame. All the other women who cares. Tons of cool interesting male romance options, great.

Boys

And as I said it was the weird kids, other kids had plenty of other franchises to obsess over.

What I find interesting is the way it jumps between escapist fantasy, urban fantasy, and female power fantasy.
And the way it does the female power fantasy (when it does the female power fantasy) is the most interesting because hermoine is acting as the reader's vehicle while the story happens to her, but it's told from the perspective of the male characters observing hermione being the vehicle.

When it drops back out of female power fantasy and goes back to the escapist fantasy it's trying to be Hermione's role goes back to Hermione ex machina, basically the solution to every problem with Harry Potter being the hero the solution is provided to just in the knick of time.

This is all happening before the female power fantasy became the box office powerhouse it would become with Hunger Games, and long before The Handmaid's Tale became the embodiment of Poe's law, so I think it's interesting as this kind of proto- female power fantasy that the female character of JK Rowling, who would go on to become the face of anti-trans politics, seems to jump so jarringly from agency to inagency throughout the series but never actually reconciling the two.

JKR hates trannies because she's a repressed pooner and lost all empathy at menopause
it's just the gender flip of the average TDS pol chud

I mean, yeah kinda.
Her point of view was definitely transwomen are just men trying to take women's shit.

And as I said it was the weird kids,

And as I told you as someone who lived this, it wasn't the weird boys who liked Harry Potter. A casual interest in HP was completely normal for boys in the correct age range back then. Obviously boys didn't usually end up OBSESSED with it, but they damn sure read it.

Please stop using the term TDS to refer to transphobic chuds.
Firstly: You're correct, they are actually our sisters and they're in pain.
Secondly: Trump Derangement Syndrome was legit, social media and news addiction are real problems, and trying to rework it into a tu quoque is SUPER cringe.

I understand that, I understand liking something, I don't understand why there's an entire park dedicated to it, why grown men obsess over it, they put it on the same level as any other major franchise.

Liking something isn't bad, but saying/posting "Snape killed Dumbledore" would cause never ending rage and that was the most stupid thing I've ever seen, men crying over it, going apeshit about the spoilers.

This is all happening before the female power fantasy became the box office powerhouse it would become with Hunger Games

How is it distinct in this sense from Buffy and Xena?
Like it is, somehow, I just don't quite get how. Like it doesn't hit them the same.

And broader question to femreppers and terfs if they relate more to Harry Potter/Yaoi/Shoujo or to Buffy/Shounen/Arcane.
By "relate" you could interpret it as "enjoy"

To be fair, all the ads for the park involve a middle aged woman taking her family then completely losing herself in the fantasy.

How is it distinct in this sense from Buffy and Xena?

Completely different.

So the rules of the female power fantasy are:
1. The main character has something special about her that she did not earn
(in both cases of buffy and xena they earned their power through hard work and experience)
2. The main character is the center of a love triangle between two very different
(love triangles didn't play a huge role in buffy, and xena was lowkey monogamous lesbian with Gabriel)
3. The main character makes no decisions which affect the plot
(in both buffy and xena the story of the week was almost always resolved by the main character's ability to make the right call)

Particularly with Xena, you've really got a case of man with boobs. Xena the character is just what if Kevin Sorbo's Hercules was a super-hot chick. Buffy is a bit more complicated but still in the same genre.

Every thread about JK Rowling should start with a single question:
"Why did she speak up when a Harry Potter fan in Israel was kidnapped, but not when the ones in Gaza were brutally slaughtered?"
It has been nearly two years since that began. Why hasn't she said anything?

"Virtually no independent foreign journalists have been allowed to report firsthand from Gaza — unescorted by the Israeli army. When this war is over and Gaza is saturated with international reporters and photographers free to roam, the level of death and destruction is going to be fully reported and pictured — and that is going to be a very bad time for Israel and world Jewry."
— Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, 5/27/2025.

Yeah but that didn't answer why men got so invested in it, like when forums were on their last breath, I knew this Mod guy on a forum(he actually exposed me to Anon Babble very early, years before this) and he banned me and many preemptively for a few days until he got to read the book, of course it didn't work and they found a way to spoil it. The entire internet was like this, men breaking down in tears while waiting in line just because some passerby yelled "Snape Killed Dumbledore".

I don't see why you think that's unusual.
Nerd culture is predominantly male, and Harry Potter became part of that culture just by being a good at a time when film was probably the main focus of nerd culture.

There's heaps of franchises that came out in that period that also got obsessed over only to be later forgotten. Nolan's batman, The Matrix, LOST, there's heaps I'm forgetting, it's a long list.

1.The main character has something special about her that she did not earn

Buffy didn't earn being the slayer. However, just about every episode she solves things on her own/ is courageous/a leader/etc. She also experiences lots of growth. So she grows in power on her own/with help from friends guiding her.

2. The main character is the center of a love triangle between two very different

I think Spike and Angel sort of count for this though I hardly remember her being into Spike and Spike was much more firmly with Drusilla and Angel with Cordelia. Also don't think they overlapped much, so while she may have dated both wasn't a total triangle. (Spike and Buffy was season 6/depression stuff rather than love stuff iirc)

3.The main character makes no decisions which affect the plot

Yea okay huge difference there.

So a lot of it is about if they're an active agent or a passive object and women tend to prefer the latter. There are obviously loads of female fans of Buffy and Xena too tho but probably different tastes.

It was never good tho, and exactly my point, this franchise feels weirdly favored, nerds usually obsess over details, they cream themselves when the universe is coherent but not here, nothing makes sense, no logic behind anything, saying "it's magic, no need to explain shit" doesn't apply here.

Youre a man pretending to be a woman. You see that truth as hateful. But the truth isnt hateful, you simply hate the truth.

actual truth nuke

You're hurting the feelings of a white billionaire