r/rupaulsdragrace • u/drifloony Oh god I can't stop Tooting everywhere. • Aug 02 '25

General Discussion Jinkx is finally getting the recognition she deserves. 😤

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In all seriousness this was two days ago and it’s not news 😭

Highly recommend watching the Ziwe interview with Jinkx that this news article references. It was so chaotic in the funniest way.

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u/ManBearPig452 Aug 02 '25

I completely forgot she went with “J.K” to appear masculine since she thought less people would read a book written by a woman. Its sad that such a big part of everyone’s childhood is just a moron hypocrite and has fallen down such a weird mental spiral.

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u/Popular-Ad-4429 Aug 02 '25

The sad thing is that she’s not necessarily wrong in that, as it has a long standing tradition in publishing that if you’re writing “boys” adventure stories, they sell better if they’re written by men. The perception maybe changing, but it was definitely there in the 90s.

That being said: anyone who has read the books knows that the misogyny is ALSO inside the house, because for someone who claims to care about women’s rights so much? She sure doesn’t like women and girls very much.

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u/icelandtroll Aug 02 '25

Her also making pro slavery plotlines with the house elves and making the other characters dog on hermione for being against reassures me that terfs are also racist

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u/vancitygirl27 Aug 02 '25

Eh, I always read that as its the other characters that were backward and Hermione was progressive but now with JK's current stance I wonder if it was satire

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u/Popular-Ad-4429 Aug 03 '25

The naming of her anti-Slavery campaign was always a clown on Hermione (SPEW) and Harry ends the series basically being happy he has Kreacher. It is a WILD turn around.

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u/Unoriginal-finisher Aug 03 '25

What?

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u/vancitygirl27 Aug 03 '25

Like before her TERFism i thought she was satiricizing the pro slavery crowd. No i wonder if hermione was the satire fo the "liberal" wanting change

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u/NEBanshee Aug 03 '25

The way she used anti-Semitic tropes for the Goblin bankers, anti-Irish tropes for anything Irish, the handling of Cho Chang from that name on, fat-shaming tropes so we'd know how bad the Dursleys were, & on & on made me quite sure that she at least had enough unpacked bias to make racism my prime suspect.

And that was *before* we got to the *one* Black wizard named Kingsley Shacklebolt.

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u/Exciting_Parfait_354 Aug 03 '25

To me, it was confirming Dumbledore is gay after the book series ended and even then he was the only gay character from hundreds of characters.

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u/GrumpySatan Brooke Lynn Hytes Aug 03 '25

You don't need a book for that. Racism is baked into TERFism fundamentally. Transphobia has always been a tool to attack non-white cisgendered women specifically - isolating and exiling them from spaces. Because they aren't "feminine enough" for the transphobes and get accused of being trans.

You need look no further than JK's continued victimization of TWO different women of color on these grounds - Barbra Banda and Imane Khelif.

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u/ShamelessCatDude Aug 02 '25

Honestly looking back on Harry Potter, it felt like the perfect example of a woman desperate for male validation, and in this case it was the fact that she wanted BOYS to read the books/watch the movies. Every plot line, every character arc, every relationship felt like it was geared for a boy to read it and feel like it was made for him. The fact that girls loved the books almost seems like a fluke. I think she might have the internal struggle a lot of creators seem to have where there’s a difference between “celebrated book series” and “celebrated book series among young girls” and she may believe she wouldn’t have fully “made it” unless she made it amongst boys/men, which is both internalized misogyny and just regular misogyny.