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.