Harry Potter fansites distance themselves from JK Rowling

This article on fandoms is quite enlightening. 'Harmonians' were/(are?) 'shippers' for a relationship between Hermione and Ron.

"So they turned their ire on her. Harmonians began to openly insult Rowling, calling into question her talent as a writer, denigrating her for being divorced, and even insulting her personal appearance. One post even indulges in some pearl clutching, wondering if the “moral” of Ron/Hermione is really one she wants to pass down to her daughters."

www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-fall-of-fandom-etiquette-and-the-rise-of-the-ship-war

I saw this earlier. I wonder can JK say that she doesn't allow them to you use her characters as they are covered by copyright?

Thats the thing about JK she seems like a genuinely good person. If I had her money I would be out for vengeance and be suing people left right and centre for all the horrible lies they've made up about her since she posted her very rational thoughts on the matter.

Was curious to see if they had talked about it on the podcast and found one from last December where they talk about Maya's case from 04:44, they tell some absolute whoppers apparently Maya created a hostile work environment and refused to acknowledge peoples gender identities that she didn't believe were valid
pottercast.mischiefmedia.com/15-2-sorting-it-out-j-k-rowling-transphobia-and-what-just-happened-to-our-community-with-jackson-bird/

I too wondered how this stuff works. Does she have the right to close them down?

I'm amazed that fan sites are still a thing.

Utter misogyny. Remember when the director of Guardians of the Galaxy had old tweets surface featuring jokes about raping kids? Fans were furious at the idea of him being punished over it.

But a woman raising concerns about the erosion of sex-based rights? Burn the bitch.

Let them continue to like her work while hating her as a person, maybe they'll have a growing awareness that it might be worth finding out what the hatred against JKR is actually about.

I agree, I'm sure she is hurt because she has probably met the people who run the sites, but fundamentally I think they deserve pity. Some of them will learn the hard way that sex matters.

I agree nauticant I personally don’t think she would go down the legal route.

Let them continue to like her work while hating her as a person, maybe they'll have a growing awareness that it might be worth finding out what the hatred against JKR is actually about.

Also, any legal action would be a game of whack-a-mole and would create enormous ill-feeling to no good effect.

Makes me sad, I posted on another thread do they think she’s just changed her entire personality overnight? Why aren’t they capable of saying well we might disagree with her but we know her to be a lefty, tolerant, generous humanitarian so maybe there’s a bit more to it than that she’s just become an evil bigot overnight.

Although I suppose you just have to look at the abuse Evanna Lynch got for not condemning her strongly enough to know why.

it would be funny if it wasnt so sad. Numerous teenage and twenty something girls yelling JKR is "trash" and that "Harry Ron and Hermione would punch her"

they cant bring themselves to read what she wrote because "OMG she's just a TERF bitch now"

The sad thing is that the people who run these sites have studied the Harry Potter books in great detail, but don't appear to have been able to read anything that JKR actually wrote on this issue.

I saw this earlier. I wonder can JK say that she doesn't allow them to you use her characters as they are covered by copyright?