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Thoughts on this academic paper about JKR?

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tuneafish · 20/09/2026 14:21

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2026.2660544

TRA talking points on JKR laundered into a research article. There's so much bullshit in there I don't even know where to start.

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ArabellaScott · 20/09/2026 17:32

Apart from anything else they appear barely able to construct a legible sentence.

ArabellaScott · 20/09/2026 17:29

'This article employs audience research, presenting and analysing data from a survey carried out with 242 self-identified current and former fans of Harry Potter and the Wizarding World, to explore how Rowling’s celebrified transphobia has been evaluated'

This is the state of academia today. Dismal.

MyDpsanarse · 20/09/2026 17:18

What's truly worrying about this is the way they're trying to present it as a serious academic paper. If this is the cream of the Australian intelligentsia then they're in trouble

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 20/09/2026 16:56

"transphobia/queer" every second word.
Maybe this was some kind of bet, how to get a record number of mentions of these words in a published article.
All I can say is, the authors won the bet by a country mile.

hastenotwaste · 20/09/2026 16:53

This reflects really badly on the journal imo.

Veilsofmorning · 20/09/2026 16:30

I’ve skim read it so you don’t have to.

This should never have got through even to review, even for a lower ranked journal- never mind publication!!!! (I have some experience of academic reviewing and PhD supervision).

Veilsofmorning · 20/09/2026 16:02

‘Snowball sampling’ - says it all!

NormalityIsOverrated · 20/09/2026 15:45

To summarise the summary -
JKR sticks up for women's rights and people who think that wizards are real don't like her.
The End.

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 20/09/2026 15:36

One of the small joys in life is watching the ongoing phenomenon of a woman who just won't acquiesce driving crowds absolutely mental.

fourcamels · 20/09/2026 15:35

I don’t mean to be thick, but do they know the Wizarding World… isn’t real?

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 20/09/2026 15:25

Thanks, but no I won't bother, my opinion of all things academic are at an all time low, low enough to have come out in Aus funny enough.

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 20/09/2026 15:21

"<celebrified> transphobia"
That word alone bars the article from any consideration.

Dabralor · 20/09/2026 15:09

The abstract is like that of a really pretentious EPQ - I couldn’t get beyond that, sadly.

thirdfiddle · 20/09/2026 15:02

I don't think I want to dignify that with a read beyond the title which is hilariously pretentious and probably libelous.

PoisonCrystal · 20/09/2026 14:48

It's no surprise that the authors are Australian (or at least at an Australian university).

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