Transphobic Christmas lights

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Can't believe more people aren't up in arms about the transphobic Harry Potter Oxford Street lights.

Apparently a mere 10,000 people have sent emails to London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan demanding that he ‘pull the plug on transphobia’ and cancel the themed lights.

The Good Law Project, who are always at the forefront of good sense and well-rounded thinking are quite rightly outraged that trans folk can't possibly feel Christmassy when inanimate twinkly Christmas lights are mocking their right to feel festive.

Down with this sort of thing.

All of 16 people according to an article posted on Reddit. So about as newsworthy as "dog bites man".

They should take them down but only because Harry Potter has sod all to do with Christmas.

Does that mean we can get rid of the Grinch and that sodding elf on the shelf as well? Oh good.

Bloody elf on the shelf. Ugh. Thankfully not a thing when my lads were small. Any of my friends, who post elf on the shelf on fb gets unfriended. 🤣

I thought the transwomen had reclaimed Harry Potter from JKR and that they decided it no longer belonged to her?

Damnit, transphobic lights. That’s my Christmas ruined.

Always 😂

Dammit - i've accidentally ended up in a thread reminding me of the frickin elf - ffs, and i thought this was going to be about lovely lights on Oxford street.

So... there must be a way to outsource the Elf, maybe if I post on FB? Or check Prime?

Absolutely, it’s not as if the trans community objected when Jolyon clubbed that fox to death after all!

Transvampires are vampires if they say they are. Denying that is actual bigotry, violence and <checks notes> genocide.

I also wonder why Christmas lights would be Harry Potter themed, but ultimately Christmas has just become an annual climax of consumerism. Most people participate without much consideration to the origins of the products, dubious or not. That has always been the case and capitalism could not function otherwise. Warner Bros’ Harry Potter is a behemoth, an entire media and commercial industry on its own and most people consume it without much thought (if any) to any underlying issues with JKR.

Men, pretending to be women.

Or a job? At the HP shop?

Plus some young women who are more worried about the feelings of those men than almost anything else.

I'm nowhere near London this Christmas but I've never wanted to see Christmas lights more.

JKR is an absolute Queen.

I don’t normally bother but I’ll get up to see them this time!

And 25 years ago, there was a “massive protest” about something else to do with HP: a cathedral being used for filming “the occult” or whatever their argument was. Again, only a handful of protesters turned up.

Noah Schnapps came under fire this week for dressing up as HP, particularly because he’s gay. Apparently some on the left are unable to separate the art from artist.

It would be difficult to function in modern society without being able to separate art from artist!

It will be a huge success, it's like saying they're worried about a new star wars film....

It's fucking Harry Potter, one of the most successful and popular stories/franchise on the entire planet.

There's around 600 MILLION copies of the worldwide, put into perspective ...

Goosebumps with around 60 books has 400million
Twilight saga is around 160m over 4 books.

Philosophers Stone has sold more copies than the Hobbit and more than the entire series of Chronicles of Narnia.

That's just the 7 main books. Not even looked at films, merchandise, theme parks, stage plays etc

That would be a photograph of a bloke in a silk kimono clicking send repeatedly.

It is a juggernaut with huge momentum, but the JKR issue has still been a huge issue for Warner Bros.

One wonders how many cases The Good Law Project will lose before it eventually changes its name.

https://cosmicbook.news/harry-potter-christmas-lights

'The child stars of HBO’s Harry Potter series have been pulled from London’s Oxford Street Christmas lights switch-on.

Dominic McLaughlin (Harry Potter), Arabella Stanton (Hermione Granger) and Alastair Stout (Ron Weasley) were set to appear at the event later this month.

The Sun reports the three young actors are now out over safety concerns.

According to the report, HBO Max bosses met with the Metropolitan Police and other key stakeholders, who raised concerns about possible public disorder involving trans rights groups.'

Love the art not the artist.