Harry Potter and the Killer Pyjamas

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Retailer called MeUndies announces new range of Harry Potter themed pyjamas. Attracts predictable responses. Also, notably, huge kickback against the first few woke replies.

This person has utterly lost the plot. No attempt to engage with any replies, of course. I'd have said alleging JKR is advocating violence against trans people was libellous.

elizabeth tobey @dahanese
Brands continue to disappoint, but @MeUndies takes the cake this week. For a purported LGBTQI friendly brand their Harry Potter partnership upset me. I wrote them and asked them not to support anything that helps a TERF profit, and they said no. Don't buy their stuff. Ever.

Seriously, multiple super-defensive and dismissive emails that they've done enough for the LGBTQI folx out there. You can't hurt people with a campaign like this and not care, say you've done enough in the past, @medundies. Your greed is showing.

Seriously, this wanton disregard for the safety of LGBTQI folx makes me hope that @MeUndies takes a serious hit to their bottom line. Soft underwear is everywhere, people. Buy the stuff that doesn't support campaigns and voices that advocate violence against trans folx.

@EmpressJKRowlingSpartacus

Mermaids don’t give a flying fuck about LGB people.

Except for validation purposes.

Except for validation purposes.

That's true. I think the main reason LGB is still in the alphabet soup is for validation purposes.

@EmpressJKRowlingSpartacus

Except for validation purposes.

That's true. I think the main reason LGB is still in the alphabet soup is for validation purposes.

This. This. This.

Yep, I think they've added in Mermaids to either ram home to the people who think JKR is a transphobe they're on their side (although I guess they can't come right out and say it) and/or to appease them. Extra special money for Mermaids, that's the point. They think by doing that, that'll show her.

But this whole pledging money to trans organisations, not through altruism but through fear you'll be called a transphobe too if you don't is just a horrid state of affairs.

Giving some of the profits to mermaids will not stop the lynching and harrassment, or I really doubt it will from past experience. Its never enough.

Mermaids does not suport LGB people at all, and honestly, I am not sure they even support T because shoving kids onto a medical pathway immediately (and from what some parents have said, dropping the 'support' when the aret is reluctant to get blockers) certainly does not come across as caring, or supportive.