Trans People Launch High Street Protest Against Sale of Harry Potter Merchandise

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Trans rights activists launched a peaceful protest outside Waterstones in Guildford this afternoon (May 16), chalking messages on the pavement to draw people’s attention to the company’s marketing of Harry Potter merchandise.

Protest group Defund Transphobes says Harry Potter author JK Rowling uses money from the sale of merchandise to fund what they describe as her “anti trans campaign”.

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How very dare you mock Dame Katy!!!!! She's a goddess among women!
Whilst Bella.......(or should that be Bellatrix???)

(Light hearted)

What, as an unsafe as women imprisoned alongside a male? Or females expected to share a hospital ward with a male who identifies as a woman?

its "literary" violence. 😂

Exactly!

<eyeroll>
If what Waterstones is doing makes you feel 'unsafe', you really need to woman up and get a grip.

Unless you are a parody account, in which case crack on.

It's just become so hard to tell...

She's probably scared that The Monster Book of Monsters is going to chomp on her.

It's ironic that the poster has accused someone of reading Mein Kampf, as some sort of "gotcha", but that will be lost on them.
For it is these activists who are more like Nazis; they want to ban books and ban people, there's only one acceptable way to think, they're intolerant and bigoted, they don't respect women's rights.
I suspect that mass book burning would be right up their street.

Would you remove Byron's poetry?

😂Brilliant, chapeau @FrippEnos

But.. but.. their brave and stunning chalk drawings implore us to “read ANY book but Harry Potter” and defund “him”…. So any book, which would include any of JKR’s? 🤨
Bless their hearts, there’s not been a lot of thinking there has there?

Good grief. They really should read Mein Kampf and think...is this what we are?

If you went thru every shelf in a Waterstones and pulled out booked and in this case, merchandise from anyone who had said anything anti anything - something they maybe shouldn’t have
then there would be a lot of gaps on the shelves
people like Harry Potter and If they like it they aren’t likely to even think about Rowlings comments

it would be like if the owners of M&S made a comment - would I stop buying my knickers in there - no I wouldn’t!

people also need to think of the shop staff in all of this!

Oh dear 😄

I think "open" is debatable....

Anyway I'm genuinely lol-ing at the idea of trans people walking into Waterstones and immediately fainting clean away at the sight of a broomstick or lightning scar on a book cover.

Take note!

Waterstones makes people unsafe by stocking HP books and memorabilia? How do you think death and rape threats from TRA's makes women feel?

Me! Me! I do!
I also have the collected works of Chairman Mao (quite a few volumes actually) and a few things by Stalin and a degree in political philosophy.

I was under the impression that "Defund X" calls referred to a withdrawal of public funding. It seems strange in this context.

Anyway, attempts to "defund" JKR seem destined to failure, even if everyone stopped buying Harry Potter immediately. Which they obviously won't. Most HP (and Strike) fans have little if any interest in the trans "debate".

Are you thinking here that Waterstones doesn't stock books by Salman Rushdie? (they do) Do you know Muslims who have complained about it?

I assume you don't shop there - where do you buy books if you have to avoid such places?

Capitalists would be offended by Marx.

Jews might be offended by the New Testament.

Men might be offended by Wollenstonecraft or Greer.

You can probably find all of these books in your local library. If we as a society follow your (apparently trustworthy) book group and ban books where does it end. Read A Man for All Seasons. Would you give the devil the benefit of due course of law? Yes, because otherwise the law will be devalued and will not be there to support me when I need it.

Your book group is damaging society and has already damaged you because you have outsourced your thinking to the clerics. And yes I have read Mein Kampf. Not because I’m a card carrying Nazi but because I did a History degree. I have also read Marx.

My mind is blown at the idea of anyone who cares enough about reading to be in a book group but who has never read anything from a perspective they knew they disagreed with and has outsourced their thinking to the right kind of people.

I refuse to click links that take me to unheard of websites (from the OP) but is your picture from that website?

So it's not defund JKR, but it's actually defund a fictional character? Strewth 😮🤐

Edited because I misread something.

"feel unsafe" 😂

The books aren't going to jump off the shelves and concuss anyone with pastel-dyed hair and a progress pride pin.

A reading group that bans books.

Make it make sense….

"Salmon Rushdie"
I know, I know, one shouldn't mock, but 😂

Yes I would.

I grew up bisexual under Section 28. I know what "unsafe" is. An example of "unsafe" is when your teachers do nothing about lesbophobic bullying because they are worried about falling foul of Section 28 and also agree with the bullies. A bookshop stocking a book I disagree with is not "unsafe".

Everything they write is a bit fishy, to be sure 😉

And this, dear reader, is how echo chambers and purity spirals are formed.

I trust their judgement

Pro-tip: don't outsource your thinking to others. Never trust anyone else's judgement. Always look at stuff for yourself and make your own mind up. Otherwise you risk being manipulated by other people for their own ends.