True, but this is a stream of consciousness poem, it's art. Not a press release. And stream of consciousness poetry is often better impulsive. Intuitive. Not planned. And, in this case, she had her partner at the time, Neil Gaiman (an established writer in various mediums) review the poem and approve it. I do however get your point. However it does beg the question - should all art be taken through a publicist before being released? Should the artist cater to the public?
Going down that road - shuts down so many artists.
I don't believe artists should cater to the public. The most interesting art is art that is an honest expression, often impulsive and raw. Catering to a discerning public tends to lead to paint-by-numbers writing or carbon copy. It's boring. It's dull. It's safe. But it isn't art.
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Actually, JK Rowling doesn't have any issues with sexual orientation or "gay". That's an important distinction to make here? She's pro-"gay" rights. And there are, unfortunately, quite a few people in the Gay community and "Queer" community who can't handle transgender and bisexuality.
No, Rowling's is transphobic or TERF. She believes that transwomen and transmen are anti-feminist. And is afraid of them. Transgender aren't necessarily gay, bisexual or lesbian. They are often heterosexual, just "trans". The difficulty is our media has over about 100 years or more now, stigmatized transgender or lumped them into the same category as transvestites (which isn't quite the same thing - not that there is anything wrong with being a transvestite), but they've all been stigmatized over a long period of time as perverts in films such as Psycho, Klute, or made out as a comedy act, Some Like it Out or Bosum Buddies. And as a result, a lot of folks in the Baby Boom Generation and even Gen X, can't wrap their heads around it and condemn them.
Most of it is due to ignorance and an unwillingness to be curious.
The difficulty the LGBTQ community had with Rowlings is they assumed (understandably so) that just because she was pro LGB, she'd be pro Trans and Queer, and nope.
I know a few TERF's - there's no reasoning with them. They are kind of irrational and can't let go of deeply ingrained beliefs. (Lovely people otherwise. But just insanely ignorant about transgender.) It's like arguing with a brick wall. I know I've tried over the last ten years and finally gave up for the sake of my own blood pressure. We even have a course you have to take at work now attempting to train people to be more accepting of transgender and understanding of them, and kinder. (Which is progress - we didn't have that before.)
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Going down that road - shuts down so many artists.
I don't believe artists should cater to the public. The most interesting art is art that is an honest expression, often impulsive and raw. Catering to a discerning public tends to lead to paint-by-numbers writing or carbon copy. It's boring. It's dull. It's safe. But it isn't art.
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Actually, JK Rowling doesn't have any issues with sexual orientation or "gay". That's an important distinction to make here? She's pro-"gay" rights. And there are, unfortunately, quite a few people in the Gay community and "Queer" community who can't handle transgender and bisexuality.
No, Rowling's is transphobic or TERF. She believes that transwomen and transmen are anti-feminist. And is afraid of them. Transgender aren't necessarily gay, bisexual or lesbian. They are often heterosexual, just "trans". The difficulty is our media has over about 100 years or more now, stigmatized transgender or lumped them into the same category as transvestites (which isn't quite the same thing - not that there is anything wrong with being a transvestite), but they've all been stigmatized over a long period of time as perverts in films such as Psycho, Klute, or made out as a comedy act, Some Like it Out or Bosum Buddies. And as a result, a lot of folks in the Baby Boom Generation and even Gen X, can't wrap their heads around it and condemn them.
Most of it is due to ignorance and an unwillingness to be curious.
The difficulty the LGBTQ community had with Rowlings is they assumed (understandably so) that just because she was pro LGB, she'd be pro Trans and Queer, and nope.
I know a few TERF's - there's no reasoning with them. They are kind of irrational and can't let go of deeply ingrained beliefs. (Lovely people otherwise. But just insanely ignorant about transgender.) It's like arguing with a brick wall. I know I've tried over the last ten years and finally gave up for the sake of my own blood pressure. We even have a course you have to take at work now attempting to train people to be more accepting of transgender and understanding of them, and kinder. (Which is progress - we didn't have that before.)