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J.K. Rowling’s New Book Just So Happens to Feature a Character Persecuted Over Transphobia
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Why did she choose a male name for her pseudonym
So that she could use the name of the "inventor" of gay conversion therapy.
Robert Galbraith, son of a jackal
The first book in this series was about a man who dresses as a woman to kill women.
No joke here. How do I make this any more absurd than it already is?
and also it was published before she was an "out" transphobe -- although i remember trans people were pointing out her transphobia for years before people started to notice and it became her entire identity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath
She chose to be this person. Incredible.
Unfortunately not that surprising, given that she's also coded a werewolf character as a bug chaser and groomer.
she made being a werewolf a metaphor for aids, which is already fucked up given the inherently predatory nature of werewolves, but at least the first book where that's a thing features a nice guy who gets kicked out of his job unjustly because he's actually safe around kids. but then she made the second of the 2 named werewolves in the series a very literal child predator