Time and time again, I’ve become accustomed to having to defend my womanhood when public figures declare that transgender women are not “real” women. Sometimes, I want to quietly sit back, avoiding…
  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    I will never understand billionaires. Imagine having literally everything you could ever desire at your fingertips. No one to oppose any of your decisions. The power to make yourself happy at no cost to anyone, whatsoever… and then using your vast fortune to make life miserable for people you’ve never met and who haven’t done a damn thing to you… ever.

    They’re fucking dragons that need to be eradicated like knights in fantasy tales slay dragons on principle.

    • inlandempire@jlai.luEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      The power to make yourself happy at no cost to anyone

      At the cost of the working class that was used as canon fodder to help them become billionaires

    • sloppysol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I guess at that point, what else are you gonna do? After you sleep the rest of life off, i think they find it hard to be meaningful

      • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        That I can understand, but why use that power for evil while they could do so much good? It’s not even as if they stand to gain anything by it. I suppose my thought patterns are simply wholly incompatible with theirs. If I somehow inherited a billion I would try to use that as a force of good, setting up new charities or pretty much whatever else. I suppose McKenzie Scott is an example of how it should be. There are others as well but they’re definitely the exception to the rule.

        • Lupus@feddit.orgEnglish
          6·
          3 days ago

          Well obviously they’re the good guys in their heads, 'saving humanity from the evil something’s. That their wealth distorted their worldview doesn’t even come to mind, and differing opinions are just misinformed.

          I am a successful billionaire I must be right, everybody who opposes me is just wrong, my wealth is the proof that I am superior and should dominate the people of the world and why shouldn’t I, I am a billionaire so I have to be right, since I am so superior.

  • Of the Air (cele/celes)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    71·
    3 days ago

    Did she though? It was racist, antisemitic, anti irish, fatphobic, ableist, already very gender binary and weird about genitals etc.

    We don’t get why people think “the world she created” was actually good.

  • Wytch@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Pretty insightful for someone like me who didn’t grow up with HP, to hear from this perspective. It’s easy for me to reject Rowling and boycott her work, since I have no emotional attachment to her worlds or characters. I often struggle talking to younger fans who have to separate her from their strong connection to her books. It really does seem like she’s built a wall between the lessons she wrote about and her hideous transphobia.