A Letter to J K Rowling

 

You’re being a lot nastier than you think you are.

Your trans posts, this post, and even your scraps with Donald Trump all come across as you trying to puff yourself up at someone else’s expense!

This is not how you started. Even now, there is still an idealism glowing within your earlier work. It still has the potential to encourage people to be strong in the face of danger.

What you’ve been doing in the last decade… runs contrary to that.

I had some sympathy for you, because I know all too well how fear and pain change people. Getting mad at people who’d threatened you and endangered you is understandable. Working through anger and pain isn’t easy. That being said…

You still have a responsibility to NOT take things out on innocent people.

Failing to distinguish between the asswipes who hurt you and innocent people is a slippery slope. First you were angry at the people who threatened you. Fair enough. Then you called out what you saw as abuses of power. Sometimes, you were right and sometimes you were wrong. Again, fair enough.

But then, you shifted your anger to ALL trans people for even existing.

Now, you’re going after people like me. As far as I know, we asexuals did NOTHING to you.

Not. A. Single. Thing.

You used to know the difference between an instigator and an innocent.

Out of respect for the good your writing once did, and out of respect for the good you used to do, I send this warning:

You are destroying your own legacy by punching down so much. Whoever suggested this particular post is NOT your friend, and most likely envies the blessings you gained by your work.