J. K. Rowling is the creator of Harry Potter, and the author of the Harry Potter book series…which then became spectacularly successful movies. Her success with this series of children’s fantasy books/movies has made her a billionaire.
But, in at least some literary circles, she is a non-person.
Why? Because she has gone public with her apparently inexcusably warped idea that biological males are…..males.
How much of a non-person is she?
Read this, from Mark Judge’s article for the Washington Examiner, via msn.com, and see for yourself:
For J.K. Rowling, the creator of the Harry Potter franchise, the people in the publishing world who compile best-of lists may as well be dementors.
Reader’s Digest recently published a list of the 36 Best Fantasy Book Series. Rowling’s Harry Potter series was not on the list.
Here is Chicago librarian Rachel Strolle’s, who compiled the list, reason why the fantasy genre is popular: “It’s easy to understand the appeal of fantasy book series: Much of the genre provides an outlet through which readers can escape their realities and explore a new one. The best books may see you journeying across Middle-earth with hobbits, finding a gem in the center of a clan war, or even destroying some ghosts — there’s no shortage of magical moments to be found in these pages.”
Rowling has become well known for opposing transgender “women” from competing in sports against biological females and accessing female spaces such as bathrooms and locker rooms. When Glamour magazine recently made nine transgender people “Women of the Year,” Rowling objected, accusing the magazine of “telling girls that men are better women than they are.”
Reader’s Digest isn’t the first publication to blackball Rowling. In 2022, Esquire magazine posted a list of “The 50 Best Fantasy Books of All Time.” At the top is The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. Other titles on the list are Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor, The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu, and Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. (Harry Potter is not on the list).
The blackballing of Rowling is part of a larger trend in literature to erase conservatives or even writers who aren’t explicitly leftist.
Amazing, isn’t it? What arguably is the single most popular, most successful children’s series in history is blackballed from consideration. Why? Because the author believes in biology.
I despair for what literature, along with most media and – certainly in the United States – much public school education has degenerated into.
