It’s easy to hate on J.K. Rowling when she continually goes out of her way to make it easy, and that isn’t even restricted to her outspoken views on the transgender community.
Whenever one of her many online trolls comes out swinging, her response is usually something alone the lines of, “I’m so rich that I don’t care.” While it’s hardly the most complex and mature way of dealing with the constant needling, it also happens to be 100 percent true, and it’s not as if she’s going to get any poorer now that HBO Max is rebooting Harry Potter as a TV series.
However, and as painful as some people are going to find this, Rowling’s latest rant makes a very good point. The downside is that it once again dredges her transphobia to the surface, but it would appear as though many of the tweets being aimed in her direction are simply copying and pasting the same template and then launching it in her direction to try and get a response.
So what’s the moral of the story here, then? Well, maybe you need to be more inventive when it comes to diatribes geared towards the polarizing author, especially when she was not too long ago subjected to a weapons-grade insult so ingenious and inventive that she came clean and admitted she wanted it on her tombstone.
Other than that, it’s probably just best to ignore her and hope she quietens down, although it’s been made patently obvious on a number of occasions that isn’t really a viable option that’s going to be left on the table.
