I've never wanted to shave my legs until now.
Your nipples are worthy of adoration.
Yeah. That's one of the lesser crimes of Rowling, imo: the ruination of millions of people's ability to enjoy a nice escapist fantasy. I really enjoyed the first new movie, with its environmental protection themes.
Rowling wasn't feeling sulky about people's reaction to her being a TERF yet, so she hadn't started overtly poisoning the IP. Johnny Depp being in the second one really screwed it up for me though.
Huh. My partner's kid is named Finarfin. His mums are mad Tolkien fans.
Where did your awesome name come from?
Good. Baby steps, but a welcome decision.
That's a fascinating point. Since there aren't as many posts here, we do not actually need up and down votes to curate the feed. I wonder if I can find a setting to turn them off?
It's not as if I actually care about them here, I got harshly downvoted recently quite rightly due to posting something wrong, and I was just glad to learn the correct thing.
Maybe I'm finally free of the point lust I learned on Reddit.
We should take the time to design a better system while we still can, before growth floods us with comments and we have to curate somehow.
Hear hear. Quite right. I was about to say "except fuck Rowling!" but that's an example of pointless negativity.
Harry Potter should be shunned imo, but I can't make that decision for ya. Just because it's tainted in my head, doesn't make it tainted in yours.
Indeed! I am always a bit happy to get corrected on something, because it means I just learned something. It also means I will start spreading more accurate information in all my discussions.
I just didn't see what it had to do with lawyers. Mind you, the bottom of the sea has nothing to do with lawyers either and I don't think I associate that with anti-mermaid tropes.
What can I say, I got this one totally wrong. Cheers all for putting it right.
Yeah, I agree, "straightforwardly antisemitic" really needs some direct reference to Judaism in the material. I definitely got that wrong. Dunno what I was thinking there. "I straightforwardly noticed an indirect reference to a bigoted trope" maybe got whacked around in my blender of a mind.
Downvotes deserved. 😄
No, but "Jews drinking blood" is an old classic of the genre.
I'm not a Zionist, I'm just pointing out a historical linguistic parallel. 😄
If I was a Zionist I'd probably call all of these anti-semitic because "Jewish lawyer" is also a thing. However, not nearly a strong enough thing to be antisemitic on its own, which is why I picked out the vampire one. Two insults usually aimed at Jewish people? That nudges it above the level for me.
Bear in mind, I do not think the author was a bigot, or racist, any of that. I definitely don't think anyone would be a bigot for posting this. I just wanted to point out the interesting origins of a classic old joke.
Maybe it would be more accurate to say "The vampire one has more direct antisemitic roots, while the others probably just originate from people who lost in court."
Thankyou for your sacrifice.
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