(Warning: Rants ahead)
Alright, I'm writing this as an OG Harry Potter fan, a Gryffindor, and as a someone who desperately wants to relive his own childhood reading the books and watching those movies. For the most of my life, Harry Potter took me into a magical world of magic and miracles and witnessed the struggle of The Boy Who Lived as he navigated his life as a student at Hogwarts. Hell, I might have been fantasizing myself waiting for that letter to come, as well as me being the all-powerful wizard and some. All thanks to one woman known as Joanne Rowling, or J. K. Rowling. The woman is a trailblazer, capable of captivating readers young and old, and as such, manages to pull them into this fantasy world we all come to know and love.
From the moment she put her pen down to draft the initial story until present day, the Harry Potter series remains as Rowling's magnum opus when it comes to popular culture. From what appears to be a fantasy story about a boy who discovered his magical talents quickly evolved into one if not the biggest franchises the world has ever seen. Hell, The Wizarding World (then known as Pottermore), the in-universe site created by Rowling herself, is still active to this day. I can still vividly recall every moment in either the books or the movies that can still resonate with me years later. I can name almost every character, friend or foe, and the facts surrounding them (note: Dolores Jane Umbridge remains as the most hated character in the franchise, not even Voldemort can surpass her). Everyone is invested in this franchise, even A-List celebrities. And this didn't come easy for her either. She had to endure domestic abuse from her ex-husband, even went so far as to file for a restraining order. Since then, she juggled her life writing the books and being a single parent to her daughter. Luckily, she now lives a happy life remarried and blessed with two more kids. And with that, I have nothing but respect and admiration for her.
But nowadays, Jo Rowling is mostly known for her rather controversial (read: sensible) comments around several topics, and most of them are quite sensitive. But the most notable one is her views on gender and the LGBT issues. Just to deviate from the main focus for a bit, I was quite shellshocked about Rowling's revelation that the Headmaster of Hogwarts Albus Dumbledore was a gay man, that aspect further explored in the two prequel movies from the Fantastic Beasts series, titled The Crimes of Grindelwald and The Secrets of Dumbledore. Although I am mostly neutral, but to silently inserting this character aspect into a literature aimed mostly to children is uncalled for. But on recent times, Rowling found herself against the LGBT progressive agenda. It all began in 2018, just because of a tweet she liked that said, "transgender women are men in dresses." Instead of apologizing and bend the knee for the woke mob, this badass woman doubled down on her remarks. One time, she mercilessly mocked an article by Devex called Opinion: Creating a More Equal Post-COVID-19 World for People Who Menstruate by tweeting this gem which says: "‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?" And this is coming from a self-identified feminist too.
This then opened the storm of hate towards Rowling, even some of the actors who played in the movie came forward to criticize her. As of now, the woke mob branded her as the head of TERF, an acronym for "Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists" and has since shunned from the elite. Several names then came for her support, like fellow Potter alumni Ralph Fiennes, a. k. a. Lord Voldemort himself, to legendary comedian Dave Chappelle, who briefly discussed this on his comedy special The Closer. During the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Special, she was excluded from the main feature, and only replaced by archival footages, supposedly to disassociate the franchise from the woman who created it. As the time of writing, a new controversy rises in the form of Hogwarts Legacy, which is a role-playing video game for next-gen consoles and PC which takes place during the 1890s, during the reign of Phineas Nigellus Black as headmaster. For crying out loud, the game has not even released yet, but the woke "activists" (I just call them inconsequential hacks with too much free time) have already started a smear campaign by various boycotts and false user-tagging. If it's up to her, she could kill off the franchise herself singlehandedly by writing a new story in which the ending features Harry's death in gruesome fashion and the destruction of Hogwarts (I hope this never happens).
But here is the rebuttal: The woke agenda is basically the only thing that runs the world these days. Science are being disproven in favor of someone's personal feelings, languages being massacred all because of someone's boneheaded insistences to use plural pronouns to refer an individual who feels beyond the gender binary, and big corporations benefiting themselves by pandering to these privileged groups. Statements like what Jo Rowling said over the past year or two used to be the norm, the mutual understanding of the masses. Now, it's nothing but hateful, transphobic, homophobic, and racist remarks that a TERF would spew, and must be cancelled. What she did is only stating the basic, scientifically proven fact that those who are capable of bringing a life to the world by the form of childbirth is not to be called "a pregnant person" or "people who menstruate". Let's just call them as it is: women. Yes. Transgenders do exist, and they deserve a better life, but let's look at the most fundamental differences: Trans women are not capable of childbirth, and trans men are significantly weaker physically than biological men.
And to close this piece, let's answer Matt Walsh's legendary question: What is a woman? A woman in my few is someone who has the capability of childbirth, known for her empath, tender, love and care. A woman is someone who carries two X chromosomes inside her DNA. A woman is a female human being known for her femininity traits. And lastly, a woman is the creature of God who are willing to put her life in danger to raise us, nurture us, and guide us in this world. For all women out there, your voices matter. Don't let the woke mob silence you. They are only using real women's voice for their own benefit. And for that reason, I consider Joanne Kathleen Rowling to be the most badass woman the world has ever seen.
