I’ve been reading lots of novels since I was little, and when you are little, when you read a book and fall in love with it, you don’t really concern yourself with the author too much. You just know their names, and sometimes, their faces.
So today it shocked me when I stumbled across some news about JK Rowling’s controversies. Apparently she’s transphobic. As a very big supporter of the LGBTQ+ society, with several trans friends, I felt robbed of my childhood, and so… conflicted.
I searched the internet multiple times just to check if I didn’t get anything wrong, to see if it was fake news. And then I found a site with names of famous bigot authors.
Some names hurt a little too much.
Road Dahl and Orson Scott Card? It was just so unexpected. I wanted to cry. T\^T
Has anyone else had any similar experiences?
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Writers, actors, musicians. Yep. It’s terribly disappointing.
Yes. It’s actually painful. Paul Theroux is my greatest disappointment. Pat Conroy is another.
It doesn’t really bother me, unless I can draw obvious and uncomfortable parallels to their writing, and by that point I would probably have been put off anyway.
It does not bother me that Knut Hamsun was antisemitic, for example. Guess it also helps that he died a long time ago.
Surprised you only just now found out about JK Rowling.
Orson Scott Card (“Ender’s Game”) turned out to be a bigoted shithead, which sucks because I loved that book but then could not stomach reading the sequels.