Anonymous #1 6w

lmao REAL

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Anonymous #3 6w

i was the biggest hp fan. i have an hp tattoo. it’s OVER. get with it.

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Anonymous OP 6w

So u admit u also liked Harry Potter. U can’t blame ppl for liking Harry Potter. I don’t like the author.

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Anonymous #3 6w

So then don’t defend purchasing more shit to support her.

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Anonymous #3 6w

this isn’t “blaming people for liking HP”, this is blaming people for supporting a woman who is funding anti trans legislation and fuelling anti trans/radfem/terf rhetoric with her millions of dollars she got from selling HP. and also the books are mid

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Anonymous #3 6w

i did. but continuing to platform her and give her money is transphobic. i prioritize trans people over harry potter.

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Anonymous OP 6w

I will always be a die hard Harry Potter lesbian. Can’t change me. Sry not sry.

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Anonymous #3 6w

She doesn’t like you, either.

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Anonymous #1 6w

But I bet Harry Potter would like me to

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Anonymous #3 6w

Daniel Radcliffe wouldn’t lol

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Anonymous OP 6w

Yes he would

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Anonymous #3 6w

Ur just being mean.

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Anonymous #3 6w

As if terfs deserve kindness 🤣

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Anonymous #1 6w

I’m not a terf. I like trans ppl. I just also like Harry Potter.

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Anonymous #3 6w

Ur a bully

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Anonymous #3 6w

If you prioritise some shitty franchise over the safety of actual people, you don’t actually like them.

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Anonymous #3 6w

Daniel has spoken out against JKR. You think he wants you to give her money?

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Anonymous #3 6w

You can like the franchise without continuing to support her financially

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Anonymous #7 6w

someone being uncomfortable doesn’t mean anything was wrong. she worked at the store, she asked if they needed help. a simple “no thanks” would suffice.

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Anonymous OP 6w

so you’re victim blaming

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Anonymous #7 6w

if a minority existing and doing their job makes you uncomfortable, you should learn to accept that people are different. hiding behind a child to justify prejudice is gross

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Anonymous #7 6w

what exactly is she a victim of?

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Anonymous #8 6w

a little girl was alone and approached about a private matter I think she has a right to feel how she felt and we shouldn’t blame her for that

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Anonymous #7 6w

she was not alone, she was with her mother

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Anonymous OP 6w

The mother said she was alone during the incident and told about it after

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Anonymous #7 6w

That’s not what the articles said. and even if it were true… a 14 year can’t handle being asked if they need help at the store by a person that works at the store?? what

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Anonymous #7 6w

no?? the mother said her daughter recoiled when the employee asked if she needed help (which is her job to do)

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Anonymous OP 6w

if my underaged child felt uncomfortable being approached by someone in a store I’d make a big deal about it too and I think the store wouldn’t have apologized if they did nothing wrong

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Anonymous #7 6w

if you’re saying that the worker was wrong to ask a customer if they needed help?

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Anonymous #7 6w

also a victim of what? so trans people can't do their job or ask if people need help without "victimizing them"? just being trans and doing your job is enough to qualify you as a victimizer? y'all really just don't want trans people to exist in public huh

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Anonymous OP 6w

if someone approached your little girl who is already vulnerable about hitting puberty and asked her a question that made her uncomfortable I think you’d do the same

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Anonymous #7 6w

again, what was the question that was asked?

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Anonymous #7 6w

but this isn't about the question being asked tho, if she weren't trans, no complaint would have been filed. this is typical shit employees are expected to do, but bc she's a trans woman, she's being treated like a predator. it's literally just prejudice and that's not arguable

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Anonymous #8 6w

i don’t think the little girl was thinking about anything other than the distress she was caused which was her right to feel

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Anonymous #3 6w

what's mean is handing money to a lady knowing full well she will use it to fund the erosion of trans peoples' rights. that's mean, and selfish

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Anonymous #3 6w

I love the story but I will only make my own merch and borrow books from the library and won’t watch any new shows made on it. I won’t be giving money towards the terf movements she will be funding with any profit she gets. I like coffee but that doesn’t mean I indulge in it if it means harm to others.

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Anonymous #7 6w

it was her right to feel. that doesn’t mean that the worker did anything wrong.

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Anonymous #7 6w

As a kid, I felt uncomfortable ordering for myself or asking for assistance or being asked if I needed help by anyone. That does NOT mean that the employees were doing anything wrong. The store apologized that the customer was uncomfortable but didn’t say there was anything wrong with what happened, that’s typical customer service is just apologizing even when the customer is totally bullshiting things.

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Anonymous #7 6w

she's allowed to feel uncomfortable, and decline help from anybody. they did politely decline and that should've been the end of it. but that's no excuse for the mom to lodge a nasty complaint and for jkr to lambast this poor employee for daring to be both trans and employed.

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Anonymous #7 6w

Asking a child if they need help, especially if they are alone in a store, is a normal thing for an employee to do. This is genuinely like someone complaining that a black employee asked their kid if they needed help and the kid felt uncomfortable because they were black.

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Anonymous #7 6w

also your prejudice can inform your reactions even if you aren't actively thinking about it. like c'mon now you know this

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Anonymous #8 6w

so you’re blaming the victim of an uncomfortable situation because you don’t agree with her being uncomfortable? in general I’d never go up to a child and talk about bra sizes and things like that like that’s just weird and uncomfy

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Anonymous #7 6w

Dude feeling uncomfortable is not inherently bad. Is that what the employee asked? Asked the little girl about her bra size? Or was it just asking her if she needed help?

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Anonymous #7 6w

but cis employees in fact commonly do just that, and it's only considered an issue when a trans person does it. what is so scary about trans people?

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Anonymous #7 6w

The kid is the victim of an employee doing their job? That’s like going to the doctor and saying you’re a victim because your doctor asked if you had any breast pain or growth. Like is it uncomfortable? Yes. Is it also part of going there and finding what you came for? Also yes.

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but this was a child and there’s certain ways to approach and speak about things with children so i think going forward this will teach the store to be more aware of these sorts of things and maybe not ask the customers questions like that unless they ask for it first

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Anonymous #7 6w

WHAT DID THE EMPLOYEE ASK?

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Anonymous mother_russia 6w

the employee ask the child about a bra fitting in the lingerie section

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Anonymous #7 6w

It’s seriously not that hard to say “no thanks” or if uncomfortable a “I would like someone else to help” would’ve sufficed. The worker did nothing wrong

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Anonymous mother_russia 6w

and I believe they were not the correct employee that typically helps with the bra fittings especially on children, it’s not a crime but it’s just not a good look to make a child feel uncomfortable and just a learning opportunity for the store i think

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do they ask this to children or to their parents?

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Anonymous #7 6w

They actively said that they work in all departments

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Anonymous #7 6w

again, did she ask if they needed help in general, or ask if they need help finding a section, or did she ask to do a bra fitting?

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Anonymous #7 6w

I’m ngl, I started developing at age 6, by 12 I had DD’s, so when I went to the store I was too scared to ask the worker, he was a male that identified as male, came up to me and asked and I said I do not know how to pick out a bra, is there someone else I can get to help. Boom an older lady came and showed me how the measurements are done so I could get a bra that accurately fit. I didn’t even have to take off any of my clothing to do the measurements.

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Anonymous #7 6w

I’m not seeing that the employee ever asked the girl about a bra fitting, just that she asked in the girl needed help and the girl had gone in there WANTING to get a bra fitting, not that the employee said anything about it.

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Anonymous #10 6w

And all I had to do was ask for someone else 😱

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Anonymous mother_russia 6w

am watching a news segment on it and the person was not supposed to be working in the lingerie section and it was not their job to even approach ppl over there let alone children so idk man it’s just weird situation all around leave kids alone and be more aware of how you speak to them

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Anonymous mother_russia 6w

That’s what I read was all that was asked was if she needed help. Nothing said anything about the worker asking her if she needed help for fitting

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Anonymous #7 6w

according to the article i read, employees are not limited to working in one specific area and she was just doing her job. interesting how you use “they” pronouns and “person” instead of “woman”

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Anonymous #7 6w

Idk if you’ve ever been in stores like Walmart, but employees from other departments come and help people in different departments from their own. It’s common for a lot of retail stores

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Anonymous #10 6w

yeah tbh it’s uncomfortable experience and that’s why I’d just leave a little girl alone unless they asked me for help specifically, i think it helps avoid situations like this

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Anonymous #7 6w

okay but how was she to know what the girl was there for? why does this need to be a news story? why does jk rowling need to be going off about it online?

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Anonymous OP 6w

idk I don’t create the news and I don’t control jkr how would i know

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Anonymous #10 6w

usually in every store I’ve gone to i will personally ask for help and I’ve worked in retail so I’d never approach a child unless they consented for me to, i think that’s just common sense but maybe customs are different

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Anonymous #7 6w

my point is it’s transphobic to make this a story. it is a problem to the media and to jkr because they are transphobic. this would not be news if it was a cis woman.

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Anonymous OP 6w

I get that it can be uncomfortable for anyone in general to ask someone if they need help with bras. It is not as big of a deal that they are making it to be. The worker was simply asking if she needed help, typically they ask people who look lost and confused (majority of the time), some ask anyone they come across with if they need help with anything. A simple “no thank you” would’ve been fine. Or a request for a different employee.

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Anonymous OP 6w

That meant to be a reply to #7

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Anonymous #7 6w

^

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Anonymous #10 6w

yeah i just hope the store and the customers can find a way to properly handle this issue and take note for the future especially regarding the younger shoppers

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Anonymous #7 6w

The world can’t bend and accommodate every single person, there is a point in life where you have to learn how to navigate uncomfortable situations

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Anonymous #7 6w

Now the issue is faced with what if someone who was like me goes in and doesn’t know what they’re doing and waiting for someone to ask. Are they supposed to stand there for another 30 mins clueless? I loved that someone came up to me to ask if I needed help, even though he was a male that identified as male, I said that I didn’t know what I was doing and could I get someone else. They were able to flag someone on the walkie-talkie to come and help me bc the lady was no where near the department

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Anonymous #7 6w

She asked if they needed help unrelated to bras. She did nothing wrong. The only victim here is the employee because hatefully targeted by the asshole of a ‘mother’. Transphobia has no place in this world.

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Anonymous #11 6w

She also donated £10M to my university for neurodegeneration research, so she’s not all bad.

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Anonymous #11 6w

she donated a ton of money to classifying trans women as men in the UK. she has HUGE political influence there. she has done good things with her money as well, but that doesn’t erase the bad. you can like HP. but buying NEW content is giving her money.

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Anonymous #11 6w

not to mention the incident i just mentioned in this very post

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Anonymous #11 6w

Hitler was opposed to animal abuse and worked on some laws to punish animal abusers. So I guess that excuses all the other shit. 🙄

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Anonymous #1 6w

Right, because that’s the same as being Hitler

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Anonymous #3 6w

I'm a trans person and ur allyship is fake. You're giving relevance and community to someone who is doing her best to wipe ppl like me out, and she has said she takes any interaction as support. You're grown, it's embarrassing at this point

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Anonymous #12 6w

Oh, don’t even give her that credit. Not an ally at all.

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Anonymous #11 6w

Congrats on missing the point! 🥳

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Anonymous #11 6w

uhh pirating the movies is an option???

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Anonymous #14 6w

idc if yall downvote stealing from billionaires is morally sound and i’ll stand by that.

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Anonymous #14 6w

i wouldnt even recommend pirating them, that's still giving her attention and contributing to her platform. but i cant stop u 🤷

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Anonymous #14 6w

Ordinarily, yes, but not until she’s dead.

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Anonymous #12 6w

right and i try not to support that platform. just telling #11 that if they must watch the movies, its best not to support her financially.

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Anonymous #13 6w

no!!!

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