I’ve seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.
My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.
Don’t know if I agree but that’s an interesting thought. Maybe receiving death threats makes her think she’s writing things WORTH receiving death threats for. Or what she wrote needed to become worth it for her, so she leaned in. Threats are easier to brush off when you have a layer of conviction or righteousness between you
I definitely think this is part of it!
I agree…I think she might have even come to accept a different viewpoint if people had not so viciously attacked her.
That is why I am not a fan of this kind of activism. It cancels any debate and debate is the only thing we can use to deal with such complex topics.
Eh, I disagree. I think she was already way too far gone. She was supporting Maya Forstater way before that essay. She was probably way further down the pipeline than anyone outside really knew, and she just became emboldened by anything that criticized or insulted her to lean more publicly into it.
At the end of the day, if JKR wanted to be open to debate and respectful of trans people, she’d be that. Doesn’t matter what anyone writes online if she truly wanted to respect other people. It’s just a convenient excuse to go “see they’re big meanies who want me dead so that’s why I can be mean back”.