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Originally Posted by Adder
Yeah, in the near term, she will love unconditionally what we share with her. I’m
gonna wait to share content that needs her to understand things that are more complex. Even if it takes awhile, she doesn’t need to deal with a favorite author not believing her family member’s existence. She can skate until she understands the complexity for those books.
JKR is alive and well and super rich. How do we educate her? We can’t educate kids who are too young go understand.
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My favorite author at one point was Anne McCafferty. I have a gay brother. I still have a fondness for the Dragonriders of Pern and have
rewritten the blue and green dragons sex stuff in my head canon.
OTOH, I was a huge Piers Anthony Incarnations of Immortality series and now cannot reconcile the sexism in there. I don't think I can go back.
Everyone can be problematic, even and especially the people writing books we enjoy as kids. As I said before, JK Rowling's decision to die on her TERF hill is a questionable one at best*, but there are a hell of a lot of redeeming qualities in her writing and her actions as a person. It's going to be up to your kid to figure out how to parse that out as time goes on. And if you think she'd love the books, read them to her and put them into context insofar as essentialism can be explained to a kid.
*I get the feeling that it's like one of those knots that gets tighter the harder you try to get it undone. She seems to be going down deeper down the path the more people push back on her.
