This is like the most AVClub-ish response I could have imagined. We have separate sports categories for a reason, but let’s just throw that out the window. Sex doesn’t exist but gender identity is real, once someone says they’re a women then of course metaphysically they must actually be one for any and all purposes…

It’s like not a single AVClub writer has ever bothered to read what she wrote. People act like she’s Pat Robertson or something, meanwhile she’s raising concerns with violent male sex offenders waving the magic wand, declaring they’re women, and being put in women’s prisons. I respect legal recognition for trans…

I disagreed with a lot of Rowling's points, but for the AV club, which lied repeatedly about what she actually said, to accuse her of 'incoherent lies' is really something else.

‘Incoherent lies’ - this is nonsense. The pile-on of Rowling is nuts. Her points - that ‘women’ as a defined group shouldn’t be marginalised or renamed, and that the massive increase in gender dysmorphia among young people is connected to social media echo chambers - are relevant, totally reasonable ones.

There are some great points here about how much pressure Columbus et al was under to make as literal of an adaptation as possible. Yet it made for such an interesting contrast to Fellowship of the Ring, which came out only a month later. The Sorcerer’s Stone reeked of a studio trying desperately to make money off a…