Yeah, exactly. I don’t think they actually intended to actually call all quidditch players transphobes, but 1 minute with a decent editor would have helped them either rephrase the remark better, or more likely realise how unnecessary it was to make at all and remove it.

Yeah, if anything the headline is now less reflective of the content of the article.

That opening is what I would write if I was a right winger trying to own the libs from the inside. Holy self parody Batman! I have never written professionally a day in my life but if you guys need an editor make an offer.

Same! This shit brought me out of lurk status.

Oof, not normally a commenter, but long time reader, this is just bad and in bad taste.

Agreed, I’ve already been slowly migrating to reading polygon instead because Kotaku has fallen to terrible click-bait titles, slideshow articles and just awful journalism in general. It’s not that I disagree with their stances, hell I agree that JK Rowlling is a transphobic shit piece, but almost every article no…

Not to mention that the real life Quidditch community has taken active steps to distance themselves from Rowling over transphobia. Which Gizmodo covered

Update, 12/28/21, 1:24 PM: The headline of this post has been updated to more clearly reflect the contents of the article.

Hey, this is the worst headline, and thats a high bar around here.

On a story which has nothing to do with Harry Potter or J.K. Rowling in the first place.

Are Kotaku writers like, required to add some political commentary to every article now?

sorry but what the fuck was the pointless mention of transphobia? i hate jk rowling as much as the next person but this has literally nothing to do with that. i want to love kotaku but gd are the people who write here stupid

…Quidditch, the favorite wizard sport of transphobes everywhere,…

I got a wii the year it came out which was actually very fantastic.