This notion of a "woman suit" was later revisited in "The Silence of the Lambs," a 1991 novel by Thomas Harris that became the much better-known film version a decade later. Psychiatrists had believed Gein was attempting to make a "woman suit" to pretend to be his dead mother. The story is likely an allusion to the Ed Gein case from 1957. In it, Norman Bates, a murderer, has been impersonating and dressing up as his dead mother. In 1959, Robert Bloch wrote the book "Psycho." This was made into a film a year later by Alfred Hitchcock. ![]() The "fantastic beasts" all seemed to be fantasy staples - giants, dragons and so on - and while the notion of Hogwarts itself was largely original, a lot of the underpinnings hadn't been that new since the days of J.R.R. I didn't hate them, mind, I just really wasn't able to get that much into them.Įven as everyone touted her originality, I saw stories that seemed to follow common fantasy tropes. First off, I am not a big fan of "Harry Potter." I never read the books, and I really only watched the films because my partner was a fan. Now I need to reveal something of my own. While much is said of her scarlet fingernails, her penciled-on eyebrows and her blonde curly hair, she is also described as having large, masculine hands - the same as Pippa, perhaps - and an "an oddly square-jawed face." It could certainly fit that Rowling would write a character known for fabrications and falsehoods to be transgender, in light of now-revealed views. The character of Rita Skeeter, a "poison pen" journalist seen throughout the series, is curiously described. I also feel I should mention a character in "Harry Potter" that, in retrospect, may be the prototype for Pippa and Creed - and no, I am not referring to that time that Professor Snape ended up in a dress during "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." ![]() "Strike" even makes a prison rape comment ats Pippa's expense. The character is described unflatteringly, focusing on her hands and her Adam's apple. This is also not the first time Rowling a has introduced a trans pastiche in "The Cormoran Strike" books, with a character named Pippa showing up in another book of the series, stalking the titular detective. It should not be a surprise that this is exactly what Rowling claims transgender people are doing when they transition. The story introduces us to the character of Dennis Creed, described as a "transvestite serial killer" who often dresses as a woman to insert themselves into women-only spaces as a way to stalk their prey. Rowling's fourth "Cormoran Strike" novel is surely a fine example of said controversy. While I've known many authors to use pseudonyms, this feels more blatantly cynical than most, providing a buffer from more controversial works. ![]() I also have to critique Rowling for using a pseudonym to distance "The Cormoran Strike" novels from her more child-friendly persona. This said, because of her attitude toward transgender people, it seems suspicious that there existed a Robert Galbraith Heath, an American psychiatrist who pioneered a lot of what is now known as conversion therapy. She claims the first name came from her personal hero, Robert Kennedy, while the last name coming from a fake name she crafted for herself as a child, "Ella Galbraith." I have to take a moment here to discuss Rowling's pseudonym. The texts, known as "The Cormoran Strike series," follow the eponymous investigator and his business partner, Robin Elliott, as they solve brutal crimes. She also has written four detective novels under a pen name, Robert Galbraith. "Harry Potter" is not her only book series, however. Rowling has evolved over the last two years, from having what her representative called a "clumsy and middle-aged moment" by somehow accidentally retweeting transphobic comments from others, to now openly writing lengthy transphobic screeds on her own website. Over the last few months, "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling has developed from beloved children's author to the trans equivalent of reviled anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant.
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