You can't actually separate the art from the artist

J.K. Rowling is a dumpster fire human, but Harry Potter has undeniably made millions of kids into more empathetic readers. How do we reconcile these two things?

A few weeks back, the “discourse” around Twitter was swirling, as it always seems to, around J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who has turned the second phase of her career into being an absolute ghoul to trans people. Like, remember when you read Harry Potter and you were like, “Man, JKR sure does lay it on thick with her villains. They’re like…