Attention, Murk and Malach

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

That little MySpace Girl Fight you guys got into the other day may not have actually been your fault. It's true. Where video games have always been the vent for violent behavior in males, the female front has a new scapegoat. And, surprisingly, it is in a weird, yet very likely person.

Behold! J.K. Rowling has unintentionally pissed off a whole new group of Americans. First it was Christians denouncing the underlying witchcraft theme. Now, folks, Hermione Granger, the leading female in the popular Harry Potter series, has been targeted for causing "aggressive behavior" in females.

Personally, I think people need to stop shifting blame. Things like this only make Jack Thompson's wallet thicker and further alienates the people that could be wasting their time reading those shitty books. I would say something about the necessity of people accepting responsibility for their actions, but that would make lawyers extinct and far less necessary than they already are.

The only victim here is Mrs. Rowling. While only trying to write a lighthearted children's series, she has opened the doors for attention-grabbing assholes to find nonexistent "themes" in her books and try to become famous by speaking against them. However, she has made an assload of money off of those terrible books, so I wouldn't really count her as a victim. In fact, now that I think about it, I have argued both sides enough to make this post worthless.