Hogwarts Professor

Amy Hamm has written an essay (or “op-ed” in Newspeak) for Canada’s National Post with the daring title, ‘J. K. Rowling Saved Western Civilization.’

She makes an excellent argument; her review of the collective insanity crisis that threatened to overtake the West in support of the gender confused, the asylum inmates calling the tune, is comprehensive and compelling and her presentation of Rowling as the most important single voice, largely because of her unique position but due as much to her personal courage and determination to follow through the endless character assassinations and threats of violence is a cogent case.

If you haven’t got the five minutes to read the whole piece, here is a taste from Hamm’s conclusion:

That’s Rowling. She possesses a defiance that is both legendary and critical for our times. She did not need to do any of this. It would have been far easier had she not. In fact, in her essay on sex and gender, she admits that being hounded by gender extremists is “endlessly unpleasant.” She’s human, after all. “I’d stepped back from Twitter for many months both before and after tweeting support for Maya, because I knew it was doing nothing good for my mental health,” wrote Rowling.

Her wealth and fame ensure that when she speaks, people listen — but they do nothing to insulate or make her immune from the vicious hatred she gets in return. And yet, she doesn’t let up.

A civilization that institutionalizes and enforces the telling of absurd lies — including the lie that humans can change their sex — is in decline. Likewise, for a civilization that not only does not protect women and children from male violence — but enables and excuses it to occur in the service of upholding the states’ mandated lies. Again, the same can be said of a western culture that normalizes the chemical — followed by surgical — castration of its own children, as we see with the medical scandal that is pediatric “gender affirming care.” The West is very sick right now.

We have been living under forced subservience to the foolish and dangerous notion that nothing is more important than “identity” — including self-declared and patently false ones — and that we must upend our culture, institutions, and even our safety and lives in a demonstration of fealty.

I do not wish to imagine where we would be, in 2024, had Rowling not done what she has done — for women and children, for freedom, and for the West. Do not mistake my praise for celebrity worship, either: this is about character, bravery, and virtue in the context of the power conferred by Rowling’s celebrity and reach. If any single person is to one day receive credit for saving western civilization, it is Rowling.

The fight is not over, but she has shown us the way.

Read the whole thing.

It is catnip, of course, for those of us who have agreed with Rowling’s conclusion from the start, though our reasoning to arrive there might have been and certainly remains for me quite different. I hope that those who disagreed back then, who participated in the transphobe-slander game, and those who still think that there are gendered souls, that “transgender women are women” or that “transgender children” exist, will read Hamm’s essay.

It’s an excellent packaging and vivid presentation of how close the West came to accepting nonsense as “science,” ignorant bullying posturing as empathy, and how significant Rowling’s role has been in reversing the tide. Who knows? Maybe one or two people might finally get how mistaken they have been and reach out to apologize to those whom they insulted or, worse really, those friends on whom they turned their backs.

Tomorrow, back to the hottest subject in Rowling Studies today, ‘Pregnancy Traps’ as a ‘golden thread’ throughout JKR’s work, beginning to most recent, and what it means from a ‘Lake and Shed’ perspective. Check out the latest Hogwarts Professor podcast which is an in-depth and entertaining conversation on just that topic. Cheers!