No no wait! let's think about this. How best to upset TERFs like JKR? Make Malfoy in Malfoid? No. Make Malfoy female and have her date Female Harry Potter? THAT would totally upset the TERF Community. Guys, think about it.
Harry Potter is a 30-year old fandom with a huge community of fanfiction writers. Why are people suddenly pretending genderbent-Draco is something new?
I mean it's kind of a new trend since I don't think fem!draco has really been a trend even if some examples of it exists (there's probably more fem!harry if anything), but I do think it's clear that a lot of the fans of this are larpers who never read (or wrote) fanfiction in their youth.
When it comes to gender switching Malfoy, these guys are late to the game by 25 years. Women have been on that ship decades before these guys thought of it.
Yeah, but now men are doing it so they think it's this new revolutionary thing that is groundbreaking and they totally thought of it bro. Also they have to incorporate racism and right wing bullshit somehow as well.
The original comic this is an edit of is about brands co-opting fun/silly trends for marketing and ruining them.
People putting pineapples on their heads just represented any silly Internet trend/meme. And then the Brands show up and start doing it, so everyone else gives up and starts throwing away the pineapples/stopping doing the trend until it's basically just brands talking to each other while real people have all moved on
I do think it's worth pointing out there's nothing unironic about the "foid" in "malfoid." The reason it caught on is precisely because it's so ridiculous and so many people found it funny.
It was just straight gooner fun like the bowsette situation, but this time the internet instead of letting jt be what it is got very upset and political only emboldening them further
I think the issue is that no one cares about rowlings anti Trans situation outside of the Trans community so similar to hogwarts legacy or this new Harry potter show no matter hoe much they cry about it it will fall on deaf ears.
Im starting to think people are thinking I am defending this. Its not the case. I was explaining what was happening but it looks like i have egg on my face bow
I mean, honestly the "trend" was ruined because people won't stop pushing it everywhere. Like there are people out there who have seriously allowed a genderbent Draco Malfoy to basically take over their life, to the point that it's all they post about everywhere. I go into totally unrelated subs about shows or games and it's "Check out my version of Malfoid in the [whatever] universe!!"
It's also gotten a weird subset of right wingers pushing Malfoid as some kind of "victory" for conservative values? Not sure how or why they think that makes sense, but there you go.
I'm a woman, and I really hate the "Malfoid" trend. For one, JKR is awful and I don't want to see her series trending. And another, the character, who is a woman, has a name that contains a slur against women. That makes it clear the intention with the character was to be objectifying goonerbait, rather than to be a positive genderbend of a character. I normally like genderbent characters too, hell I even find some Bowsette art empowering, but this Malfoid trend just feels so gross.
If anything I’d say the name containing a slur/being offensive is the most “realistic” part for an HP character. Like at least it’s on brand for the franchise.
"adopting social media trends" is a very goodwilled phrasing of "shoving their product advertisement down people's throats that just were having some dumb fun"
I’ve said it before and I’ve said it again, I hate this trend sm bc:
foid in the name? Foid is an incel term, why are we normalizing calling women foids even in a joking way.
turning a gay ship straight. IF YOURE GONNA GENDER BEND. BEND BOTH THE GENDERS. If we’re really gonna make Draco a girl, why tf is Harry not also a girl. Come onnnn
Harry Potter. Ew. (Self explanatory.)
if you’re gonna genderbend Draco, why are we turning him into a basic tsundere mean anime girl. Can we really not be any more interesting than that? Booooo (I say this as someone who used to be known exclusively for drawing genderbent jjba characters)
sexualizing teenagers. (Self explanatory.)
lowkey I think everyone just yearns for the infinitely better dipcifica ship.
My brother keeps showing me art he found of it bc he thinks the trend is funny, and ughhh I try to be nice, but everything about it just gives me ick.
Regarding (2): From what I've seen online, it's less about isolated shipping fantasies as far as I can tell. Turning what was a non-romantic rivalry in the books into a rivalry with romantic tension is in fact arguably the biggest appeal of those that enjoy the Malfoid trend.
Being intentionally provocative by choosing that name and sharing some gooner-bait is what likely made the trend explode, but what really kept it going was the genuine interest in the "what if"-scenario of changing Malfoy into a girl precisely because it changes the gender dynamics between Harry and Draco. Example:
There are whole fan-fictions at this point that went through all the interactions between them across the seven books, and think of how a Tsundere interpretation of Draco would actually make several interactions between them stronger in terms of writing.
Jesus fucking Christ almighty, I swear I wouldn't have heard about JK Rowling in ten years or so if Reddit didn't insist on throwing a fit about her every other week
Ohhhh god noooo, not the genderbent Malfoy, ohhhh fuckkkkkk, we need seventeen threads
These dudes are gay. They hate women and wish their favorite (male) main character had ended up with a different (male) character instead of the (female) character he did end up with. They can dress up Malfoy as a girl all they want, but they all think Harry should have ended up with him instead and that "fixes the romance" of the book. They just haven't realized they're gay yet. But they would all probably be happier if they just paired off with each other already.
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u/MWBrooks1995 20h ago
Harry Potter is a 30-year old fandom with a huge community of fanfiction writers. Why are people suddenly pretending genderbent-Draco is something new?