j.k.r. needs like one close friend to sit her down and go: “okay, but, go over this with me again. you decided the evil snake your dark wizard kept as a pet and vessel of his fragmented horrific soul – the one that has to be murdered in order to defeat the evil wizard – is in fact….an asian woman who was cursed to eventually become a beast and monster in her own body. am i getting this right? the asian woman turns into a snake because her bloodline is cursed and then she becomes the pet of a white supremacist with magic. you invented a body curse specifically for turning women into monsters and your first thought was not like, subversion of fairy tale misogyny but….to add a layer of racism? just trying to understand here.”
just a friend – ANY friend – who after a glass of champagne turns to dear joanne and goes “hey, hon, you REALLY sure you want to make an asian woman a pet slave to a magical racist? maybe you should make the human person also racist. nagini could be a stage name. you could just cast another woman of color as something else. anything. listen, GIRL. GIRL. you are iN CHARGE.”
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