Is Harry Potter Worth Human Rights Violations? The Emma Watson Vs. JK Rowling Debacle Dissected
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It doesn't take much to goad JK Rowling into a Twitter tirade these days (allegedly.) A fake news story about bra buying in Markses? Up for days raving about it? A former colleague gives a milquetoast response about differing opinions and expresses love towards her? Time to take advantage of the X Premium perk of no word count limit. Pronouns in bio? Great opportunity to go berserk.
In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina get to grips with the ongoing dissonance between actors signing up for Harry Potter related roles and their supposed ethical standards, whether or not we should want previous Potter stars to stand up in the press against Rowling's views and if we should promote the 'accepting differences and loving each other' rhetoric in such a politically dangerous time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of polyester. And I'm Iioni, the founding |
| 0:06.3 | editor-in-chief of polyester, and this is the polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, |
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| 0:35.7 | link in our description do we have new reviews reviews, Zioni? We do. This is |
| 0:40.2 | five stars from Sushi Gigi Mama in India. A lovely username. That's fantastic. Get all my |
| 0:48.3 | updates here. And then on Spotify we have Catherine B saying, laugh much at the end love you both so much best |
| 0:55.2 | hosts ever ha ha ha ha ha ha I can't even remember what was at the end it's when you told me you |
| 1:00.3 | take my tinfoil hat off oh well we're trying then Esther our girl says I heavily resonated |
| 1:08.1 | with the site 928 and who knows what it was, but it was probably me |
| 1:11.1 | signing at Gina. |
| 1:12.3 | No, I think we were siren at the state of affairs. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, probably. |
| 1:16.8 | Anyway, so today, in more state of affairs, I feel like we cover J.K. Rowling so much on this |
| 1:22.6 | podcast, but like, we haven't since you've been on as the co-host. |
| 1:28.4 | And it's crazy that it span this long. |
| 1:31.0 | Also, I'm the person who probably has the most to contribute on this. |
| 1:37.3 | Previous nerd. |
| 1:38.6 | Previous big Harry Potter nerds. |
| 1:40.8 | I'm not being funny. |
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