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|    Louis Epstein to All    |
|    Quidditch?...Queerditch?    |
|    18 Dec 21 06:11:44    |
      From: le@top.put.com              So some players of a non-magical Quidditch variant are       planning to rename their sport...in practical reasons because       the Warner Brothers trademark rights to the name impede       their publicity,but they play up their disagreement with       Rowling's (insufficient IMO) hostility to trans-madness.              Some pro-Rowling people at Ovarit are grousing that it       would be just like the "pro-LGBTQ" crowd to use the name       Queerditch...but are they forgetting that's exactly where       Rowling said the name came from,Queerditch Marsh?              Since that's in her charity book and not the films I expect       she'd have a stronger case to sue them if they used the name,       and they'd pay her (or a charity of her choice) if she won       instead of paying WarnerMedia.              I've never been attracted to the sport myself.              But is it better that these people now casting about       for a name for what they play get distanced from       Rowling,or forced to acknowledge their debt to her?              -=-=-       The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,       at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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