Swift backlash from 2SLGBTQ+ community over series author J.K. Rowling
Natalie Stechyson · CBC News · Posted: Jul 28, 2026 1:10 PM EDT
Tim Horton’s hasn’t been Canadian (or good) for a long time now, so I’m not surprised that they are being shitty.
Honestly, I had Tim’s a week or so back and it was way better than I remember it being. Had a breakfast wrap and it was well constructed, stuffed, and tasted good.
Then not more than a day or two later, someone brought Tim’s donuts to work, and those too were better than I remembered.
Is this an ad
How dare someone describe a personal experience that doesn’t match the narrative!
Tim’s is garbage and you know it. I gotten sick everytime I’ve eaten one of their sandwiches. I havent eaten there in years.
Tim’s has been less garbage than the hospital cafeteria which is my other option. I eat a couple ubagel belts nearly weekly and never gotten sick from it. Those 4 cheese bagels are pretty good.
Nope, just a genuine lived experience. My partner and I usually go to A&W for breakfast stuff, and this was just an unusual circumstance. Since it just happened in my recent memory, and I saw the comment above, I thought I’d chime in. You know, the kind of thing that social platforms were designed for.
Found Doug Ford’s account!
They’re better than 5 years ago for sure, but still not as good as 15 years ago.
If you’re doing fast food A&W Canada is basically the best, but thankfully there’s a new generation of competition all around.
My partner and I generally do A&W for on the road breakfast, but this was an unusual morning and Tim’s was way more convenient this time. And then, for the donuts, I mean I didn’t pay for them.
I actually can’t compare to 15 years ago personally.
TH used to bake in every store. Now they bake in industrial bakeries and deliver to stores. All garbage.
You must eat a lot of shit.
I actually am super proud of some sweeping changes my partner and I have made to our diets in the past year or two. We’re eating way less processed food, probably 3x more fruit and veg, and a lot less red meat. Lost 32 lbs so far!
what time period are you comparing it to?
Hm a few years or so, don’t know exactly when the last time I would have had it. We used to go to Tim’s for on the road breakfast but a few years ago starting being really disappointed by it, switched to A&W.
I think that may be the source of the discrepancy here
my assumption is that most of us who say that Tim’s is shit are talking about 5+ years ago at minimum
I haven’t gone to a Tim’s except to piss in a decade now, with just enough exceptions (nothing else nearby) that I can still hold my opinion that the service and food is crap. I’ve probably gone once every other year due to lack of options, just to get a coffee and a sandwich, and it’s been fucking terrible every time. the food, the coffee, the service, the experience. all of it
I’m not sure what the discrepancy is. You say you went very sparingly the last few years. I would say that’s probably as much or more than I’ve gone the past few years, and that this last time I went, it was way better than I remember.
5 years ago would go into the timeframe where it was our go-to, but we’ve long since changed to A&W.
I’m just not at all sure what discrepancy you’re talking about. Do you mean my comments haven’t been consistent?
I mean the discrepancy between your experience and those of other commenters who feel the need to downvote you for sharing your experience
Oh I see. I think people just downvote shit they don’t personally agree with no matter how tame or on topic it is. 🤷♂️
I think Tim’s hit the nadir in quality around 5-10 years ago. Everything since then has been a dead-cat-bounce - that is, they’ve gotten better simply because it was mathematically and chemically impossible to get worse. Like their various fried or scrambled egg additions are something approaching normal food, which is a huge improvement.
But “better” and “improvement” does not mean they’re anything close to “good”.
agreed
last week I went to a Tims cause I hadn’t been in awhile and just wanted a large double double and 10 timbits. I felt like death after eating those timbits. god damn horrible. Coffee hadn’t improved at all either. Was just muddy sugar water.
It’s pretty on brand tho. Harry Potter is essentially a half baked story with bad tasting holiday/ethnic sprinkles
Tim Hortons is anti-canadian, full stop.
The last movie is 15 years old ! Seriously can we forget about it ?
The terf wrote a new book or two on the IP, maybe there was a movie recently or something.
Not even a terf at this point, just a full blown trad fasc in actions and effect. Her words are extremist, disgusting, and horrific… and her effective outcomes are just fascist at this point.
HBO Max is producing a series - one season per book. Iirc, season one already aired.
Not yet aired. Scheduled for Christmas 2026.
Okay. I’ve been avoiding it like a plague. I unsubbed or blocked any entertainment content creators who said they were going to cover it.
Like others have said, you can’t separate the art from the artist when consuming their art supports the artist’s nefarious activities.
Everyone has been avoiding it. Right leaning want nothing to do with the revisionist crap it is going to pull and Left leaning see JK/the story as opposition to one of their standpoints.
It is meant to fail.
It’s such a shame. Harry Potter was a great series of books with great stories and characters that many millenials grew up with.
It’s a shame its author is such a fucking cunt and ruined the whole franchise for everybody.
Hp was loved, by myself, too. But even then, I’m not sure I’d ever thought of hp as great, just “comfortably decent enough”.
But yeah, jkr is a fucking monster.
I have always felt that she created a more interesting world than the story she told. I don’t mind the HP story, I love hogwarts and the wizarding world
I also have no issues with JKR and find calling her a “monster” rather ridiculous
Well now we all know where you stand on civil rights. Thanks for your opinion.
Just because I don’t think she is a monster doesn’t mean I believe trans people shouldn’t have rights.
But when people asking me to make a ridiculous claim I tend to stand opposed to the ridiculous claim.
Then you haven’t been paying attention.
JKR is not just some writer who happens to be transphobic. There are plenty of distasteful writers I still enjoy - the difference is they didn’t turn their bigotries into a project.
She has made transphobia into her whole life. It is her primary political goal. It is what she spends her money and time on.
Elon Musk (who disowned his own daughter after she transitioned) complained that JKR’s Twitter contributions were too obsessed with trans people.
On your first point. You are 100% correct. I haven’t really been paying attention. Mostly just read a few headlines here and there.
I’ll take a bit more of a look into it to be honest.
(Also - what is wrong with disowning a kid? I have tons of friends who “don’t talk to their parents anymore” for this reason or that)
Not a ridiculous claim if you have the discussion and learn.
Why are you even here talking to me? To disagree? Can’t stand by and be disagreed with? Gotta start some shit on the internet because your life is too good?
Nah. It’s because this is a discussion that you have an interest in. Don’t act all shy and disconnected, when your words and your stance say otherwise.
I didn’t ask you for anything. You came here and disagreed on your own free will. Now ain’t that curious.
What did you read!? I think I made it very clear that I wouldn’t make a ridiculous claim.
But I am baffled by what you are claiming now.
You argue like a 7th grade girl.
It was, when we were kids and kinda stupid . It you take 5 mins, it’s a racist and sexist cesspool and the story is pond deep.
And don’t get me started on jk…
I’ve only ever watched the movies. LoL
I feel they’re mostly better than the books 😐
Like in the book, Dobby’s funeral are a shame. The less sentimental shit I saw in those books. She really sucks at having any other emotion than hate.
I won’t even talk about the last one 😂 The first 2-3 were nice for kids.
No, it was a popular series of books.
I hope that the Harry Potter series outlives Rowling. Yes, it’s an imperfect series that Rowling’s prejudices seeped into, but there is still a lot of good to be found in it. Eventually, Rowling will die and fans will no longer have to worry about supporting transphobia. Some will still say it’s not okay to like Harry Potter, but I hope most people will be able to embrace the series
I hope so but I doubt the stain will ever fully wash off. I’ll always be wondering who is still involved in steering it who was a fellow-traveler of JKR.
If 30 years from now the IP owner makes a Ravenclaw-themed mad-science spin-off series with a trans wizard as the protagonist, then maybe I’ll think it’s salvageable.
It is a shame that vocal minority of the fans have become asshats. More millennials support HP than take your extremist stance.
That is why they keep opening HP stores in major cities and they have hr long waits to get in.
The author is a bigot and supporting HP supports bigotry. It doesn’t matter if it’s good or not, it matters what you’re complicit with.
Yes, it’s popular. Many evil things are.
I mean - we all like a lot of things by bigots I guess. We’re all pretty complicit in a lot of things by those standards.
Why the dodgy rhetoric?
You’d think somebody in upper management would be smart enough to push back - actually I should just stop there. Nobody in upper management thinks. They just go where the money is, and rely on time to fix whatever damaged the brand’s reputation.
I will not being purchasing anything from Tim Hortons for the duration of this promotion
At least they’re honest about their morals.
Tim Hortons is now dead to me I did enjoy eating the occasional doughnut but that is it no more.
If I wasn’t already doing that I could join you, I just found it comical that in their announcement of a boycott they promised to come back without any change.
I haven’t bought anything from them in ages. I can’t even remember the last time I stepped into one and ordered food.
I absolutely do not work at Tims. But if I did (which I don’t), I would be squeezing every goddamn harry potter donut/timbit before serving. I’d be horribly preparing any given Harry Potter item.
I mean, Tim Hortons does ALL of that regardless, but I don’t (if I worked at Tim’s which I don’t). However, if you support this Harry Potter bullshit despite that Rowling bitch’s prowling transphobia, then fuck you too.
Please boycott Tim Hortons (at least till this transphobic nonsense passes).
Just bought an HP 50 pack. Hope my own comes tomorrow!
Do you realize JKR posted about her experience laughing at a rape victim who called into her help line because she thought the voice sounded manly?
Gonna need a link there bruv
https://x.com/FeministRoar/status/2078769709663527074
I’m not going further into her black hole than that. (Someone linked it directly at one point, but I don’t tend to keep x links, so this is from a search.)
A trans dude (girl?) called in as the gender they desire to be. But opted out when being called out?
Not sure how that is biggoted
I’d like you to think about how that conversation actually must have gone. Someone called in, ostensibly because they were raped. The automated messaging said “your call is important to us, and also recorded.” Because that’s what every line says before you are put through. Then they got on the line with someone. They said something about PCOS and a full beard. And then, they were told “you know this is recorded, right?”
Do you think they thought they were believed?Would you spend your time trying to convince them that you were a rape victim, or would you hang up knowing that they didn’t believe you? That no one is going to believe you, because your voice is too low. We hear it all the time, don’t we? You’re too ugly to be raped.
And then, to add insult to injury, JKR tweets about this call from someone who is, ostensibly, a rape victim. So, now… now everyone knows or should know there’s no privacy there. Your calls are recorded and subject to a billionaire listening to you and using you as an example to others.
I guess I don’t live in the obsession of this that you do.
I was mole-sted as a kid. Sometimes it seems worse to have happened as an adult.
Fuck advertising hooks/campaigns in general. Fuck advertising in general. The way I am forced into viewing ads…everything should be free.
The “controversy” is probably the intended marketing campaign.
This, you are correct - there is more support for post opponent processing than there is for “standing for X thing”.
More people support JK and HP than are “opposed to it”
Ads make me less likely to buy something. Ads make me irrationally annoyed.
harry potter was basically a huge reason why i survived before i came out of the closet but come on it hasn’t been relevant in like 16 years why are you doing promotions on it? especially now that all rowling is known for is literal hate. she doesn’t even do once a year battle of hogwarts posts on twitter anymore…
They’re promoting it because there’s a tv series coming out soon
The only ethically ok and correct way to experience Harry Potter in 2026 is with the Wizard People dub.
What does the 2S stand for?
Cool, thanks!
This year’s Back to Hogwarts also marks the 25th anniversary since the release of the first film adaptation [of the book]…
I am just curious where the line is drawn that makes it less a powderkeg of outrage and starts being worthy of at least an historical acknowledgement in recognition of the victim. If it’s not film adaptations of books, is it once there are musicals based on film adaptations of books written by authors who have expressed offensive viewpoints? Or poems summarizing musicals based on film adaptations of books written by authors who have expressed offending viewpoints?
I’m trying to be honest and not make this tongue-in-cheek.
JKR is actively politically involved in the persecution of trans people and the protection of transphobes. Even if she does not directly profit from an individual piece of HP media, the success of any HP media strengthens her brand and thus her political power.
That’s why it matters. Not an abstract question of “death of the author” or the Ship of Theseus of adaptations of adaptations, but the single contemporary living human being who converts Harry Potter’s cultural cachet into actualized hatred.
