Shouting at the radio

 If you have read my blog before you will know I'm a pretty laid-back person who is happy with her lot.

Yesterday I was painting the wall behind where our new bed(!!) will go and listening to Radio 4.

There was a woman talking about whether she should stop reading Harry Potter because of J K Rowling's personal views on the LGBTQ community in a comment on Twitter.  click here to read

Now, I don't like any part of our society being denigrated, but it wasn't that which was making me cross.  J K Rowling is entitled to her opinion, which is entirely different to the books she has written for children that do not contain anything regarding this issue.

Now, forgive me if I am incorrect - and please, educate me otherwise - but surely a person's sexuality is only important to them?  And actually only important when they are going to have sexual intercourse with someone??

For example, I have no idea whether the person behind the checkout today in the local Coop is straight, gay, non-binary, asexual, transgender or otherwise.  I don't need to know, do I?  Will it make any difference to me - or them??

I completely understand the situation where people feel not accepted by certain parts of our society - I do know, being a disabled person (I don't insist on being called 'differently abled') that I am excluded from things others can do, but 

it doesn't affect the bloody books I choose to read because a character in that authors books doesn't reflect me, or my disability....

So I ended up shouting at the Radio - louder than I was shouting at the folks on the BBC News last week who were cheering for President Trump!

I.just.don't.get.it.

Can someone explain this to me, please??

Take care,

Tracey xx