Friendly Fire

Talisman talisman22457 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 9 07:05:40 UTC 2005


> Talisman, trying to appear as though she understands, when she's 
really wondering:"Am I Bruce?" and "Do I look like a henhouse?" 
ventures:

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, Sean Dwyer <ewe2 at a...> wrote:
>If this is what the others have been getting at, then it was worth 
>the wait: I can see now how Molly riles the female List population. 
>But it is also a male fault <snip>...

Well, all I can do is speak for myself, and I just happen to be 
female. (I believe it was a certain whiskery individual who 
suggested that females have a specific problem with Molly)  

But I agree with you completely: it's not a gender specific trait. 
Men are every bit as bad when it comes to trying to tell other 
people what to do with their lives.  I think Molly herself is an 
amalgam of any number of people in Rowling's life, of both genders 
and various ages, at least in that respect.  Which is not to gainsay 
that she meshes, in other particulars, with the English Mum 
stereotype Kneasy recognized.

>I had no choice, but it was never a question of who was right or 
>wrong. Never threatened at gunpoint to become a lawyer or 
>anything :)

Well, there you are.  My mother wanted to style me as a "princess" 
and had some wretched plan for me to be a sort of 
ballerina/stewardess. (Perhaps I was supposed to jeté about with the 
cocktails until Prince Charming grounded me?) Naturally I wasn't 
content until I'd put myself through law school.  Showed her didn't 
I? Ack.

T








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