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[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Calla wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/27148 :

> In a more serious vein, do you remember why the article said women
> should not read Harry Potter? I would be very interested in learning
> their reasoning. 

It may have been the same reasoning as in the essay by a resentful
less-successful author condemning adults who read Harry Potter: he
pretty much said that anyone who is old enough to have sex should
never read a book that doesn't have sex in it. That essay didn't give
any plausible reason why reading books that don't have sex is so
criminal.

But I can easily fantasize that someone could write an essay stating
that women should never read books that don't have sex because it
might encourage them to tell horny men that there is more in life than
just sex. And that women should read only cheap romance novels for
fiction and cookbooks and housekeeping how-tos and 'how to please a
man' books for non-fiction in hope that the viewpoint presented by
these books, that women's happiness depends on pleasing men, will rub
off.