[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR's sex bias

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3650

voicelady wrote:

> We know that JKR wrote these stories for herself, but OF COURSE her main objective was in getting them published so that other people could enjoy them, too.  And I wonder if subconsciously she made the story more geared to boys than girls.  Statistically speaking, girls are bigger readers than boys,  and there is less of a social stigma for a girl to read a "boy" book.

I'm beginning to think there's something wrong with me. I never particularly cared nor noticed the gender of the heroes or bad guys in my books. I cared what they *did,* how they felt, their thoughts. When I remember marking gender especially, it was because it was appropriate to their character, and seemed to fit them like a good soundtrack fits a movie--adds, enhances, but generally is part of the experience, not something heard separately. I've thrown way more than
my 2 knuts into these discussions when I thought I had something interesting to say, but it's not the way I think, or read. Am I really that weird?

--Amanda