JKR's sex bias

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 3662

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> 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?


No, Amanda, you are probably very close to the norm.
I would analogize that when I was growing up in the U.S.A. few white 
people noticed
that all the store mannikins were white, that pink bandages were 
called "flesh colored" as were tan crayons.

Susan

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