[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR's sex bias

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 3778


----- Original Message -----
From: Amanda Lewanski <editor at texas.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: JKR's sex bias


> 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

Well, I never really pay much attention to the genders while I'm actually
reading.  But after, when I'm musing on the story, and trying to write
myself into it somehow, these things occur to me.

Jinx