[HPforGrownups] Re: 'male-identification' & Snape at DE meetings--Amanda and Martha

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3814

Jinx wrote:

> Just because being a mother is the one thing women can do that men can't,
> doesn't mean it's the only thing women should want to do.

We never said this. And it's *not* the only thing I want to do. It's not the
only thing I *do.* But it's a damn important thing, raising the next
generation, no matter how much the schools try to do it for me, and I'm proud
to let it be my primary definer right now.

>  Women do most of the world's labour

we're better at it
plus we remember where we *put* things

> but own virtually none of the world's property.

actually, I'm the landowner in our family

>  I don't think we're overreacting.

I do, *just* a tad. JKR didn't write a sociological treatise, she wrote a work
of fiction, a terribly good one with very realistic characters. There are
female characters all through the book, in various positions, and while the
"spot" of the prose doesn't focus on them, it shows pretty clearly that the
door is open to women in the wizarding world. I don't see a glass ceiling
problem, I don't see active discrimination, I do see effective
characterization. I don't think authors have to try to effect social change
through their work; I think they have to *write.* She does, very well.

--Amanda