[HPforGrownups] A pet peeve about Sirius-like men in literature (was: Should Harry Potter die?)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 2182

Dave Hardenbrook wrote:

> At the risk of sounding like a male chauvinist pig, has anyone else
> noticed how often woman authors take their most sexual male character
> and put them through just as much hell as they can devise?

You and my husband should get together. He's advanced the theory that women test the staying power of their men, regularly, before and during marriage. Perhaps some woman authors do the same to
their characters. They want to see a man with the ability to survive (life, and them), and a fictional one (in this respect) is better than reality. At least for us.

We won't get into *his* little foibles. But that folded laundry is *still* on the chair downstairs.

--Amanda "tote that barge! lift that bale! kill that scorpion!"