Gender/what we may ask of a writer

[child_of_rain_1999 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 17648

I'm thinking that if JKR made Fudge a female, we would run into 
problems eventually. That whole scene about Dumbledore and Fudge 
parting ways would make some people fume. Why make Fudge, the only 
powerful (in status) female in the books, a coward? That would appear 
a bit sexist...

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Elizabeth Clayton" <nizbet_noni at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Jen Faulkner <jfaulkne at e...>
> >Reply-To: HPforGrownups at y...
> >To: HPforGrownups at y...
> >Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Gender/what we may ask of a writer
> >Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:46:01 -0500 (EST)
> >
> >On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 meboriqua at a... wrote:
> >
> > > Unfortunately, we live in a world where the majority of high 
positions
> > > ARE held by men.  It sucks and I hate it, but it is so.  Would 
as many
> > > people have bought the whole idea if Hogwarts and MOM were run 
by
> > > women?  Just like people are reluctant to vote for a woman for 
a high
> > > ranking position, people tend to be more interested in men's 
sports,
> > > in men as heros, in men with power, and women with looks.
> >
> >The question of Fudge or Dumbledore as a woman is an entirely 
different
> >one, in a way, from the question of Harry as a girl.  While I think
> >girl-Harry may indeed have reduced popularity (certainly 
initially) by
> >casuing the publisher to label the series as 'girls' books' rather 
than
> >'children's books', I don't think having a Cornelia Fudge nor an 
Alba
> >Dumbledore would've been detrimental to the series' popularity nor 
in
> >any way unbelievable. We already have Minerva MacGonagall as deputy
> >headmistress, and I doubt that in 2001 anyone's head would've 
exploded
> >at the notion that she was the actual headmistress instead.  And 
as for
> >the MoM -- Britain, unlike the US, has elected a woman to serve as 
its
> >chief executive.
> >
> >(Reminds me of that joke from around the time that Major succeeded
> >Thatcher, about the little girl saying, "But he can't be prime
> >minister; only girls can be prime minister.")
> >
> And remember, when Harry is in Dumbledores office, he notices there 
are 
> portraits of former headmasters AND headmistresses. So obviously 
there have 
> been female leaders of Hogwarts in the past. It just happens that 
there's a 
> male now.
> 
> Liz
> -----
> 'Are all your family wizards?' asked Harry.
> 'Er - yes, I think so,' said Ron. 'I think Mum's got a second 
cousin who's 
> an accountant, but we never talk about him.'
> -----
> 
> 
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