blue mugs and feminism in HP

[Maya Crabtree]

No: HPFGUIDX 8306

>My favorite HP present is the one I bought myself while I was Xmas
>shopping: the big blue mug with the Hogwarts shield of arms. The above
>mentioned friend showed that she doesn't know me as well as she thinks
>she does, by expressing surprise that my favorite mug was 'so
>masculine',

well, I agree about the pictures...

>Maya Crabtree wrote:
>> My friend who'd gone to the USA brought me back a HP blue mug with
>> the Hogwarts coat of arms on it (with a Crabtree&Evelyn's soap in
>it...;-) ).
>
>Crabtree & Evelyn is whom I think of when I read your name....

:-) Well, I am not related in any way... ;-) although most fo my friends
here think I am, at first, because me, my mom, my sister and my dad are the
only Crabtrees in Isreal. My friends just don't know that it's not such a
rare name in English-speaking countries...;-)


Someone else wrote:

>Interesting change:  JKR didn't preserve the line "she [now, would be "he"]
>wants to see you" . . . do dads not have that same tenderness that would
>make a man who died in his son's infancy simply long to see his son grown
>up?  JKR has disappointingly conventional gender expectations at times . .
.
>whoa, I did NOT say that, don't want to be held responsible for starting
>that argument!  ;-)
>

you have...;-) I repeat again that sine you wrote this e-mail, about 3-4
days have passed, but I've not yet read the replies to this, so, I'll jsut
go on..;-)

I was discussing this subject as well with my rfriend a few days ago, and I
mentioned that although at first her books seems relatively equlized as far
as feminism, (Mcgonagall, Hermione) they are not at all so. I love them as
they are, this issue doesn't reall BOTHER me, but if you DO look at it, it
IS true that90% of the main characters are boys/men. The great wizards are
men (Dumbldore and Voldermort) the four friends are men only (while Harry
and Ron have no problem having a female best friend), Almost all the Weasley
kids are boys, we know of all the boys in Harry's year from his house, from
the girls, only 3, and the two who are not Hermione are not at all
interesting. Okay, they are not very strong points, but they ARE something
to go on...;-) although I must admit Hermione's character might be the
opposite proof....



Maya