[HPforGrownups] Re: Gender balance/strong women

[Jen Faulkner]

No: HPFGUIDX 15035

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Rina Stewart wrote:

> That's exactly my point. No one is defined by their role to a woman.
> You're saying that it's bad that women are only defined by their
> relationship to men, but I'm saying that so are the men. The women
> aren't being singled out here.

Right.  Exactly.  I'm not arguing at all that the women are being
singled out in not having defining relationships with women -- but that
*no one* has a defining relationship with a woman.  If the men were
defined in terms of relationships with women, the books then would have
much less of a gender bias.  But not for a single character is a
relationship with a woman important enough to be one of their defining
characteristics, which is clear gender bias, to my mind (and not all
that realistic).

--jen :)

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