[HPforGrownups] Re: logic and math of sexism

[Jai Marie]

No: HPFGUIDX 41335

Porphyria said:

<<I'm getting back on the issue of whether it's primarily the female 
characters who get 'taken in' by Lockhart and Trelawney. I still think that the books portray the female characters as being more susceptible to these characters' glitz than the men.>>

I don't know, I still can't see this being anything more than girls falling for a hot guy, myself.  I was in Junior High once, and if some hot hunk du jour (Brad Pitt, I don't know) suddenly came in and was one of my teachers, I would have been a-swoon as well!  I don't see why this makes them so bad.  If he had been a female version, the boys probably would have been just as stupid.

<<snippage, going to a mention of Parvati and Lavender's interest/worship of Trelawney>>

Trelawney...  I don't know, I just don't see her as a fraud in the sense of Lockhart.  It seems to me, unless I've severely misinterpreted things, that she for the most part truly believes in herself.  Maybe she's just got herself so deluded that she's, believing her own hype, I don't know, but it doesn't seem like she's deliberately trying to deceive anyone.  But again, there are lots of people who are 'duped' into believing psychics, or other future telling 'things.'  And the truth of the matter, sexist as it may sound, is that most of them are women.  That's just how things are.

As I had mentioned before, and as Amanda put it, it makes "solid story sense."  Yeah, it's not always pretty, but it's just how many women, especially young girls, are.  They swoon over good looking celebrities.  They want to be able to know the future.  I read these books and I see people I know, over and over and over again.

Perhaps I'm missing your point here, and I would hate to continue to beat a dead horse if I'm talking about something completely different, but those are my thoughts at the time. 

Jai
(who is flattered that Amanda thinks her name is intriguing as well)


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