[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione's rude comment (slang and stuff)(longish again)

[Heather Gauen]

No: HPFGUIDX 74798

Only started following this thread about two posts
ago, so sorry if someone already made this argument-

I *do* think that Hermione's remark was pretty
derogatory- not sure if I'd call it racist
(speciesist?) and I truly doubt she meant it in a
hurtful way; I just think it was an incredibly stupid
comment.

severus_book4
> IMOO I think that this is just a remark, not racist
> in the least.  
> She just doen't like horses.  I don't own a dog, but
> I own a cat, 
> does this make me racist? No, I just like cats more
> than dogs.

Of course there's nothing wrong with her not liking
horses (don't like them myself), and there's also
nothing wrong with this dislike being the reason that
she doesn't find Firenze physically attractive. But
Firenze ISN'T a horse, and looking somewhat like one
doesn't mean anything- would you call a human that you
found unattractive a monkey (however accurate the
comparison my be)? She could have said, "No I don't
find him attractive" and left it at that. 
Honestly, what bothered me most about it was how
hypocritical it was. Here's a girl who goes ballistic
anytime someone treats a house elf *the way the house
elf WANTS to be treated* (Dobby notwithstanding, of
course). Yet she can turn around and say nearly the
most insulting thing there is to say about a species
so proud that it will kill anyone "arrogant" enough to
merely ask for its help? Strange. Perhaps her goal is
simply to piss off every non-human on earth :)

Just my two knuts :)
Heather



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