[HPforGrownups] Troll comment (was SHIP: The Yule Brawl)

[Susanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 50305



Hi,

Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 11:28:42 AM, Amy wrote:

> Hasn't anyone else ever 
> been pissed off by men's rating women on their looks, even if you 
> aren't among the women being rated?  Especially if you know you 
> aren't considered very good-looking yourself.  I find such remarks 
> infuriating, not because anyone is directly or even indirectly saying 
> where I go on the scale, but because I know if they put me on the 
> scale I wouldn't come out so well.  And because it's shallow and rude 
> and stupid.

Of course it is, but I have to admit that girls/women do the
same to males.

Hermione did it with Krum, in a way.

Many humans are pretty shallow when it comes to judging
people by their looks, and it takes most of us a while to
look past the exterior and the first impressions.

While I don't like it now, and didn't like having it done to
me as a teenager, I have to admit, I wasn't much better
about it, then.

At least Harry, Ron and Hermione don't go around saying
disparaging things about peoples' appearances to their faces
(quite a few kids in my daughter's school have no such
inhibitions), so there's hope ;)

And Ron never calls Hermione herself a troll, even if she
takes it this way.

JKR is at lest trying to have everyone act remotely
realistic and doesn't pull out the moral 2X4 to hit us over
the head with.

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Best regards,
 Susanne                           mailto:siskiou at earthlink.net