More on Molly

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No: HPFGUIDX 84309

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jjpandy" <jjpandy at y...> wrote:
> I don't think my first message got sent through, but I've had time 
to 
> expand my thoughts anyway.
> 
> I have read the recent postings about Molly's role and the debates 
of 
> her as a homemaker.  Molly's character fills the role of the anti-
> Aunt Petunia. This privides balance to the universe of evil vs. 
good, 
> but it also furthers the contrast between the two worlds that Harry 
> lives in.  Molly is the caring mother-figure that Harry never had 
in 
> his life before finding out he was a wizard.  Molly worries and 
looks 
> after Harry's well-being from the moment she hears from her sons 
that 
> he is on the Hogwarts Express. She includes him with family members 
> on gift-giving occasions.  She makes sure he is well-fed 
("encourages 
> him to eat fourth helpings")and fusses over him in a motherly 
fashion 
> ("fussed about the state of his socks").  Plump, warm, nurturing 
> Molly is the opposite of bony, cold, prison-warden Aunt Petunia.
Art here: 

If Molly is the "anti-Aunt Petunia" then why does Aunt Petunia 
represent a stay at home mom as well? And please don't tell me that 
Aunt Petunia isn't guilty of the same vicarious-give-her-all-for-her-
children (in this case, Duddykins) Poof that Molly does. I can take 
the disagreeing posts that think I am wrong for insisting that people 
represent Today's world in their books, that is fine. BUT I still 
think it is an injustice to millions of children readers, especially 
female ones, to only show fleshed out mom characters that are stay at 
home moms. The real world does not work like that and shouldn't IMO. 

IF women really want to be equal they should stop thinking in terms 
of "stay at home mom" and in terms of Project Management. Men, take a 
lesson too. If you define yourself as what you do, when what you do 
is done, you are left with no persona. Psychologically this is 
unhealthy and causes much more grief in this world than necessary. 
There is no equality as long as people still believe a woman's place 
is in the home. 

A point in my initial post was: Why couldn't Sirus be viewed as a 
single, non-conventional Dad? 

You don't see this? 

You don't see the equality of sexes being undermined on two levels?

Apologies to all who take offence. Shutting up on the subject now.

Art