[HPforGrownups] Re: Stereotyping - Point of Exception

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 84701


Pippin
>
> Ah, you fell for some  of JKR's little tricks. <g> Madam Rosmerta
> is not just  a barmaid. She owns the Three Broomsticks: "scared
> away all my customers" she complains to Fudge with an edge in
> her voice. -PoA ch. 10
>
> At least two of the QWC Irish Chasers whom Harry regards as
> "superb" are female also, though you have to keep a close eye
> on the pronouns to spot them.  JKR is subtly playing on her
> readers' own sexist assumptions: a flashily dressed woman in a
> bar can't be the owner; star athletes are male.
>
>
K

Well actually I knew both of those. Landlady is anothern sterotypical female
profession though - in fact alewives have been common since the middle ages
... uh sorry I did an essay on sports and pasttimes in Medieval London for
my masters, I'm going to stop there before I veer too much ot.

And I did spot the women quidditch players, in fact one of the professional
teams is all female. But as far as I could see (before OoP) women did not
occupy positions of power or influence in the ww - happily I was wrong, we
just hadn't seen any.

I have no problem with JKR writing the ww as being sexist or being a perfect
meritocracy (obviously it isn't *cough*Fudge*cough*). I was simply making an
observation about what we had seen.

My complaint was in the lack of well-developed female characters.


K