Slytherins/DE and Girls

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 91812

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elihufalk" <elihufalk at y...> 
wrote:
> I get the idea, from the series, that Slytherin and the Death 
Eaters 
> don't realy like girls:
> 
> 1)  Lucius Malfoy mentions that "a girl of no wizard family" beast 
> Draco's grades[CS]. Is the word girl important in that sentence, 
or 
> is it just because Lucius doesn't want to mention the name of 
> that "mudblood"? I think the first.
> 
> 2)  There are no girls on the Slytherin Quiddich team [PA]
> 
> 3)  I've counted over 20 male DEs, and only 1 female:
>     9 male in Azkaban
>     2 male DE's mentioned by Karkaroff who weren't in Azkaban 
(Snape 
> is one of those)
>     7 DE's who are present at Voldemort's first speech (including 
> Wormtail)
>     Karkaroff
>     Barty Crouch Jr.
>     Regulus Black
> 
> The only female DE mentioned in the series, so far, is Belatrix 
> Lestrange. Does this represent that Slytherin/DE profile considers 
> women to be less then men?
> 
>                            Elihu

Meri (poping up from lurkdom to quickly reply): 
I think that this suposed anti-female stance would fit in with the 
DE's (not nessecarily the Slytherins) reactionary worldviews. The 
DE's seem very interested, IMVHO, in returning the WW to its "glory 
days" of the Medieval times, where people of mixed blood were not 
included in their world, where the (somewhat) democratic MoM would 
be scrapped for a more authoritarian government, and where women 
would know their place: behind the cauldron mixing potions, not on 
broomsticks. I hesitate to catogorize the Slytherins this way for 
two reasons: 1. I am patiently waiting for JKR to introduce what has 
become known on the list as a "complex" Slytherin, and will reserve 
judgement on this house until the end of book seven, and 2. Just 
because there are no girls on the quidditch team doesn't mean that 
they actively discriminate. Is there cannon to support any girls on 
the Hufflepuff team? (I would probably be pretty distracted by 
Cedric ;-)) Can anyone honestly see Pansy Parkinson riding a broom 
and getting all muddy? I can't. And, back to the DE's, I see 
Bellatrix Lestrange as more of an anomally than the norm. I 
personally think that she has some relationship to LV that we don't 
know yet, and that there is some overriding factor that convinces LV 
of her loyalty, despite the fact that she is a woman. Anyway, back 
to lurkdom I go. 
Meri (who will be v. disappointed in JKR if LV and Bellatrix aren't  
caught somewhere snogging in DE HQ sometime in the next two 
books, cause even a dark lord needs a little love)