HP, inconscient sexim from JKR?
Laurence
Monsieur_de_Bergerac at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 8 14:12:24 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 88241
I don't know if this subject has already been talked about (I search
for sexism, nothing shows) but in this very well documented essay:
http://contraveritas.zephy.net/funstuff/essays/women.htm
Lena F. suggests that the HP books can be considered quite sexist,
maybe not so much in the portraying of the characters themselves
(quoi que... see Molly Weasley) but above all from a plot driven
point ie very often it is women's incompetence which is to blame for
the advance of the villains and she gives a lot of example of this
concept, between Bertha Jorkins (pictured totally incompetent, and
who's a puppet in Voldemort hand), Ginny Weasley too naive to
recognize Voldemort in the diary, or the mother of Crouch who let an
assassine loose.
(go read her essay to understand better what I'm trying resume)
Do you think that we can call sexist a book which plot advances
through mistakes more often made by women than by men? Could it be
interesting to inspect this aspect of things in OotP?
For example, are we given an ample description of Tonks as a women
or just because her Metamorphmagus abilities (does someone speak of
the sex of Metamorphmagus?)
I would like to hear what you think about it.
Laurence
P.S. By the way, I'll introduced myself: 24-y-belgian girl, first
language French (English 3rd, it explains bad grammar), electrical
engineer, part of "Women in Sciences"(WiSe...), HP fan, HG/SS
shipper.
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