[HPforGrownups] Stereotypical Sexism (was Re: Stereotypes, Sexism & Masterful Writing Reviewed)

[Kelly Penn]

No: HPFGUIDX 88400

spang_b <spang_b at y...> wrote:
> I was stuck by something small and may be insignificant but it 
> does bear upon this sexism issue. I have noticed that none of 
> the main female characters is desribed as beautiful. 


WHAT is beauty anyway? Beautiful is different things to different 
people. My husband was not exactly the "greek godly stud" girls 
dream about when we were married but I was very attracted to him, 
despite his weight issues, when we first met.  He is a wonderful 
person who loves unconditionally, sacrificially and cares for me in 
a way that no fairy tale princess could realistically get..and his 
weight is not an issue because he lost it all...

To me he is a beautiful person inside and out.  I think society has subconsciencely dreamed up these charactersitics of beautiful or 
handsome for us and without realizing it, many people buy into it.  
It is shallow to do so. There are alot of what appear to be 
"unattractive" people in the world that are beautiful when you get 
to know them.   

It is the same with the Harry Potter characters, they may not be the 
beauty queens we would picture them as for some of them, but they are intelligent, loyal people who love their friends and family and are 
very likeable. That is all that matters, not how many beauty pageants 
they could win or if they are good enough to be on the cover of a 
magazine. Remember.. those types of people on magazines and such are 
air brushed and look just as horrid as we do in the morning when they 
wake up wrinkled and dissheveled from the night before.  

Kelly