[HPforGrownups] Re: Nel Question #9: Gender - Perfect Sense

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 127469



>bboyminn:

>These books are absolutely biased, there are distorted to a male
>perspective, and are male-centeric [period, full stop, absolute end of
>sentence].  Yet, how could they be other than /male-centered/ when the
>central point-of-view character is a male; further, a very young male?

>Instead of complaining that the books are male-centered, which of
>course they well should be, people should be marveling, as I do, that
>a female author could so thoroughly and accurately capture the
>male-mind.  Speaking as a former boy (current man), JKR got it
>amazingly and wonderfully right.

>I speculate some of the things about the portrayal of girls that
>people don't like, are simply respresentations of the things that
>catch Harry's eye.  Logically, the aspects of girls that catch Harry's
>eye are not the ways that they are the same as boys, but the way in
>which they are very obviously and, from a boy perspective, strangely
>different than boys.

>I don't see what the problem is, it all make perfect sense to me.

>Steve/bboyminn








Sherry now
I absolutely agree.  In fact, when I hear all the complaints of girls not being presented well in the books, I wonder if those same critics would complain that there are not enough strong male characters in something like Little Women or Anne of Green Gables.  It has always seemed logical that Harry is the main character and we see the females through his eyes.

Sherry