Nel Question #9: Gender

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 127520


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> 
> I agree with the end of the piece where Maya suggests that the women 
> are sometimes *too* You Go Girl! at times, and some real weaknesses 
> might have been nice and a bit more wellrounded too.  And maybe 
that's why JKR made Harry a boy.  She may have well recognized her 
reluctance to give her women true weaknesses so she concentrated on the 
men.  
> 
> And just 'cause I want to, most favorite line in Maya's essay:  "Only 
> Even Cooler Women can defeat women [...] Harry gets to die of 
> mortification, Hermione gets to make Rita Skeeter her bitch."
> 


Tonks now:

Yes I enjoyed that essay too. She is right. Frankly I don't know why 
anyone sees any bias against women in the Harry Potter series. I think 
that JKR has done a good job showing the personality of people as they 
are in RL. I don't see anything sexist in HP. JKR wrote the books to 
teach children and male children would not read it unless the hero were 
male and they thought that the writer was male. Female children will 
read books by both male and female authors and with both male and 
female heroes and can identify with either one. Boys on the other hand 
can't do that. The macho thing is taught very early in a boy's life. 
Whereas girl have more freedom to just be human.

So I don't know what all the fuss is about, really. I forgot the name 
of the woman who started all of this.. but she said that Hermione was 
the good girl always on time and prepared with the answers, etc. Well 
what did she want Hermione to be instead?? 

Tonks_op