[HPforGrownups] Elkins' Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame. Yet Sympathetic. And Dead, Too.

[Arynn Octavia]

No: HPFGUIDX 124501

Elkins: 
What "Hurt-Comfort" comes down to is the fact that women are just 
plain Bent, and adolescent girls even more so.  They *like* to see 
male characters suffer, so long as they do so with some degree of 
manly dignity, because it turns them on.  Male vulnerability garners their sympathy, and it also kind of excites them.
 
Arynn:
I am a female, and I LOVE the character of Lupin because his suffering closely parallels my suffering. He reminds me of me. I love Ron (who hasn't had any more suffering than the average teenager) because of his sence of humour. These are my two favourite characters. I don't find either of them "sexy". I am not attracted to men at all, in fact. So I would have to disagree with your post. Although I can't speak for hetersexual women, I think that they would disagree with your post as well. I have problems thinking that women are that sadistic, to actually enjoy someone else's suffering (however fictional that person be). 
 
But I guess my favourite bumper sicker sums it up best: "All generalizations are false, including this one"



--Arynn Octavia (A Lupin Lover)
		
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