Wanted! Complex Female Adult Character: (was:Re: ESE!McGonagall...

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 Magpie:
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> Right--I think that's the more relevent thing. I don't think JKR 
needs to 
> write to set quota of characters where there must be X important 
girls and 
> women or she chooses characters' genders based on some agenda. But 
I don't 
> think it's out of line for people to see things that they think 
are saying 
> sexist things if they do.
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Alla:

HA! As it often happens, your post may be the best moment to ask the 
question I have after following this thread, because you sort of 
answered it for me. See, of course I do not think that it is out of 
line to call JKR writing sexist or call her many other things, no 
question about it. I almost typed that she is not a real poster, 
which would have been a different story, but you get the gist, hehe.

But I am of the firm agreement with the first sentence in your quote 
and therefore my question is - why?
 Not to you, because as I said I think we are pretty close on this ( 
or maybe not) but in general.

Why do we need the strong female character just for the sake of 
having one? What if JKR felt that good story could be written 
**only** with the male characters in it? Does she **owe** us the 
presence of female characters in the story? I would say not at all. 
Just as if she wished to write a story about women only, as long as 
it is good story, IMO it is all that counts.

Like as lots people know I want certain fate for Snape. Since you 
definitely know it and I just mentioned it today, I won't <g>

But if my wish does not come true, does it mean that the story 
become bad?

And vice versa is true as well IMO.


One of my favorite book in my childhood and teens was " The 
mysterious Island" by Jules Verne, where as we all know there are no 
women, only couple of them are mentioned in brief narrative from 
connected book. Do I care that there are no women in the story? Um, 
**not at all**, because the story is fascinating to me.

Oh, and just in case I am most definitely a woman in her early 
thirties.

Again, do not get me wrong, I would love to know more about Minerva, 
I definitely agree that she is on supporting roles, but I would love 
to know more about her not because she is a woman, but because I 
grew to care about her as character.

I don't know, I just find myself  confused over this.