[HPforGrownups] Re: Acceptance

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 178521

Carol <cinders at voyager.net> wrote:
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> I guess my thing was then why did she never give the "fat lady" a
> name? If she is so accepting of differences, why was she always just
> the "fat lady"? And Duddley was called a lot of names, not by Harry,
> but by JK in the writings. Yes, Duddley wasn't a nice boy for a long
> time but the rude things weren't said about his personality, they were
> said about his weight.


montims:
but where is the negative connotation, except in the minds of certain
readers?  She is the fat lady because she is fat.  She could just as well be
the spotty lady or the blonde lady - it is a description.  If you look at a
person who is fat, or missing a leg, or who has a squint, that is the
characteristic that you will note immediately, and it is probably the way
you would refer to that person if wanting to identify them to a friend who
was there, among many other people - the fat lady (or the lady with the
squint or whatever), not the lady wearing the red dress...  It is an
adjective, NOT an insult, or a judgement.  Read The First Lady Detective
Agency series, and you can see that being of "traditional build" is
desirable, not a bad thing.  I am fat, and wear glasses, but because I am
English in America, that is probably the way people describe me these days.
But any description that defines me, as long as it's accurate, is fine...


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