[HPforGrownups] Hermione WAS :Re: CHAPDISC: DH32, The Elder Wand

[Kai Wen Lee]

No: HPFGUIDX 184781

Alla earlier:

I would find it a perfect feminist moment ... to show that girls, who are supposedly girly and only think about boys and makeup, are great fighters too.

CJ now:

This puzzles me. Perhaps I'm seeing subtexts that aren't there, but I take the "too" in your comment to mean "just like men". Which leaves me scratching my head as to what's so feminist about showing women with b*lls. Wouldn't a true feminist moment be to show a uniquely feminist perspective providing a better solution than the traditional testosterone-inspired, blast-'em-to-kingdom-come Rambo approach?

OK -- so I'm just a man. But I have difficulty understanding the "women need to be more masculine to be feminine" argument. Anyone care to enlighten this neanderthal?

--CJ


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