[HPforGrownups] Re: some replies which are direct but off topic

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 186203

 Shelley responds:
> I know I said earlier "male" if I looked only at the treatment of women in
society and that men are the brains while women are fined to raising babies
at home (Molly) or old spinsters teaching school (McGonagall).


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I don't see this at all. Hermione is one of the top students in Hogwarts, if
not the top one. She apparently goes on to have a career in law after
school. Ginny apparently makes good grades as well and also goes on to play
professional sports after school. Do we see women raising kids at home
rather than working outside the house. Yes. Molly Weasley, specifically. I
have a friend who has five children and another friend who has six. In
neither family does the woman work outside the house, not because of lack of
ability, or because they are being held back but because 1) they wanted a
large family and 2) It is nearly impossible to pay for child care for that
many kids when they are young. We also see career women, and honestly, for
many of them we are not given enough of a picture to say "they are not in a
relationship/married".

Lynda


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