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

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 186204

> 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).
>
> -----------------------------------------
> 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


Shelley:
The question was "if you had no idea if the author was male or female, which 
one would you guess it to be?" The answer for me was male if I looked at the 
treatment of women within the power structure and place is society. The 
debate wasn't whether my assessment of women in the WW was correct or not, 
but which gender I would guess for the author. So, now that the question was 
repeated, would you chose male or female, and why?