Males and Females at Quidditch - and why this could be more than just a "Flint"

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 185214

Miles:
> IMO, she does not succeed. Because if we do not know any woman in
the  Potterverse who can coordinate job and family (which is one of
the key  problems of women's (and men's) emancipation), we can assume
that women  don't have good chances to have both. 

Pippin:
Only if you think that the default position is that women are
oppressed. People seem to have a hard time recognizing that there
might be such a thing as a post-feminist society, where the reason
women aren't struggling for their rights is because they've got them.

First, we do have a mother working outside the home: Marietta's. Also
Lupin worries about being an inadequate father, but not because his
wife must be the primary breadwinner. Hagrid's father raises his son
alone because his wife left him, not because she died. Whether he had
a job outside the home, we don't know. 

The WW seems to be a lot less careerist than  the Muggle world.
 Molly is not treated as if she's lower on the social scale than 
deputy headmistress McGonagall. The worst thing Draco can find to say
about her is that she's dumpy.

Young Albus Dumbledore finds his career plans are not compatible with
the needs of his dependents. There's no suggestion that there would
have been less conflict if he were female, still less that he should
have solved his problem by finding a wife or hiring a female caregiver. 

Expecting to have it all, canon suggests, is hubris, not feminism. No
one can control how much care one's dependents are going to need, and
those needs may be overwhelming regardless of the sex of the caregiver. 

As for Quidditch, it's hard to apply the laws of physics in a
selective manner -- in a world where brooms fly, how do you calculate
the momentum of a Quaffle? If it comes largely from the broom, then
perhaps the throwing power of the Chaser is secondary, and as with the
Seeker, it's more important to be small and light.

Pippin