Chrysoula ([info]chrysoula) wrote,
@ 2007-07-23 17:54:00
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It's about Harry Potter, yes. There could be spoilers.
Sometimes I read things I really want to respond to. But I don't want to smash anybody else's house and I don't want to pick on anybody. I just want to react. Here is where I'm going to do it.

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Re: Feminist complaints
[info]space_parasite
2007-07-24 05:28 pm UTC (link)
Also, isn't the author a single mother? I doubt she thinks women can't support themselves and their children.

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Re: Feminist complaints
[info]chrysoula
2007-07-24 07:11 pm UTC (link)
She has a husband and two additional kids these days but she started out that way, yeah.

Furthermore on my rants! I was thinking last night about the entire Ministry of Magic and how fucked up wizarding society is in general. For example, there's no jury at the trials, just a collection of judges. They have the ability to spy on people at will, take memories from their minds, erase their memories, and they send accused criminals to an incredibly horrible prison, often without any semblance of a hearing. Despite their ability to read minds and do enormous amounts of magical research, they don't bother to investigate crimes unless they have a political reason to reject the obvious suspect.

Furthermore! They're ridiculously speciest, with departments dedicated to keeping nonhuman magical races under control and limiting the kind of magic they can use. They also limit human freedoms with various secrecy acts. One wonders how the thousands of muggle husbands and wives (for 50% of Hogwarts students come from a mixed family) are introduced to their spouse's world and kept under control. Most of their employs are incredibly corrupt, including, yes, Mr. Weasely.

Given all these government-spawned atrocities, it seems to take a very tight focus to complain about the lack of career mother role models.

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Re: Feminist complaints
(Anonymous)
2007-07-24 07:13 pm UTC (link)
Among libertarians, HP is a much-loved series, because so much of it is anti-authoritarian, and the government in the HP setting is nearly always portrayed as corrupt, incompetent, mismanaged, and occasionally evil.

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Re: Feminist complaints
[info]isildur
2007-07-24 07:25 pm UTC (link)
Whoops, that was me.

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Re: Feminist complaints
[info]drastic
2007-07-24 07:42 pm UTC (link)
"...One wonders how the thousands of muggle husbands and wives (for 50% of Hogwarts students come from a mixed family) are introduced to their spouse's world and kept under control..."

*points wands* Imperius!

Sure, sure, "unforgivable," I know. Unforgivable against wizards, maybe, otherwise, have at! Just don't make a mess.

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