• Leon@pawb.social
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    You’re right, that was hyperbole. What I should’ve written is “every character that expresses traditionally feminine interests”, save for of course, the tradwife, like Molly Weasley whose entire character is just being a mother. Does she have interests beyond being a mother? No, with seven children who has time to be a person?

    Hermione doesn’t engage with anything traditionally feminine, she’s a “not-like-other-girls” type character, hell she doesn’t really have any friends that aren’t boys. Even so, she’s often not taken seriously. She’s mocked for studying hard, and she’s mocked for her anti-slavery coalition, which people only really join half-heartedly in order to placate her.

    There’s obviously Dolores Umbridge. She’s into cute, frilly, fluffy, pink things. She’s also a sadist. Her punishment for being bad is to be carried off by centaurs to get raped in a forest.

    Luna Lovegood was introduced as another character to be bullied, and she remains on the outskirts throughout the book, but Rowling softened up on her once she got extremely popular with the fans of the series.

    Just a couple of years ago “people with massive noses” having kahoots with Hitler would be oxymoron.But now, after genocide of Palestinians…

    Ah right, the massive genocide of Jews, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people, and other minorities back in the mid 1900s was okay because the Israeli state is now running a genocide of their own. Rowling was correct to be antisemitic actually!

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      Molly Weasley whose entire character is just being a mother. Does she have interests beyond being a mother? No, with seven children who has time to be a person?

      Excuse me, but I can’t agree with your position here.
      Is a woman not allowed to realize itself through motherhood?

      Also Molly was smart and fierce (remember fight with Bellatrix Lestrange?

      Hermione doesn’t engage with anything traditionally feminine, she’s a “not-like-other-girls” type character, hell she doesn’t really have any friends that aren’t boys

      And I personally know such girls.
      It’s perfectly normal for a girl to be like that.
      Also her persona and stance evoke respect in the reader, as well as a sense that she is being treated unfairly.

      There’s obviously Dolores Umbridge.

      Haven’t you met cruel teachers / persons in power who acted all nice?
      And it’s not like Dolores was the only villain in the books.

      Luna Lovegood was introduced as another character to be bullied, and she remains on the outskirts throughout the book, but Rowling softened up on her once she got extremely popular with the fans of the series.

      And her persona was revealed as a kind and brave hero.

      It’s important for quirky children to feel represented.

      Rowling was correct to be antisemitic actually!

      Goblins didn’t strike me as jews exactly because they were friends with Harry Potter’s world Hitler.
      A big nose and banking isn’t enough.