dude...this book literally fucked me up for a whole week...it was balls to the wall he whole way through...
Yeah, I'm deal with that now. It's like, I think about it and I'm still like 'effing hell'. I'm still trying to absorb everything that went down.
but yeah, the depiction of women is very puzzling...it's hard to believe that someone as forward thinking as rowing would subscribe to such antiquated views of gender roles.
Yeah, it was just really apparent to be in this book for some reason. I'd never really noticed anything like that in the previous books, but about halfway through this I was literally muttering "stop crying!" or "Oh lord, this is gonna led to crying". And the order was always really a boys club, but by taking Tonks out of the picture I really felt it this novel.
I'm somewhat mollified by the women kicking butt right alongside the men in the final battle though. And by the fact that in the interview that I sent you in the response to your commentary, that Hermione didn't become a Quidditch mom after marrying Ron like a feared from the epilogue, but actually has an important job in the Ministry and whatnot.
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Date: 2007-08-01 01:38 am (UTC)Yeah, I'm deal with that now. It's like, I think about it and I'm still like 'effing hell'. I'm still trying to absorb everything that went down.
but yeah, the depiction of women is very puzzling...it's hard to believe that someone as forward thinking as rowing would subscribe to such antiquated views of gender roles.
Yeah, it was just really apparent to be in this book for some reason. I'd never really noticed anything like that in the previous books, but about halfway through this I was literally muttering "stop crying!" or "Oh lord, this is gonna led to crying". And the order was always really a boys club, but by taking Tonks out of the picture I really felt it this novel.
I'm somewhat mollified by the women kicking butt right alongside the men in the final battle though. And by the fact that in the interview that I sent you in the response to your commentary, that Hermione didn't become a Quidditch mom after marrying Ron like a feared from the epilogue, but actually has an important job in the Ministry and whatnot.