Re:Harry Potters for nerds

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nursewhen
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[quote=”ShadowedVenus”]It also bothers me that despite being a woman, Rowling has chosen not to challenge any of the sex-linked prejudices commonly bound up esp in the more simple works of the the SFF genres and made her hero on his quest a boy.[/quote]
Well that depends entirely on which sex-linked prejudices you care to pick. If we go for the old ‘female authors are incapable of creating convincing male characters’, then I think you’ll agree that she blew that one completely out of the water.

What does worry me is that she was advised to make her pen name JK Rowling so as not to lose the 11 year old male audience who may be put off by a female author. ([url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/childrenandteens/story/0,6000,474412,00.html]Sourced from The Guardian[/url].)
Mind you, now that the word is out and everybody knows she’s female, perhaps that’s another sex-linked stereotype that’s she’s blown out of the water.
If you ask me, she’s doing a good job on that front 😀