Comments on: A Treatise on the Defamation of Literary Minds(Or, At Least the Twinkie Tastes Good) http://grintasticonline.org/wordpress/2009/12/31/1523/ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:00:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Steph aka Quotidias http://grintasticonline.org/wordpress/2009/12/31/1523/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Steph aka Quotidias Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:41:24 +0000 http://grintasticonline.org/wordpress/?p=1523#comment-428 Sam, I'm planning to read the series because so many of my students are reading it, but I'm not looking forward to it. I'm going to try to keep an open mind but I suspect that I'll end up feeling exactly the same way as you do. I can't stand "poor little me" helpless female characters. Being a person who is perfectly capable of taking care of myself I'm not looking for a man to take care of me, I'm looking for an man who will be my partner in crime, as it were. I don't understand people who want to put themselves in such an unequal power relationship. Sam, I’m planning to read the series because so many of my students are reading it, but I’m not looking forward to it. I’m going to try to keep an open mind but I suspect that I’ll end up feeling exactly the same way as you do. I can’t stand “poor little me” helpless female characters. Being a person who is perfectly capable of taking care of myself I’m not looking for a man to take care of me, I’m looking for an man who will be my partner in crime, as it were. I don’t understand people who want to put themselves in such an unequal power relationship.

]]> By: Sabine aka galadriel12 http://grintasticonline.org/wordpress/2009/12/31/1523/comment-page-1/#comment-408 Sabine aka galadriel12 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:47:39 +0000 http://grintasticonline.org/wordpress/?p=1523#comment-408 Brilliant. I haven't read the Twilight books, but knowing you, Sam, I trust your judgement. And I agree wholeheartedly with everything on Harry Potter. You want a female role model young girls/women? Honestly, forget Bella Swan. Read the books and enjoy them, but take example in the formidable Hermione Granger (or Minerva McGonagall, or Ginny Weasley, or Luna Lovegood, or Molly Weasley,or ...) Brilliant. I haven’t read the Twilight books, but knowing you, Sam, I trust your judgement. And I agree wholeheartedly with everything on Harry Potter. You want a female role model young girls/women? Honestly, forget Bella Swan. Read the books and enjoy them, but take example in the formidable Hermione Granger (or Minerva McGonagall, or Ginny Weasley, or Luna Lovegood, or Molly Weasley,or …)

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