Current mood:

*sporfle!*

The Phantom Librarian - Negative images of femininity in the popular Harriet Potter series
(Don't know if this has been posted here before...)

fernwithy on LJ pretends that the sexes of all the HP characters have been switched, yet with their personalities and actions remaining the same, then writes a hilarious mock essay which derides the awful patriarichal stereotypes in the series:

Headmistress Alba Dumbledore is the worst of all possible stereotypes--she never worries about her position as head of the school and spends all of her time nurturing children, like she has nothing more important to do. Important things are done by Malcolm McGonagall--the man, of course, who is strict and disciplinarian, except when it comes to sports, which he pushes the girls in his house to participate in (and really, one must question how healthy that realationship is). Severa Snape, on the other hand, is perpetually described like she has permanent PMS--that focus on schoolgirl bullying, and inability to be objective about it!

Aaahahahahaha!!!