[ SECRET POST #2296 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2296 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 056 secrets from Secret Submission Post #328.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god, can everyone stop willfully misreading this secret?

The OP isn't saying teachers are on par with psychopaths. But there is an old stereotype - WHICH IS STILL ALIVE TODAY - that teachers are childless, sexless professors who dedicate their lives to ~the children they never had~ and so on. It used to be that one of the only ways to get around the societal expectation/imperative to have children was to become a teacher, which was where it started.

Fun fact: In the 1800s and probably early-mid 1900s, in many places it was against the rules for a female teacher to become pregnant.

This is a really harmful stereotype - that all woman teachers are spinsters - which JKR plays right into.

Personally, I'm grossed out by this and the pretty obvious misogyny JKR is displaying, both in her comments and her books. I swear, the older I get the less I enjoy Harry Potter... but then, I guess according to JKR, I'm a bitter old crone who would never understand her books anyway, since I don't have children and don't plan to!

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, they did repeat their assertion later in the thread, despite many existing comments suggesting drawing a parallel between psychopaths and teachers was not perhaps appropriate. Which was even more hilarious than the wank.

[(Anonymous)]

Not only are you the one misreading the secret- the op showed up and said yes teachers = psychopaths is what they meant- and not only does your trope lesson has fuck all to do with the time hp is set and is pretty much the opposite these days -why don't you go through this thread- but, you misread what jk said as well or you don't know what misogyny means. or maybe both.

[(Anonymous)]

Do we know that that was the OP?

Because that seems like bullshit to me.

[(Anonymous)]

miysogny?

Wow so because in the olden days teachers weren't allowed to have children having childless teachers or teachers who appear to be childless in a story taking place in the 1990s it's ~misogyny ~.

What about if I wrote a story where dudes who weren't sickly or didn't have a disorder of some kind always seemed to be working for the military, Would that be misandry ?

You are misreading her commentary also.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm grossed out by people having to be offended by anything so we're even.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm more inclined to think that a) you don't know what misogyny means, and b) that you clearly have not read this thread (where the OP shows up later and literally says that yes, she IS drawing a parallel between teachers and psychopaths) than that J. K. Rowling's book is ~sexist~ and ~icky~ and ~problematic~. Any other SJW catchphrases that I'm missing here?

[(Anonymous)]

Ignoring the hurrdurr misogyny.

Weird that I've never heard that stereotype today. Especially since I went to school with a lot of teachers kids and had a few pregnant teachers. And I wouldn't say sexless either considering how many (usually female) teachers get caught with their students.

[(Anonymous)]

The fact that your observed reality doesn't match up to the stereotype IS NOT EVIDENCE THAT THE STEREOTYPE DOESN'T EXIST!

We all know lots of stereotypes that aren't true.

Also, just because you haven't heard the stereotype doesn't mean others haven't.

I have. Very, very frequently.

[(Anonymous)]

guess it's a good thing hp isn't aimed at you all grown up then, isn't it?