Potshots from the Left?
Before I even get started: I've just figured out how you guys can always tell who's having a birthday. Very cool - and a belated happy birthday to Sage and Vado!
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And now. Hmm. I haven't even finished digesting your comments on my last question, and here I am with a new one (which I have also posted to OT Chat, though not TOC - I'm starting to worry that'll I'll wear out my welcom in TOC if I don't shut up for a while!)
Here goes:
Although we all know about the religious criticism the HP books have received from folks who perceive them as promoting the occult and moral relativism, the books have *also* been criticized by people who feel that they are guilty things like marginalizing women, denigrating social activism, bowdlerizing teenage sexuality and a number of other sins that are hardly typical concerns of the people who advance the *other* sort of critique mentioned above. In fact, this latter sort of criticism seems to come from the opposite ("left"?) side of our cultural value spectrum. (Assuming it's a spectrum, which I don't think it is, but nevermind.)
Have you all seen much of this "leftist" criticism? Any particular names or links? - I'm having trouble finding much material. How do you think it compares to the other kind of criticism? There certainly doesn't seem to be as much of this kind - or is that simply because the kind of people who advance these kinds of critiques don't usually go bananas about it and hence don't get much press?
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And now. Hmm. I haven't even finished digesting your comments on my last question, and here I am with a new one (which I have also posted to OT Chat, though not TOC - I'm starting to worry that'll I'll wear out my welcom in TOC if I don't shut up for a while!)
Here goes:
Although we all know about the religious criticism the HP books have received from folks who perceive them as promoting the occult and moral relativism, the books have *also* been criticized by people who feel that they are guilty things like marginalizing women, denigrating social activism, bowdlerizing teenage sexuality and a number of other sins that are hardly typical concerns of the people who advance the *other* sort of critique mentioned above. In fact, this latter sort of criticism seems to come from the opposite ("left"?) side of our cultural value spectrum. (Assuming it's a spectrum, which I don't think it is, but nevermind.)
Have you all seen much of this "leftist" criticism? Any particular names or links? - I'm having trouble finding much material. How do you think it compares to the other kind of criticism? There certainly doesn't seem to be as much of this kind - or is that simply because the kind of people who advance these kinds of critiques don't usually go bananas about it and hence don't get much press?