While it is unrealistic that teenagers would never think/talk about sex, I can forgive that more because you can always assume it happened off-page. Not having anyone be gay or transgendered outside of author interviews, though, is much less forgivable. (And don't get me started on race...)
I like the HP books, but they have more than their fair share of problematic elements, for sure.
I do not believe that two references over 4 books really constitutes a "thing". It isn't even big enough to qualify as a thingette, it barely passes muster as a thingino.
But a whingeino about the thingino: both outings taste of Author. Max/Martin seemed like a Take That to Jo: Mwah hah hah! I have outed a character in CANON. Likewise, Alex is going to indulge in hawt schoolgirl action was like Harry's Death March in DH. "I have no intention of writing explicit sexual content" so Readers already knew it wasn't gonna happen and the only question was how will the Author stop it happening?
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inverarity) wrote2012-04-23 07:39 am
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I like the HP books, but they have more than their fair share of problematic elements, for sure.
The gay thing?
But a whingeino about the thingino: both outings taste of Author. Max/Martin seemed like a Take That to Jo: Mwah hah hah! I have outed a character in CANON. Likewise, Alex is going to indulge in hawt schoolgirl action was like Harry's Death March in DH. "I have no intention of writing explicit sexual content" so Readers already knew it wasn't gonna happen and the only question was how will the Author stop it happening?
Re: The gay thing?
I don't see what "hawt schoolgirl action" has to do with Harry's Death March.
"No explicit sexual content" doesn't mean no one will ever have sex, just that I'm not going to describe it in NC-17 detail.