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I do think we needed more information here, but changing someone's genitals without their permission isn't right. We need to understand the cultural significance of this practice (and I see a lot of discussion going on here about just that) but we also need to question it. Just because it comes from a culture that has…
I'm normally very "whataboutdamenz".... but the dismissive tone many "feminists" take toward routine infant male circumcision is beyond inappropriate. It's invading a child's body without their consent. Yet in the US/Canada many women calling themselves feminists, advocating for abortion, strong believers in consent,…
I saw the first movie when it came out and was bored to tears. Many years later my ex forced me to watch 2-5 while I was defenseless and sick on his couch. By the third movie I was completely captivated. I ended up introducing my son to the movies and then going with him to see the last 3 in the theater. When we…
Oh yay! I'm so glad you mentioned this! I am twenty five and I feel the exact same way; the story is entwined with my childhood and the growth of the characters happened with me, which makes them important and special (at least for me—and you too, apparently!).
It's like, if you don't read fantasy books, fine. Don't. But don't make anyone else feel shitty about liking what they like by acting snide.
It's literally impossible to be too old for Harry Potter!
"I don't read fantasy" - girl who is missing out
I also read them as they were coming out, I am just a few years older than you, and loved how the books matured with us. Each one got progressively darker. I dug it.
I didn't start *liking* it until a good way through the second book and didn't start loving the series until the third one.
Harry Potter is one of the very few things I am sentimental about. I was in the same age group as the characters and the new books always came out around my birthday and the only thing I ever requested as a present was to get the book on the super special Amazon day-of delivery. Getting to "grow up" with the books was…
I don't understand these people, and I won't respond to them.
I read all the books as they were coming out (well I think I read the first three all at once and then had to wait on the others to be released) as an adult (yes I'm old). However I've only really watched the first movie (and seen some bits of the others) because it was so horrifically dull. I would not say the…
I'm sure she's lovely but I hated blonde-hat-chick as soon as she was all "I don't read fantasy novels." *valleygirleyeroll*
Crappy adult novels? I just read The Cuckoo Calling and it is fucking fantastic.
Honestly? The only thing I didn't like about the epilogue was that Dudley didn't have a kid at Hogwarts. Rowling said she considered it but felt that "magic wouldn't survive Vernon's genes."
I may be in the minority, but I loved the epilogue. No, more than loved—I needed it. I was grieving the untimely loss of a family member when that book came out, and I needed an ending that said, "It's okay. Things really do turn out good for everyone, even years later."
I always liked that they didn't. It was too obvious to pair like all of that group together. They're basically the Phoebe and Joey of Harry Potter.