634: Analyzing the Representation of Women in Harry Potter
MuggleCast: the Harry Potter podcast
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Laura helms this episode with our social media manager Chloé, and they're joined by #Millennial's Pamela Gocobachi and MuggleCast's latest team member (and Eric's other half) Meg Scott.
They discuss the demonization of femininity in Harry Potter and the "I'm not like other girls" pandemic, how many of JKR's most unlikable characters are strongly associated with overtly feminine characteristics, the demonization of feminine interests, and JKR's issues with the color pink.
Later, the girls talk about how women treat other women in the series (both the positive and negative relationships), and then talk about what chapter they'd like to see from a woman's perspective, which witch they think they're most like, who they'd want at a sleepover, and which Wizarding World cosmetic they wish was real.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Welcome to Muggle Cast, your weekly ride into the Wizarding World fandom. |
| 0:19.6 | This week is a week for the books because the girls are taking over so get ready to party with us |
| 0:28.5 | this week and also have a lot of meaningful discussion about representation of women in the |
| 0:36.8 | Wizarding world. This is super timely that we have this panel of lovely ladies together but it's also worth |
| 0:47.2 | pointing out that we've never had an all woman led episode of Muggle Cast in the 630-something episodes that we have. |
| 0:58.0 | Andrew, Eric, and Micah found dead. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh no, the chaos is already kicking off. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, I'm here, so. |
| 1:08.6 | Chloe's like, in case anyone didn't know, I'm here for the girls episode to bring the chaos. Yes. |
| 1:14.7 | But I thought to get us started today to meet everyone on the panel. |
| 1:21.5 | Secret for all the listeners, you know everyone on the panel. Secret for all the listeners, |
| 1:23.5 | you know everyone on this panel already. |
| 1:26.0 | So you're going to be really, really happy |
| 1:28.1 | to hear who all we have with us today. |
| 1:30.4 | And to do this, we're going to go around |
| 1:32.2 | and do some intros and share our fandom IDs so your house your favorite movie and your favorite book |
| 1:38.4 | I'm Meg my house is Ravenclaw and I was just on a mowo cast episode in July a chapter by chapter for prisoner and so I introduced myself then but as a reminder my favorite book and movie are both Goblet of Fire. So I was really excited that the |
| 1:56.5 | Goblet of Fire commentary happened because that movie is just, it's just a good time. |
| 2:00.3 | It was so good. And I just want to take a moment to shout out Meg also received another plug on the show recently because she is |
| 2:09.8 | spearheading the revival of Muggle Cast transcripts. |
| 2:15.0 | So, allow me to thank you, Meg, |
| 2:18.6 | because it is such an undertaking, |
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