> > Oh, I'm all over the adult/teen thing (holdover from my own teen years I'm sure) so I was more making a distinction between child-as-proto-adult and teen-as-actual-adult. > I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Could you elaborate?
I was thinking particularly of your statement that That "child" aspect of Dawn is forever associated to her with me. I'm far more interested in adults than children, so I meant that I was interested in teenagers who were capable of functioning as adults rather than in children who are adultlike in some ways.
Also, you had said "I wait until Dawn is in her mid-to-late twenties to make the Dawn/Giles happen, so it's certainly not the same thing logically" and I was explaining that I have no problem with adult/teen relationships so I don't necessarily age Dawn up and thus was saying "does it even make sense to think of her as a child?" not to say "Dawn/Giles means Dawn is not a good comparison for Matilda/Miss Honey" but rather to say "Dawn is very adultlike."
Does that make more sense?
If only competencey restrictions weren't so clearly historically used to disenfranchise minorities. Robert Heinlein actually has a good essay about different possible competency requirements that could be put in place and what the effects of various possibilities might be.
I'd be interested to read that Heinlein essay.
My default fallback solution for most every problem is to more education (in a broad sense, not necessarily an endorsement of how the current educational system is run or idealized by any number of groups) -- in this case, encouraging people to educate themselves about political issues.
Isn't Miss Honey's first name Jennifer? I just can't see teen!Matilda calling her guardian "Miss Honey."
Oh, that's entirely possible. As I said elsewhere in this discussion, it's been years since I read the book, and obviously I think of her primarily as "Miss Honey." That makes your statement far less non-sequitor-y :)
[And yes, IMDb lists her as: Miss Jennifer 'Jenny' Honey]
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> I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Could you elaborate?
I was thinking particularly of your statement that That "child" aspect of Dawn is forever associated to her with me. I'm far more interested in adults than children, so I meant that I was interested in teenagers who were capable of functioning as adults rather than in children who are adultlike in some ways.
Also, you had said "I wait until Dawn is in her mid-to-late twenties to make the Dawn/Giles happen, so it's certainly not the same thing logically" and I was explaining that I have no problem with adult/teen relationships so I don't necessarily age Dawn up and thus was saying "does it even make sense to think of her as a child?" not to say "Dawn/Giles means Dawn is not a good comparison for Matilda/Miss Honey" but rather to say "Dawn is very adultlike."
Does that make more sense?
If only competencey restrictions weren't so clearly historically used to disenfranchise minorities. Robert Heinlein actually has a good essay about different possible competency requirements that could be put in place and what the effects of various possibilities might be.
I'd be interested to read that Heinlein essay.
My default fallback solution for most every problem is to more education (in a broad sense, not necessarily an endorsement of how the current educational system is run or idealized by any number of groups) -- in this case, encouraging people to educate themselves about political issues.
Isn't Miss Honey's first name Jennifer? I just can't see teen!Matilda calling her guardian "Miss Honey."
Oh, that's entirely possible. As I said elsewhere in this discussion, it's been years since I read the book, and obviously I think of her primarily as "Miss Honey." That makes your statement far less non-sequitor-y :)
[And yes, IMDb lists her as: Miss Jennifer 'Jenny' Honey]