One girl was sent to hell because she was getting interested in clothes and boys.” – Phillip Pullman, interview in The Guardian 3 June 2002** “ is monumentally disparaging of girls and women. She has committed the unforgivable sin of growing up” – A.N. “Only one of the children from the original quartet is excluded from heaven.
“Lewis had no difficulty mating beavers happily, but whenever we find him placing a man in proximity to a woman, or in situations that might suggest a muse relationship it is to expose the pairing as unnatural and wicked… Lewis feared women and disliked them categorically… The actual provocation for executing these seven novels sprang from his need to put a woman in her place-or two women, perhaps, or all of them” – John Goldthwaite, The Natural History of Make-Believe Rowling interview in Time Magazine 17 July 2005. She’s become irreligious basically because she found sex. “There comes a point where Susan, who was the older girl, is lost to Narnia because she becomes interested in lipstick. He was frightened and appalled at the notion of wanting to grow up” – Phillip Pullman, interview in The Guardian 1 October 1998 He didn’t like women in general, or sexuality at all, at least at the stage in life when he wrote the Narnia books.
“Boys are better than girls light-colored people are better than dark-colored people and so on…Susan, like Cinderella, is undergoing a transition from one phase of her life to another. “What is disturbing in the Narnian Chronicles, as well as in the whole range of Lewis’s literary corpus is the way in which ultimate good is depicted as ultimate masculinity, while evil, the corruption of good, is depicted as femininity” – Kath Filmer from the chapter “Masking the Misogynist in Narnia and Glome” from The Fiction of C.
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