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“I’d Rather Have A Girl Than A Boy”

Kate Middleton is pregnant! Yesterday brought news that she is absolutely positively without a doubt having a girl (according to the psychic doctors at The Daily Mail), which led editors Jennifer Wright and Ashley Cardiff to discuss their gender preferences for future progeny.

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Jennifer:  Do you want a boy or a girl? Don’t say you want something healthy. Take it as a given that your baby is going to be a mutant who shoots lasers out of its eyeballs. So, very healthy.

Ashley:  Actually, Cyclops was the least robust mutant.

Jennifer:  He was kind of feeble, but I liked him. I wish I could give birth to an X-Men, but the odds seem in favor of my ultimately giving birth to either a male or female human child (Though I already have them wait-listed at Hogwarts, so that will help).

Ashley:  I didn’t know made-up wizard schools had dynastic admissions policies.

Jennifer:  I donated a wing for actual English lit studies so those kids are going to know how to read in addition to studying ghost habits and tea leaves and whatever.

Ashley:  Wait, no one actually learns non-wizarding at Hogwarts? Like English or math? Isn’t that negligence…?

Jennifer: Yes.

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  • alexandra
  • Maggie

    Actually, in the Harry Potter series, they don’t start at Hogwarts until they’re 11, and kids who are muggle-born (that means non-magical, Ashley) like Harry and Hermione went to proper elementary school until they were 11, so they must’ve been at least somewhat educated in English and Math. I assume wizard parents home schooled too?

    I just thought I would be really nerdy and clear that up :)

    • Annie

      I’m still not sure completely stopping a kid’s education, apart from wizardry, at 11(!) is a great idea… Then you’re left with a bunch of volatile, temperamental, and practically illiterate kids with insane amounts of power. That just seems like a combustible situation!
      Harry Potter; saves the world, doesn’t know the difference between there, their, and they’re.

    • http://twitter.com/JenAshleyWright Jennifer Wright

      Right, yes, that is not enough reading and writing education. Look at what you were writing when you were 11.

    • http://twitter.com/JenAshleyWright Jennifer Wright

      People don’t spend enough time talking about what a hero Rita Skeeter was.

    • alexandra

      She must have been quite the autodidact. Studying out of vintage journalism textbooks and obsessively scanning the Daily Mail!

    • Amanda

      But Rita Skeeter had a magical quill that wrote down everything for her. She didn’t actually write anything.

    • HM

      What about Umbridge? I mean, what better way to learn spelling and grammar than repeatedly engraving the words into your own flesh?

  • HM

    See, given that the overall experience at Hogwarts seems to be ‘So! Here is how to really hurt people by pointing a glorified twig at them! Also, 25% of pupils are probably serial killers! Have fun, kids!”.

    But really though, whatever you have, just hope it’s a Slytherin.

    • http://twitter.com/JenAshleyWright Jennifer Wright

      He’s going to have nothing but snakes as pets, and I’m going to tell him to talk to them until they talk back. We’re going to train him early.

  • MR

    Well my mom and gramps (her dad) had a very special relationship. And based on what I saw when he was alive, I’d say there is not much more a dad can ask for than a loving daughter (my mom’s the only child). So my choice is definately girl.

  • Amanda

    I really can’t wait until you get The Gloss youtube channel up and running so we can watch these debates. They are pretty much my favorite thing on this site, along with Shelved Dolls.