It is a very interesting question because I think homophobia is a fear of people loving, more than it is of the sexual act. There seems to be an innate distaste for the love involved, which I find absolutely extraordinary.
Okay, this just makes me laugh. What planet is she on? Homophobia is almost entirely about fear of anal sex and of men being penetrated and taking on the "female" role in the sexual act.
And yeah, the whole "oh, he became a Nazi because he fell in luurrvvv" is incredibly silly and pointless. Silly because it's unconvincing to me psychologically (love is hardly the only reason, or even the most common reason, why decent people are drawn to hateful ideologies!), and pointless because it makes Dumbledore's anti-Muggle past have nothing to do with his true character--it's all because he was brainwashed by love, because his love made him not himself any more, almost as if he was drunk the whole time. IMO that view of it makes that story less powerful.
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Date: 2008-03-09 09:03 pm (UTC)Okay, this just makes me laugh. What planet is she on? Homophobia is almost entirely about fear of anal sex and of men being penetrated and taking on the "female" role in the sexual act.
And yeah, the whole "oh, he became a Nazi because he fell in luurrvvv" is incredibly silly and pointless. Silly because it's unconvincing to me psychologically (love is hardly the only reason, or even the most common reason, why decent people are drawn to hateful ideologies!), and pointless because it makes Dumbledore's anti-Muggle past have nothing to do with his true character--it's all because he was brainwashed by love, because his love made him not himself any more, almost as if he was drunk the whole time. IMO that view of it makes that story less powerful.