I remember reading this somewhere and banging my head against the monitor. Way to go on completely verifying naysayers' cynical views there, JKR! And the whole thing about homophobia fearing love is just NOT true. I'm pretty sure that it's more the whole sex factor and gender role factor that gets homophobes all nervous in general. Many (homoophobes) never even considered whether homosexual love could exist, especially healthy, mutual and fulfilling love (Something that Dumbledore's romance clearly isn't). And of course the whole romance and plot relevance hypocrisy absolutely pisses me off. It seems that all het mentions are perfectly fine but the sole token gay one cannot be mentioned? And Dumbledore's off-canon UNREQUITED romance (I remember that being mentioned) has to be something that shuts him off from love? Doesn't that screw with the whole love theme? (Although that is already gloriously ruined by JKR's het romances anyway). I just hope that she doesn't think that she should be awarded a GLAAD media award for her "trailblazing". Or even worse, that others think she deserves it.
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Date: 2008-03-09 11:08 pm (UTC)And the whole thing about homophobia fearing love is just NOT true. I'm pretty sure that it's more the whole sex factor and gender role factor that gets homophobes all nervous in general. Many (homoophobes) never even considered whether homosexual love could exist, especially healthy, mutual and fulfilling love (Something that Dumbledore's romance clearly isn't).
And of course the whole romance and plot relevance hypocrisy absolutely pisses me off. It seems that all het mentions are perfectly fine but the sole token gay one cannot be mentioned? And Dumbledore's off-canon UNREQUITED romance (I remember that being mentioned) has to be something that shuts him off from love? Doesn't that screw with the whole love theme? (Although that is already gloriously ruined by JKR's het romances anyway).
I just hope that she doesn't think that she should be awarded a GLAAD media award for her "trailblazing". Or even worse, that others think she deserves it.