Yeah, what's crazy about this revelation is that it's not just a random "Oh, this character's gay but I never found a place to mention it naturally." I'm sure that happens a lot and while it would still drive homophobes crazy it wouldn't be as much of a big deal.
But instead it's kind of a weird maelstrom of strange ideas--that it's not in the story despite being the Key to Everything about this character's actions, yet it's not mentioned in the story along with every other love story that drives the plot, that the one gay relationship unfortunately winds up being about a loss of moral sense and leaves the character needing to be celibate forever, that it makes all these things the character does somebody else's fault when it's supposed to be about choice--and at the same time in a story where everybody's just revealing their innate natures, somehow Dumbledore gets a pass few others get because what he does under the influence of love doesn't say anything about his real character.
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Date: 2008-03-10 02:36 pm (UTC)But instead it's kind of a weird maelstrom of strange ideas--that it's not in the story despite being the Key to Everything about this character's actions, yet it's not mentioned in the story along with every other love story that drives the plot, that the one gay relationship unfortunately winds up being about a loss of moral sense and leaves the character needing to be celibate forever, that it makes all these things the character does somebody else's fault when it's supposed to be about choice--and at the same time in a story where everybody's just revealing their innate natures, somehow Dumbledore gets a pass few others get because what he does under the influence of love doesn't say anything about his real character.