Slash and Fanfic (was: Responses to assaults on my parenting)

[Haggridd <jkusalavagemd@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "gwendolyngrace 
<gwendolyngrace at y...>" <gwendolyngrace at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Haggridd 
> <jkusalavagemd at y...>" <jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> 
>  
> > I would like to raise some counter-questions to the ones you pose:

[I snipped a long rather good argument by Gwen.  See her last post.]
> 
> But, I suppose that provides an answer to my question. I asked why 
> the change of orientation alone should mean a radical change in 
one's 
> opinion of the character.
> 
> Apparently, your answer is that you believe the change of 
orientation 
> automatically changes practically everything about the character.
> 
> Gwen

You missed the precise point of my counterquestion.  I do not 
trivialize coming-out either.  I also do not think some miraculous 
ransformation occurs at the moment of coming out-- of course, one is 
the same person, except for the news bulletin-- but I think it wrong
to liken sexual orientation to some kind of "Lego" block that doesn't 
affect anything else in one's makeup.  It is more like a leaven, 
which ends up running through everything that makes you "you" or me 
me".  If you accept that, an author who portrays a straight character 
exactly as a gay character, except for the label about orientation, 
is one with such lack of insight that I would not want to read 
his/her work no matter what the SHIPping.  So, I think we each may 
have misunderstood the other a little.

My opinion of said character would not necessarily change, but I 
would hope the character would be more vividly drawn than you suggest.

Haggridd