One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations
Tonks
tonks_op at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 9 07:57:10 UTC 2007
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<Schlobin at ...> wrote:
> > Magpie:
Why are those the two "you could
> > see" but there's a problem with Dumbledore? Because Lockhart's a
> > vain pompous guy obsessed with appearance and Slughorn's a
prissy glutton?
Susan:>
> Yes, Magpie, good point...it's okay if a cowardly, prissy,
pompous, unethical Lockhart is gay...or if a old fat admirer of
Riddle Slytherin is gay....THAT jives with people's stereotypical
view of gay men...but for the bravest and best wizard in the world
to be gay?
Tonks:
I just want to point out that what you have just said above is also,
what was the word we are not going to use? The B word. You are
implying here that someone who is old, or over weight is seen as
less that human. Slughorn, in your eyes, isnât 'good enough' to be
the gay one. You are saying that someone like Lockhart who is
cautious, and cares about their appearance, is prissy and cowardly.
Do you see my point? No one is without some prejudges against some
group or other. The problem for me in all of this bickering back and
forth is that truth gets lost. Whoever is not like US, is âthemâ. We
are all discriminated against one way or another. Like it or not, it
seems to be a fact of life. I wish it were not so, but it is what it
is.
Tonks_op
old, fat, and prissy.
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