Is Dumbledore Gay? Depends on Definitions of ?Is? and ?Gay?

[susanmcgee48176]

> Magpie:
> I actually thought that was a silly part of the article (not the 
only 
> silly part, imo!). I have no problem with your imagining Dumbledore 
as 
> a monk--it's as good an imaginary Dumbledore as any. I just didn't 
> like the idea that if he's interested in important things he must 
also 
> be above sex. Why would that be necessary? Sure there are people 
not 
> that interested and I don't think it's bad to write a character 
that 
> way if that's the character, but it seems a bit weird to assume 
that 
> the smarter you are, or the more committed to high ideals...the 
> more "above" sex you must be. Why even "above" sex, as if sex is 
some 
> lower form of behavior. He's not above enjoying candy, couldn't he 
> also have an interest in sex, one that he acts on in a responsible 
> way? His one love affair, if one takes JKR's interview as truth, 
would 
> be when he was a teenager anyway--and may not have even been acted 
on.
> 
> One of my pet peeves about this whole thing is just the way that 
> sometimes the fact that he would be gay makes his sexuality 
different. 
> If Nicholas Flamel could be married, I don't see why the gay wizard 
> couldn't also fit in romance if he met someone he loved. Voldemort 
> seems like the most celibate wizard in canon and it seems like 
that's 
> part of his disdain for regular life and people in general.
> 
> -m
> 
But there's a whole Christian thing (with respect to those who 
believe in it) that says that Mary was a virgin and therefore pure..
and that if you engage in sexual activity that somehow that defiles 
you and makes you less pure...

In fact, all of us humans are sexual beings. One can be committed to 
great ideals, and a great fighter for justice, and still be sexual..
it's that patriarchal mind/body dichotomy that identifies male with 
mind and female with body, and male with intellect and female with 
birth and sex...

Susan

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