JK Rowling on CBC Newsworld tonight

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "susanmcgee48176" 
<Schlobin at ...> wrote:> >
> 
> So, you're saying that JKR thinks of DD as gay because she didn't 
> have a good relationship with her father. 
> 
> She thinks therefore that a better father or a better God would be 
> gay? She thinks that heterosexual men are more abusive than gay 
men?  Or worse fathers? I doubt very much that JKR has such a biased 
view of heterosexual men.
> 
> Or are you saying that being gay is bad...and therefore because 
JKR didn't have a good relationship with her father..she equated him 
with  God the Father, Albus Dumbledore, and made DD gay because gay 
is bad?
> 
> Please explain.

Tonks:
If God or DD is gay he is out of bounds for her psychologically. 
Since usually a young girl's father is a love object for her, if she 
had a bad relationship with her real father she has to make any 
substitute father figure out of bounds as far as 'falling in love' 
goes.  She can not therefor be 'in love' with God or with any other 
father image. It is a subconscious thing. It is not about sex, so 
her husband is a different story. Althought she may have had some 
difficulty in relationships with other men in her life before her 
current husband, because a girl's relationship with her father will 
have an effect on all other relationships with men after his.

Tonks_op