[HPforGrownups] Stereotypes /Re: I am so happy, There is a gay couple in canon after all.

[Metylda]

No: HPFGUIDX 178238


--- Tonks <tonks_op at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" 
> <eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
> > 
> > I never predicted Dumbledore was gay but now that
> I think about it 
> I > should have because there were hints. For
> example, Dumbledore 
> never married. 
<snip>
> > 
> > And when I read about his short but very intense
> "friendship" with 
> the young and beautiful Grindelwald I should have
> been suspicious. 
> > 
> > I should have noticed in the very first book that
> Dumbledore's 
> dress code was a bit over the top even by wizard
> standards. 
<snip>

> Tonks:
> Just because a person doesnt marry doesnt mean
> that they are gay. 
<snip>
> 
> When I read about DD having an intense friendship
> with Grindelwald, 
> sex was the last thing on my mine. But from what I
> read here, it was 
> the first thing on the mind of many readers. Maybe
> that is because 
> so many of the readers are young and youth and
> sexual thoughts seem 
> to go together. To me DD just had a close friend, a
> best friend who 
> was as intelligent as he and had the same interest.
> We all are drawn 
> to people like that. We even love them if they
> are a best friend. 
> That doesnt mean we are in love with them.
> Frankly being in 
> love means nothing in the long run. But truly
> loving a best 
> friend, now that would make a difference in how
> difficult it would 
> be to fight that person later. 
> 
> As to DDs cool way of dressing. Gosh, cant a
> straight guy have 
> some class or artistic expression? <snip>
> 
> Tonks_op
> 
> 
> 


bamf:

I think my problems with JKR's talking is best summed
up by Tonks_op.  She took a character that was unique,
eccentric and mysterious, and now all that made the
character unique, eccentric and mysterious are chalked
up to DD being gay.  I chalk his clothing choices up
to age, not sexual preference.  

There are many ways she could have answered the
question that was asked.  A simple, "What do you
think" would have sufficed. Heavens knows she gave us
enough vague answers BEFORE the books came out.

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

*****

Me t wyrd gewf

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