The problems with DD being gay

[delwynmarch]

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Katie wrote: 
> So, every teenager that falls in love with another teenager is going 
> to be a pediphile?  

Del replies:
I never said anything like that. Especially since I wasn't even
talking of pedophilia anyway.

> Would you make that assumption if DD's first love had been Minerva 
> McGonagall or some other woman, instead of a man? I really wonder. 

I really wish people would stop insinuating that I'm somehow dissing
DD because I don't like him supposedly being gay. It's a dishonest
maneuver to discredit the poster rather than the post, IMO.

> I see absolutely NO evidence in canon that DD was EVER attracted to
> young boys.

I agree. But then nobody in this thread ever argued anything of that
sort, so I'm not sure why you're even mentioning it. My own posts deal
with ephebophilia, the love of teenage boys, not pedophilia, which is
the love of young boys. Not the same thing at all.

> And to say so, IMO, really denigrates the character and 
> the story. 

Does this help you understand how people who think there is something
wrong with homosexuality feel about the revelation that DD is gay?
Whatever you think of their opinion that homosexuality is wrong, that
doesn't change how they *feel* about the character and the story now.