JKR messed up........ no.

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mandorino222"
<mandorino222 at ...> wrote:
>
> However you feel about homosexuality, it is naive to ignore the
> fact that JKR has definitely damaged the long-term viability of
> this series.   There are legions of people who are viscerally
> disturbed by homosexuality, and I'm afraid that homophobia is not
> going anywhere fast.  While this stunt has certainly worked to her
> benefit in the short term (i.e. the megalomaniac who was feeling
> empty and starved for attention has gotten her name back in the
> paper), it will accomplish nothing in the long term but to limit
> her audience and stifle exposure of her book to children of future
> generations.


JKR is richer than the queen already, has other books into the
plan, she does not NEED a headline... so he's gay. Whooopdee dooooooo. For one it was the press who portayed this news to us... not in video, where we can see it for ourselves how she let this info loose,(not that I have seen) but by their words. If you remember correctly these are some of the same idiots who let loose the ending too early and also pump up bad headlines for their own tactic to increase sales on anything.

Now, she says she hopes this helps in teaching tolerance in all
areas, racism, homophobia, etc... well the only way that it is going
to be overcome is that people be that way instead of teaching it. I
am a parent of 3 kids. My oldest knows what being gay is already. He
doesn't agree with it but finds no fault of them being a bad person or a lesser person who does not deserve respect (as most people who are most of the time get none and are dissmissed).

There have been many famous people who have been gay or rumored
to be gay and it has no effect on what we thought of their work. For
example... Walt Whitman *U.S. poet, author, 19th c.; Oscar Wilde
*Irish author, 19th c.; James Dean *U.S. actor, 20th c; Leonardo Da
Vinci* Ital. artist, scientist, 15th c.; etc. Now you wouldn't say we
can not go and see his work because he was gay,.... no. What should
it be any differnt that DD being gay? There is none. Unless you are a
woman who has a crush on the headmaster yourself and felt let down.


I do not belive she has messed up or gone too far. She merely
stated a fact of his life. She did not overshare either. I believe
over time when racism and homophobia is no longer taught, yes I say
taught, there will be tolerance. These two things are a learned hate.
My family speaks badly of gay peole and I was taught to hate. Either
one accepts and keeps the hate taught or opens their eyes to see past
skin and sexual preferance. What the shame is that people have to
change their minds on GOOD people because of one detail like it was a
murder sentence.

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