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Bitch, please.
Oct. 20th, 2007 10:03 amOkay, so...
I apparently have left the Harry Potter fandom. Because my only reaction to the Big Gay News this morning was, "Shut the hell up, JK." Dumbledore has always been asexual, the mentor figure, the old guy. saying he's gay is like saying Dobby is, or Hedwig, or the Weasleys' attic ghoul. Completely meaningless. Plus not canon. And come on, Joanne, you really couldn't have had the guts to write it in, if it was what you believed? Homosexuality is no longer cutting-edge, dear - just a grandstanding interview. She's throwing us crumbs, and they're really crummy crumbs.
And anyway, Dead/Evil Gay Person anyone? DD/GG does in many ways symbolically conflate gayness with the temptations of the Dark Side, and the fact that she NEVER ADDRESSES IT IN THE BOOK does nothing to combat that reading.
I'm sorry, but the obvious degayification mechanism of Remus/Tonks at work in books 6 and 7 doesn't leave JKR as looking much like an ally.
/bitter
I apparently have left the Harry Potter fandom. Because my only reaction to the Big Gay News this morning was, "Shut the hell up, JK." Dumbledore has always been asexual, the mentor figure, the old guy. saying he's gay is like saying Dobby is, or Hedwig, or the Weasleys' attic ghoul. Completely meaningless. Plus not canon. And come on, Joanne, you really couldn't have had the guts to write it in, if it was what you believed? Homosexuality is no longer cutting-edge, dear - just a grandstanding interview. She's throwing us crumbs, and they're really crummy crumbs.
And anyway, Dead/Evil Gay Person anyone? DD/GG does in many ways symbolically conflate gayness with the temptations of the Dark Side, and the fact that she NEVER ADDRESSES IT IN THE BOOK does nothing to combat that reading.
I'm sorry, but the obvious degayification mechanism of Remus/Tonks at work in books 6 and 7 doesn't leave JKR as looking much like an ally.
/bitter