Well of course she didn't mean anything negative by it, and nobody is saying that this is an "attack" on homosexual romances or anything. It's just something that happened to fall into a tiresome cliche, and that cliche (the only homosexual romances portrayed are always twisted and evil) sends a message, whether unintentional or not. Which is dissappointing, of course.
The comparison to heterosexual romances doesn't work. The reason is that, in all forms of literature and film, we already have all sorts of diverse portrayals of all sorts of heterosexual romances, whether healthy, unhealthy, or anywhere in between. BUT in our current body of literature and film, we have very, very few portrayals of homosexual men and homosexual romances - and the vast majority of those are portrayed as sick, unhealthy, and twisted. (For a recent example, look at the Persians in 300.) Which is why it's tiresome every time another example pops up.
Again, nobody is saying that Jo is deliberately insulting or attacking gays or anything. It's just dissappointing that, even though it was courageous of her to out Dumbledore, it's still frustrating that so far there's only been on canonically gay relationship in the Potter books, and that relationship is a textbook stereotype of a gay relationship. I'm 100% sure that there was no harm intended on Jo's part. But that doesn't change the fact that it's still dissappointing.
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The comparison to heterosexual romances doesn't work. The reason is that, in all forms of literature and film, we already have all sorts of diverse portrayals of all sorts of heterosexual romances, whether healthy, unhealthy, or anywhere in between. BUT in our current body of literature and film, we have very, very few portrayals of homosexual men and homosexual romances - and the vast majority of those are portrayed as sick, unhealthy, and twisted. (For a recent example, look at the Persians in 300.) Which is why it's tiresome every time another example pops up.
Again, nobody is saying that Jo is deliberately insulting or attacking gays or anything. It's just dissappointing that, even though it was courageous of her to out Dumbledore, it's still frustrating that so far there's only been on canonically gay relationship in the Potter books, and that relationship is a textbook stereotype of a gay relationship. I'm 100% sure that there was no harm intended on Jo's part. But that doesn't change the fact that it's still dissappointing.