tongue-tied and talking about HP
How shall I put it?
My reaction to Rowling saying that Dumbledore's gay was more or less the same as when I read that Dumas actually wrote Eugénie and Louise from "Count of Monte-Cristo" as lesbians, not close friends (who sleep in the same bed and joke about eloping together, ahem).
Because when I read about (or see in a movie) a certain kind of intensely close same-sex relationship being called 'friendship', I tend to giggle and wonder whether the author really couldn't see what it looked like. When I learn that the author actually did write the relationship as love, not as friendship, I calm down and develop a kind of respect for him - because this is not a depiction of friendship gone horribly (or deliciously, depends on the reader) wrong, it's exactly what the author wanted it to be.
And Rowling talking about Dumbledore being gay sounds like explaining the thing once more to those who didn't get it from the book (it appears that there were surprisingly many).
My reaction to Rowling saying that Dumbledore's gay was more or less the same as when I read that Dumas actually wrote Eugénie and Louise from "Count of Monte-Cristo" as lesbians, not close friends (who sleep in the same bed and joke about eloping together, ahem).
Because when I read about (or see in a movie) a certain kind of intensely close same-sex relationship being called 'friendship', I tend to giggle and wonder whether the author really couldn't see what it looked like. When I learn that the author actually did write the relationship as love, not as friendship, I calm down and develop a kind of respect for him - because this is not a depiction of friendship gone horribly (or deliciously, depends on the reader) wrong, it's exactly what the author wanted it to be.
And Rowling talking about Dumbledore being gay sounds like explaining the thing once more to those who didn't get it from the book (it appears that there were surprisingly many).