Originally Posted By Mr X Thanks, Belle. Appreciate your comments, as that's how I feel about the whole thing and what I tried to explain over and over. Onlyme, since that "blatantly bigoted post", or so it was claimed, was authored by me, and you were agreeing with the comment...well, what can I say?
Originally Posted By threeundertwo Does anybody need help understanding Professor Lockhart? See me after class.
Originally Posted By onlyme >>Onlyme, since that "blatantly bigoted post", or so it was claimed, was authored by me, and you were agreeing with the comment...well, what can I say?<< Ok, last comment. I don't have any idea who Hermione is. So, I had no idea why the next poster brought that 'topic' up. Anyway, now TK will have something to tell me. I'll just bow out now.
Originally Posted By mele And he never told the truth about what he saw in the mirror of Erised.>> LOL! Hm, well then. ;-)
Originally Posted By threeundertwo >>Amazed by the warm reaction of the audience, Rowling, on her first US tour in seven years, joked: 'Just imagine the fan fiction now.'>> LOL, I'd rather not. . .
Originally Posted By jdub >>'Just imagine the fan fiction now.'>> Ooof. Gonna make all that old Kirk & Spock stuff look taaaame, it is.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I'm a fan of the books and I just KNEW that Dumbledore was gay from the start. If you read the books again, you'll also notice that... -Professor Trelawney is a lesbian -Percy is anti-Semitic -Hagrid is racist -Hedwig had the West Nile virus -Kingsley fathered 4 illegitimate children -Parvati Patil is bulimic -Padma Patil is anorexic -Snape was a drug addict -Hermoine was an alcoholic -Fred was gay, but not George...or was it George and not Fred? -Dobby was born a girl elf I'd thought I'd let all of you know first before JK makes the official announcements next month.
Originally Posted By DAR 67 replies(including mine) on something that should be a complete non-issue.
Originally Posted By jdub >>Professor Trelawney is a lesbian<<< Nuh,nuh, NO. In fact, Trelawney is what proves that old Dumbley is at the most, BI. She is so wacky and incompetent that the ONLY reason he would keep her around is because he, uh, well... let's just say: chicka-BOWM-bowwwwwmm...
Originally Posted By jdub >>67 replies(including mine) on something that should be a complete non-issue.<< Should we just close down the entire website? I get your point, but I mean on your stated basis...
Originally Posted By DAR Of course not, but I think for most of us that read the stories it's not going to change our enjoyment of the books. SciFi/Fantasy is filled with gay characters. C3PO and R2D2. Sam and Frodo. Merry and Pippin. The Joel Schumacher directed Batman and Robin. Actually all kidding aside, there's a few comic book characters who are gay. Collossus and Northstar two X-Men. And there's a series called The Authority. They're kind of like an R rated Justice League, two of there members are gay Apollo(Superman type) and Midnighter(Batman type). Electro in the Spider-Man comics is also gay. And yes I see the irony of this long post from me when I basically said who cares if Dumbledore is gay.
Originally Posted By ToonKirby >The man happens to be gay; enter enraged gay guy who has decided from my one sentence joke that I am "homophobic".< Far be it from me to extend this conversation any further, but I would like to clear up one point that I was accused of here. If you go back and read my original posts, no where do I accuse you, Mr. X, of being homophobic. What I did say was that your little "joke" was homophobic. Whether you meant it to be or not, it was. And the sad thing is that you just don't see it that way. A harmless joke here, a nasty name there ... it all adds up, and what some see as something being "blown out of proportion" is something that I and other gay people have to deal with EVERY DAY. Moreover, it is something that I expected NOT to see here at LP. Involving Harry or Hermoine or whoever, is this really the place for a "dirty old man" joke to begin with?
Originally Posted By friendofdd And so we have the great difficulty with communication by internet. We never really know the motives of others, though we can sometimes make educated guesses. And we interpret postings according to our own experience and understanding. Conversations between intelligent, well meaning people can boil down to "did to - did not" and become barriers to further communication.
Originally Posted By DAR Curb Your Enthusiasm did an episode about this. Larry David met a deaf woman. When he saw her dog he called it a rat, but the woman couldn't tell he was joking because she didn't hear his tone.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 (comic geek alert ;-)) <<Collossus and Northstar two X-Men.<< Actually, Colossus is only gay in the Ultimate X-Men universe. In the regular Marvel universe, he's straight & has been in love with Shadowcat/Kitty Pryde for years and years.
Originally Posted By DAR That seemed weird when I found out about Colossus being gay, because I remember reading about him and Kitty.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <So in addition to teaching kids all about witchcraft it also slips in a gay agenda in there. Nice real nice.> You do realize witchcraft doesn't exist, right? Good, because neither does "the gay agenda." (Despite the fact that I see this term thrown out all over the place.)
Originally Posted By dshyates "So in addition to teaching kids all about witchcraft it also slips in a gay agenda in there. Nice real nice" The Harry Potter STORY are NOVELS. You know like with Wizard of Oz. I just have to ask, do you rail against the Walt Disney Company, because they have pushed more magic on our kids than JK. Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Mermaid, Sword and the Stone with a Merlin character very much like Dumbledore. Peter Pan, Pinnochio, and so on. Snow White alone should have the religious right storming the castle. Serious dark magic and stuff like, cutting the young ladies heart out of her chest and bring it to me in a box. Way more grusome tha little Harry Potter. My guess is its not the Harry Potter stories that scares the right wing, but the popularity. If Harry was on the level of The Scarlet Letter they wouldn't be burning piles of books.
Originally Posted By u k fan How can an X-Man be gay in one series, but not in another? I don't know about him, but I'm certainly confused!!!
