JKR vs. representation 2

nachodiablo:

myqueerass:

Textual proof that the conservativism of the magical society include cisheteronormativity (and that JKR’s claim that the magical society is not homophobic shows that she doesn’t understand the implications of what an upending of such structures would have looked like):

• The dormitories at Hogwarts are divided according to binary genders.
• The girls are allowed to enter the boys dormitoried but boys aren’t deemed trustworthy enough to enter the girls’.
• The bathrooms (possibly with the exception of the prefects’ bathrooms) are divided according to binary genders.
• Dolores Umbridge forbids male and female students of being a certain distance from one another.
• Unicorns prefer women handlers to male handlers and thus the boys have to stand back and aren’t allowed to parttake in the lesson about unicorns.
• Veelas affect men but not women (we don’t know how the entire audience of the Quidditch World Cup reacts to the Veela of course, but there is no textual proof that contradict this observation).

You’re welcome to add to this list!.

Further proof of homophobia: When Rita Skeeter suggests that there’s something potentially “sinister” about Dumbledore spending so much time with Harry in book 4. I always interpreted that as the classic “gay men are pedos” trope. Although, I do believe that counts as proof that JKR was writing Dumbledore as gay from the very beginning.