The 'Wheee! Dumbly is Gay' Poll

[themostepotente]

He's here. He's queer. He's here to do a cheer. A lil' poll on the matter of Dumbly's preference for le beau sex.

Alas, I have no DD icons :P

[Poll #1076455]

Have fun all!

--P

Comments

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

If you don't give a shit, why bother coming over here at all?

[triestine.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's what they meant. Since your poll only includes positive reactions, it's impossible to gauge how many of the prospective voters reacted with a 'meh, so what' or such. If you don't care for that bit of data that's fine; I think the poster above thought you did, but neglected it. I dunno.

[threnody.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much the gist of it. 'Disgust' was included as well as several flavours of 'rock on'. I'm not disgusted, I just... don't care. :)

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

'Disgust' is not a positive reaction. And I'm looking at the numbers and onlysix people were disgusted as opposed to over three hundred pretty pleased.

What I don't understand is how these people can come over and say they don't give a fuck when they were probably the most vocal about there not being any homosexual characters in the first place.

Dissenting opinions? I have an open door policy. You want to disagree with me - go right the fuck ahead.

But the tone of her post (especially with the 'kthnxbai' at the end) didn't agree with me.

[threnody.livejournal.com]

I didn't answer the poll because my feelings weren't represented, so I wonder how many others like me chose something on the pleased side, or didn't answer at all. So count me as one for 'meh'.

And actually, I don't give a crap about gay characters in the books. In fact, I'm highly sick and freaking tired of hearing OTHER people whining about how they think X character is gayer than a spring lamb, and why doesn't JKR just admit it and get it over with. Or others, who despite evidence that whatever character they love is straight, slash them with everone under the sun and then some. And on top of that, I'm sick of people caring so much about this shit, because a character's sexuality has NOTHING TO DO with the story being told, and *that's* why it's not in the books.

So yeah, I'm a little frayed around the edges over all this stinking hoopla about Dumbledore being gay and how it's so bloody fecking wonderful. Who the fuck cares? And that's not on your poll. So I was snarky, and I apologize. I really do. It's not your fault I'm lashing out. I just hate that I'm having to hide from the internet to avoid this shit.

[triestine.livejournal.com]

I read the "disgust (sheah right :P)" option as *including* the "yeah right" bit, turning it back to positive, jokey.

This bit, however

What I don't understand is how these people can come over and say they don't give a fuck when they were probably the most vocal about there not being any homosexual characters in the first place.

confuses the hell out of me too. There were so many rants on the exclusiv heteronormativity of JKR's world that I'm tempted to read the negative reactions to D's outing as negative not to *that*, but to the fact that JKR jossed their smug righteousness.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

You asked for opinions, so they gave you their opinions.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Hmm, you forgot 'don't give a shit and please for to be keeping the cheering to a dull roar, kthxbai'.

Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I just expected people to keep it on a semi mature level.