Putting a positive spin on it.

[amanuensis1]

I have decided that, if the film of GoF is uncanonically portraying Durmstrang and Beauxbatons as old-fashioned in their lack of co-educational status, this means that the homoerotica in both schools is rampant--and that Hogwarts is by comparison a hotbed of progressiveness and so there's even less homophobia there than we slashers pretend, in our giddy fandom brains.

So meh.

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[ellid.livejournal.com]

"Old-fashioned"????

This proud alumna of a women's college resembles that. :D



*especially since we still have afternoon tea on Fridays. really*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I was this close to going to an all-female school myself, so, yes, I am duly whapped for that phrasing. I am simply put off by this inexplicable change in canon (women can't be Slavic and hardened? men can't be French and elegant?) and preferring to put a funny spin on it rather than bitch. ^_^

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree. And I wonder if there will be a dozen Beauxbatons girls, so they can be in two straight lines?


*which college? I went to Smith, myself*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*cracks up* Smith, believe it or not!

[sor-bet.livejournal.com]

men can't be French and elegant?

See, it's thinking like that that got us the Merovingian. Who, granted, was not all bad, at least from a visual standpoint. ;-)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

It's all about the visual!

[novembersnow.livejournal.com]

My old-fashioned women's college had afternoon tea every weekday. ;)

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Which one? Smith had it once a week....

[novembersnow.livejournal.com]

Wells, in upstate New York.

But as of last month, it's no longer a women's college, and all the tea in the world can't compensate for that.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Oh, I heard about that! My sincere condolences - I looked at Wells and thought it was a charming school. I eventually went to Smith because it had a bigger library...but any women's college that goes co-ed diminishes us all.

:(