Putting a positive spin on it.

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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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It is hair-tearing, is it not, that both systems have their weaknesses and are criticized as though one was "right" and the other was "wrong," depending on how you see it?

Depends. In a lot of mainstream society (that perpetuates the sexist/heterosexist values children learn to conform to in co-ed schools so spectacularly) in Australia, co-ed is conisdered best for the stupid reasons I mentioned. In certain classes single-sex is considered better, mostly because single-sex schools are seen as somehow being of a higher standard than co-ed schools curriculum wise, which is also not always true. Single-sex schools can still be sexist. I know mine was, and I didn't mention that in my previous rant. But yeah, I found co-ed schools to be moreso because of the patriachal bullshit.

It matters, in the end, because gender matters, just as much as sexuality matters, just as much as race matters, because people make it matter. Not a nice thought, but *shrugs*.