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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[kissed-by-fate.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the director (or whomever) just saved us from the stereotypical 'unibrow' females and 'le pouf' males... but then again, in doing so, bought into a different stereotype of cranky slavic men and snarky french women?

Gah. Never mind.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Could have been worse--instead of "unibrow" females they could all have been Slavic "mail-order bride" stereotypes. Eeesh.