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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Single gender schooling at Durmstrang and Beauxbatons

[justinetre.livejournal.com]

It was wierd that, and the more I think about it, the more it feels unnatural, like the director is playing to stereotypes just to make the film more accessible to a younger audience.
But on the other hand, those cute capes and hats on the Beauxbatons beauties are very nice...lol

Re: Single gender schooling at Durmstrang and Beauxbatons

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

"Younger audience." Yes, that could be; I think I feel like Rowling at times, who doesn't write AT a younger audience--she just writes a young character and doesn't ask herself who the audience is. Or so I understand, from her interviews.