Dumbeldor is Gay, so What?!?!?

With the recent outing of Professor Dumbeldore, by author J.K. Rowling, I was shocked that for once, the author of a fiction brand was the first on the scene to out one of her characters for being homosexual, rather than the Family Research Council Run by Focus on the Family's James Dobson, sinking their eager teeth in. it seems the Council was asleep at the wheel. To be fair though, the Christian Right has for quite some time denounced the Harry Potter Series for it's use of witchcraft, (and to be fair, anyone who can make a billion bucks for fantasy stories is a bit suspect) and the obvious signs of homosexuality were completely overlooked. Let's remember, the last time we saw a wrinkly old man prancing around in a silk kimono, instructing young boys in the way they should go, he had seven plastic girlfriends and lived at the Playboy mansion.

Still though, the biggest thing about the outing of Professor Dumbledore that stands out to me is this undeniable apathy that can best be summed up in the following two words:

SO WHAT!

Yes! Apparently Professor Dumbeldore is just like 8-10% of the human population. For fun, I checked into what other kinds of things were common at the same rate among humans. For example: One in ten people will suffer an ulcer in their lifetime. One in ten will also suffer some sort of extreme phobia in their lifetime (homophobia?) One in ten people is bi-polar. Can you imagine the uproar if, for example Hermione turned out to be bi-polar? It would put the "And???" in "Scandalous"! My point is that the prevalence of outed homosexuality in our entertainment doesn't come anywhere near the prevalence of homosexuality in humans, or even in mammals as a whole. It's simply no big deal. The only thing that is in the slightest bit disturbing about Author Rowling's revelation of the professor's sexual preference is that in her revelation she completely failed to answer the question presented to her by the fan that prompted that revelation.