My take on tagging Snape
There is one thing that bothers me quite a bit about Snape in the fandom. Many people allege that, because as a child he dressed in a woman's tunic, because he had feminine calligraphy, etc., Snape was trans or homosexual. I completely disagree with this. Let me explain: I have gay friends and they write with "masculine" handwriting (men are not characterized by having excellent handwriting, you don't condemn this XD) or, at costume parties, I have friends who dress as women and that does not mean that they are trans or homosexual. Sexuality is not subject to social and sexual canons. I mean, you can look very manly, but you can really like men; or a woman who is homosexual and who looks very feminine. I think we should eliminate the stereotypes of what it means to be a woman or a man, those stereotypes that determined sex without any real basis. I still have the feeling that we live anchored in patriarchy and the socially acceptable. I am not homosexual, but I consider myself free to love whoever I want, man or woman. Everything counts based on feelings, ways of seeing life, the search for a life partner, not putting labels or determining who may or may not be homosexual. A homosexual person should not be labeled, they are human beings like me and you, only that with different sexual tastes and that is not wrong, homosexuality is not bad or something different, it is only one sexual orientation among many that exist in the world. It really matters very little to me if a person is homosexual or not, as long as, as a friend or lover, he knows how to give me good times and friendship. By all this I mean that the debate over whether Snape was gay, trans, or "sissy" doesn't make sense to me. Regardless of his sexual orientation, he is still Snape (a fictional character) and what he represents as a character, the way he behaves and one of the best characters Rowling created. And it bothers me a lot that there are people looking for details about whether he was a woman or not, when what matters about Snape is his story, his anti-hero role and one of the best characters in literature (in my opinion). Everyone is free to think what they want, I just wanted to expose my thoughts here. Labeling Snape based on our sexual orientation is something that shits us ourselves, since homosexuality should stop being a social label to become something seen normally. After all, we are all human beings, right? I understand the positions that have taken the character of Snape or others to defend his cause and claim his space in society, of course I understand, but Snape is Snape. I'm sorry if my thought offends someone, but I had to express myself on this issue. For me, labeling and socially dividing people seems demeaning, I am an open-minded person and I hate XD labels, for me they are all human beings and the sexual condition should not even be a matter of debate, because for me whatever it is your sexual condition, you are my equal, a person like me and, after all, sexuality is only a fragment of what a person means.
