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He's made some very strong anti-gay statements, which is usually a sign of a repressed homosexual. There was also a lot of homoeroticism in Ender's Game and End

by Kluny 9y ago

He's made some very strong anti-gay statements, which is usually a sign of a repressed homosexual. There was also a lot of homoeroticism in Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, made especially troubling by the fact that those characters were prepubescent children.

Turing_Machine 9y ago
"He's made some very strong anti-gay statements, which is usually a sign of a repressed homosexual." You know, I've heard many people make that claim over the years, but I've never seen any evidence for it (there are anecdotal cases where someone who was extremely anti-gay was later outed as gay, yes, sure, but I've seen no evidence that this is always, or even often, the case). People can be racists without being "secretly black", and misogynist without being "secretly women", right?
- tty7 9y ago
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coldtea 9y ago
>He's made some very strong anti-gay statements, which is usually a sign of a repressed homosexual. Or, you know, someone that is just anti-gay (e.g. for religious reasons, conservative tendencies, or whatever). For one, lumping people who make anti-gay statements as "repressed homosexuals" makes it like there's something wrong with their lives/mental state (as opposed to just with their ideas). There might be, but not for that reason. It deprives them of real agency. Second, it makes it like it's specifically gay people who are fascists when they are repressed. Why would repressing their desires (something that straight people do as well) make them have a specific trait such as that? Some people who repressed their desires (sexual straight or gay, career ambitions, love interests, etc) did good (became missionaries helping people, sacrificed themselves to save others, etc), and actual fascists (like, real Nazis, in actual 1933-1945) repressed few of their desires. If anything, they over-indulged in them.

by Kluny 9y ago

Turing_Machine 9y ago

"He's made some very strong anti-gay statements, which is usually a sign of a repressed homosexual." You know, I've heard many people make that claim over the years, but I've never seen any evidence for it (there are anecdotal cases where someone who was extremely anti-gay was later outed as gay, yes, sure, but I've seen no evidence that this is always, or even often, the case). People can be racists without being "secretly black", and misogynist without being "secretly women", right?

tty7 9y ago
https://gayhomophobe.com https://gayhomophobe.com
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coldtea 9y ago

>He's made some very strong anti-gay statements, which is usually a sign of a repressed homosexual. Or, you know, someone that is just anti-gay (e.g. for religious reasons, conservative tendencies, or whatever). For one, lumping people who make anti-gay statements as "repressed homosexuals" makes it like there's something wrong with their lives/mental state (as opposed to just with their ideas). There might be, but not for that reason. It deprives them of real agency. Second, it makes it like it's specifically gay people who are fascists when they are repressed. Why would repressing their desires (something that straight people do as well) make them have a specific trait such as that? Some people who repressed their desires (sexual straight or gay, career ambitions, love interests, etc) did good (became missionaries helping people, sacrificed themselves to save others, etc), and actual fascists (like, real Nazis, in actual 1933-1945) repressed few of their desires. If anything, they over-indulged in them.