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Once you realize that 100% of his writing is about the self-hating gay Mormon experience, you notice a lot more subtext. In this piece, the junior programmer wh
by myhf 13y ago
Once you realize that 100% of his writing is about the self-hating gay Mormon experience, you notice a lot more subtext. In this piece, the junior programmer who becomes a middle-manager to please the marketers is a metaphor for gay Mormons who marry women to please the church.
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- Shahor 13y agowtf did I just read :s
- bsenftner 13y agoI agree! Some of you are painting a fiction here with your overzealous OSC bashing.
- jessaustin 13y agoI've read a great deal of OSC's work, and I've found nothing to contradict (and much to confirm) your hypothesis. Several of the gay characters in Songmaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songmaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songmaster) are stand-ins for the author, and the same themes and situations are addressed (perhaps in more oblique fashion) in the more popular Ender's Game.
- tadaaaa 13y agoOrson is probably a repressed gay himself, but it's impossible for him to admit this to himself. That's why he has to hate gays so much.
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- xmonkee 13y agoSeriously, that makes sense. Ender with the weird sister (non)incest situation is a stand-in for the author. He's not actually a bad person, just really repressed?
- grammaton 13y ago/pro forma comment about studies showing people with the most virulently homophobic attitudes tend to have repressed homosexual tendencies