Timeline for What suggests Edmund might be gay?
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| May 13, 2017 at 18:35 | history | unprotected | Mithical♦ | ||
| Apr 13, 2017 at 13:01 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 1, 2017 at 13:44 | history | protected | Rand al'Thor♦ | ||
| Mar 1, 2017 at 5:50 | answer | added | Buzz | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 14:36 | vote | accept | Torisuda | ||
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| S Feb 28, 2017 at 2:32 | history | notice added | user111 | Reward existing answer | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 3:38 | answer | added | robopuppy | timeline score: 32 | |
| Feb 26, 2017 at 17:39 | comment | added | Standback | @Torisuda , that makes perfect sense. :) | |
| Feb 26, 2017 at 17:02 | comment | added | Torisuda | @Standback I'd rather not change this question too much since it has an answer, but I'll see if I can write a follow-up more along those lines. | |
| Feb 26, 2017 at 10:55 | comment | added | Standback | "I was interested more in an analysis from the text about sexuality in the Narnia books." Would you consider asking a question about that, then, rather than specifically about Edmund? Particularly if you can phrase what it is you're interested in learning about; what question you're hoping to see answered. I suspect that will get you richer answers, when they're not focused on one somewhat-arbitrary character :) | |
| Feb 26, 2017 at 6:04 | comment | added | Standback | I would really like to see questions raising these kinds of speculation give some measure of support for the thesis under debate -- some indication that there's an issue to be examined here, rather than random speculation. In this case, the link is... better than nothing, but it's really only moved the issue one step back. Especially since I'm not at all sure that blog post isn't simply parody. :-/ | |
| Feb 26, 2017 at 5:08 | comment | added | user111 | @Torisuda I've thought about this question and I've decided to remove my comment about the question's source. The link gets at why people would think characters are gay regardless of whether there's explicit evidence. By all means, keep this question up. I'm doing some research into slash fanfiction (as should anyone attempting to write an answer), and I'm hoping to have an answer soon. | |
| Feb 26, 2017 at 4:48 | comment | added | Torisuda | @Hamlet I was interested more in an analysis from the text about sexuality in the Narnia books. I didn't think before I posted about the source; I was too bowled over by the idea that someone would consider Edmund gay. If you think this question is too problematic, I'm willing to talk about getting rid of it. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 23:20 | comment | added | DukeZhou | @EJoshuaS My understanding of Lewis, which is admittedly quite cursory, was that he was something of a free thinker, explaining potential "ideological lapses", who arrived at faith through rational means. I should probably re-read the series, since I was quite young when I read them originally, before weighing in formally. However, if someone with greater knowledge of Lewis and Narnia wanted to explicate my conjectures, I would be be quite interested. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 22:36 | comment | added | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | @DukeZhou That's plausible - it should be an answer IMHO. It's worth noting, too, on a somewhat related note that Lewis does seem to have had occasional possible ideological lapses in the Narnia series. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 21:06 | comment | added | DukeZhou | I wouldn't dismiss the idea of sexual elements in Narnia. The section of the first book in which Lucy meets, and returns with Mr. Tumnus to his home, carries an element of sexual menace, which gives that section a great deal of tension over concern for Lucy. This concern arises, not because I have an aberrant mind, but because Fauns are linked with Satyrs, and even Vertumnus, who is associated with fertility, has erotic connotations. Fauns can be good or wicked. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 20:55 | comment | added | DukeZhou | Although Lewis wouldn't likely have intentionally written a character that was gay, he certainly would have known people who were, and the vast majority of them, at that time in history in the West, would not have been openly so. (One has only to look to the fate of Wilde to understand why that would be so.) It is highly possible Edmund could have been based, to varying degrees, on gay people, without sexual orientation having been a factor, rather general personality traits of some one or ones who just happened to be gay. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 19:16 | comment | added | user111 | That said, I definitely think one could make an argument to support the article's conclusion. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 19:02 | answer | added | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 18:35 | comment | added | Matrim Cauthon | I am honestly seriously doubting the source you used. As @Hamlet mentioned, it has no actual reasoning, and Edmund is listed next to Old Yeller of all people. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 17:43 | history | asked | Torisuda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |