[ SECRET POST #3834 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3834 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I disagree with this, and I want to be clear that I disagree with it in the most general possible sense for reasons in no way specific to this discussion. The text is the text is the text is the text. What we're doing is interpreting the text. Statements of the creators external to the text can, at best, be a guide to our understanding of the text, but the text itself is the paramount thing, not the statements or intentions of the creators. And if it's open to interpretation in the text, then it is open to interpretation in the text, whether or not the creators wanted it to be. If it's unspecified, then it's unspecified and nothing more.

I mean, I'm not even advancing an argument about whether Dean is gay or straight here. My point is just that the answer to that question has to be located mostly in what shows up in the text itself. Not in lines of argumentation about how if the creators had wanted him to be gay, they would have implied it or stated it definitely. I agree, for what it's worth, that the creators probably don't and haven't intended him to be gay at any point, but that's really secondary.