[ SECRET POST #2403 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2403 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[ninja_asty]

I've read a lot of OSC (more than I should probably admit) and there are some scenes that could be homophobic. For example, in another series that he has (Homecoming), there's a character who admits that he's gay but still gets married to a woman. I'm not sure on all the details of that marriage, but there's another one in the Shadow series where a man admits that he's gay but gets married to a woman because life is only about making babies.

There's not a lot of really noticeable anti-lgbt messages in his books, but it is mixed in with his "life is only about making children. Everyone wants them. Everyone needs to make them" message. His worst book for this is Ender in Exile, which had a character saying "'Well, I'm a human female, and I hunger for the mate that will give me the best offspring.'” There was more like that in that book, but fortunately that one is easily skippable when reading the Ender series.

He does still have some really great books. (He's written quite a bit!) There are just some that have questionable sentences/character choices.

[esteefee]

In OSC's Songmaster, the young boy who is temporarily, chemically castrated to keep his pure, musical voice, eventually is allowed to mature...just as he is doing so (in his teens) he has a very short-lived, ill-fated romance with an older man (late teens? 20s?) As the Songmaster experiences his very first incidence of sexual arousal, they are discovered. His lover, Julian, is dragged out and actually, physically castrated as punishment for touching the Emperor's Songmaster. Julian later commits suicide. Meanwhile, because the Songmaster tried to get sexually excited "too soon," he experiences physical agony, the experience of which causes him to be irreparably impotent. He also never sings again.

So, in essence, the punishment for homosexuality in this novel is castration and suicide, or lifetime impotence and the loss of what you hold most dear.