Posted on 10/24/2016 8:16:39 AM PDT by C19fan
When most authors are confronted with questions of whether a character they wrote is gay, transgender, different race, etc., they usually just weasel out by saying it’s up to interpretation.
But not Outsiders author S.E. Hinton. She had an answer, one that’s really pissing people off. Some dude on Twitter asked her if Johnny and Dally had the hots for each other, and she just flat-out said “no.”
(Excerpt) Read more at heatst.com ...
When a soc meets a greaser, just a coming through the rye....
Seems like today every Hollywood actress is compelled to say that they are “bisexual” even though they’ve never so much as kissed another woman in their life.
In the “mind” of a true liberal, fiction is no different from reality. In fact, there is no reality, only “my reality” and “your reality”.
So then, a writer will be crucified if they say that certain characters aren’t gay????? This is now a sin, to say that characters in a story aren’t gay??? Am I reading this correctly?
Does this story have anything to do with sexuality or relationships at all? I haven’t read it so don’t know anything about it. But assuming it’s just some story about people, not involving their sex lives or relationships, then why would anyone want to think they are gay? And why would anyone be upset if told they aren’t gay, if issues of sexuality aren’t part of the story in the first place?
For example, are we to speculate as to whether Joe Friday was gay? He was a cop, who seemingly had no interests outside his police work. But why go there, why speculate about anyone’s sexuality if it has nothing to do with the story anyway???
” In my opinion a crap book alongside “Catcher in the Rye”
True enough and we can only imagine what new, fresh crap the victims of American schooling are now being required to read.
Same here. The characters may not have been gay, but the book was.
I remember stuff from all the Shakespeare I had to read, Hawthorne and Wharton but all the relatively modern stuff went in one ear and out the other.
If an author creates a character, they know what was in their mind when they created the character. Characters do not have a life of their own like in the Woody Allen movie, the Purple Rose of Cairo. Duh!
The only way to handle SJW’s is to play rough with them...do NOT let them believe for one second you give a damn because THAT’S when they go for the kill.
Our boys were huge Harry Potter fans, even into their 20’s, until J. K. Rowling decided to concede that Dumbledore was gay. Now, they won’t touch the old books, won’t watch the movies, and have no interest in the new book that’s just been released.
They were further incensed when Rowling hinted that the character Hermione Granger was Black.
But, it’s her enterprise to do with as she pleases.
Just like the latest “Star Trek” film regarding Hikaru Sulu.
Gene Roddenberry, the series creator, stated unambiguously that the character was straight, as did his portrayer George Takei, himself a gay man.
Nevertheless, the modern SJW’s decided the rebooted Sulu should be gay.
Because narrative trumps everything.
“The characters may not have been gay, but the book was.”
LOL! Stay gold, man :-).
We were forced to read that drivel in 7th grade (or was it sixth ... I forget). I remember the school playing the movie shortly after we read it. I laughed at the scene where Ralph Macchio died and got hissed at by most of the girls.
I can’t believe part of my “puhblic edumacation” involved reading and writing about that horrible, predictable story! You figure I probably spent about 4 hours of my life reading that book and writing the crap they *suggested* we write.
There used to be a class where you’d read and write about all sorts of different events. It was called history ... of course, that’s been relegated to nothing more than a “several multiple choice + an easy, PC essay” level of class.
Disgusting.
My favorite class, right up through 7th grade, was History.
Then, in 8th grade, it became “Social Studies” and it was pure indoctrination. I was a pretty clueless kid, but I saw the indoctrination right away. I’ve pretty much hated government schools ever since. They aren’t there to educate you.
All children need to be hyper-sexualized so they can be warped, which will destroy moral formation and normal sexual identity formation and remove Truth (God) Reality. They will remain irrational-—incapable of even knowing if they are male or female (it is radical egalitarianism/Marxism).
Vice creates slaves and corrupted children will have a hard time being moral—understanding TRUE Good and Evil.
All books published after 1945 were put through a Neo-Freudian, Marxist Lens——to wipe out Christian Worldview in children and promote emotional, irrational drones who are incapable of Wisdom (discerning Good and Evil).
Only true Christianity is based on Natural Law (Reason, Science/Logic) and without Classical Christian curricula—there are no tools to “think” with.
All these junk books are about normalizing “feelings are good”—no matter how warped. You glorify dysfunction and evil, which was NEVER done in Classical books used in schools prior to John Dewey (the Communist/Humanist). Any character which has true virtue, is reviled and made “evil” in the book-—to destroy children’s ability to understand Reality (true Good and Evil). They want to make pederasty, slavery, sodomy-—all irrational, removed from Science/Natural Law-—”Good” again and they have to destroy Christianity to do it
The Satanic Hollywood set are embedding a vile, evil, hateful Reality in our children-—one that is totally irrational-—all about emotions—exciting the Limbic area of the mind so they are fixated in a puerile, immature age where maturity (love for the other/true diversity) will never occur.
Without Virtue, we will be Slaves. Freedom is only possible with Virtue formation in children (learning inner control of base instincts). Vice is outer control controlling all actions-—it comes from Operant Conditioning children in our inhumane, mass indoctrination (group-think) factories.
We need to take children OUT of the Matrix which is pure Mind Control. so they are irrational forever (removed from the Natural Family/Mother/Father paradigm-—like orphans in the Romanian institutions who are warped for life and incapable of flourishing intimate relationships.)
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