I think you're right and Rick is right. Card sees something in himself that terrifies him: all of his political writings are an attempt to "fix" his feelings by adjusting the outside world.
And this is what disappoints me most. If you want to be a writer, you have to be fearless. It's an ideal most of only realize incompletely, at best, but rather than look fearlessly at himself, Card is in headlong flight.
Card himself identifies his position as "walking a middle way, which condemns the sin but loves the sinner".[21] Card says that when homosexuality appears in his fiction (as in Songmaster and The Ships of Earth) it is not to argue for or against homosexuality, but rather "to create real and living characters". [Wikipedia]
Nice of him to consider my fellow queers as real people.
There's a terrific piece in NYRSF (12/02), "Gay sex and death in the science fiction of Orson Scott Card", by Kate Bonin, pulling out all the examples of this and making some fairly mild suggestions about what was going on.
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(Anonymous) 2008-07-30 04:02 am (UTC)(link)Rick Bowes
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And this is what disappoints me most. If you want to be a writer, you have to be fearless. It's an ideal most of only realize incompletely, at best, but rather than look fearlessly at himself, Card is in headlong flight.
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Card himself identifies his position as "walking a middle way, which condemns the sin but loves the sinner".[21] Card says that when homosexuality appears in his fiction (as in Songmaster and The Ships of Earth) it is not to argue for or against homosexuality, but rather "to create real and living characters". [Wikipedia]
Nice of him to consider my fellow queers as real people.
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