Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I've somehow managed to mark several (not sure how many yet) emails as read when I shouldn't have, inclusing the notif for this comment.
It's entirely possible I worded things badly. I tend to write these posts in the evenings and all in a go, which doesn't always lend itself to being comprehensible, coherent and concise. But I do think that the dual nature of the gods is something that must be dealt with somehow. Like, Loki's story can be both "Man makes friend. Friend betrays Man. Man takes revenge." (...typing it this way I realise it works both ways with Odin and Loki) and "Man brings fire into home. Man neglects fire. Fire burns down home".
My point is less "only X can say Y" than it is "people who are not X should think before saying Y", but that's very nebulous and basically a subset of "people should think before they talk".
All good points! And since LGBT does rely on personal identification, there's no way to say Loki is definitely LGBT, short of someone somewhere becoming a prophet. (Let me edit the post to "arguably LGBT", then.)
I try to reply to all the comments I get, even if it takes me a while.
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Date: 2015-05-20 10:02 pm (UTC)It's entirely possible I worded things badly. I tend to write these posts in the evenings and all in a go, which doesn't always lend itself to being comprehensible, coherent and concise. But I do think that the dual nature of the gods is something that must be dealt with somehow. Like, Loki's story can be both "Man makes friend. Friend betrays Man. Man takes revenge." (...typing it this way I realise it works both ways with Odin and Loki) and "Man brings fire into home. Man neglects fire. Fire burns down home".
My point is less "only X can say Y" than it is "people who are not X should think before saying Y", but that's very nebulous and basically a subset of "people should think before they talk".
All good points! And since LGBT does rely on personal identification, there's no way to say Loki is definitely LGBT, short of someone somewhere becoming a prophet. (Let me edit the post to "arguably LGBT", then.)
I try to reply to all the comments I get, even if it takes me a while.
(I do like it!)