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No. 47742
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Even if it would seem to have the relevance of a lone voice screaming in the wilderness, I need to point this out. The comic never, ever, ever has any expressed opinion on Lori's sexuality beyond a single scene played for comic relief. Serenity has been wearing a leg cast for weeks, and finally has it removed. She makes insinuations about needing "release" and Lori's mind goes to the gutters, but Serenity is just talking about scratching her itchy leg. You can interpret that as a nod to a secret lesbianism in Lori, but this could just be a play on innuendo for laughter, rather than character development. We never learn what secret "thoughts" go through Lori's head that she prays over. Could she be secretly depressed? Harboring suicidal thoughts? We don't know. /co/ ran with the idea that it was lesbianism because that's what /co/ wants, but this shouldn't be taken as a case of a Christian comic encouraging the "pray-away-the-gay" agenda, and if Buzz is really as cool with sex as he seems, this may not even be his position. I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt, now that we know a little bit more about his original intentions behind this comic. If Serenity's worldliness was going to be the salvation of the prayer group, that's only the tip of the iceberg of how badly the comic conveyed the author's themes. Buzz may have had a totally different idea going with Lori.
If /co/ wants to imagine Lori is a closet case bisexual or lesbian, I actually like the idea myself. It gives her more pathos than anything we got out of the real comic, where she's as poorly developed as the rest of the characters. However, I won't suggest that was ever Buzz's original intentions. We should really dispense with that illusion.
tl;dr: Lori was never explicitly a lesbian. /co/ just wants it to be that way. It's still a good idea and makes her more interesting, but don't suggest it was Buzz's idea to create a "pray-away-the-gay" narrative. We just can�
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