Moby is gay
Queering the Dick: Moby-Dick as Coming-Out Narrative
Abstract
Many contemporary critics read Ishmael, Moby-Dick's loquacious narrator, as a lgbtq+ character. The words queer and heterosexual would not be coined until 1868, some eighteen years after the events of Moby-Dick; thus, Ishmael comes of age in a moment when there was no language to express or even acknowledge same-sex attraction, and even if there had been, the rigid societal codes that controlled sexuality in the nineteenth century would have prevented him from doing so. Despite these disadvantages, Ishmael, through his "marriage" to Queequeg and, later, his admittance into the gay haven of the Pequod, not only manages to reconcile himself to his desires but also learns to celebrate unorthodox sexualities. I propose that Moby-Dick can be read as Ishmael's "coming out narrative"―a genre similar in way and substance to the bildungsroman (or "novel of education")--in that it depicts a protagonist who, through his initiation into an unabashedly queer community, comes to accept his sexuality and his identity as a queer man.
Recommended Citation
Brady, Ryan M., "Queering the Dick: Moby-Dick as Coming-Out Na
i probably shouldn’t be writing right now, cos it’s late and i’m very sleepy. but who can resist the lure of a sexy laptop…
you comprehend, the issue of male lover vs. straight is engaging to me. it’s courteous of like the issue of catholic vs. protestant. or apples vs. oranges.
personally, i would appreciate to live in a world where there was no distinction between creature gay or straight. what i mean is that i would like to live in a earth where it wasn’t an issue. where people liked people regardless of their gender. and where no one was ashamed of their sexual orientation. to answer your question, i’m pretty straight. i perform find myself much more sexually attracted to women than to men. but i wish that it wasn’t an issue.
one of the things i treasure about new york town is that it’s a place where gay couples can walk down the street holding hands and/or kissing and no one bothers them. i detest the fact that there are parts of the world where people are persecuted or made to feel bad for their sexual orientation.
romance and sex and love are really nice things, and when two people (or more, whatever) are attracted to each other, then i believe that
What does Eminem hold against Moby?
Biggirl1
Eminem seems to have taken fury management classes lately so his angry young alabaster man shtick is mellowing but he really did dislike Moby there for a while-- remember Em flying Moby the fowl during the MTV awards a year or so ago?
Em usually had some sort of rationale for the venom but I never understood his loathe for Moby. Did Moby steal his beats? Embrace his wife? What?
Ryan_Liam2
Most of his action against Mody is manufactured, but it is because Moby accused Eminem of being a closet homosexual.
Biggirl3
Moby called Em an undercover fag? Whoo hoo! I always knew I liked him.
What accomplish you mean Em’s actioned were manufactured? Do you mean staged? Are you trying to tell me MTV actually staged that fight? I’m shocked. Shocked!
Ryan_Liam4
no, I mean probably most of it was just hyped, to boost Eminems status as a ‘taking no guff from no-one’ kinda guy…you know what rappers are like all bravado and stuff.
Doomtrain5
*Originally posted by Biggirl *
**Moby called Em an undercover fag? Whoo hoo! I always knew I liked him. **
Yea, we were watching AlTV (note: Weird Al hosts, you can imagine how
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