MayonnEgg wrote:
Gear3ful wrote:
Just because you know your sexuality when you were 12 doesn't mean that this still counts for other people... For most 12 year olds, sexuality is not a big part of their life yet...
"Research on adolescents over the past 20 years shows that sexual orientation—a person’s emotional connection and attraction to another person— develops early. In fact, research shows that both gay and straight children have their first “crush “ or attraction to another person at around age 10."
http://nccc.georgetown.edu/documents/LGBT_Brief.pdf
Thank you for that. I didn't know that.
However, i still believe that Ellie is probably bisexual (non preffering of any gender)...
For everyone who still doesn't believe it, Neil Druckmann said that he wrote Left Behind with the though that Ellie is attracted to Riley.
Don't call me a homophobe, but if i had a 12 year old son and he would tell me that he is gay, i wouldn't quite take that for a fact. Simply because I belive that at a such early age, kids don't know what they are feeling... Even though you more or less have proof that it is otherwise. Call me ignorant, or whatever you want...
But just to be fair, Ellie has always been very mature for her age.
You may arugue that Neil Druckmann said that Ellie's is attracted to Riley. He also said that Ellie's and Riley's relationship is a sexual one (he used the word gay). But i don't think that that rules out the possibility of Ellie not caring about gender.
I think that Ellie is bisexual (doesn't care about someone's gender). Probably nobody will convince me otherwise.
PS: I am in no way trying to say what I said because in order to create a possibility of Ellie being straight, and I know that some people sexualize Ellie and do not accept Ellie's sexual orientation because of that reason. The Last Of Us made me feel fatherly feelings for Ellie (despite a rather young age (18) ) and so I despise any kind of sexualisation of her character.
I simply believe Ellie doesn'r care about gender, and that is also one of the reasons why I love her character.
PPS: Sorry for repeating myself over and over again.