Person 1: "the author obviously felt that X character needed to be male for the story to work"

Me: "No. The author chose to write X character as male. That doesn't necessarily mean they felt there was no other choice - unless you can point to something they said?"

crickets

now, given the author and character, I think they are correct that the author would be horrified by genderblind casting

but that is an opinion about someone else's opinion, not textual support that something was necessary for the story

people should make better arguments

you must share the adaptation

Narnia. There's a rumor, because Meryl Streep is in talks to appear in the movie, that she's being cast as Aslan

a rumor as insupportable as this one guy's contention about what CS Lewis felt was necessary

I don't think C. S. Lewis would even be able to make a cogent argument about why you couldn't cast a woman as Aslan

"Jesus was a man" yeah he was also notably not literally a lion

Anything else

also jesus casted himself as the lamb of god not the lion so srsly

oh there was a really interesting thing i should link you actually

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just this whole post saying the silver chair was cs lewis complaining about tolkiens' relationship with his wife

post? thread? theory? thing

Huh. I knew Lewis was a misogynist just from reading Narnia but I did not know it was built into his theology

I was about to say, this is about Aslan isn't it

AnruiK: that's a fascinating read, yeah

right? it's such an interesting take. i have absolutely no stake in any of it, but im just massively