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Before making any global changes, I want to first ask a question here. While Rose of Versailles clearly has queer and vaguely queer characters, what do you think of Oscar specifically? She is listed twice as genderqueer and bisexual, but as usual the sources either don't mention this directly, simply theorize over the content (Moreover, sources directly describe her as a woman who is fighting for the opportunity to occupy “male” jobs, placing an emphasis on women's emancipation rather than queer gender), or are based on somewhat dubious conclusions or claims. For example, the very first statement justifies Oscar's bisexuality by saying that she is supposedly a love interest for Maria, but this firstly does not mean that Oscar returns her feelings, and secondly, both girls have male love interests as the love of their lives. Moreover, in the manga itself, Oscar rejects suspicions of lesbianism and once even says that she would like to be a man in order to respond to Rosalia's feelings (while Rosalia directly accepts love for Oscar as love for another woman). Overall, what do you think and should Oscar be removed from the list? The rest of the characters seem to fit. Solaire the knight (talk) 16:33, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm. I think Oscar is a tricky one. I don't think the sources are consistent on Oscar's identity. After Ellen has Erica Friedman describes Oscar as "a woman also brought up as a boy, but...is open about being female" while the meh CBR article calls Oscar "one of the first openly queer characters in animation", Rachel Thorn calls Oscar "a woman who was raised to behave and dress as a man...[who] draws the romantic interest both of a man...and Marie Antoinette" and ANN quotes Susan Napier as describing Oscar as one of the "feisty cross dressing heroines." Due to this ambiguity and what you are pointing out, I think we can list her as queer but nothing else. In any case, there may be enough ambiguity here to move use those sources, and others, to create a possible section for Rose of Versailles on the LGBTQ themes in anime and manga page. Historyday01 (talk) 13:22, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My main complaint is that most of this information is either speculation and reading things that were never stated explicitly enough or simply ignores the fact that Oscar's identity and lifestyle seems largely unconventional (for the time) due to the fact that As Erica correctly emphasized, Oscar is a woman who was raised and lives like a man (for example, very often the emphasis is on the fact that she drives girls crazy because of the appearance of a feminine, handsome "ikemen onna" man). I am not against the idea of a section, since it is an important stage in raising the topic of gender representation (Also, let's not forget the huge influence on Takarazuka and related topics.), androgyny and heteronormativity (the famous dialogue “if I were a man”), but her queer assessment seems too confusing. The author herself, as far as I remember, was more receptive to the ideas works in terms of gender rather than sexuality, for example, in the afterword of the manga she describes how Oscar's sex scene with Andre was perceived by her as sex, metaphorical sex between two men. Solaire the knight (talk) 17:43, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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