Obi-Wan Season 2 Needs To Explore His Sexuality

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The Jedi rule on attachments reminds me a lot of my childhood. I was dragged to Sunday school as I bounced between Catholic and Methodist churches. This religious upbringing would go on to warp my thoughts on sexuality—I developed a deep-rooted feeling of shame fostered by the heteronormative nature of Christianity and the more explicitly bigoted messages throughout the culture claiming that homosexuality is ‘wrong’.

You couldn’t help but feel abnormal and strange like you were an outcast that needed to keep quiet and suppress your own thoughts. It’s overwhelming, unnatural, and leaves you in a constant state of fight or flight. It’s no wonder that Jedi often express pent-up rage and strong emotions when the lid pops off and their true self threatens to breach the surface.

We saw this extreme reached with Anakin Skywalker and, to a lesser extent, Mace Windu, but Obi-Wan has always been the more interesting character. He keeps his emotions in check and holds up the image of an ideal Jedi, but the mask sometimes slips. The Clone Wars made this clear with his love for Satine on the periphery of his mind. But for the most part, Obi-Wan is loyal to the doctrine, so much that he enforces it on others. However, a new The Phantom Menace prequel novel from Kiersten White called Padawan unearths his true thoughts and inner struggles, something that even his standalone show failed to do meaningfully because it was so obsessed with revisiting old ground. It turns out that Obi-Wan might be asexual, but he might also be bisexual.

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The novel follows a younger Obi-Wan, and there’s a moment when a male teen flirts with him. He dismisses it—Jedi