Re Edmund, I'm not sure what to think except that we know he has an interest in and aptitude for Rat and Crow. That said, if I have the dates more or less correct, he is 13 years old in 1942, making 15 or maybe 16 at the end of the war. No matter how desperate the Allies were, I simply cannot imagine them using a 13 or 14 year old boy as an active agent - training, yes, but active duty just doesn't seem that plausible to me.
So that's one potential point of difference between Peter/Susan and Peter/Edmund. If we continue to work on the assumption that Edmund is destined for the intelligence service, then the fact that he would still be training (and therefore it's all still theoretical) while Susan is active duty, could be enough to trigger two different reactions in Peter (and that's assuming he's not equally disapproving of Edmund's choices).
I have been thinking about the earlier posts, and the more I think about it, the less I can accept that some sort of latent sexism is responsible for his attitudes. The Pevensies spent 15 years in Narnia, and on my reading of your 'verse, they were living daily with the example of capable females doing the same work as males, based on aptitude and skill. I cannot imagine how a few years back in Spare Oom, even during wartime, would reverse the ingrained thinking habits of a lifetime. And that's especially true in that the Pevensies have always appeared to embrace their differences, rather than deny them and conform to the expected.
So that's a very longwinded way of saying that whatever is between Peter and Susan, I don't buy that there is something gender-related driving it.
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So that's one potential point of difference between Peter/Susan and Peter/Edmund. If we continue to work on the assumption that Edmund is destined for the intelligence service, then the fact that he would still be training (and therefore it's all still theoretical) while Susan is active duty, could be enough to trigger two different reactions in Peter (and that's assuming he's not equally disapproving of Edmund's choices).
I have been thinking about the earlier posts, and the more I think about it, the less I can accept that some sort of latent sexism is responsible for his attitudes. The Pevensies spent 15 years in Narnia, and on my reading of your 'verse, they were living daily with the example of capable females doing the same work as males, based on aptitude and skill. I cannot imagine how a few years back in Spare Oom, even during wartime, would reverse the ingrained thinking habits of a lifetime. And that's especially true in that the Pevensies have always appeared to embrace their differences, rather than deny them and conform to the expected.
So that's a very longwinded way of saying that whatever is between Peter and Susan, I don't buy that there is something gender-related driving it.