[ SECRET POST #2514 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2514 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Orson Scott Card

[nyxelestia]

Okay, so it's been a while since I've read Ender's Game, but I don't recall much homophobia in the book, if any at all. I do remember some scenes that in retrospect could probably seen as homoerotic without much in the way of slash goggles, but I was much younger then and homosexuality wasn't really on my mind in any capacity back then, so I may have just missed some stuff.

Feminism was a bit more on my mind back then. I remember it as basically saying that women were simply less inclined towards war, violence, and aggression in the first place, but that was it - I don't remember it ever being implied in the book that girls couldn't be soldiers/warriors. Anyone could be a great soldier if they put their minds to it, girls were just less likely to do so in the first place, which meant less girls to pick from when it came time to pick kids for battle school.

That said, while even back then I had a "fuck you, patriarchy!" attitude, my understanding of feminism was much less nuanced, and I was like 12 when I read the book, so there may just be other stuff I missed.

I do think it's a good book. It's not really meant to be a utopia or a commentary on how the social order should be or anything, and this book at least doesn't really try to present worldviews much - it's a sci-fi psychological thriller. I certainly disagree with Card's stances and all, but at this point I don't think boycotting the movie or books would really achieve anything beyond depriving myself without depriving him, and as far as I know the NOM is already in financial trouble, anyway. I'll just go the offset method instead of the boycott method - however much money I pay that goes into the franchise, I'll donate a bit more than that to some gay-rights group or a few extra hours of volunteer work or something.