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I love Dilbert. Then this. Feels like that time I stumbled upon Orson Scott Card's blog.

by themartorana 10y ago

sushid 10y ago
I grew up reading and rereading his books in middle school. What does Orson Scott Card write about in his blogs that's so distasteful?
- yolesaber 10y ago
  https://www.salon.com/2013/05/07/sci_fi_icon_orson_scott_card_hates_fan_fiction_the_homosexual_agenda_partner/ https://www.salon.com/2013/05/07/sci_fi_icon_orson_scott_car... He wrote some pretty hateful thing about queer people and gay marriage in general. But I think the worst was this, which wasn't on his blog (in the same vein, tho): > In 2008, Card published his most controversial anti-gay screed yet, in the Mormon Times, where he argued that gay marriage “marks the end of democracy in America,” that homosexuality was a “tragic genetic mixup,” and that allowing courts to redefine marriage was a slippery slope towards total homosexual political rule and the classifying of anyone who disagreed as “mentally ill"
- themartorana 10y ago
  Look, the Ender series deserves the accolades it has received. Ender's Game remains my favorite sci-fi book of all time. But not all his writings are so great. "Card has also written... a Shakespearean fanfic of Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet, with bonus flagrant homophobia in which “Old King Hamlet was an inadequate king because he was gay, an evil person because he was gay, and, ultimately...murdered by Horatio, in revenge for molesting him as a young boy—along with Laertes, and Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, thereby turning all of them gay.” http://www.dailydot.com/culture/10-famous-authors-fanfiction/ http://www.dailydot.com/culture/10-famous-authors-fanfiction... His blog carries many of his writings where his religion (he's Mormon, the great-great-grandson of Brigham Young) and severe right-wing politics combine to continuously make me cringe.

4 ms·

I love Dilbert. Then this. Feels like that time I stumbled upon Orson Scott Card's blog.

by themartorana 10y ago

I love Dilbert. Then this. Feels like that time I stumbled upon Orson Scott Card's blog.

sushid 10y ago
I grew up reading and rereading his books in middle school. What does Orson Scott Card write about in his blogs that's so distasteful?
- yolesaber 10y ago
  https://www.salon.com/2013/05/07/sci_fi_icon_orson_scott_card_hates_fan_fiction_the_homosexual_agenda_partner/ https://www.salon.com/2013/05/07/sci_fi_icon_orson_scott_car... He wrote some pretty hateful thing about queer people and gay marriage in general. But I think the worst was this, which wasn't on his blog (in the same vein, tho): > In 2008, Card published his most controversial anti-gay screed yet, in the Mormon Times, where he argued that gay marriage “marks the end of democracy in America,” that homosexuality was a “tragic genetic mixup,” and that allowing courts to redefine marriage was a slippery slope towards total homosexual political rule and the classifying of anyone who disagreed as “mentally ill"
- themartorana 10y ago
  Look, the Ender series deserves the accolades it has received. Ender's Game remains my favorite sci-fi book of all time. But not all his writings are so great. "Card has also written... a Shakespearean fanfic of Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet, with bonus flagrant homophobia in which “Old King Hamlet was an inadequate king because he was gay, an evil person because he was gay, and, ultimately...murdered by Horatio, in revenge for molesting him as a young boy—along with Laertes, and Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, thereby turning all of them gay.” http://www.dailydot.com/culture/10-famous-authors-fanfiction/ http://www.dailydot.com/culture/10-famous-authors-fanfiction... His blog carries many of his writings where his religion (he's Mormon, the great-great-grandson of Brigham Young) and severe right-wing politics combine to continuously make me cringe.