r/SelfAwarewolves 6d ago

Come on, dude, you’re so close

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u/DarthArtero 6d ago

I read that three times and I still have no idea what they're trying to say.

Are they saying that writers who use LGBTQ+ characters lack empathy? That's the part I can't wrap my brain around.

The same writers also actively refuse to understand racist transphobic incel chuds??

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u/Sedu 6d ago

The message is “If you write queer characters you’re the true bigot, because you are incapable of anything else.” It’s just mindless stupidity, insisting that anything but stories about white men getting women is bad.

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u/yourfriendthebadger 6d ago

Once the author Orson Scott Card said exactly this to me, and I will never read his books again.

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u/ZenDruid_8675309 6d ago

Which is ironic given all the homoerotic subtext in the book “Ender’s Game”.

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u/Sedu 6d ago

Might get me some hate here, but I could now stand Ender’s Game. It’s just an edgy, self indulgent/wish fulfillment fantasy. If Orson Scott had grown up in the 90s, I guarantee he would have had a Shadow the Hedgehog OC.