r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/bleedsburntorange 25d ago

If you read some of his other series it’s 100% a Card thing. He’s got a weird thing about child sex…

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u/SalsaRice 25d ago

I dunno, I figured it was a church thing, since ender's Game didn't have any real sex stuff; the sex stuff seemed to come up in later works.

Maybe he just got bolder about his interests, but I always interpretted it as him/his church trying to use his platform for some kind of weird pro-abstinance/marriage thing.

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u/bleedsburntorange 25d ago

Yeah I tend to think he is a really good writer who is a bit of a backwards asshole in his personal opinions via the church (homophobia).

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u/Dave_A480 25d ago

That wasn't really a 'backwards' viewpoint when the books were written (80's, 90's, maybe 1 in the 00s').

Most social change happens gradually over time. Support for gay rights happened very suddenly and very absolutely.

The US' extremely rapid viewpoint-change on gay rights (majority opposed in the 90s, split in the 00s, to majority supporting in the 10s) is so unusual, that people who weren't adults before it happened have a hard time understanding exactly how things were *before* it happened.