Going to do some Dune podcasting later today. What questions about Frank Herbert's novel do you want answered?
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Can you outline in plain language the difference between the Bene Gesserit powers of prescience and those of the Mentat?
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Replying to @HeerJeet
The methods are gendered? In what way? Paul has Bene Gesserit training, not Mentat?
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Replying to @Nathan_Pensky @HeerJeet
You sure about that?pic.twitter.com/jWrEauTEZN
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Replying to @ALcantwait @HeerJeet
Ah forgot about that. But that passage still speaks to my point that there doesn't seem much difference between the two kinds of prescience. Paul was given Mentat training without him knowing, implying the two methods work similarly, as in not according to gender difference.
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Then again I'm not sure I understand Jeet's response
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Replying to @Nathan_Pensky @HeerJeet
I think a more complex answer addresses the distinctions but doesn't really undermine Jeet's point. Taking a shot at explaining: mentats devote their abilities more to pathfinding perception (Guild ships, strategy), while BG focus more on emotionally oriented control and /1
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perception (Truthsaying, calm attitude & projection). Both dip into the other's abilities a bit, but the focus is there. But then this also arguably reflects a gendered perspective from Herbert - associating men with strategy and women with emotion 2/2
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That's exactly right. I make this point in a forthcoming podcast.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @Nathan_Pensky
Only adding one more point - the Voice! Hard to get more gender-stereotyped than assigning manipulative techniques to the women.
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