That said, while I think KT got way too much hate and a lot of it was sexist bullshit, she also really was a cringey military fetishist and the politics of her books ended up being borderline proto-fash
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nivenus and
I am willing to tolerate a certain amount of "warrior culture" wank from my science fiction entertainment but the level KT took it to was genuinely uncomfortable
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Oh yeah she definitely bought into the mythos of the warrior ethos more than a little. Like I said it was nice to see things from another POV but I can definitely see why her books made people uncomfortable.
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Was it worse than the Mandalorian? I never read her books
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The Mandalorian is highly sympathetic to Mandalorians but it doesn't actually come off as believing they're superior to everyone else in the galaxy
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Or, like, outright say that people would be happier and healthier growing up on Mandalore on self-sufficient farms than in the wretched hives of Coruscant
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Man you would really hate it, it was straight up blood and soil shit She decided the stuff about Mandos being raiders and predators was propaganda and that their way of life was every man having a self-sufficient homestead that he was prepared to defend by force himself
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Straight up Midwestern gun culture shit
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So Thomas Jefferson was a Mando then
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I mean sort of. She leanes into the idea they weren't a race but a culture though. It's a weird mix of ideas.
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The Mandos, to be fair to her, are totally against slavery in her books (although this is greatly at odds with their depiction in other works)
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She's kind of like Tom Clancy. I recall a Kotaku writer describing him as kind of a weirdly politically correct jingoist. Like he has lots of minority characters that aren't cliches but is unmistakably right wing.
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