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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TBH that sounds less Jeffersonian US and more Viking Era Iceland.
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She claimed she modeled them off the Picts but honestly we don't know much about the Picts.
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Yeah, we definitely don’t know enough about the Picts to model anything off.
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There seems to be a problematic subgenre of white female genre fiction writers whose knowledge of historical cultures is limited entirely to second hand accounts of cultures from the present day UK
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Proud soldier dudes is definitely her schtick. After leaving Star Wars she carries it into Gears of War and Halo. I think she even helped write GoW3.
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She was in the UK Territorial Army (the equivalent of the US Army Reserve) She's totally a female Gareth Keenan/Dwight Schrute from The Office
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