We find out Bugger drones, if left alone and isolated long enough, can develop rudimentary sentience
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They develop individual names, personalities, even relationships -- they come to love and care for each other
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But compared to the Hive Queens they are clumsy and stupid and, most importantly, they are sterile
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They are a dead end that will lead their species into extinction
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So the human protagonist makes the terrible decision to bring them back to the hive
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I could see interpreting that as an ace person struggling with and ultimately deciding to try to quash their orientation :/
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Replying to @cveidson @BootlegGirl
Weeeell there's a substantial body of evidence re: Card having issues with feeling morally obligated to squash one's orientation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cveidson
Yeah. It's not an exact quote but he said, in effect, women and men naturally are only comfortable with their own sex >
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> but that a morally right person knows they must muddle through the "intersexual swamp" so that the species can continue
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @cveidson
He has repeatedly said the purpose of marriage is reproduction and sexual pleasure is secondary
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He has a minor gay male human character in the Ender's Shadow series who marries a woman and straight up says that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cveidson
The Ender's Shadow series also has a book which ends with the following:
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"Bean loaded his pistol and prepared to retrieve his unborn fetuses."
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