Folks, it must be said. If you decide to read a book that is, say, 55 years old, and act SHOCKED! SHOCKED! that its themes and characterizations don't conform to today's accepted social mores... welp, I don't know what to tell you. I mean... /1
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Also, there’s a general frustration in seeing what some people want the genre to *still be,* because the bugs to them are features. That there’s people still lauding Dune and other such books, not despite their flaws, but because of them.
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These clowns, you mean.
Yup.
Some people just don't want any change, and I have no problem leaving them behind where they belong.https://twitter.com/marshallmaresca/status/1250908353506816003 …
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Right. Especially queercoding of villains, which has existed FOREVER. Even back when you couldn't be overt about it, so they had to make the gay villain a "dandy".
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Exactly. Just, almost every adjective used in that first Harkonnen scene is geared to emphasise that These Are Bad And Effete Men, over and over.
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