Dune is full of gender essentialist bullshit and its main plot thread is directly based on Great Man Theory (even if ostensibly as a cautionary tale instead of praising it but good luck getting that across to Paul/Leto II stans) and there's a lot of deeply baked in misogyny and orientalism (which gets worse under Frank's son, who I refuse to read from), but it's still my favorite literature of all time.
If I wanted to be a toxic fan like the few featured in this thread I would make lots of Thermian Argument excuses for how actually in the fiction feeemales are hardwired for specific roles and have specific limitations and so on and I'd do a lot of concern trolling, insults, and childish eyerolling emojis because that'd protect me from feeling bad about what I consume. :frothingfash:
Dune is full of gender essentialist bullshit and its main plot thread is directly based on Great Man Theory (even if ostensibly as a cautionary tale instead of praising it but good luck getting that across to Paul/Leto II stans) and there's a lot of deeply baked in misogyny and orientalism (which gets worse under Frank's son, who I refuse to read from), but it's still my favorite literature of all time.
If I wanted to be a toxic fan like the few featured in this thread I would make lots of Thermian Argument excuses for how actually in the fiction feeemales are hardwired for specific roles and have specific limitations and so on and I'd do a lot of concern trolling, insults, and childish eyerolling emojis because that'd protect me from feeling bad about what I consume. :frothingfash: