No those are the so called Honored Matres. You could consider the Bene Gesserit sex witches. But there is also the Fish Speakers who are not "sex witches" but god emperor's imperial army because all male armies are inherently gay, according to the god emperor.
I was going to say a bunch of psychic women use the illusion of religion to preemptively establish themselves as deitys to be able to control entire civilizations.
The bene gesserit is literally Women Illuminati.
Lmao even by gamer definitions of politics this is false.
Protagonist: White Male.
Bad Guy: Fat.
Women: Shrill.
Nature of the Conflict: Space Marines versus Kaiju.
Resolution: Hero gets the 10/10 Smokeshow Hottie Space Princess and becomes Emperor of the Galaxy.
No Politics Detected, folks.
Muad'dib's war is litterally called a fucking Jihad. I had to go check the comments and thankfully at least there's a lot of pushback pointing out what nonsense this is.
Reminder: all art is political and all science/fiction fantasy is about re-contextualizing various politcal/historical events. Dune is not less political and no more subtle than fucking Avatar. The end.
I point, among others, to your argument that it is literally called a fucking Jihad to argue that Dune is so, so much less subtle than fucking Avatar
Tell me you didn't read the appendix without telling me you haven't read the appendix.
The course had been set by this time, the Ecological Fremen were aimed along their way. Liet-Kynes had only to watch and nudge and spy upon the Harkonnens ... until the day his planet was afflicted by a Hero."
This might be ironic. When I used to be in a Dune shitposting group, we would constantly claim that Dune wasn't political.
Dune was just the literary adaptation of the Weapon of Choice music video. Why is that so hard for people to understand?
