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[gamerchick]

So by now most of you are probably aware that Orson Scott Card wrote a pretty bad novella about Hamlet's gay dad. It took me a while to find out this was happening, because despite the profound importance that Ender's Game held for me as a teenager, I've been really ambivalent about its quality and about all other things Card for a long time now. I

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Ender's Game spoke to me REALLY strongly when I was 12. Now it just kind of bothers me. I don't feel comfortable bringing Card's views on homosexuality into Ender's Game because, well, I didn't really feel that any form of sexuality was represented in any way, positive or negative, in that book. There are other Card novels I've read where those views come out a lot more strongly, but not in Ender's Game. The moral universe it posits, though, is really troubling to me - probably because I've become really hardline in my own ethics about believing that what we actually do matters more than what we intend to do. Intention needs to be a piece of it, of course - that's where mercy comes from - but so often I find that good intentions just mean dickall to me nowadays when the result is something purely toxic. The mileage of others, of course, may vary.

I didn't link to the one Ender's Game-related essay I know of that, while interesting, does have a really awful and inflammatory tone in my opinion. (It's cited in the Kessel piece, though.) The Kessel essay just read to me as having a pretty neutral academic tone, honestly.