Mastodawn

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116305793811427182

I'd been thinking about making some time to read _Project Hail Mary_ so I could go see the movie and join the convo about it. And then I read this 👇🏻.

Nice to not have to crowbar that into my schedule, but overall? I'd rather Andy Weir had just not been a shitwaffle. Seriously, I am _so sick and tired_ of white-guy SF authors turning out to be right-wing assholes.

(Also, the thing about "there's no symbolism or themes in my work"... dafuq? Why would any writer say something like that? 🤯🤡)

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Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️1d ago

@kagan @mekkaokereke

Unfortunately White Male SF authors especially Hard Science SF Writers get drawn to Right Wing Culture.
Historically it was Heinlein, Anderson and Pournelle browbeating fans and up and coming writers…now it’s nearly automatic.

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Tito Swineflu 1d ago

@MedeaVanamonde @kagan @mekkaokereke Of course, the exception to the right wing culture trend is THE culture, although right wingers with poor reading comprehension seem to think those books speak to them as well.

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Kagan MacTane (he/him)1d ago

@tito_swineflu @MedeaVanamonde @mekkaokereke You mean the Iain Banks series? I've been meaning to try those out sometime.

Also shout-out to James S.A. Corey's _The Expanse_ for being non-right-wing.

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Michael Busch

@kagan @tito_swineflu @MedeaVanamonde @mekkaokereke

Jeff Bezos is supposedly a fan of "The Expanse". Which is strange, since he is so obviously the villain of the series.

But there is nothing that someone will not miss the point of.

(See Elon Musk misunderstanding everything from "The Matrix" to The Culture novels.)

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Bluejay 1d ago

@michael_w_busch @kagan @tito_swineflu @MedeaVanamonde @mekkaokereke Musk having a trans daughter and not understanding that “The Matrix” is an allegory for the trans experience is mindblowingly hilarious.

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Michael Busch 1d ago

@bluejay @kagan @tito_swineflu @MedeaVanamonde @mekkaokereke

I did not appreciate the trans allegory in "The Matrix" until I read a piece by the Wachowskis explaining it.

But Musk continues to miss the point even after they explained it to him personally.

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