How to help Orson Scott Card

[roseembolism]

Well, Orson Scott Card is at it again. He's posted a rant where he states that legalized gay marriage is "The end of democracy in America". No doubt this will cause a number of people to vow never to read his books again, while others will defend his works as separate from his homophobia.

I suppose that I'm one of the few people who have always found OSC's works to have a really creepy subtext of homoeroticism, homoerotic violence and child abuse (frex: it's OK to torture and destroy a handsome youth, because it's for "the greater good). So actually, I don't find OSC's attitude all that surprising. I don't buy his books because of his rants; I don't buy them because I find his attitude has always permeated his works.

As far as his obsession with homosexuality and gay marriage, I like the Metafilter poster who boiled it down to:


1.:  I am a normal heterosexual guy
2.:  I constantly crave cock and only have sex with my wife due to social pressure
3.:  Without that social pressure, all us normal heterosexual men would ditch our wives and head straight for the gay bathhouses
4.:  Therefore, strong social (and legal) pressure is necessary for the human race to keep reproducing


In other words, I can't think of any author who more desperately needs a long bout of mutual cock-sucking than Orson Scott Card.  It's a pitythat I can't ask anyone to make that ultimate sacrifice.