Dune, Bigotry, CSA 

Reasons why I won't ever read dune again, and why I chucked my copies in the garbage years ago:

  • The novels are a racist "white savior" narrative

  • The novels are sexist and perpetuate the myth that women can just "shut down" a pregnancy at will

  • Cultural appropriation is all over the place

  • Paul Atreides and other central characters are literally the product of a eugenics program

  • The novels are homophobic and fatphobic due to Baron Harkonen's portrayal

  • Books 5 and 6 include themes of sexual assault through the Honored Matres, and each of those two books includes a scene where a minor being raped. Both scenes are worse than they sound.

Dune, Bigotry, CSA 

@Zauberin Kinda wish my parents weren't having me watch it tomorrow night

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