/lit/ - Literature

>Blocks your path
>Calls you gay
What do you do?

>Take the difference between males and females. Males naturally tend toward a broadcast strategy of reproduction. Since males make an almost infinite supply of sperm and it costs them nothing to deploy it, the most sensible reproductive strategy is to deposit it in every available female - and to make special effort to deposit it in the healthiest females, the ones most likely to bring their offspring to adulthood. A male does best, reproductively, if he wanders and copulates as widely as possible.
>The female strategy is just the opposite. Instead of millions and millions of sperm, they only have one egg a month, and each child represents an enormous investment of effort. So females need stability. They need to be sure there'll always be plenty of food. We also spend large amounts of time relatively helpless, unable to find or gather food. Far from being wanderers, we females need to establish and stay. If we can't get that, then our next best strategy is to mate with the strongest and healthiest possible males. But best of all is to get a strong healthy male who'll stay and provide, instead of wandering and copulating at will.
>Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, where a woman can count on stability; our legal and moral codes that try to abolish violence and promote permanence of ownership and enforce contracts - those represent the primary female strategy, the taming of the male.

>Now, though, watching as Plikt and Val entered the new chapel on their knees and crawled forward—as all the other humans who entered had also crawled—to kiss Bishop Peregrino’s ring before the altar, Valentine realized that she had done nothing for “Val’s own good,” whatever she might have told herself. Val was completely self-contained, unflappable, calm. Why should Valentine imagine that she could make young Val either more or less happy, more or less comfortable? I am irrelevant to this girlchild’s life. But she is not irrelevant to mine. She is at once an affirmation and a denial of the most important relationship of my childhood, and of much of my adulthood as well. I wish that she had crumbled into nothingness Outside, like Miro’s old crippled body did. I wish I had never had to face myself like this.

What do you guys think about Orson Scott Card?

I loved Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, but dropped the shadow series on the third book, because it became boring political strategy, and the characters of Bean and Peter were literally destroyed.
Also liked Speaker for Dead, though it took me some time to get into it. I like both the cold and strict way he makes his children characters, and also the over emotional stuff. And he makes excellent atmosphere and interesting plots.

But what really amuses me about him
>writes about being completely tolerant towards strangers and their actions no matter how extreme and harmful they are, forgiveness to an alien race that killed millions for nothing and heart tearing pigs
>homophob

Post ITT with the authors you read who have the worst politics.

pic related it's Orson Scott Card