r/MurderedByWords Dec 17 '24

#3 Murder of Week Is he just stupid?

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u/Own-Cupcake7586 Dec 17 '24

Fun fact: People with certain proclivities often cannot conceive of other people not sharing those proclivities. In this case, a serial sexual assaulter and rapist assumes that all men are prone to the same behavior. This is a prime example of what is commonly known as a “self-report.”

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u/DayleD Dec 17 '24

I read Enders Game as a kid without knowing the author was a cultist and assumed he was attempting to be homoerotic with the shower fight scene.

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u/tehlemmings Dec 17 '24

Same. And then I went on to read some of his other stuff, like the homecoming series. Even as a teenager, the amount of uncomfortable shit he wrong about teenagers fucking creeped me the hell out. Turns out all the people I knew who absolutely loved him only ever read enders game.

And then, when I went to verify that I got the series name correct, I found out the whole thing is a play on the book or mormon? What the actual shit?

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u/DayleD Dec 17 '24

Yeah. What Battlefield Earth is to Scientology, Ender's Game is to Mormonism.

When Prop 8 was introduced, Card was a major backer.

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u/tehlemmings Dec 17 '24

I wasn't aware of that at all. I mostly just thought he was a creep and stopped following him lol