I have to say, though, that I actually got a sexist feel from the article as a whole stronger than I did a homophobic feel.
I do think that there's a strong element of 'Marriage is a tool for controlling women, and if it doesn't serve the purpose of binding women to men, it's worthless at best and dangerous at worst' to a lot of anti-gay-marriage rhetoric, and I would not be surprised to catch a strong whiff of it from Card.
I used to love his books, but his female characters were often the tamers and gentlers of men, but easily led astray by bad men, who needed a strong male hand to keep them in line. Ick.
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Date: 2008-07-31 06:39 am (UTC)I do think that there's a strong element of 'Marriage is a tool for controlling women, and if it doesn't serve the purpose of binding women to men, it's worthless at best and dangerous at worst' to a lot of anti-gay-marriage rhetoric, and I would not be surprised to catch a strong whiff of it from Card.
I used to love his books, but his female characters were often the tamers and gentlers of men, but easily led astray by bad men, who needed a strong male hand to keep them in line. Ick.