unknought:

The fact that some science fiction writers are strongly socially conservative is kind of viscerally confusing to me. Like, Orson Scott Card can write about tolerating and accepting the unsettlingly strange alien lifecycle of the piggies, and John C Wright can portray a transhuman utopia of incredible morphological and neurological diversity, and then they can both turn around and say that humans being gay is disgusting and obviously beyond the pale. It’s bizarre.

I think this has to do with why the “S” in SF is “speculative” as much as “science” – what holds the genre together is critical analysis of how culture works, rather than taking it for granted, and the same critical distance that allows for “this setup is functional, even though it’s nothing like what we’re doing now” allows for “this setup is dysfunctional, even if it’s what we do now”