\nThe 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\u2019s bizarre.
I think this has to do with why the \u201cS\u201d in SF is \u201cspeculative\u201d as much as \u201cscience\u201d \u2013 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 \u201cthis setup is functional, even though it\u2019s nothing like what we\u2019re doing now\u201d allows for \u201cthis setup is dysfunctional, even if it\u2019s what we do now\u201d
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