How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995)

Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995) by myhf on Friday November 29, 2013 @05:04AM (#6818699)

Once you realize that 100% of his writing is about the self-hating gay Mormon experience, you notice a lot more subtext. In this piece, the junior programmer who becomes a middle-manager to please the marketers is a metaphor for gay Mormons who marry women to please the church.

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Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995) by jessaustin on Friday November 29, 2013 @08:17AM (#6819273)

I've read a great deal of OSC's work, and I've found nothing to contradict (and much to confirm) your hypothesis. Several of the gay characters in Songmaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songmaster) are stand-ins for the author, and the same themes and situations are addressed (perhaps in more oblique fashion) in the more popular Ender's Game.

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Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995) by tadaaaa on Friday November 29, 2013 @08:33AM (#6819316)

Orson is probably a repressed gay himself, but it's impossible for him to admit this to himself. That's why he has to hate gays so much.

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Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995) by Shahor on Friday November 29, 2013 @05:11AM (#6818712)

wtf did I just read :s

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Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995) by bsenftner on Friday November 29, 2013 @09:26AM (#6819474)

I agree! Some of you are painting a fiction here with your overzealous OSC bashing.

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Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995) by xmonkee on Friday November 29, 2013 @10:30AM (#6819711)

Seriously, that makes sense. Ender with the weird sister (non)incest situation is a stand-in for the author. He's not actually a bad person, just really repressed?

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Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995) by grammaton on Friday November 29, 2013 @12:09PM (#6820146)

/pro forma comment about studies showing people with the most virulently homophobic attitudes tend to have repressed homosexual tendencies

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