I will not be taking questions
I know just enough about battletech to know what this statement refers to, but not enough to know why it’s funny or controversial. So I agree, because why not?
The Battletech books from before the Clan invasion had female characters written almost exclusively to be love interests. I’m re-reading them all and boy, are those parts cringe. There’s only a dozen or so books pre-Clan, but if you read them you’ll see what I mean. Most of the time, those characters can’t pass the Bechdel test in scenes by themselves; they’re constantly thinking about a male love interest no matter what’s happening.
The Clans have a totally different culture where people are bred in vats rather than being born naturally, and are all about glory and combat. Sex exists for fun, but not romantic relationships (mostly). As a side effect, the authors of those books had to write female characters that didn’t revolve around a man.
As someone having just finished up through Twilight of the Clans, agreed 100%. Absolute cringe. Justin Allard will never not be a piece of shit in my mind because of his treatment of Kym in Warrior: En Garde. Luckily his son is a good kid.
You’d think they’d talk about, gee, I don’t fucking know, MECHS!?
I’ve read every novel (up until a year or two ago when I forgot to buy more) and I’m not sure that there’s anything to this.
Long ago the inner sphere houses lived in
harmonywar, but that all changed when the clans attacked.That’s all the lore I know.
But they made a mistake when they attacked MY HOME PLANET!
