My favorite part is how he has roughly this conversation like 10 times with different people:
“Come on ask. Ask me about my worm dick. You know you want to.”
“Umm my Lord I don’t know what you mean.”
“Ask. About. My. Worm. Dick.”
“Uhhhh okay? Tell me about your worm dick.”
“YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOON. I HAVE NO WORM DICK. I have evolved beyond such things. You puny mortals are so obsessed with sex - it never fails to amuse me.”
“Oh… as you say, my lord. I was actually just here to talk about the imperial tax rate on the agricultural planets in the outer rim. The people grow restless, sire.”
“Humans are always drawn to the salacious and sensual. Such is their nature, I suppose, to wonder about their emperor’s WORM DICK, when their lives are so fleeting.”
“…”
“Have I told you about my army of genetically engineered prostitutes? They look freaky - they have big block heads and I use them to control my enemies. I call them my fish speakers. An army of female prostitutes is best, you see, because male armies are too gay. Come to my weird eyes-wide-shut ritualistic sex dungeon and I’ll tell you about it.”
God Emperor is where I pretty much stopped enjoying the books. Not that the overarching idea and story was bad, I liked it, but the author projected way too many of his issues into the book and I cringed every time he was lecturing anyone.
Actually he didn’t want a standing male army cause they’re too violent when there’s no war
That wasn’t Leto’s reason at all. He kept a standing army of women explicitly because according to him, women would be loyal to him as an individual while men would be loyal to the idea of the empire. That was counterproductive to his plans since he was literally trying to be the worst ruler for humanity in all of history.
reading god emperor I always got the impression he was seething with resentment/disappointment, having to repeatedly explain everything over and over because people kept reading their own importance/story into the jihad when they really just happened to be there at the time.
But why are they violent? Latent (homo)sexual energy, apparently. I can’t remember the exact quote, but that’s ol frank for ya.
Edit: “The all-male army has a tendency toward homosexual activities” Something about the “breeding males” (older men) sending younger “non-breeding males” to war as a “screening function”. So then you have all these young guys who have some options with what to do with their pent up energy when denied an “external enemy” - either be gay (apparently) or, since that is discouraged, they “sublimate” those energies raping and pillaging - hence being dangerous.
Yeah, or “why are male armies so gay?”. Real rough views on sexuality in that one
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