IIRC most of that is right, but it turns out later on in the series that green dragons can have female riders, and in fact it started out that way but fell out of fashion Because Sexism. But all male green riders are supposedly "effeminate" gay men, because even if they didn't start out that way, they get "turned gay" by their dragon's mating urges (and tent pegs, apparently. Don't ask.) All blue riders are "masculine" gay men, and all brown and bronze riders are manly het men, just as all gold riders are womanly het women. Apparently lesbians don't exist on Pern, butch or otherwise.
PLUS gold and bronze dragons are ~Superior~ -- smarter and larger than the other colors. They only bond with ~Superior~ riders, so only gold and bronze riders can become weyrleaders, despite the fact that the books are rife with venal, incompetent, and downright evil bronze and gold riders. All green riders, male or female, are bitchy, flighty, and a bit dumb, just like their inferior dragons. So in Pernworld, het people are canonically ~Superior~ to non-het people and queer people will never ever bond with the coolest dragons.
Aaannnd the slave class, the 'drudges,' are all that way because they're lazy and stupid. and if they reeeaaally wanted to not be drudges, they'd pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Also, no matter how long the Pernworld humans have been isolated, they still speak only one language, have no religion, very little culture/folklore/etc. and outside of the dragons, are basically the dullest pseudo-medieval lumps imaginable.
So yeah, 'problemeatic' doesn't go nearly far enough. But god damn, I loved those dragons beyond reason as a teenager.
Re: Deladria#242017
IIRC most of that is right, but it turns out later on in the series that green dragons can have female riders, and in fact it started out that way but fell out of fashion Because Sexism. But all male green riders are supposedly "effeminate" gay men, because even if they didn't start out that way, they get "turned gay" by their dragon's mating urges (and tent pegs, apparently. Don't ask.) All blue riders are "masculine" gay men, and all brown and bronze riders are manly het men, just as all gold riders are womanly het women. Apparently lesbians don't exist on Pern, butch or otherwise.
PLUS gold and bronze dragons are ~Superior~ -- smarter and larger than the other colors. They only bond with ~Superior~ riders, so only gold and bronze riders can become weyrleaders, despite the fact that the books are rife with venal, incompetent, and downright evil bronze and gold riders. All green riders, male or female, are bitchy, flighty, and a bit dumb, just like their inferior dragons. So in Pernworld, het people are canonically ~Superior~ to non-het people and queer people will never ever bond with the coolest dragons.
Aaannnd the slave class, the 'drudges,' are all that way because they're lazy and stupid. and if they reeeaaally wanted to not be drudges, they'd pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Also, no matter how long the Pernworld humans have been isolated, they still speak only one language, have no religion, very little culture/folklore/etc. and outside of the dragons, are basically the dullest pseudo-medieval lumps imaginable.
So yeah, 'problemeatic' doesn't go nearly far enough. But god damn, I loved those dragons beyond reason as a teenager.