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Originally Posted by BReif61
But I also agree with your thoughts WRT Dune being fictional. If they want to make Keynes female; whatever. Just make it logical.
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Here's the rub, the Keins character joined the freman as a result of saving a small group of freman youth from a group of better armed harkonin soldiers(not something a female could have accomplished) this crated a water debt. Later he was almost assassinated, because of circumstances around the failed assassination attempt he became seen as a prophet. From then on he commanded the respect as well as the backbone (work) of the freman people. He even took a freman wife and had a child. His goal was the ultimate Terra forming of Dune... Also add to that, the emporer wouldn't have given that task to a female character. That's just the way Herbert wrote the dune universe. it's not me being chauvinistic.
Dune is an interesting saga in that their is quite a bit of what we would call progressivness to it, but Herbert still exhibited plenty of separation in the different character roles, both in governance and socially.