Slaanesh is all those things too, because it all comes down to how you’re reading it. Warhammer is a satire, it operates on more than one level. If you read Slaanesh strictly on the levels you’re describing, when examining a piece of media created in Thatcher’s Britain, then you’re doing a huge disservice to the original material and its intent. This is a satire of fascism written under a deeply homophobic government. You’re not supposed to look at the blatantly queer and gender-fucky god and think “Clearly the writers are being completely literal and expressing their own deeply held beliefs when they describe this being as pure evil.”
No, I get what you’re saying, but that’s why I used the “Grandfather Nurgle” “Mother nature” comparison. The warp gods are caricatures of movements like naturalism (Nurgle), Intellectualism (Tzeentch), and the righteous rage of the oppressed and the civil rights movement (Khorn). But they’re also wild exaggerations of those ideas.
It’s like how Ayn Rand’s version of Capitalism is an almost comical parody of the real theory created by assuming a complete inversion of Soviet authoritarianism. Or at least it would be comical if people hadn’t embraced it as if that were the actual premise of the ideology. Another example would be like that “Transmaxxing” thing some truly twisted incels (never truly widespread) were up to a while back, where they had become so wildly misogynistic and brain sick they actually started to believe they’d be better off with some of that “Female Privilege” they had convinced themselves existed and started trying to figure out how to game the system to medically transition. Like, you didn’t actually “Come full circle” you became a parody of the thing you were conditioned to hate so much and that parody is legitimately an abomination.
Slaanesh is all those things too, because it all comes down to how you’re reading it. Warhammer is a satire, it operates on more than one level. If you read Slaanesh strictly on the levels you’re describing, when examining a piece of media created in Thatcher’s Britain, then you’re doing a huge disservice to the original material and its intent. This is a satire of fascism written under a deeply homophobic government. You’re not supposed to look at the blatantly queer and gender-fucky god and think “Clearly the writers are being completely literal and expressing their own deeply held beliefs when they describe this being as pure evil.”
No, I get what you’re saying, but that’s why I used the “Grandfather Nurgle” “Mother nature” comparison. The warp gods are caricatures of movements like naturalism (Nurgle), Intellectualism (Tzeentch), and the righteous rage of the oppressed and the civil rights movement (Khorn). But they’re also wild exaggerations of those ideas.
It’s like how Ayn Rand’s version of Capitalism is an almost comical parody of the real theory created by assuming a complete inversion of Soviet authoritarianism. Or at least it would be comical if people hadn’t embraced it as if that were the actual premise of the ideology. Another example would be like that “Transmaxxing” thing some truly twisted incels (never truly widespread) were up to a while back, where they had become so wildly misogynistic and brain sick they actually started to believe they’d be better off with some of that “Female Privilege” they had convinced themselves existed and started trying to figure out how to game the system to medically transition. Like, you didn’t actually “Come full circle” you became a parody of the thing you were conditioned to hate so much and that parody is legitimately an abomination.