It only seems to be getting worse. Sigh.

“Also, every group having idiots is, unfortunately, not accepted as an excuse where feminism is concerned.”

Why is it that men telling women what to like and dislike is apolitical, but women telling men what to like and dislike is feminism gone bad? I am told on a daily basis what to be and how to act as a woman. I think the shock some men feel at feminism is finally having the mirror reflect back just a fraction of the…

Yeah, for other writers, the brother-sister thing would be standard outside-the-box scifi. But after a while, it because such a theme with him... I like that feeling you get after reading many of an author’s works and feeling a little like you know what they would have been like as a person. And I always feel like…

I disagree with almost all of this; it’s a complete misrepresentation of the issues in the genre.

I just think it’s a tad disingenuous to imply that such a low number of intelligent female characters in the genre is due to editorial influence. I read much about detrimental editorial influence in today’s market, so I’m not trying to completely dismiss your point. It just feels like trying to excuse the writers that…

Really I don’t mean applying this to old writers. I like Heinlein. I don’t like Asimov, but that’s because all his characters had the personality of mush. I love Alfred Bester. I read tons of classic scifi and for the most part, the gross 50s-ness doesn’t ruin my enjoyment of otherwise wonderful books with cool ideas.…

Yeah, it’s always more about what they think others shouldn’t say than what they think they *should* get to say. They take it as a given that they can say whatever they feel (and anger and fear are definitely feelings!) and but their critics can’t.

Time Enough for Love was peak nutty Heinlein for me. Brother and sister lovin, and if that wasn’t enough, the main character, whose life arc strongly resembles Heinlein’s—born the same year also in Kansas City— goes back in time and gets it on with young hot mom.

As a very devoted female scifi enthusiast, the issue is that that’s the “golden age” that many hold up as the best era of scifi. As scifi tries to modernize as a genre and get away from such bias, many resist and hold this gross era up as the model. It’s part of the Sad Puppies idiocy, and it’s been central in the…

The most prestigious scifi org had a shit fit a couple of years ago when women asked to get away from costumes like this. This was like 2012 or something! Apparently there are some fragile men in scifi that they were so aghast.

That’s still the party line today, in scifi and in the movies. I’m pretty sure Heinlein could do damn well whatever he pleased considering how many of his novels contain incest. He just didn’t care.

As we see the with the Sad Puppies movement, this is incredibly relevant today in science fiction. I want movements for women’s equality like we’re seeing with Black Lives Matter. I’m tired of male tantrums. I’m so tired of holding my tongue with people that think modern scifi is “politically correct” and therefore…

Eh, as another alum that’s been following the fuck ups preceding this week, I’m pretty happy. More to get done, but especially ditching Loftin was great.

Haha okay. He sounds like a cool dude. You do run into the occasional psycho in grad school (my predecessor in my research group threatened to sue me when I used a figure he had given to me, I even cited him). Pity his future grad students.

“Science is whatever we want it to be.” -Dr. Leo Spaceman

For real. When I started seeing positive comments about gay marriage on Yahoo that weren’t super downvoted, then I knew the country was changing paths on that issue. It’s like the litmus test for the least thoughtful segment of the population.

Anecdotally, in suburban St. Louis, IU was where questionably intelligent, over-moneyed white kids went when they were too cool for Mizzou and wanted to waste some money going out of state.

Friend of mine ranted on Facebook yesterday about the Mizzou coverage, saying that he was angry it got so much coverage when that 9 year old shot in south Chicago as a gang execution got so little.

I strongly believe that the most pressing issues in feminism right now are affordable daycare and maternity/paternity leave. (This is not to say that other issues don’t matter, just that these are so universally important to women and other women’s issues.)