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As a follow up to Mindblowing SF by everyone else:
Two recent counterexamples to common responses to complaints about under/mis-representations of women/POC in sff:
"It's just that women write differently to men!": Apparently I Write Like a Girl . Bev Vincent is told that as a female writer they clearly don't understand how men act or think. He is not pleased.
"It's just the nature of the market, nothing anyone can do": A New Look for ‘Liar’ The whitewashed cover for "Liar" is replaced by one with a character of the right ethnicity after much public censure online and from the author.
Also This is why Science Fiction can’t have nice things is a good post on the whole thing.
Two recent counterexamples to common responses to complaints about under/mis-representations of women/POC in sff:
"It's just that women write differently to men!": Apparently I Write Like a Girl . Bev Vincent is told that as a female writer they clearly don't understand how men act or think. He is not pleased.
"It's just the nature of the market, nothing anyone can do": A New Look for ‘Liar’ The whitewashed cover for "Liar" is replaced by one with a character of the right ethnicity after much public censure online and from the author.
Also This is why Science Fiction can’t have nice things is a good post on the whole thing.
