Our cause is just and righteous

[sqbr]

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.

Comments

[nixwilliams]

that first case is really interesting - not only for the situation, but for people's reaction to it. like bev says in the post, it's like women have been complaining about this for years, but when a MAN experiences it, people are all "OMG WHUT THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS!" (and then, predictably, things devolve into a transphobic mess!)

[sqbr]

Well you see, unless there's evidence otherwise, as there is here, then the most plausible reason for a woman being discriminated against is that she just inherently sucks.

[nixwilliams]

unless there's evidence otherwise, as there is here

i.e. unless the person is NOT, IN FACT A WOMAN? *nods* of course.

and on that subject it is frequently men that buy women drinks and not the other way around. I AM BY NO MEANS A SEXIST!

[sqbr]

*cackles*