tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:56053 Sean Sean 2009-08-07T00:00:58Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:56053:245266 2009-08-07T00:00:58Z 2009-08-07T00:00:58Z sleepy public 4 As a follow up to <a href="http://sqbr.dreamwidth.org/245133.html">Mindblowing SF by everyone else</a>:<br /><br />Two recent counterexamples to common responses to complaints about under/mis-representations of women/POC in sff:<br /><br />"It's just that women write differently to men!": <a href="http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/apparently-i-write-like-a-girl">Apparently I Write Like a Girl</a> . Bev Vincent is told that as a female writer they clearly don't understand how men act or think. He is not pleased.<br /><br />"It's just the nature of the market, nothing anyone can do": <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6675065.html">A New Look for ‘Liar’</a> 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.<br /><br />Also <a href="http://theangryblackwoman.com/2009/08/05/this-is-why-science-fiction-cant-have-nice-things">This is why Science Fiction can’t have nice things</a> is a good post on the whole thing.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=sqbr&ditemid=245266" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments