Last post, then I sleep.

[conuly]

Basically, my day was boring. So boring that I want to tell youse about it and infect you with the boredom!

I got up. I rejoiced, for lo, the internet was working again. I went online. I contemplated my addiction. I went to class. I got all my late-adds. I played super mario world - and killed several castle bosses. I'm now stuck on the Chocolate Island ghost house.

Oh, and I am doing a project of some sort for my women's studies class. I managed to cadge myself a cushy assignment of "women in sci-fi" by using the completely reasonable argument that, due to my very good hearing, I'd be completely and totally unable to participate in a group project. Sheesh, forget about being able to understand everybody else in that setting, I was ready to run screaming from the room it was so LOUD.

And now I'm not sure what to focus on. Women sci-fi authors? Women in sci-fi through the ages, from classic sci-fi to today? Women in fanfic (much of which seems to be sci-fi or fantasy based, and anyway the prof wouldn't know otherwise)? Maybe I can expand slightly. Feminist themes (including gay themes, etc.) in sci-fi? Or fanfic? All that slash has got to indicate something!

Help!

Um, help later. Now I sleep.

Comments

[rho]

I tend to think that it's because many sci-fi writers are at least somewhat geeky, and not the most socially adept of people, and they just don't understand women very well. As a result, any attempt to write a decent, realistic female character would be doomed to failure right from the start. People like, say, Asimov, were completely apauling at writing female characters, so it sort of makes sense for them to try to avoid having to do it by androgynising the character.