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onsomekindofstartrek · 1 month ago

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Like, I don't think this is profoundly feminist or even deep, but I want to write a sci-fi novel that gives older sexist male sci-fi fans the exact experience of being a nerdy teenage girl and reading a Larry Niven novel.

Like, it's not even that it was a failure of progressivism, the way those novels treated women, it's just that you get halfway or less into all these novels and realize that the author is truly incapable of being normal about women, that the aliens are more human than the women in this man's inner world.

I want to create the equivalent for grown-ass men who like Warhammer and Dune. A novel that leaves a forty-five year old libertarian Heinlein fan like... well, that's an amazing vision of the future, but why does the author think I'm... icky?

#like can you imagine if Star Trek Enterprise was normal about women?#It's not an impossible idea #like the original series tried very hard but the sexism background radiation in the 60's was just too strong #by 2002 there were people writing in Hollywood who could at least clear the bar set by TOS i mean come on #T'pol is right literally all the time #and yet the narrative always treats her like this shrewish frigid secretary type and the manchild protagonist as the coolest guy ever #to be clear I'm not suggesting it's a genuinely feminist project to do unto men as they have done unto women #two wrongs don't make a right #but sometimes the second wrong is funny as shit

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