5/ OP conjures up a strawman - "there are SFF gatekeepers". There are? The gates have fallen. Tor and the other publishers run the field now, and they've all but banned cis white hetero men, to make room on the shelves for PoC / female / immigrant / translated Chinese SF.
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6/ So, yes, there ARE gatekeepers - try to get a classic Nivenesque novel published! ...but as to OP's point: there are all these terrible racist smells-like-Confederate-spirit white men who are trying to keep private whatever people out: totally false.
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7/ Now, what OP MIGHT be referring to as "gatekeeping" is not control of the actual gates (i.e. the publishers), but people who have OPINIONS. Opinions like "SF had far more breadth and variety in 1960 or 1990 than today". Why not just say that?
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8/ The left, despite controlling the commanding heights of government, culture, media, and publishing, can't get over the self image it has had since the 1960s - the brave rebellious underdogs fighting against The Man. So of course a few scattered dissidents with no power >
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9/ ...have to be labelled "gatekeepers", that way the plucky young rebels who ... uh ... run every single publisher, control every fandom committee at every con, run the blogs for the big bookstores, etc can decry those mean mean "gatekeepers" who ... disagree with them.
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10/ e.g. here people who disagree that current SF is best SF are "bullies" How DARE some random individual blogger be mean to the poor old publishers / awards committees / cons / industry? BULLY ! Tor screams out in pain as it strikes you.https://twitter.com/jessnevins/status/1289951206672961536 …
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11/ And then, of course, the entire thread is peppered with mood-affiliation slanders. Again and again and again people who like the old variety and tumult of SF are tarred with a bizarre association with the Confederacyhttps://twitter.com/jessnevins/status/1289954911023636486 …
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12/ This is objectively false.https://twitter.com/jessnevins/status/1289959633432358912 …
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Jess Nevins @jessnevinsMartin would have you believe the history of science fiction is written, and, surprise, it's a shower of white male mfers. It's not. The history of sf is wide-open--undocumented--uncharted. Heavily white? Maybe. But just as likely to be populated with BIPOCs as just whites.Show this thread2 replies 4 retweets 32 likesShow this thread -
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13/ This is objectively a red herring. No one, to a good approximation, is arguing that "the history of SF is the history of white male writers". We had Alice Bradley Sheldon, Octavia Butler, H M Hoover, Madeleine L'Engle, H M Hoover, Anne McCaffrey, Thttps://twitter.com/jessnevins/status/1289960398142222337 …
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