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when it's going six degrees past the boundaries of your culture's mainstream thought to even develop a working idea of what a gender is, yeah, sure, granted
Also ya gotta remember that classic SF was working in a time when people's heads would explode if you had a PoC flying a spaceship.
you'll always have to contend with the corn-pone values of the mass market if you're writing for the mass market, i'm not of a mind to excuse milking that instead of challenging and subverting it on that basis
wow, 280 chars has really bought your pep back! Spoken like a true revolutionary!
Wait a minute, you're telling me that media is reflective of the time that it was made?
not really, i'm more telling you that some people who tell you they're feeding you imagination are feeding you failure of imagination and narcissism see alsohttps://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/mark-twain/corn-pone-opinions/ …
Sturgeon's Law still holds. not everyone can be Le Guin or Tiptree/Sheldon or even John Varley
more's the pity
Check out Iain M Banks SF, they are full of gender changing characters in societies where it's normal. "Player of Games" is one such
honestly i love Banks *absolutely limitlessly* but he proves the rule, in as polymorphously perverse and technically omnipotent a society as the Culture sex is as far as we see still something that has two values, the innovation is you can switch the setting
Good luck with that! :-D
This is literally every Heinlein book, which owns because his actual beliefs & values changed throughout his entire career
To be fair, Heinlein had that short story where a time-traveling dude transitions to become both his father AND his mother so he was p woke
All You Zombies, they finally made a good movie of it a few years ago.
It was probably thirty years between when our system was introduced to classic SF&F and when we understood this. Yeah. :(
Read this as “most classic San Francisco as cultural masturbation.” Totally correct that way as well.
No gender in the future. It's David Bowies all the way down.
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