kinda why i regard most classic SF as cultural masturbation, stroking your worldview by projecting it into the far future where it still holds, revealing what you knew all along, that it is fundamental truthhttps://twitter.com/MothRecess/status/921229629326729216 …
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
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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.
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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
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wow, 280 chars has really bought your pep back! Spoken like a true revolutionary!
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you try publishing that under your real name, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.
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where feminism has collapsed, religion is back in the driving seat and nationalist geopolitics is running amok.
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I mean, the equivalent to writing this edgy stuff today would be to write a novel set in the real future we're heading towards...
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