"old sci fi writers couldn't write women!!!" buddy old sci fi writers couldn't write people anyways insofar as they could write people they wrote women just fine!
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oh nooo characters say things wrt gender that were commonly said about those genders at the time oh dear
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oh nooo heinlein kinda self-inserts into situations where he's surrounded by women many of whom are competent
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and isn't it just awful how the gender ratios are unbalanced in asimov, totally not a real life phenomenon in fields like robotics in today's world
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it's just not that big a deal to me that the I robot stories have like one vagina anyways she's exactly what I'd expect for the type of woman asimov might have frequent encounters with u know spergy stem gal with a hyperfixation on the psychology of nonhumans
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dr Calvin = temple grandin basically
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as for the self insert thing know who else writes a fuckton of self-inserts? "Read sci fi by women of color!!" darling Octavia Butler tall, masculine, multilingual black women in dystopian futures and the books are Good anyways!
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@eigenrobot from the kitchen: "know who else wrote self inserts? GOD" thanks honey2 replies 1 retweet 50 likesShow this thread -
and the chicks in stranger in a strange land were fuckinf stoked to be in that harem and like who wouldn't be?? do not disrespect the agency of women
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he was like fifty tho theres stilll time
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