here, have some fail

[rm]

Apparently women and queers are ruining SF.

Torchwood gets a not insignificant amount of text, and, sadly, Dirk Benedict is referenced. If you're thinking this can't end well, you'd be right.

Maybe I'll actually pick it apart for your viewing pleasure later. But maybe I'll actually have something more useful to do instead, like ruining the genre with my homosexual girl-bits or the cock in my dresser drawer or something.

Tell me, SF-ruiners, what's on your agenda today?

Comments

[sethg]

Considerably more men than women are interested in reading and watching science fiction.... Science fiction traditionally is about men doing things, inventing new technologies, exploring new worlds, making new scientific discoveries, terraforming planets, etc.

...and the author thinks that's a GOOD thing. What more needs to be picked apart?

Back in the 1950s, it was actually possible for a fan to keep up with the field by reading every single novel published under the "science fiction" rubric. Not so today, by a long shot. I'm sure that someone who pines for the good old days can find enough Manly Sci-Fi, with the same gender roles and literary quality as The World of Null-A, to fill his time.

But of course that isn't enough. The field must be purged of girlish influence, so that Manly Sci-Fi novels and readers won't get cooties.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Making boys actually search for things is cruel. Didn't you know using a library is emasculating and unAmerican?

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

If you're a certain attorney in Oak Brook, IL, that certainly seems to be a valid point of view. *grump stampity*

[sethg]

Uh-oh.

[the-silver-mule.livejournal.com]

I know it. Once I caught a glimpse of myself in a library window while I was leaning over to look for a collection of Baldwin's essays. Needless to say, the sight was an unmanly one.