I have a personal story here, which doesn’t involve being male (I’m not), but it does involve being white and privileged (I am white and upper-working-middle-class). So when someone twitter-slams them over a clueless phrase, they’re either embarrassed, or more likely, defensive. They don’t mean women writers harm, they aren’t meeting in back rooms plotting against us, and they aren’t dreaming about misogynistic ways to express themselves. Jail time would be a great start.Īs far as I can tell, most of the men who are part of the problem in written science fiction simply don’t know it. This is not an article about how to deal with them. Yes, there are truly evil men out there in the midst of the current social fights, like whoever issued the death threats to women writing about feminism in the game world. But as far as I can tell, it’s not effective. Mind you, I’d be fine with sniping if it worked. I’ve been living this conversation my whole life across multiple fields of endeavor. It wasn’t necessarily easy to get here even though I live in the liberal bubble of the West Coast where it’s easier than it is in a lot of places. My day job is in technology, where I’m a c-level exec. Yes, science fiction is largely male dominated. There’s a lot of sniping going on across genders in our field.
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