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Thoughts on female characters in sci-fi
May. 8th, 2013 01:32 pmI've been thinking about something a friend and I were talking about last week. We were doing the "OMG, can't cope with baby talk, we're skipping knit night and eating cheesecake while we chat geek stuff" thing that we sometimes do when the knitting group we met through gets a little too mama-oriented.
Both of us are child-free and single. Both of us know way more about children and childbirth than we ever wanted to. Sometimes we need to take a break.
To get back on topic, the geek talk segued into a discussion of women in science fiction as it sometimes does. My lovely friend, H, stated that one of the big things she loves about sci-fi and its related genres is that portrayals of women are far better here than in the mainstream. Women are written as equals and potential leaders unlike in more conventional TV shows and films.
At that point I choked on a mouthful of tea and stared at her a little.
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Both of us are child-free and single. Both of us know way more about children and childbirth than we ever wanted to. Sometimes we need to take a break.
To get back on topic, the geek talk segued into a discussion of women in science fiction as it sometimes does. My lovely friend, H, stated that one of the big things she loves about sci-fi and its related genres is that portrayals of women are far better here than in the mainstream. Women are written as equals and potential leaders unlike in more conventional TV shows and films.
At that point I choked on a mouthful of tea and stared at her a little.
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