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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I'm not trying to equate anything. I'm just saying that if we think it's bad to do something -- in this case, focusing on the gender of the writer -- then we shouldn't be doing it. To say "it's bad when it's to the detriment of women, so it's good if it's in favor of women" is saying that two wrongs make a right.
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Yes, you've been equating a personal decision to seek out authors of a particular type to read with an institutional act to shut out authors of that same time from being published.
One denies those authors the chance of making a living honestly in the open. The other does not. Apples and oranges are both fruits, but that's where the resemblance kind of ends.
And you're derailing someone's request thread in order to repeatedly express your opinion that they shouldn't even be asking in the first place.
And this thinly-veiled judgment you passed without even the minimal courtesy of adding a recommendation for an author in your first post passing said thinly-veiled judgment.
And it takes three lefts to make a right.
And I recommend the OP look at Nalo Hopkinson and Candas Jane Dorsey for authors who fit their request for both sf female writers in this thread, and Canadian sf authors in the other thread. I've only read short stories, but they've struck me as fairly decent, enough that I wouldn't reject reading longer works based upon that previous experience.
And if the OP would like to try some old school Canadian female-written SF, there's a
nice collection of Judith Merril's short stories available DRM-free via Fictionwise (buy when they have a discount coupon, which they do most months). She's got a branch of the SF collection of one of the big libraries (Toronto Public, I think) named after her and her personal collection went there after she died, I believe.
And now I think I'm done here.