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Originally Posted by dickloraine
Not that I have the same viewpoint as the author of the article, but I do think the concept of gender is important and authors today especially in Sf&F should at least think about it.
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Is the author of the article an Sf-F writer? No? Then why should her opinion/critique matter to any writer? Or any commonly accepted norm?
I'm not trying to be obtuse on purpose but why should an author succumb to writing something along the lines of PC if they alone didnt come to that conclusion?
The only valid answer to this is to make money by pleasing the SJ demands. I find that understandable and reprehensible at the same time.
Fantasy and sci-fi writers, good ones at least in my opinion are first and foremost there to tell a great frickin' story. That's no.1.
Number 2, if they have enough talent, they'll use it to shake things up, question the norm, or make a political statement, without, and this is important, ruining the story.
They are not there to correct social injustices or pander to SJ on twitter.
They write because they have things bottled up inside them that need to come out.