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Originally Posted by NormHart
Bring her around smartly now!
Fire as you bare!
I would point out that some of the most egregious cover art on the "cartoonish women with ridiculous busoms", err, front are the covers of Esther Friesner's collections of short stories on women in swords and sorcery; Strip Mauled, Chicks 'n' Chained Males, The Chicks in the Mail, and Turn the Other Chick. The stories themselves are almost entirely written by women (there is the token male author here and there) and they can certainly not be categorized as misogynist, women know that nothing sells like bosoms.
(Um, bosoms... You know, I am beginning to like that word more and more. It has such a nice round sound to it.)
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Quite despite what's contained within the books, I believe that Baen gives off an impression of adolescence and male-dominance and is eerily similar to the Boy's Own sci-fi and that kind of sneering attitude toward women that still abounded in the 60's (especially in the male dominated field of Sci-Fi). An
impression given off by their choice of graphic design. At twelve or thirteen Baen.com and their books would have drawn me like a fly to decomposing meat, but at 34 it all feels a little old-fashioned and somewhat creepy. Creepier still when you see some of the
gun-toting quasi-fascistic covers of Ringo and his ilk.