Ok so I keep meaning to sit down and write a thoughtful response but instead I’m posting from my phone. But shit that can't be done on the way to somewhere else doesn’t get done. Why are you so sensitive baby about this baby? Are you harboring some kind of fear that as a gentleman of color (if you even think of your self that way) that you will be less able to write great genre fiction? If so then it's time to pull Linda Nochlin out of mothballs.
The 10 ‘best’ sci-fi stories are written by old dead white guys because 90% of everything written in English is written by old dead white guys. I bet if you put together an anthology of the 10 worst stories it would be old dead white dudes too. It isn't an implication that papery skinned wheezers write better, they've just been at it longer.
It’s a numbers game, up until about the last 50 years there we’re few opportunities for women/people of color to write and be taken seriously. Think of the not so long ago struggles (1930sish) Virginia Woolf outlined in a room of ones own. While our well seasoned educated ashen literary fathers have been writing about dragons and shit since Beowulf, longer if you include Greco-roman classical stuff which is the bedrock of snow beard patriarch culture.
So there haven't been any great young female Native American libertarian sci-fi authors, just like there haven't been any great Eskimo tennis players. Crying about it doesn’t make it any less true. What fixes this is if instead fighting on the Internet everyone puts down their pitchforks, goes back to their desks and tries to write some great stories.
Let me be the first to point out my own hypocrisy and say that I routinely drop a couple of upermid level white/Asian cosplayers from photo sets to make room for darker skinned lower-mid level ones because I think it is both more interesting to look at and because I think that positive depictions of cosplayers of color are good for the community. But whatever I don't even pretend that the features are anything other then me saying here are some images I like. In parallel, maybe an anthology stretched a little to include some less conventional choices might be a more interesting read.
Anyway, the idea of a definitive list of the best of anything subjective is sort of a suspect idea anyway. If you can’t hold a ruler up to it then some ones going to feel slighted.
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Date: 2009-10-14 06:48 pm (UTC)I’m posting from my phone. But shit that can't be done on the way to
somewhere else doesn’t get done. Why are you so sensitive baby about this
baby? Are you harboring some kind of fear that as a gentleman of color (if
you even think of your self that way) that you will be less able to write
great genre fiction? If so then it's time to pull Linda Nochlin out of
mothballs.
The 10 ‘best’ sci-fi stories are written by old dead white guys because 90%
of everything written in English is written by old dead white guys. I bet if
you put together an anthology of the 10 worst stories it would be old dead
white dudes too. It isn't an implication that papery skinned wheezers write
better, they've just been at it longer.
It’s a numbers game, up until about the last 50 years there we’re few
opportunities for women/people of color to write and be taken seriously.
Think of the not so long ago struggles (1930sish) Virginia Woolf outlined in
a room of ones own. While our well seasoned educated ashen literary fathers
have been writing about dragons and shit since Beowulf, longer if you
include Greco-roman classical stuff which is the bedrock of snow beard
patriarch culture.
So there haven't been any great young female Native American libertarian
sci-fi authors, just like there haven't been any great Eskimo tennis
players. Crying about it doesn’t make it any less true. What fixes this is
if instead fighting on the Internet everyone puts down their pitchforks,
goes back to their desks and tries to write some great stories.
Let me be the first to point out my own hypocrisy and say that I
routinely drop a couple of upermid level white/Asian cosplayers from photo
sets to make room for darker skinned lower-mid level ones because I think it
is both more interesting to look at and because I think that positive
depictions of cosplayers of color are good for the community. But whatever I
don't even pretend that the features are anything other then me saying here
are some images I like. In parallel, maybe an anthology stretched a little
to include some less conventional choices might be a more interesting read.
Anyway, the idea of a definitive list of the best of anything subjective is
sort of a suspect idea anyway. If you can’t hold a ruler up to it then some
ones going to feel slighted.
Enough of this tinny keyboard and autocompleete,
-Anna