In my long-running erotic space opera, The Journal Entries, there’s been an almost as long-running thread around sexbots. With few exceptions, the sexbot stories have always been about second-hand robots; ones whose previous owners for one reason or another have died or abandoned the robot, leaving her (it’s almost always a “her” robot) to figure ( Read more... )

I've just finished the add-on adventure, Scorchers, for Id Software's game Rage, and I'm even more deeply annoyed by the unnecessary sexism in the add-on that Id somehow avoided in the original adventure.

It isn't just that Sarah is poorly dressed for combat. It's that she knows it. It's that she comments on it: "Well, it's not much for a ( Read more... )

I played the Id game Rage this weekend. I'd found it in a remainder bin, and I vaguely remember having played and enjoyed it, so I figured another play-through would be fun. I also purchased the add-ons "Sewers" and "Scorchers," the latter of which is an entire major in-game campaign that unlocks after you reach the Wellspring level ( Read more... )

I am a man ( Read more... )

Omaha and I spent New Year's Eve at the Seattle Center, which is a common gathering point for Seattlites without a better plan. The city adorns its beloved Space Needle monument with fireworks and blows them off at midnight to herald the new year, and then everyone walks home. There are a lot of anecdotes I could pack into the evening, but there ( Read more... )

So, there's been another storm over male privilege, this time in the vaunted halls of the Science Fiction Writers of America, where a few complaints about a chick-in-chainmail illustration on the cover of SFWA Bulletin #199 quickly devolved, with a regular column by Mike Resnick and Barry Malzberg in SFWA #200 discussing the sexual attractiveness ( Read more... )

I'm trying to parse this sentence, in an article about The Feminist Porn Awards: The vast majority of explicit material is made for a male audience; at best, it is degrading, and at worst it is often physically harmful to the women featured in it.
I'm trying to figure out what the writer is saying here. Is she saying, "The vast majority of ( Read more... )