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( Webcomic strip on gender, cut for size )

Is it a common stale sci-fi trope to have a supposedly sentient alien race actually have only males be sentient and females are bestial breeding stock, or is it only Orson Scott Card (the Piggies in Speaker for the Dead) and Larry Niven (Kzin and Puppeteers in the Ringworld/Man-Kzin Wars universe) who are guilty of it? This sort of things is ( Read more... )

A fascinating Newsweek editorial on gender in US politics.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/12/whitman-unable-to-benefit-from-whore-comment.html

Have underwire bras always been on the list of things that might trigger a pat-down search? That just seems so wrong to me ( Read more... )

Women's experience of the world is fundamentally different from men's. A story about a woman living in Brooklyn.

I sympathize with those of you talking about Racefail and other instances of racial minorities in SF fandom. My own issue along these lines is women/girls in gaming, especially as it has many parallels to women in science ( Read more... )

( From LJ Support )

Edit: I have received a response, and it seems good.

LJ is now requiring new users to specify "male" or "female" on new account creation. If you don't like this,

1. Edit your profile and select Unspecified for your gender option.
2. Give feedback to LJ about this, see sample below.
3. Send an email to Anjelika, GM of US operations, anjelika@ ( Read more... )

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