Chris

The dangers of using Google Reader to read a slew of feminist blogs is it recommends new time sinks for me.  Today's blog find: Feminist SF – The Blog!.

This blog will likely have me wincing, because I love science fiction and don't really want to see the ways in which misogyny is a part of it.  But, ignoring things has never made anything better.

A sample post is New Amsterdam, Old Tune:

There's a guy. And he has this manpain owing to some gimmick or special character trait or WHATEVER. He's got a Quest or a Past or a Special Ability. Or he's just the Senior Officer around, even though he's not too old to do some Dashing Heroics, or too Othered to be privileged by default. And he's usually a cop or an investigator of some sort. To ground him, to stabilise him? (To give him someone to Talk Exposition At?) They give him a female partner, who may or may not also be of a different ethnic background to make up for his being white.

And she's all, You're weird, dude. How do you know so much? Let me learn at your feet and ask you what's going on and get involved in your Issues. Or maybe, I don't like you, or I wouldn't ask you for advice but I need you or you've strung me along and now I'm stuck with your Issues.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.