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What a load of frogshit. In their time there were no female astronauts, (for mo0st of it there were no astro0nauts - but there were no female fighter pilots, either)and they were writing for their times.
I'm repeating myself, but here goes: the first woman went into space in 1963. So it was hardly an unimaginable idea in the 50s. And isn't the whole point of sci-fi not to break out of the limited perspective of your own times?
So we ask, why did writers like Heinlein and Asimov not imagine and write about this?
(And to be clear, I don't mean to pick on them - even Ursula Le Guin has similar problems, and has critiqued her own work.)
And I like the old science fiction because they were mostly male authors and had strong and interesting male characters.
I wonder if that makes us both sexists?
The only reason there were no female fighter pilots in the US was that the competent women who came forward were not allowed to do it. Look up the Mercury Thirteen, who passed all the tests to be astronauts but were not allowed to fly.
...and yet the vast majority of pilots in Heinelin's Starship Troopers were women, because, as he stated, they were better.
Ah, that's like an incantation to attract male defensiveness.
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What a load of frogshit. In their time there were no female astronauts, (for mo0st of it there were no astro0nauts - but there were no female fighter pilots, either)and they were writing for their times.
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I'm repeating myself, but here goes: the first woman went into space in 1963. So it was hardly an unimaginable idea in the 50s. And isn't the whole point of sci-fi not to break out of the limited perspective of your own times?So we ask, why did writers like Heinlein and Asimov not imagine and write about this?
(And to be clear, I don't mean to pick on them - even Ursula Le Guin has similar problems, and has critiqued her own work.)
And I like the old science fiction because they were mostly male authors and had strong and interesting male characters.I wonder if that makes us both sexists?
The only reason there were no female fighter pilots in the US was that the competent women who came forward were not allowed to do it. Look up the Mercury Thirteen, who passed all the tests to be astronauts but were not allowed to fly.
...and yet the vast majority of pilots in Heinelin's Starship Troopers were women, because, as he stated, they were better.
Ah, that's like an incantation to attract male defensiveness.
