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Chomp chomp. I read that link -now I feel like I need to rinse my brain.
The comment at the bottom is funny though. Keep pushing that narrative!
-'patriarchy' -check
-'straight white bros' -check
-have a dig at GG -check
Considering it's on a site posting about SFF and the Hugos and nothing to do with GG -still got to mention them evil gators!
>This story looks like it was written by a middle-school kid on their first night getting high.
I'll agree with that bit -only cos that's like the level it's at -they haven't progressed beyond it.
As for 'deep' and 'clever' -pile of shite I thought.
They do have an obsession with being seen as 'clever' -as being intellectual or academic -and go around telling everyone else this as if to prove it. It's why they have so many discussion groups.
From the intro at the top -
>This story…..does what SF does best: it uses speculation to shed light on the problems of the present…
…..which is not what SF 'does best'. SF was visions of the future. Was -sometime ago, around the time of 2nd wave feminism, the progressives and feminists of the day enacted an earlier version of what's happening now in SFF. Writers that had gone before were viewed as out-of-date, old-fashioned -and effectively whitewashed out. These progs/fems knew better! They were modern! Their writings in SF began to move away from the visions of the future, replaced by… a reflection of the present. (This wasn't new -had been done before -but for progressives it became the 'new norm'.) Of course todays progs/fems don't do any research, or they willingly ignore what has gone before, so believe that things like 'SF…uses speculation to shed light on the problems of the present' is how it's always been.