2011/05/23

Genre Conforming

I wonder, do "gender" studies justify all their inanity simply by gifting me so many fun titles? And how has nobody noticed the Eurocentrism of assuming that "gender" implies the concept of male and female (Finno-Ugric languages' only genders are animate and inanimate, while Athabascan and Bantu languages have a dozen or more genders that involve things like shape and material...and the former inflect verbs).

Anyway, the original essay that made me realize that SF is not novel, but romance, is (I just found it again after like two years) here.

Thank you, that is all.

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