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And Speaking of Politicizing Everything: Ostensibly Free-Thinking and Liberal Science Fiction Writers of America Now Purging Members for Being "Sexist"Sarah Hoyt, a one-time member in the SFWA, tells her tale the way writers have been doing since the dawn of mankind: In gifs. Another writer (I think) describes the meltdown at the SFWA in text. Warning: Contains sexist, offensive language such as "Glittery Hoo Haa Brigade" and "Whiny Tw*T." Oh and she's a she, I think, but you know, Patriarchy. Both writers make a point: The people doing all the kvetching, agitating, and purging are mostly n00bs without many books to their credit who are using political correctness to go after older, more established people in the field. More: Another writer (I think) digests some of this meltdown. Apparently the SFWA wanted to shut down its quarterly magazine Bulletin until it could guarantee that nothing that wasn't up to its "standards" -- by which it means was PC-approved -- would be published therein. Here are some of the writers who signed a petition objecting to this censorship: Notice who has signed the petition, names included at the bottom of the petition. They include (but aren’t limited to) Gregory Benford, David Brin, Amy Sterling Casil, C. J. Cherryh, Jack Dann, Harlan Ellison, David Gerrold, Janis Ian, Nancy Kress, Mercedes Lackey, Barry N. Malzberg, Jack McDevitt, Larry Niven, Dr. Jerry Pournelle, Mike Resnick, Robert Silverberg, Norman Spinrad, Allen Steele, Harry Turtledove, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe. The generational war, it seems, is less about the generations than the values each generation holds dear. The older writers are liberal in temperament (by which I mean, they object to censorship, and believe in free expression), and the newer writers appear leftist (and they believe speech must be managed and censored by a Oversight Committee of some sort, say, a Vanguard). Thanks to TV. No not the TV. I'm just calling the tipster TV. Correction: It was not the SWFA's "bulletin board" which was shut down, as I claimed; it was their quarterly magazine Bulletin. Thanks to @rdbrewer4 and a guy who claims to be a pirate for that correction. Okay, this is one I actually know something about, though there are many others who are more deeply involved with these peeps because I Saw This Coming Miles Away. I've noticed this inferiority-complex showing itself via politically correct messaging. For example, when people interview Stan Lee about Marvel Comics -- well, look, it's a bunch of silly melodrama and pointless fights with costumed Luchador wrestlers, isn't it? So how does he sell that Marvel was important? He always makes note of Marvel's forays into "serious" issues, whether it's Luke Cage as a symbol of black empowerment (actually-- look, blaxploitation; he's a super-powered Shaft ripoff), Captain America's denunciation of the United States after Watergate, and so on. Similarly, whenever anyone talks about DC... if I have to hear one more time that the Green Lantern/Green Arrow partnership explored "political questions" and was "socially relevant" and that it was really a landmark event that Green Arrow's partner Speedy became addicted to heroin, well, I will hang myself. It's not that they don't have the right to tell these stories, or to be proud of them. It's just that they're really trying to sell the idea that what redeems these frivolous four-color fantasias is that they occasionally Check That Box when it comes to trendy political (usually politically correct or left-leaning) thought. Is that all it takes? Can I write something that is nothing but pure trash and then toss in some "themes" about the Occupy movement and now my trash has become a treasure? Sci-fi and fantasy have long labored under the suspicion, rightly or wrongly, that they constituted a branch of children's literature. This suspicion no doubt sings. But children's literature does not become adult literature just because you throw in a "Socially Relevant Theme." Frankly, that's how children think. | Recent Comments
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