Link: The History of Women in Sci-Fi Isn’t What You Think | WIRED

The History of Women in Sci-Fi Isn’t What You Think | WIRED

So why do we have such a distorted view of history? Yaszek says that the first science fiction anthologies were published during a backlash against first-wave feminism, and that male editors such as John W. Campbell and Groff Conklin specifically excluded women from their lineups.

“For whatever reasons, they had it in their heads that women couldn’t write,” she says, “and when they sat down to make the first anthologies—the genre was finally old enough to tell its own history—they really consciously dropped women out of that history.”

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Something that's been really helpful to me recently has been this:


Instead of sorting my to-dos by "most desperately needs done", I'm listing it by "type of energy needed". Which, for me, is high/medium/low social vs. creative, and in the medium area, there's also "managerial", which is that thing where you sort things and it feels nice (aka modding). It's helped me in a few ways:
- "oh, I see, the problem right now is that I have a lot of high creative and medium managerial stuff lined up, so I need to clear out a block of time to get those done so that I have more medium creative and low-grade chilling stuff to do instead."
- "I'm feeling pretty tired right now, let's see what thing I should actually be doing, instead of attempting to do something that requires more energy and then procrastinating"
- "Oh yeah, text chat is hard and takes a lot out of me, so if I'm doing that, I might as well do this other thing instead"

I have a bunch of opinions

I keep intending to write up proper things for these, but maybe it's better to just dump them here in crude form. If you want to hear more about it, comment and I'll write it up properly?

- All the reasons that I hate Marlin in Finding Nemo, not least of which is the way he erases Dory from his telling of his escapades

- Why the 2nd Curious George book (Curious George Takes A Job) is my favorite: what it tells us about the authors, 1940s New York, and Curious George himself.

- I watched Into the Spiderverse and I have SO MANY SQUEES

- I watched Venom and ... wow I've never seen such a poly-friendly movie before this. (But also: I kept expecting Oakland Chinatown and being confused -- a side essay about Chinatowns)

- What *should* I do with my patreon anyway? (related: what should I do with my DW?)

In other news, hopefully only 1 more day to this sprained ankle business!