tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post116672092691416517..comments2024-02-26T15:42:28.778-08:00Comments on Composite: thoughts on poetics & tech: Gender and genre in blogsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post-73819894204010012082007-01-15T15:25:00.000-08:002007-01-15T15:25:00.000-08:00The paranoia of feminists writ large; the invocati...The paranoia of feminists writ large; the invocations of the scary male power structure; the boogeymen of the "marble ceiling" (Peliosi, 2007). I must have stumbled into the mirror-waters. <br /><br />"In fact - a short digression - consider science fiction and how as women write in the genre, there is a scramble to define the part of the genre that only men do, or mostly only men do, or only men do well. Why is it so important to prove that, for example, "hard sf" or "cyberpunk" is so masculine?"<br /><br />1) Who is doing this proving? Who is defining the subgenre as masculine? That's right. You have no evidence. Just sinister words implying fear and threat. <br /><br />2) Now let's suppose that it were true. Would there necessarily be anything wrong with men creating a section of the world where they predominate or that bears their mark? Only those who wish to deny freedom of association can find evil lurking in such desires. <br /><br />There are plenty ways which the genders self-segregate without causing an end to life as we know it. Nobody really cares if you send your kid to a boys-only or a girls-only school, or if women create literary genres that define themselves as feminine. It's only the desire of feminists to copy and/or eradicate masculinity that causes a problem.In Russet Shadowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16209093483312914859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post-1166759098912544292006-12-21T19:44:00.000-08:002006-12-21T19:44:00.000-08:00Thanks for this post and pardon me while I gush. ...Thanks for this post and pardon me while I gush. Herring is my dissertation advisor -- one of those amazing experiences where I'd been reading her papers for years before she joined the program I'm studying at so that I've now had the pleasure of working with her. She's one of my favorite academic authors and has been a fantastic mentor. I'm not part of the BROG group that is doing the research you're referencing, but it's one of the most productive research groups I've ever seen in a social science department. I wish my thinking was as logical and my writing as clear as hers. I especially enjoy how her research takes on stereotypes and then uses fine-grained computer-mediated discourse analyses to turn them on their heads.<BR/><BR/>Anyways, I'm also a (more recent) fan of yours, having been impressed with the work you did on behalf of the Tiptree award last year (having attended the Judging the Tiptree Award panel at Wiscon).<BR/><BR/>Happy Holidays to you and yours!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post-1166752766934809912006-12-21T17:59:00.000-08:002006-12-21T17:59:00.000-08:00The link to the paper at the top of your entry is ...The link to the paper at the top of your entry is broken. The "h" at the beginning of "http" is missing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post-1166747880308807762006-12-21T16:38:00.000-08:002006-12-21T16:38:00.000-08:00Interesting post. As always, a great read.Interesting post. As always, a great read.Emma Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02549388098597692351noreply@blogger.com