On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Emily Cartier wrote:
> > Really???? You mean if a guy is sexist, doesn't take women
> > seriously, and doesn't hire them for top positions, women can get in
> > anyway? Hmmm... when did this happen?
>
> Yes. See the history of SF. See the history of SFWA. There have *always*
> been women involved in writing SF, no matter how sexist the publishers
> and other authors were.
This is a bogus comparison. In fact, Randall Garrett said that no woman
could write good SF and cited James Triptree Jr. as an example of good SF
written by a male. Of course, this was BEFORE Alice Sheldon outed herself.
> However, until a dedicated effort began to not punish female authors for
> being female began, the numbers remained low.
Because those who were being published, like James Triptree Jr. and C.L.
Moore, were not widely known to be female.
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