On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Emily Cartier wrote:
> Deirdre Saoirse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Emily Cartier wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Does the fact that noone knew James Tiptree Jr was female make Alice
> Sheldon a male? No. She was there, wrote and got paid.
The point is that you used SF writers to demonstrate that women could
succeed despite sexism. The fact that no one KNEW they were female means
that your argument is invalid.
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