Even Feminists Can Build Sexist Worlds

https://mythcreants.com/blog/how-even-feminists-can-build-sexist-worlds/

by BerislavLopac • 8 months ago

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1970-01-01• 8 months ago

Altogether, I think we can safely conclude it takes more strength to carry a baby

I dunno man, it looks like that big sword is pretty heavy duty. And one year old babies pretty much carry themselves around. I think you're doing a little too much agenda pushing and a little too little science. Both the social and physical science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyvRllz7Vjg

ChrisNorstrom• 8 months ago

This was a hilarious read. The ideology of the writer suits the website. If you want to see someone disconnected from reality, this is the place. Ironically they have no Black people on their team, once again, it's almost all white liberals.

jfengel• 8 months ago

Of all of the people to pick as an example, Le Guin seems an odd choice. The author of The Left Hand Of Darkness was not leaving gender up to stereotypes. In building a sexist world of Earthsea, she was making a deliberate decision.

The article doesn't understand why "women extend this thinking to the fantastical", but surely it's obvious: speculative fiction is always about us, today. It can be about elves or aliens, but it's always really about humans.

TFA is absolutely correct that sexism is built deep into our cultural consciousness, and even writers seeking to exclude it will end up including it in ways that they don't realize.

But the author seems to deal mostly with novice writers, and Le Guin was anything but a novice. When she included sexism, it was a deliberate choice.

It does justify the title: feminists can build sexist worlds. But at least some of them do that because the current world is sexist and they want to say something about that.

If the author wants an example, try JK Rowling, who thinks of herself as a feminist, and in some ways she is. But Harry Potter's world is deeply patriarchal, in ways both obvious and much more subtle.

Even Feminists Can Build Sexist Worlds

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