Female POV
Apr. 13th, 2006 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyJust caught a mention of a discussion about whether feminist writers should write from a female POV. I can give one reason straight up, albeit a dated one. You see, I have a guilty pleasure - reading SF short stories from the late fifties / early sixties. In these stories, the female characters are often barely recognisable as human beings. You couldn't get inside their heads, because there's nothing in there. It must have been quite a shock when the New Wave hit, bringing with it fully formed female characters with inner lives and motivations and stuff.
A more up-to-date reason may come from our TV screens. All SF shows are about a white guy and his friends (with the exception of two of the Treks). That's the SF most people consume, and I'll bet most SF readers are also watching the white guys in space. Discuss.
A more up-to-date reason may come from our TV screens. All SF shows are about a white guy and his friends (with the exception of two of the Treks). That's the SF most people consume, and I'll bet most SF readers are also watching the white guys in space. Discuss.
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Date: 2006-04-14 04:03 am (UTC)For me it was her Usenet bomb-hurling which turned me off -- I still remember a thread in alt.tv.highlander where she was declaiming about the production of the show, and Donna & Gillian from the writing staff had to make it rather clear that she was just being a blowhard...