For a survey I asked this girl for her opinion on affirmative action in 40 words, and she said “I think corporations are evil if they don’t cut their CEOs’ salaries and give the money to disenfranchised minorities and my gmail password is swordfish_hunter2 and my dog is named Rufus and I’ve been cheating on my boyfriend since August.”
Frickin’ heartbleeding liberals.
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life is like chaucer: incomprehensible but pretty
life is like chaucer: it makes slightly more sense when you say it out loud, but it still sounds pretty silly.
Requiem by Keith Spangle
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Criticisms about representations of gender (or race and other diversity) are often countered in fandom by sociological or scientific analyses attempting to explain why the inequality happens according to the internal logic of the fictional world. As though there is any real reason that anything happens in a story except that someone chose to write it that way.
Fiction is not Darwinian: It contains no impartial process of evolution that dispassionately produces the events of a fictional universe. Fiction is miraculously, fundamentally Creationist. When we make worlds, we become gods. And gods are responsible for the things they create, particularly when they create them in their own image.
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Laura Hudson writes about the shotage of women characters in Star Wars fore Wired.com in her article “Leia is not enough: Star Wars and the woman problem in Hollywood.”
“Science fiction in particular has always offered a vision of the world not myopically limited by the world as it exists, but liberated by the power of imagination. Perhaps more than any genre of storytelling, it has no excuse to exclude women for so-called practical reasons — especially when it has every reason to imagine a world where they are just as heroic, exceptional, and well-represented as men.”
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(Source: Wired, via only-transhuman-deactivated2017)
John Schoenherr - The Martian Sphinx, 1965.
How and Why Rockets and Missles
Hermaphroditisches Sonn- und Monds-Kind, das ist des Sohns deren Philosophen natürlich-übernatürliche Gebährung, Zerstöhrung und Regenerirung oder vorgestellte Theorie und Practic den Stein der Weissen zu suchen und zu machen / durch einen Lehr-Jünger der Natur, L.C.S. Mayntz : bey Joh. Friederich Krebs, 1752