Feb. 7th, 2021

chris_gerrib: (Default)
Science fiction and female mixed martial arts are probably things most people don't put together. Apparently I'm not most people.

There was a school of thought in science fiction that held an all-female society would be very peaceful and cooperative. I first encountered that school years ago when I read Alice Sheldon's Houston, Houston Do You Read?. Other first-wave feminist authors, such as Joan Slonczewski, notably, in their A Door Into Ocean, published in 1986, and Joanna Russ, are also exemplars of this.

These works pre-date the phenomenon of female mixed martial arts, in which women get paid to beat the shit out of each other. The first-wave feminists, I think, mistook culture for genetics. It's an age-old mystery, one that we are still unravelling.

Profile

chris_gerrib: (Default)
chris_gerrib

August 2025

S M T W T F S
      12
3456789
10 11 121314 1516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31      

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Aug. 15th, 2025 07:34 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios