What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

No gender problem in the sff field?

ktempest:

kateelliottsff:

I wanted to put this series of tweets I made this morning into one place, so here it is:


No gender problem in sff? Nah. That thing where I was on a panel & a male writer stated “All writers are rapists.” I felt totally welcomed!

I was on a panel & was told that being rushed to the hospital in labor at 7 months pregnant with twins didn’t count as a life & death situation. That’s because REAL life and death situations ONLY involve violence and weapons and/or war. Or so I was helpfully told.

OR the time on a panel I wondered why so much war and fighting & so little childbirth in fantasy, & a dude said: That’s because all childbirth is the same.

Listen, the racist/sexist /etc stuff people hear & experience in the sff field: It’s real. We are not making it up or being over-sensitive.

The moral of the story is: those particular men (not all men) could only see the world through their own eyes. No other experience was valid. But it’s a measure, again, of what so many of us encounter regularly, what we have to carry as we keep walking (if we don’t give up).

I’ll add what i said on twitter in response to this:

I’m hella not surprised. I haven’t been on many panels outside of WisCon so I haven’t experienced as much of this horseshit. BUT. There was that one time I was on a panel with Claude Lalumiere where he said that it’s a writer’s job to be offensive and that writers owe nothing to cultures they appropriate, even if they appropriate religious stuff.

Good thing I was the mod on that panel.

(via ktempest)

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