Saving Science Fiction from Strong Female Characters — Complete

I wrote an essay, long even by my unwieldily prolix standards, to the point that the use of any characters in a story, male or female, should serve the purpose of entertaining and edifying the reader rather than serving the propaganda purposes of amateur social engineers convinced that the unintentional implications hidden in science fiction yarns, of all things, influences the virtues and standards of society.

http://www.scifiwright.com/www.scifiwright.com/2013/11/saving-science-fiction-from-strong-female-characters-part-1
http://www.scifiwright.com/2013/11/an-added-comment/
http://www.scifiwright.com/2013/11/saving-science-fiction-from-strong-female-characters-part-2/
http://www.scifiwright.com/2013/11/testing-the-bechdel-test/
http://www.scifiwright.com/2013/11/saving-science-fiction-from-strong-female-characters-part-3/
http://www.scifiwright.com/2013/11/saving-science-fiction-from-strong-female-characters-part-4/
http://www.scifiwright.com/2013/11/saving-science-fiction-from-strong-female-characters-part-5/
http://www.scifiwright.com/2013/12/saving-science-fiction-from-strong-female-characters-an-observation/
http://www.scifiwright.com/2013/12/saving-science-fiction-from-strong-female-characters-part-6/
http://www.scifiwright.com/2013/12/strong-female-characters-of-oz/

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