Questions About Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years, Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s

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does anyone else find the phrase "dispelling the notion that women don't write "real" science fiction" a little insulting?? I've been reading SF by women since I was a child, and I'm in my 50s. L'Engle, Cherryh, McCaffrey, Bradley, LeGuin, McIntyre, Tepper ... no shortage of great writing from way back. looking forward to read this collection, but wondered if that bugged anyone else.

Jody So, back in the day you really had to fight to be taken seriously, and when I say "back in the day" I am talking about 1995. It's great that you grew …moreSo, back in the day you really had to fight to be taken seriously, and when I say "back in the day" I am talking about 1995. It's great that you grew up with all these women and respected them. But, many did not. If you weren't one of these great women writers, and you were just some budding average "Jane" Shmo writer in some college chances are no one introduced to these writers and you had to find them yourself.
Nearly everyone in said college who was going to be a "serious" writer was a white dude. If you were into Sci-Fi at this college you were like a unicorn. Often a sexualized unicorn. Again this was 1995. So, yes, it is insulting, but not because the anthology had to write it was "dispelling the notion" but that there was indeed, very much, a notion in the first place. (less)

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