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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 93776" data-attributes="member: 891">I have yet to read the article.On this I just wanted to add my own theory:I think it has to do with the time period that a lot of the classic works of sci fi and fantasy came out of.This was a period when western soceity was fairly segregated along gender lines as well as racial.Male writers of the times wrote women who acted like women of the times were supposed to act. And with the amount of personality depth that those men tended to be able to gain from what little social interaction they would tend to have with women.Women writers where they existed had the same problems.In fact in modern writing the problem of people who misrepresent the other gender is still the norm. Authors who get it right are the exception and stand out.What differs now is that half or more of the writers of fantasy and sci fi are women. And since the 'sexual revolution' of the 60's and 70's men and women in the west have had more open contact. As such we have more experience to draw upon and men are more used to thinking of women as something other than 'domestic decoration'. So they are more likely to feature them in active roles in their stories.It's not the genre's fault, it's not the author's fault.Society of the times is to blame. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Now I'll go read the article and see if my comments are actually in context to this discussion.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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