Linking is not advocacy

Theodore "Vox Day" Beale goes on a rant about the Nebula Awards, giving as his examples of injustice times when women beat men. You may remember Vox as the guy whose clarity of vision didn't extend as far as satire.

I have this horrible horrible urge

And have ever since I noticed this:
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Aimee Picchi, Freelance Writer's "Are “Best Books of 2012″ Lists Biased Against Women Writers?"

About half-way through the animated movie “Tintin,” I asked my daughters if anything struck them as odd about the film. They didn’t notice anything strange, they said. I pointed out the film lacked female characters, and my youngest, 8, noted the (male) detectives Thomson and Thompson had fallen into a female passerby on the street. Meanwhile, the only other woman was the opera singer Bianca Castafiore, who in the film acts as a plot device.

Is there a reproductive strategy

That would result in a Tintin-like male/female ratio of 90% men?

The other way, almost all female, is seen in organisms like bees.

2000 Plus: A Veteran Comes Home

A Veteran Comes Home

A wife and boy await the return of the man of the family, home after half a decade spent fighting on Mars. It seems that the natives of that world do not care to have their world taken from them and have forced the humans to rediscover the art of war after centuries of peace It soon becomes obvious the husband is suffering from a bad case of PTSD, which is not helped by his failure to buy into the whole Manifest Destiny thing.

Happily it turns out PTSD is the sort of thing that can be fixed in a half hour radio drama; the key is to remember that thing another soldier said was making his time on the (oddly hot) hellworld of Mars even worse for him than it was for regular soldiers: love (or in the case of the other guy, losing the only other person on the entire planet to whom he felt such a connection).

The stories in this series often reuse details, not surprising given that they were all written by the same writer. I didn't anythng that necessarily ruled out this being a sequel to When Worlds Met. Poor Martians.

2000 Plus: The Green Thing

The Green Thing

A psychiatrist of the future discovers to his surprise several of his patients have had exactly the same dream. Investigation reveals the horrible truth: ( Read more... )