GillO
Retired, escaped English/Drama teacher in the English Midlands. Now studying for the heck of it. EM drama, kidlit, Buffy, Rejoin. Cymraeg am byth!
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- Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...
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View full threadThis contextualizes the wailing of mediocre men when a new generation of authors emerged and said this shit was not okay, ever, and we will hold you accountable for it. There is a woman who never wrote, because she felt unwelcome, and I know she had something important to say. That makes me sad.
- She probably still wrote, but it went nowhere beyond her own home.
- Men act like women geeks are a new thing but it was just that we hid from them for reasons
- Remember Gamergate?
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- Fifty years ago I was president of a student SF society. It was a struggle to be taken seriously as a real SF fan. Fantasy (except Tolkien, obvs) was derided. Sometimes I was the only woman at a meeting. But friends from then (I still have today) looked out for me with guest speakers. It was needed.
- I think the media and opposition parties, including the Lib Dems and Greens have gone too far with their attacks on Keir Starmer this week. People's reactions are showing us the impact! I am seeing so many who are: + posting their support for the PM 1/2
- The crazed and hyperbolic attacks on Sir Keir Starmer have been ongoing for 2 years now…this week they have begun to sound hollow and ridiculous…these people have cried wolf too often and the people see a decent man being bullied and are reacting to this 🙏🌹
- You don't think Mandelson's appointment was poor judgement, then?
- To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
- Half a century ago, as president of a small university S-F society, I learned that it was a good idea not to be on my own with guest speakers. It wasn't even Asimov; we were in England and he was out of our league. He wasn't alone in enjoying the access his undoubted talents gave him to young women.
- So while you're all shocked we need to talk about Arthur C Clarke...
- William Mayne, however, really scraped the bucket.
- Thread: glories of yesteryear, mostly British cinema.
- Depressingly still relevant eight decades later in theworld of Farage and Trump. (And Putin, Orbán, Meloni...)
- Me and the boys rolling out to hunt down the guy who decided that the Microsoft updater should launch itself unprompted about forty times a day
- Death's too good for him!
- Tomorrow I'm doing a lecture with a glorious disaster of a medieval Cymraeg story & so today I'm putting it on Bluesky (so I don't have to open X-itter where I told it the first time) It might be incestuous & sort of has bestiality, but it's also one of the oldest Welsh stories with an LGBT theme!
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- Mae'n ddrwg a fi - I'm barely beyond Canolradd! It's just one vocabulary that did stick. OTOH, I did like your red pig!
