Comments on: Women and sci-fi

By: skepticlawyer » How to spot bad sci-fi/fantasy writing

skepticlawyer » How to spot bad sci-fi/fantasy writing — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:48:55 +0000

[...] Very funny. I can add some of my own comments from my previous post on women and sci-fi: [...]

By: Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:15:53 +0000

Another 2000AD female character worth reading is Halo Jones - awesome.

By: Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:13:43 +0000

Yes. Very annoying. When I came to Australia I left a lot of my comics (and books) at my parents house and on my return have found large gaps in the collection.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:06:57 +0000

LOST them? The originals would be worth a packet these days, surely?

By: Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:04:19 +0000

Back OT. The portrayal of women in comics usually involves a lot of jutting bosems – how well I recall my teenage crushes on Dream Girl and Princess Projecta of the Legion of Superheros etc. but yesterday I managed to pick up the graphic novel ‘America‘ – perhaps the finest Judge Dredd ever (I have lost – would you believe – the original versions). For Judge Dredd fans a must see and good portrayal of a female character.

By: Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:59:03 +0000

I just saw it yesterday (I hadn’t paid attention to that thread) and Tim Blair has a post on it too. Quite extraordinary.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:30:22 +0000

Tolkien meets Wild Wild West, obviously. BTW have you been watching the ‘MichaelF’ meltdown over at the Cat?

By: Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:27:01 +0000

The comment came after the show on the discussion board. I was on “A difference of opinion’, specifically asked to talk about tax cuts in the context of ‘What to do with the budget surplus?’ Obviously we got into discussing spending the money on more welfare or the environment or spending on infrastructure. I stuck to my brief – and got roundly abused during and after the show I also got heaps of emails congratulating me on my stance and at a function recently someone came up and thanked me for what I had said. So all good – and I love the comment ‘evil, bald, fascist gnome’. Ahh the impotent anger that lies behind all that hatred warms the soul.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:39:43 +0000

I remember that ‘evil bald fascist gnome’ comment! What show was that on? Someone was clearly losing badly and decided to go through ad-hom and out the other side.

By: Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:09:32 +0000

Not just evil, m’boy. Those enlightened progressive souls at the ABC called me ‘an evil bald fascist gnome’.

Also think first Matrix movie (please don’t think of the sequels). Agent Smith tells the Laurence Fishburn character about the previous Matrix that was a ‘golden era’ etc. etc.