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« Tunneling Through a Singularity | Main | "The Kid" » Classic Sci-Fi Genderswapped"Will you draw the curtain, Commdora. Young man, there's a little knob just near the snap. Will you move it upward, please? Go ahead, it won't hurt you." Oh the times i rolled my eyes reading Asimov's characterization of women in his novels. To be fair, the only characters i thought he wrote well were Giskard and Daneel. Hines discusses his goals for this exercise in Part II. Authors sure spend a lot of time describing a female character's appearance, down to clothing and hairstyle. Weird. I couldn't objectively say if this happens disproportionately to female characters or not since my method of reading involves skimming the descriptive paragraphs until i get to the next bit of dialogue. I almost never know what a character looks like. The important take-away isn't that we should despise older works, but that newer ones should look at themselves through this lens and not make the same mistakes. By min | August 4, 2016, 9:15 AM | Boooooks |