• evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    he had used gender-neutral names to the point where it was never clear, but also didn’t matter anyway.

    He almost does that. He uses a lot of made-up scifi names that aren’t obviously gendered, but then point out that the character is male.

    He does get a lot better over time, though.

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      12 days ago

      I’ll have to go back and read. The gender dynamics of competitive sci-fi literature would be a wild class.

      Edit: I meant “comparative sci-fi literature,” but I’m leaving the mistake because I think it’s funnier, not unlike the grammar mistakes that I try to pass off as erudite subversion of trite conventions, not unlike this meandering, run-on sentence, and I stand by it.